Reformation Ministries International Corp

We of RMIC are committed to discovering, inspiring, training and facilitating those in the Kingdom of God who are gifted in business, to exercise those gifts in the expression of their calling, as part of the whole church taking the whole gospel to the whole world.

The basic dream

RMIC was recently founded in the spring of 2004.  RMIC is the continuation of the ministry goals and dreams of experienced missionary leaders Zester and Marilyn Hatfield.  Zester and Marilyn Hatfield went to Mexico as young missionaries in the spring of 1961 and they have over 20 years experience in that country. They also have their own Business as Mission, an accounting and IRS remediation company, Hatfield & Company, Inc. They have six children and 21 grandchildren.

RMIC is the catalyst and organizational tool for spearheading their renewed focus on realizing some of their original missionary objectives. The Hatfield's laid down both standard missionary foundations in church planting, caring for homeless children, building an orphanage, a private Christian school and sowed the seeds for future Business as Mission development. During these earlier years in Mexico they were able to set up a vocational trade school, teach economics and inspire young people to establish their own businesses and become new Christian entrepreneurs in Mexico. Some of these young people have become very successful church and business leaders and are now developing new mission points to also teach other young Mexican men and women these same spiritual values and principles.

Surrendering to Purpose with Faith - Jeremiah 29:4-7

"This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: 'Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Increase in number there; do not decrease. Also seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile'"(Jeremiah 29:4-7, NIV).

Even as God called the Israelites to be productive and to bless the country of their captivity, so God is calling many Americans and many others from different countries all over the world, to recognize the gifts for business that they have been given, to reject their fears of failure and surrender themselves to this purpose in faith. It is time to lay down our fears of sin and unbelief and to step outside, into the competitive world of business, to allow God to work in us to bring honesty, integrity, quality craftsmanship, work ethic and fair weights and measures into the third world. As an example, if the whole gospel had been taught to the whole man of Mexico from the first missionary until the present, we would not be seeing 500,000 illegal immigrants crossing our southern border every year.

The message of the cross was successful for this group, but they have never heard the message about the victory after the cross, the victory to disciple the nations through the fulfillment of the parables of the talents and the minas.  These are the parables of Christ's entrepreneurs of faith and grace who overcome and who bless the nations, bringing about the will of the Father here on the earth.

Most of the hundreds of young people who were ministered to under the Hatfield's leadership, who later became business owners and professionals, are still in Mexico raising their families and teaching others.  Some have come legally to the United States and have businesses and are professionals here.

Bringing the whole gospel to the whole man of Mexico and beyond will require much more than what has normally been considered satisfactory mission ministry. The challenge before us today is to turn the tide of spiritual and cultural ignorance back and to establish firm foundations in third world countries of Christ's whole gospel and this requires implementation of new tactics.  Theoretical teaching is good but not good enough. Nothing less than successful implementation by native men and women of all God's promises for victory over both the spiritual and cultural ignorance will do!  To assure this outcome, young men and women of faith and grace must be taught entrepreneurial skills, given the opportunity for gaining experience and mentored into capital acquisition to fund their efforts.  This is not welfare this is business of the highest integrity, offering trades and services for profit.