PCUSA Dismantles Mission Organization Because Evangelism is "Paternalistic Colonization"

After decades of diluting doctrine, dismantling the gospel, and dressing up unbelief in clerical robes, the Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) has now pulled the plug on the one thing that once gave their denomination even a semblance of purpose—foreign missions. As of March 2025, the PC(USA) has formally shut down its World Mission agency, fired the majority of its overseas mission workers, and decided that global evangelism is just a little too... colonizing… for their fragile postmodern sensibilities.

In a bizarre funeral-march of an online chapel service, the denominational leadership offered poetry, grief counseling, and vague spiritual musings in place of any actual biblical substance. According to the PCUSA press release, it was a time to "give thanks" for the work done and to embrace the "Fourth Wave" of mission—a wave that looks less like a surge of gospel proclamation and more like a ripple of institutional confusion.

Meanwhile, AL.com reported that 54 out of roughly 60 missionary "co-workers" were axed in February, and even those remaining are being repositioned as "global ecumenical advisors." Because nothing says Spirit-empowered gospel witness quite like an ecumenical advisor.

Let’s be honest, though. The PCUSA didn’t just lose its mission program—they euthanized it with a smile, handed it a pamphlet on decolonization, and lit a scented candle in its memory.