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Pastoral Staff

Rick Parkyn Lead Pastor Ernie Metz Associate Pastor of Care Rob Reimer Associate Pastor of Discipleship Llewellyn Janzen Associate Pastor of Families Chris Westby Associate Pastor of Worship Arts & Young Adults Jori Stockdale Associate Pastor of Next Generation

Board of Elders

Rick Parkyn, Amos Akinbiyi, Dave Atkins, Graham Beke, Clay Bergen, Jim Bobst, Jake Dueck, Ernie Metz and Rob Reimer.

Board of Deacons

Rick Parkyn Lead Pastor, Chairman

Larry Borowko Daycare Representative, Seniors Representative, Eston College

Representative, Kedleston Camp Representative

Nathan Collins Secretary, Missions Committee Representative, Young Adult

Representative, Women’s Ministries Representative, Storie Manor

Secretary

Mark Gibson Building Committee Chairman, Young Families Representative

Duane Janiskevich Vice-Chairman, Men’s Fellowship Representative, Youth Representative

Arlen Reed Treasurer, Finance Committee Chairman, Policy Committee Chairman,

Storie Manor President

Ed Tucker Community Groups Representative, Master’s Commission Representative

Barrie Wedel Christian Education Representative, Tech Committee Chairman

Church Staff

Cal Martin Manager of Administration Nathan White Ministry Assistant

Karli Landry Director of Administration Sarah Switzer Contractual Graphic Design

Caron Dueck Administrative Assistant Dan Leier Needs & Transportation Coor.

Mackenzie Reimer Administrative Assistant Mike Stopanski Building Manager

Nicole Rasmussen Administrative Assistant Stan Miller Maintenance Custodian

Janelle Yantz Part-time Admin Assistant Wes Hovind Maintenance Custodian

Brenden Branscombe/

Matt

Ministry Assistant Dave Wilkes Full-time Custodian

Matt Weisbrod Ministry Assistant Devan Flory Part-time Custodian

Claire Cranston Ministry Assistant Henry Rodriguez Part-time Custodian

Candice Snyder Ministry Assistant Micaela Yagelniski Part-time Custodian

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Regina Apostolic Church, Inc.

21st Annual Congregational Business Meeting Agenda

Sunday, March 2, 2014

1. Opening Worship & Prayer

2. Chairman’s Remarks

3. Adoption of Agenda

4. Minutes of the 20th Annual Incorporated Congregational Meeting Page 4-10

5. Auditor’s Report Page 11-14

6. Financial Statements Page 15-25

7. Building Manager’s Report Page 26

8. Needs Fund Report Page 27

9. Prayer Centre Report Page 27-28

10. Library Reports Page 28-29

11. Senior’s Reports Page 29-30

12. Storie Manor Report Page 31

13. Funeral Lunches Report Page 31-32

14. Apostolic Women’s Ministries Reports Page 32-33

15. Breakaway Moms Group Report Page 34

16. New2You at the Ap Reports Page 34-36

17. Alpha Report Page 36

18. Discipleship Report Page 36-37

19. Faith@Home Report Page 37-38

20. Family Life Report Page 39

21. Nursery Report Page 40

22. Next Generation Report Page 41-43

23. Young Adult Reports Page 43-45

24. Worship Arts Report Page 46-47

25. Master’s Commission Reports Page 47-49

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26. Missions Report Page 49

27. Community Groups Report Page 50

28. Pastoral Care Report Page 51

29. Support Groups Report Page 51-52

30. Lead Pastors Report Page 52-54

31. Elders Expression of Appreciation Page 55

32. Finance Chairman Report Page 56-57

33. Summary Budget 2014 Page 58-60

34. RAC Statement of Faith Addition Page 61-62

35. Business out of Minutes

36. New Business

a. Board of Deacons: Election of four members

b. Building Expansion

37. Adjournment

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Regina Apostolic Church, Inc.

Minutes of the 20th Annual Congregational Meeting

Sunday, February 24, 2013

The 19th Annual Congregational Meeting of the Regina Apostolic Church, Inc. was held in the

sanctuary on Sunday, February 24, 2013. The meeting began at approximately 6:07 pm, with Pastor

Rick Parkyn as Chairman.

