I am a visionary strategist, multifaceted leader, and movement catalyst. I am also an ordained minister, visionary strategist, instructor, master trainer and facilitator, life and career coach, leadership and executive coach, ministry and leadership consultant, biblical counselor, professional mentor, discipler, mission mobilizer, and catalyst for business as mission and transformational development.

With over 18 years of professional experience, including 16 years in fulltime ministry, I have served in multicultural missions, church planting, pastoral and ministry leadership, nonprofit leadership, and business and professional services. I have worked with people from different backgrounds, families, churches, ministries, companies, academics, and organizations. My experiences spans evangelism and discipleship, personal and career growth, spiritual and moral formation, marital and family wellbeing, children and youth development, mission mobilization, church multiplication, leadership and executive development, training and development, organizational development, entrepreneurship, and community transformation.

I am ever grateful for the privilege of leading through sacrificial service. He serves full-time as Founder and Visionary Strategist of Agape Vision Global and its multifaceted strategic initiatives Agape Mission, Agape Church Planting, Agape Group, Agape University, and Agape Foundation. I serve part-time in senior leadership roles in several organizations, including Gospel Baptist Church of Thamine, Myanmar Church Planting Network, Association of Independent Churches of Myanmar, Agape Entrepreneurship Association, and Business as Mission (BAM) Myanmar.

I am a WSL Training Partner with World Serving Leaders®, Expansion Coordinator at Crossover Global, BAM Global Catalyst for BAM Myanmar, and Northern Regional Leader of Southeast Asia at Small Group Network. I also enjoy working with several international organizations at the local, national, regional, and international levels.

I currently lead the creation of Myanmar Council for Accreditation and Accountability, a national, faith-based accreditation and accountability association dedicated to enhancing trust in Christ-centered institutions in Myanmar.

About Peter

My Values

I am a person of faith, truth, character, action, and influence who aspires to live by faith, walk in truth, lead with purpose, act with character, and serve in love.

I believe in values-based, purpose-driven, servant-steward, authentic, results-oriented, and transformational leadership. As a transformational leader, I lead from the inside out with truth, grace, and love.

I cultivate a culture of honest communication, authentic and healthy relationships, integrity and transparency, trust and excellence, responsibility and accountability, collaboration and teamwork, and I foster a holistic and sustainable approach to transformational development.

My Purpose

I am dedicated to living all of life as a ministry, seeking to be a witness for Jesus Christ and to do all things for the greater glory of God.

Living intentionally in the life God has called me to, my purpose in life is to love God, love others, make disciples, equip disciples for ministry, develop leaders, help people flourish, and multiply healthy and thriving communities for the greater glory of God.

My life motto is: “Enjoy Life, Glorify God”. I enjoy a life of being in an intimate relationship with God, and I intentionally seek to glorify God by pursuing my calling to fulfill His purpose for my life.

My Passion

My passion is to glorify God by catalyzing transformational development through teaching God’s truth, transforming lives, developing leaders, and empowering people to live a life of obedience, faithfulness, and fruitfulness.

I passionately seek to glorify God by catalyzing transformational development through infusing God’s truth into people to live with faith, hope, and love, transforming lives to create healthy and thriving communities, developing a new generation of leaders to impact every sphere of society, and empowering others to pursue their calling and fulfill God’s purpose for their lives.

“My passion for teaching God’s Truth is to see every person transformed by God’s Word and inspired to obey God’s Word through studying God’s Word.” – Peter T. Mang

Vision Statement

Personal Vision: A new generation of leaders in every sphere of society equipped, developed, and empowered to catalyze transformational development in Myanmar and Asia.

Imagine a new generation of leaders transforming their world in every sphere of society. I want to see a new generation of leaders in every sphere of society equipped by God’s truth to live with faith, hope, and love, developed to become catalysts for holistic transformational development, and empowered to live their calling and fulfill God’s purpose for their lives impacting every sphere of society in Myanmar and Asia.

Organizational Vision: I envisioned a global movement of people compelled by God’s love and driven by God’s purpose to live the Great Commandment and fulfill the Great Commission in their everyday lives. (Agape Vision Global)

As a visionary strategist, I developed and articulated the purpose, vision, mission, and core values for the multifaceted initiatives including Agape Mission, Agape Church Planting, Agape Group, Agape University, Agape Foundation, Agape Entrepreneurship Association, Business as Mission Myanmar, Myanmar Church Planting Network, Association of Independent Churches of Myanmar, and Myanmar Council for Accreditation and Accountability.

