Last updated: September 2025 **| PI-USA Marketing Team
- May 2025: Added a section on how to handle quotations (Can you change them? It depends); also addressed how to use quotation marks in multi-paragraph quotations
- June 2025: Added more resources about communication and security
- September 2025: After age-related questions emerged in a book project, confirmed and added more detail on numbers vs. numerals
<aside>
✳️ There are two ways to find information in this set of guidelines:
1. Use the search feature (⌘ + F)
2. Use the Table of Contents below to navigate through the document
</aside>
In This Document
- Who are we and who do we write for? (brand, audiences, values and name usage)
- Communication security guidelines (with suggested terms for country references)
- Jargon and provocative language (not firm rules, but potential pitfalls)
- Grammar and style (capitalization, punctuation, Scripture use, brevity and clarity)
Not in This Document
- Visual style guide (use of colors, logos, fonts, photography and graphics)
- Social media and web optimization practices (subject to more frequent change)
- Guidelines for the editorial process or granting reprint permission
Brand Essence and Audiences
Pioneers Brand Essence: relentless pursuit (“whatever it takes”). As the Pioneers.org website puts it, “Go ahead.” In the words of Mark Syn, “keep pioneering.”