Worship and Chairman’s Remarks

Pastor Rick Parkyn shared Psalm 1. After the scripture, Pastor Rick Parkyn led the congregation in

singing a chorus that talk about the faithfulness of God. “Great is thy Faithfulness”. Pastor Rick Parkyn

then led the congregation in prayer.

Adoption of Agenda

A motion to adopt the Agenda was moved by Brother Behnke. The motion was seconded by Don

Booth. The motion carried.

Adoption of Minutes of the 19th Annual Congregational Meeting

A motion to adopt the minutes from the 19th Annual Congregational Meeting was moved by Albert

Kienle. The motion was seconded by Terry Rasmussen. The motion carried.

Auditor’s Report

Pastor Rick Parkyn handed over the microphone to Cal Martin so that he may share the auditor’s

report with the congregation. Cal had some words of thanks and appreciation. Cal commented he is

totally grateful to the Lord for His provision over this last year for our church and we are very blessed

as a church. He commented he needed to say that first and foremost.

Cal Martin walked through the Auditor’s report on pages 12 and 13 of the AGM Booklet. Cal Martin

explained the purpose of this report to the congregation. The purpose of the report is to ensure that

the records that are accurate and provide an accurate financial picture of the year 2012. The RAC

Board of Directors is pleased with Mintz and Wallace. This is their 10th year auditing our church. They

are extremely thorough and they provide a good audit for us and we are pleased with their audit. On

that basis Cal Martin made a motion that we accept the 2012 audit and approve Mintz and Wallace

for our 2013 audit. The motion was seconded by Dave Behnke. The motion carried.

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Financial Statements

Cal Martin summarized the 2012 Financial Statements to the congregation. Cal thanked the Lord and

also thanked all those who donated to Regina Apostolic Church. Cal also thanked the many volunteers

that helped with the work on the Financials. Cal thanked Melanie Heebner (Treasurer for Storie

Manor) and Perry Switzer (Posts all the church receipts). The task of preparing the financials could not

be done without their help. Cal continued on to thank Mike Stopanski, Karli Landry and the rest of the

Administration staff, the head tellers and tellers, Arlen Reed and Rob Schmeichel as well as the rest of

the Finance Committee.

Cal Martin moved that the Treasurer’s Report be accepted as presented. The motion was seconded by

Bill Chupik.

Discussion

Questions:

1. Pastor Rob Reimer asked Cal Martin to explain what the general tithe fund is as many

people may not know what that is.

Answer: Cal Martin explained in more detail. The church believes in tithing,

strongly. We believe that as a church we should tithe on what we receive as well.

We choose to tithe on the monies that are in our hand to work with. The monies

that we receive that we can work off which was 74% of our income, that then we

tithe on. We take 10% and hold it in a holding area and then it gets expended to

various areas and requests. Larger churches such as ours, gets many requests.

2. Linda Parkyn asked what line the land designated funds and sewing for the future are

located on.

Answer: Cal Martin explained that it is on the first line of the report. In the cash at

the top ($373,723.00). Cal further explained that when the $120,000.00 was

received back from the legal counsel it was put through our rebates and

reimbursements because we had it in our budget and we expended it. The Board

made a motion at the meeting afterwards that to put it into our high interest

account. That high interest account of $230,000.00 holds the land money.

3. Jake Dueck asked about when the boilers were operational this year as he noticed

some significant differences in the power and gas bills, how the electrical bill was down

and the gas bill was up.

Answer: Cal Martin answered that they were operational in September. Cal also

summarized out how the auditor perhaps looked at the bills for gas and electrical

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as he pulled the January bill into that total. It may be because he considers it to be

payment for December. The $41,103.00, Cal mentioned he figures is too high as

normally year to year, that cost is normally would be about $35,000.00 and Cal

thought that is about what we would have spent on the gas.