I believe the Lord called me to provide access to the gospel for unreached people groups in Myanmar and Asia.

There is no greater joy than seeing someone get saved, live a transformed life, pursue their purpose in life, grow as a disciple and a leader, and lead a fulfilling life.

Mission Statement

My mission is to help people grow, develop, and flourish in the fullness of life and greater fulfillment for the glory of God.

I love helping people grow as persons, disciples, and leaders, develop their character, knowledge, and competencies, and flourish in the fullness of life to make a Kingdom impact in every sphere of society in Myanmar and Asia.

I want to help people find their purpose and calling in life, transform people’s lives into fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ, develop leaders to be the catalysts for transformational development, equip God’s people to do His work and build up His church, and inspire and empower people to live intentionally for the glory of God.

My Life Goal

My ultimate goal in life is to glorify God by catalyzing a movement that drives transformational development to accelerate holistic transformation leading to sustainable development in Myanmar and Asia.

My Background

I was born in 1984 in a remote village in Falam Township, Chin State, northwestern Myanmar to a self-employed businessman father and a headmistress mother. I have seven siblings, three brothers and four sisters, and I’m the second eldest son. I studied high school in Chin State. And I learned to grow a wide variety of crops and diversified vegetable farms in Chin State.

How I Became a Born-Again Believer

Growing up in a Christian family, I was told Bible stories, went to Sunday school, and attended local churches, but I did not have a personal relationship with God. At age 14, I had the opportunity to hear and understand the true gospel of salvation and responded to Jesus Christ as my Savior and Lord in the wholehearted personal commitment of repentance and faith.

I have been saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ to do good works for the glory of God. And I found the meaning and purpose of my life in Jesus Christ. My desire is to faithfully serve God and fulfill His purpose for my life.

God’s Call to Ministry

Following my conversion in 1998, I began to serve as a young Sunday school teacher in a local church in a remote village in Chin State. Two years later, in 2000, I decided to pursue a theological education in Yangon to prepare myself for the ministry when I was 16.

It was in 1998 that I began to have a heart to serve in ministry. In 2002, during my theological studies, I discovered God’s purpose for my life. In 2007, I discerned my God-given purpose for Agape Vision to glorify God by catalyzing transformational development through living the Great Commandment and fulfilling the Great Commission in our generation. In 2009, I began to pursue God’s calling on my life.

My life was not perfect. There was a time when I turned away from God. I dropped out of theological seminary in my MDiv second year later in 2006. In March 2007, I began my career in recruitment and started Agape recruitment and employment service from a humble beginning. It was operated for 2 years and closed in June 2009, since God has led me in a divine direction to fulfill His purpose for my life. During that time, I was stubborn, rebellious, and resistant to God’s call, and I lived a miserable life. But God is always faithful, gracious, and merciful, and His love never fails me.

With a broken heart and contrite spirit and true repentance, having a changed heart and mind, and living a transformed life, I rededicated my life to God on June 28, 2009, to respond to His call and fulfill His purpose for my life. And God brought forth Agape Vision into existence “for such a time as this“.

The Lord gave me a burden to provide access to the gospel to the unreached people groups in Myanmar and Asia.

My God-given Agape Vision

In early 2007, God implanted in me the passion for LOVE NEVER FAILS™, a God-given purpose for Agape Vision to glorify God by catalyzing a movement that drives transformational development to accelerate the fulfillment of the Great Commission.

In June 2009, I founded Agape Vision, a movement of people compelled by God’s love and driven by God’s purpose to live the Great Commandment and fulfill the Great Commission in our everyday lives through living a life of obedience, faithfulness, and fruitfulness.

I envisioned a global movement of people living the Great Commandment and fulfilling the Great Commission in their everyday lives. Our mission is to infuse God’s truth into people to live with faith, hope, and love and empower them to multiply healthy disciples, churches, and leaders everywhere.

Christ’s love compelled me to do the “greater works” He has called me to do.

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My Family

Psalm 37:4 says, “Take delight in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart.”

As I began pursuing God’s calling into ministry, I needed someone who would work with me as a partner in ministry. Therefore, I asked God for a wife, and He gave me the love of my life. In July 2009, I married Alice, and God blessed us with two fabulous sons, Joshua Mang and Joseph Mang, and a beautiful daughter, Janice Mang.

My wife Alice and I prayerfully prepared to do greater works God called us to do. We started with 40 days of prayer and half-day fasting to truly rely on God by trusting He will fulfill His purpose and committing ourselves to live a life of obedience, faithfulness, and fruitfulness. Alice and I are grateful for the privilege of being called into full-time ministry.

