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Born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, John Pearson is a local businessman in the Atlanta area. He began his professional career as a teacher, but then got into business. He found success as a VP/Sales manager on the West Coast before moving to metro Atlanta in 1982 to start his own company.

He tells how the Lord started moving him to get more significantly involved in missions. “I began teaching the Disciple Bible study in the early ‘90s, which led me to the Perspectives Class in the late ‘90s, and missions came on my radar screen.” From there he was part of a mission team in 2002 from his home church of Roswell United Methodist Church that went to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. After that trip he became involved with the missions leadership team at his church.

Soon after, current Mission Society president Dick McClain came and talked with John's church leadership team about beginning a mission conference that would “change our church” – the Global Impact Celebration (GIC). The church relied on Dick and The Mission Society served as a resource as the church planned this first event, and the Holy Spirit took the congregation to “a level of missions we [they] never even dreamed of.” The transformation of the church continues as they just hosted their seventh GIC in February. John also attended a mission seminar taught by Darrell Whiteman, Mission Society resident missiologist, and said Darrell's seminar “completed the task of RUINING ME FOR MISSIONS!”

With Acts 1:8 and Matthew 28:18-20 as his biblical foundation for missions, John’s motto in life is “GO because He said GO!” With a contagious spirit, John has become a “missions mobilizer” as he has excited people for missions and gotten others involved in God’s work around the world. He has coordinated and led six medical teams and three micro-enterprise teams to Peru to work alongside Mission Society missionaries and national partners. He is actively involved in local missions, including collecting furniture for refugees, collecting food and clothing for charities, and working with a homeless shelter/food pantry ministry. His current business is a Kingdom business, with the majority of the profits going to support missions, both local and international.

John also volunteers at The Mission Society home office when he can. Through all of his involvement with Mission Society missionaries and staff, John says, “The Mission Society is My Mission Society!”

If you are not sure how God might be calling you into missions work, John encourages you to: (1) pray about your roll in missions and talk with mission leaders, Mission Society leaders, and pastors who are oriented to missions, (2) enroll in the Perspectives Class, and (3) take a first step and get involved with local missions.

Here at The Mission Society, our mission is “to mobilize and deploy the body of Christ globally to join Jesus in His mission, especially among the least reached peoples.” We thank God that we can be a bridge to the world for John and that he is mobilizing so many others for the Kingdom of God.