The motion to accept the Treasurer’s Report as presented was carried. Balance of Reports

1. Building Manager’s Report

2. Celebrate Recovery Report

3. Needs Fund Report

4. Kedleston Gospel Camp Report

5. Prayer Centre Report

6. Library Reports

7. Seniors Reports

8. Storie Manor Report

9. Funeral Lunches Report

10. Apostolic Women`s Ministry Report

11. Breakaway Moms Group Report

12. Men’s Committee Report

13. Alpha Report

14. Discipleship Report

15. Faith at Home Report

16. Young Family Life Report

17. Children’s Ministry Report

18. Regina Little Lambs Childcare Report

19. Linked56 Preteen Report

20. Youth Report

21. Young Adults Reports

22. Worship Arts Report

23. Master’s Commission Report

24. Mission’s Report

25. Community Groups Report

26. Pastoral Care Report

27. Support Groups Report

28. Lead Pastor’s Report 29. Finance Committee Report

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Motion to accept all reports made by Jake Dueck and seconded by Mike Stopanski. The motion carried. Elder’s Expression of Appreciation Finance Chairman Reports (Budget for 2013) Arlen Reed gave thanks to those that have helped with the budget for 2013. He explained and summarized the details of the budget for 2013. A motion was made by Arlen Reed to accept the Finance Chairman Report and the 2013 Budget for Regina Apostolic Church as presented in the Annual Report. It was seconded by David Whitrow. Discussion Questions:

1. Jake Dueck had a question about the Day Care’s fees and grants during the 3 month

period when the grants are granted and if the fees and grants during that time run

parallel year to year.

Answer: Arlen Reed answered-There would probably be 3 months’ worth ($6000 a

month) of grants and there will be $18,000.00 that will be additional money that

will come in so that will put revenues up to $40,000 over 2 million.

2. Linda Parkyn asked if we are not having a Christmas banquet and conference speaker

as the budget has $0.00 for both of those.

Answer: Arlen Reed answered-Arlen indicated he is not certain at this point on

those and indicated that there was no revenue indicated for those in the numbers

that were provided to him by the budgets provided to him by the staff. He

indicated that it may be in error and if it is, it will be corrected. Arlen also indicated

he feels that those amounts will most likely come in very similar to the 2012 actuals

for those two categories.

3. Charlene Woelk asked if we can put the year to date in the bulletin of how much tithes

and offerings has been brought in so that during the year we know what has been

donated already for tithes and offerings. She has seen other churches do it and wants

to know if we can see that.

Answer: Arlen Reed advised we can note it and give it consideration. Arlen

mentioned that sometimes space in the bulletin can be an issue. It will be a

consideration we will take note of.

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4. Jake Dueck had a question regarding the day care salaries in the budget whether it was

not included in the overall salaries in the budget

Answer: Arlen Reed advised that is correct. He advised that he took it out to try to

make it apples to apples so that there would not be an additional $150,000.00

skewing that number.

5. Charlene Woelk had 4 questions:

a. Why does Young Adults not have any funding this year?

Pastor Chris Westby answered and indicated that the Young Adults are in a position

where additional funding for this year is not needed.

b. For advertising for 2012, does that include advertising for The Passion or is advertising for the Passion under The Passion expenses?

Arlen Reed answered-Typically all advertising for The Passion would be under the

Passion expenses.

c. Where does the excess in ticket sales go? For 2014 will they be able to use that?

Arlen Reed answered-It goes into general revenues. The Passion does not have a

separate bank account, The Passion works out of our general fund and we agree to

fund it to whatever level that it needed it to be funded so they never had a so

called surplus. What they had was a budget that we set up for them which was an

estimate of what they would spend so the church would use money from the

general fund to pay for that. Any profits or losses from the Passion would be

absorbed by the general fund.

d. For 2012 Love Offerings, the actual is $18544.00 but it only says that $9000.00 was sent out. She is wondering about the difference between those numbers.

Arlen Reed answered that the number on the left is the amount that was budgeted,

the number in the middle was the amount that was accounted for and the number

on the right is the amount that we are expecting in for 2013. That is why there is a

difference there.

6. Peter Switzer had a question about the Young Adults budgeting and expenses. Why are

they not spending any money?