I am convinced that God established the Agape Family, using our trials and tribulations to mold and shape us for His purpose and make us into what He intended for our lives, marriage, family, and ministry. My family is truly a gift from God. I am always grateful for my family because family relationships help prepare us for our relationships with the people we serve.

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Becoming an Ordained Minister

An ordained minister is a leader called by God and qualified by God to serve the Church and glorify God. – Peter T. Mang

In 2009, the year Agape started, my God’s call to the ministry was first confirmed by my granduncle, Rev. Dr. Robert Thawng Hlai, the late founding minister and Senior Pastor of Chin Baptist Church of Yangon, through the laying on of hands to set me apart for God’s purpose.

In February 2018, after 9 years of full-time ministry, I was officially ordained to the ministry with ecclesiastical authority to perform ministerial functions and official recognition of my God’s call to ministry and God’s choice of leadership through the laying on of hands by Senior Leaders from Myanmar Gospel Baptist Convention, Gospel Baptist Churches of USA Convention, and the Faculty of Gospel Baptist Bible Seminary (Ordination Council), a biblically recognized group of church leaders who have the authority to ordain men to the ministry.

God’s Call to Entrepreneurship

In March 2007, I began my professional career in recruitment from a humble beginning. I am called to transformational entrepreneurship to glorify God by transforming people’s lives and creating thriving communities through accelerating entrepreneurship and business development. As a natural-born entrepreneur, I am a self-starter who works on my own initiative with a right discernment of God’s will and purpose for my life.

In August 2015, I initially started Agape Lifeway Enterprises and later changed to Agape Entrepreneurship Association in 2018.

Agape Entrepreneurship Association is a network of transformational entrepreneurs and missional impact investors committed to creating wealth and developing innovative and sustainable solutions for holistic transformational development through entrepreneurship in Myanmar

In March 2018, I started Peter Mang Company Ltd. as a private family enterprise, and in July 2022, it was changed to an incorporated parent company of Agape Group and its subsidiaries Agape Education Services, Agape Family Services, Agape Family Investments, Agape Startup Ventures, Agape Freelance Services, Agape Digital Services, and Agape Lifeway Consulting, Counseling, Coaching, and Mentoring.

In 2019, I founded Business As Mission (BAM) Myanmar, a community of Myanmar Christians passionate about missional business to bring creative and sustainable solutions to local challenges and accelerate the growth and impact of business as mission movement engaging the four constituencies of business, academia, missions, and church in Myanmar.

At Business As Mission Myanmar, we envision a thriving business as mission ecosystem in Myanmar. Our mission is to accelerate business as mission movement in Myanmar.

In March 2020, Agape Group was founded under the umbrella of Peter Mang Company Ltd. Agape Group is a not-for-profit transformational entrepreneurship incubator and accelerator that provides professional and business services to catalyze holistic transformational development.

At Agape Group, we envision a movement of missional entrepreneurship transforming people’s lives and creating thriving communities. We catalyze transformational development to accelerate holistic transformation leading to sustainable development.

I have trained, coached, and mentored missional entrepreneurs and bivocational and covocational ministers through our micro and small business development initiative.

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God’s Call to Church Planting

In 2009, I began to serve as an itinerant Evangelist, sharing the gospel with unreached people in remote villages and cities across Ayeyarwady Region. In 2011, I began pursuing God’s call to church planting and planted house churches in Yangon.

In September 2011, I started Agape Church Planting at the initiative of Agape Mission with the purpose of multiplying healthy disciples, churches, and leaders in every community in Myanmar.

Founded in September 2012, Agape Church Yangon is a multisite church with house churches meeting in multiple locations in Yangon Region.

At Agape Church Yangon, we envision a healthy church in every community in Yangon Region. We catalyze a church planting movement that accelerates the fulfillment of the Great Commission.

As a biblically independent church with a strong and healthy disciple making culture, we are committed to planting and growing healthy churches that multiply healthy disciples, churches, and leaders everywhere across Yangon.

In February 2019, Myanmar Church Planting Network was formed at the initiative of Agape Mission with the purpose of strengthening leaders, mobilizing churches, and multiplying churches to accelerate church planting in Myanmar.

In 2020, Agape Vision launched Vision 2030 Church Planting Initiative which aims to establish 300 healthy churches among unreached people groups in Myanmar by the end of 2030. It was officially started in 2023 and has been extended to Agape Vision 2033.

