Lum Street, Lautoka, Fiji
It is the express purpose of God our Heavenly Father, to call out of the world a saved people who shall constitute the body or Church of Jesus Christ, built and established upon the foundation of the apostles, and prophets, Jesus Himself being the corner stone. The Church of Jesus Christ, are enjoined to assemble themselves together for worship, counsel and instruction in the Word of God, the work of the ministry and for the exercise for those spiritual gifts provided for in the New Testament church order.
The Pentecostal Church of Fiji is therefore purposed to recognize and promote scriptural methods and order for worship, unity, fellowship, work and business for God and to disapprove unscriptural methods, doctrines, conduct and endeavoring to keep the unity in the bond of peace “till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of fullness of Christ" (Eph.4:13)
David Daniel Sugar and The Pentecostal Church of Fiji - [1919 - 1984] The Pentecostal Church of Fiji began through the ministry of David Daniel Sugar. Reverend Sugar was born in the United States in 1919. His father was Jewish and his mother German. His family migrated to New Zealand after many years of ministry in India where his father, Joseph Sugar was an AOG missionary. Reverend Sugar and his wife Elizabeth Cunningham Sugar came to Fiji in 1946. For the first five years in Fiji they lived in a tent using packing crates as their furniture. After ministering all over Fiji under the World Outreach Mission banner for a number of years Reverend Sugar assisted in the construction of the first PCF church in Tavua in 1964 and the Ba church in 1968. These two churches were constructed with the financial assistance from the World Outreach Mission.
After the change in leadership following Rev. Sugar's demise, there was a need to obtain consensus on various decisions concerning church matters. This gave rise to the establishment of the Central Board of Trustees, which comprised of few senior pastors. In 1990 the church administration was decentralized. This exercise resulted in all the sovereign churches being responsible for their finances, payment of salaries and bills. They appointed their local church board and made decisions on church matters. For matters that could not be resolved at the local church board this were then submitted to the Central Board of Trustees for resolution. A total of six new sovereign churches were established after the decentralization exercise with an approximate membership of one thousand one hundred [1,100] people. These are the Lautoka Fijian, Lautoka English and Lautoka Hindi, Matawalu and Isireli Hindi and Isireli Fijian. Together with the decentralization exercise, Administration Manuals were prepared to allow for uniform application of administration function by the pastors.
In 2004 the first PCF Constitution was formulated to cover the core doctrines, prerogatives and functions of the Central Board of Trustees. At this time, we also categorized the Church into Ethnic Councils to allow for use of PCF Corporate Plan 2012— 2022 and vernacular language towards better understanding of the Bible, to sing and worship the Lord in one's own language. There are now a total of 51 self-supporting churches and 26 preaching points that would eventually develop into fully fledged Sovereign Churches. The main objective of the decentralization is to ensure that the pastoral ministry be in access to the people so that they will be able to attend services without any constraint.
The target set out in the 2012 projection plan is 30 new churches planted by 2022 across all ethnics. The current set-up has five (5) ethnics ie Fijian, Indian, General, Rabi and the Kiribati ethnic, which was newly established in 2017. This projection plan is focused in extending this growth by establishing PCF churches within the 14 provinces and maritime Islands in Viti Levu and Vanua Levu. In understanding the heart-beat of God through the Great Commission, PCF envisages to actively engage in world mission through the establishment of churches in the Pacific and beyond.
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