In May 2022, I founded the Association of Independent Churches in Myanmar, a voluntary association of independent churches working together to accelerate church planting movements in Myanmar.

I am leading a transformational mission initiative to accelerate disciple making and church planting movements in Myanmar. I passionately seek to glorify God by establishing healthy and vibrant communities of fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ through multiplying healthy disciples, churches, and leaders in every community in Myanmar.

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God’s Call to Ministry Leadership

In pursuit of my God-given purpose for Agape Vision and God’s calling on my life, I founded Agape Mission in 2009, Agape Discipleship in 2013, Agape Entrepreneurship in 2015, Agape Development in 2015, Agape Resources in 2016, Agape Children and Youth in 2017, and Agape Leadership in 2017. These seven missional initiatives were merged into Agape Initiatives in 2018, and it has now changed to Agape Mission to adapt to the original name and purpose.

Initially started with 40 Days of Prayer and Half-day Fasting as an evangelistic ministry, Agape Mission was founded in September 2009 from humble beginnings and has grown into a missional movement with multifaceted missional initiatives to accelerate the fulfillment of the Great Commission in our generation.

Agape Mission is a missional movement dedicated to accelerating the fulfillment of the Great Commission in our generation. The multifaceted missional initiatives include Evangelism and Missions, Discipleship and Church Multiplication, Entrepreneurship and Business Development, Family and Community Development, Children and Youth Development, Resource Development and Mobilization, and Leadership Empowerment and Development.

Evangelism and Missions

Founded as Agape Mission in September 2009, Evangelism and Missions is a transformational mission initiative that provides access to the gospel to unreached people groups through mobilizing local churches, running evangelistic gatherings, offering mission trips, and planting healthy churches.

In September 2011, Agape Church Planting was started at the initiative of Agape Mission with the vision of multiplying healthy disciples, churches, and leaders in every community in Myanmar.

Mission Trips was initially started in January 2012 to offer short-term mission trips for the gospel team, church planting interns, Bible college students, and Christian workers passionate about serving others and sharing the gospel.

In June 2014, School of Missions and Church Planting (formerly Myanmar School of Missions) was founded at the initiative of Agape Mission with a mission to train and equip national leaders who are called to serve in church planting.

# In February 2019, Myanmar Church Planting Network was formed at the initiative of Agape Mission with the purpose of strengthening leaders, mobilizing churches, and multiplying disciples to accelerate church planting in Myanmar.

# In 2020, the Agape Vision 2030 was launched to establish 300 healthy churches in every community in Myanmar by the end of 2030.

Discipleship and Church Multiplication

Founded as Agape Discipleship in 2013, the Discipleship and Church Multiplication is a transformational discipleship initiative to accelerate church multiplication movement through multiplying disciples making disciples and creating a disciple making culture in churches.

The Discipleship and Church Multiplication exists to provide disciplers, church planters, pastors, and local churches with gospel-centered resources, disciple making movement training, church multiplication strategies, and tools for effective discipleship to accelerate church multiplication.

# In March 2014, the Gospel Outreach Team (GO-Team) was started at the initiative of Agape Discipleship with a small group of disciple-making leaders who are evangelism and discipleship oriented and who will go beyond the immediate influence of existing churches reaching the unreached neighborhoods and unchurched people with the gospel.

# In September 2016, School of Evangelism and Discipleship was founded at the initiative of Agape Discipleship with a mission to equip and empower disciplers to make disciples who make disciples.

Entrepreneurship and Business Development

Founded as Agape Entrepreneurship in 2015, Entrepreneurship and Business Development is a transformational entrepreneurship initiative to build a community of transformational entrepreneurs and missional impact investors committed to creating wealth and generating transformative solutions for sustainable development through entrepreneurship.

We engage, equip, and empower transformational entrepreneurs to create business opportunities, build transformational entrepreneurship ecosystem, and accelerate micro and small business development.

# In March 2017, the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Business Development was started at the initiative of Agape Entrepreneurship with a mission to equip and develop entrepreneurs to be disciple makers and glorify God through business.

# In October 2019, the Entrepreneurship and Business Development Network was started at the initiative of Agape Entrepreneurship to connect with missional entrepreneurs, business leaders, bivocational ministers, missional impact investors, professionals, and practitioners committed to glorifying God by building transformational entrepreneurship ecosystems to accelerate micro and small business development.

Community Development

Founded as Agape Development in August 2015, Community Development is a transformational development initiative that provides a holistic and sustainable approach to transformational development to transform lives and create thriving communities in Myanmar.

# In September 2015, Agape Foundation was founded as Agape Development Foundation with a mission to provide equitable access to financial services, create financial sustainability for multifaceted strategic initiatives, and provide a holistic and sustainable approach to transformational development.

# In June 2018, Agape Charity Fund was launched with the purpose of providing funding for the Livelihoods Improvement and Family Empowerment™, Children and Youth Development Initiative, and Institute for Child and Adolescent Research and Education (iCARE).

# In March 2019, The Incentive Fund was launched to provide grants for multifaceted initiatives, such as training and development, mission outreach, entrepreneurship development, micro and small business development, and leadership development.

# In June 2019, Education Development Fund was launched to accelerate the development of Christ-centered higher education in Myanmar, providing transformative educational services to enable equitable access to affordable and high-quality education, training, and development for people from all walks of life.

# In March 2021, Agape Crisis Response Fund was launched to provide a strategic approach to emergency management and crisis response. Through Agape Crisis Response Fund we have provided assistance to hundreds of families, church planters, and children’s homes from our mission networks across the country.

Resource Development and Mobilization

Founded as Agape Resources in 2016, Resource Development and Mobilization is a transformational resource initiative to provide research, translation, publishing, and distribution to make resources accessible.

The Resource Development and Mobilization exists to develop strategies, create teaching and learning materials, mobilize resources, and increase access to resources.

# In February 2020, a Translation Team of professional, expert, reliable, and efficient translators was formed to provide professional translation, proofreading, editing, and interpreting services.

Children and Youth Development

Founded as Agape Youth in 2017, Children and Youth Development is a transformational children and youth initiative to build a community of practice who are committed to providing a holistic approach to children and youth development.

The Children and Youth Development exists to ensure vulnerable children and youth have access to the resources, education, and support they need to thrive.

# In October 2018, Children and Youth Development Network was started at the initiative of Agape Children and Youth with a mission to provide holistic development for vulnerable children and youth in families, children’s homes, and youth centers.

# In January 2019, the Next Generation Leadership Network was started at the initiative of Agape Children and Youth as a network of leaders of children’s ministry and youth ministry. Through our Next Generation Leadership Network, we provide Children’s Bible camps, child and youth discipleship, next generation leadership development, youth outreach, youth leadership, and youth impact.

# In April 2019, the Institute for Child and Adolescent Research and Education (iCARE) was founded at the initiative of Agape Children and Youth with a mission to provide children and adolescent development research and teacher education for children’s ministry teachers, youth ministry leaders, parents, and caregivers.

Leadership Empowerment and Development

Founded as Agape Leadership in January 2017, Agape Leadership is a transformational leadership initiative to provide equitable and affordable access to high-quality leadership equipping and development for leaders.

# In April 2017, Agape Institute (now Agape University) was founded with the purpose of creating a transformative education impact by providing high-quality, affordable, accessible, equitable Christian higher education for leaders.

# In May 2019, Institute of Leadership Empowerment and Development (iLEAD) was launched at the initiative of Agape University with a mission to equip and empower leaders to develop their leadership character, knowledge, and skills and lead like Jesus.

As the catalysts for holistic transformational development, we commit ourselves to live the Great Commandment (Matthew 22:37-40) and fulfill the Great Commission (Matthew 28:18-20) in our everyday lives through living a life of obedience, faithfulness, and fruitfulness.

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Charity and Development Experience

Initially started as a charity and development ministry initiative on August 1, 2015, I founded Agape Foundation with a mission to provide equitable access to financial services, create financial sustainability for multifaceted strategic initiatives, and provide a holistic and sustainable approach to transformational development.

Agape Foundation is a private, not-for-profit organization with a focus on holistic transformation and sustainable development in Myanmar.

Agape Foundation has grown to have five funding programs: Charity Fund, Incentive Fund, Education Development Fund, Crisis Response Fund, and Church Planting Fund.

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Training and Development Experience

In April 2017, I founded Agape University as Agape Institute committed to providing equitable and affordable access to high-quality graduate education, executive education, continuing education, professional education, vocational education, and technical training.

Agape University currently has 13 hybrid transformational academic programs in 8 schools and institutes offering advanced certificates, diplomas, postgraduate diplomas, undergraduate degrees, and graduate degrees in collaboration with multifaceted transformational development initiatives.

We plan to start new academic departments offering undergraduate and graduate degree programs in ministry studies, biblical studies, theological studies, intercultural studies, leadership studies, business studies, or educational studies.

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