Arlen Reed answered-The Young Adults have their own bank account and therefore

their expenses do not come out of the budget. They do get monies that are

transferred from our general fund to their bank account. They report all their

spending but it will not show up in the budget. It shows up in the Young Adult

Report.

7. Peter Switzer wanted clarification about the Love Offering expenses etc.

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Cal Martin answered-There were some discrepancies with the auditor’s report and

Cal said he would check that out and get back to Peter on that.

8. Peter Switzer asked about where we are for our budget for 2013 after the first 2

months of the year.

Arlen Reed answered-As of the end of January we are not quite where we thought

we would be but one thing to realize is that church giving patterns tend to

sometimes be under budget and sometimes be over budget at times.

9. Pastor Rob Reimer had a question about budgeting for the Christmas Production and

why there is approximately a $5000.00 difference from the previous year.

Arlen Reed answered that he was reassured that this would be a realistic number

for this budget. Arlen will check to see if this is a typo or not.

10. Jake Dueck had a question-Was this year’s budget considered based on a possible

another large tithe?

The budget is based on: looking at the number of people that we write out receipts

to on a regular basis for giving has been growing over the years, the amount of

growth that we expect to see, and our church has been providing more teaching on

tithing and as a result of this, the tithes have been increasing. The amount for

budgeted increasing in tithing Arlen feels is a realistic representation that is

attainable for the congregation to match.

The motion made to accept the Finance Chairman Report and the 2013 Budget for Regina Apostolic Church as presented in the Annual Report has been carried. New Business

1. Board of Deacons: Election of two members: Larry Borowko came up and explained

that there is only 1 candidate and as to why. He explained that we only had one

qualified candidate to fill two vacant positions. He also explained how our selection

process went.

The candidates: Ed Tucker, David Atkins-short term basis until another person is

found. Ed Tucker and David Atkins were voted to the Board of Deacons by

acclamation.

o Jake Dueck made a comment that perhaps the congregation to pray about

involvement in future and also to provide for the Pastors, Board of Elders

and Board of Deacons prayer in regards to this matter.

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David Heebner had a question about the turnabout in front of the church on Park

St and wondering if it is our responsibility to fix or the City of Regina as there are

many potholes.

o Mike Stopanski advised that it is the City of Regina’s responsibility to repair

the street where the turnabout by the bus stop is.

2. Board of Elders: Ratification of two members

Graham Beke and Clay Bergen

Results of RAC Board of Elders Appointment:

Shawn Dueck, Scott Sims, Mark Gibson and Dave Behnke were appointed scrutinizers to count the ballots. While the ballots were being ratified, Jake Dueck had a question about the repairs budgeted for the parking lot. Mike Stopanski spoke to this. The plan is to redo the section that is right adjacent to right where Storie Manor visitors park, so on the east side. That would consist of scraping the top off and recapping and then of course the other area would be in the North East portion of the garden and this section where the gardens currently are would not be paved.

The appointment of Graham Beke and Clay Bergen on the Board of Elders was ratified.

Motion made to destroy the ballots made by Graham Toth and seconded by Duane Janiskevich. Motion carried

Pastor Rick Parkyn closed in prayer. Adjournment Jori Stockdale motioned to adjourn the meeting at 8:07pm. Minutes prepared by:

Nathan Collins, Secretary RAC Board of Deacons

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Building Manager’s Report Our God is an awesome God! Sometimes we feel that we have so much work to do and we are not prepared to do it, or we don’t know how to do it, or we want to do it the way that we think makes sense. Looking back over 2013 there were stressful times because it seemed as though things weren’t coming together and were taking longer than they should have; but looking back now I can see that God knew.

God knew what obstacles we would face. He knew that the rules and codes have changed and that we cannot just go and do things like we did them 20 years ago. God used 2013 to prepare us for the growth that we are about to see for 2014. 2013 helped educate us and get our mindset ready to know what we need to do in order to get city permits and permission in expanding our building and parking.

We now understand the expectations and procedures that we need to follow in order to obtain city permission to expand and grow God’s kingdom.

That being said, permits for the new parking lot are approved and we look forward to making room and expanding our parking early spring of 2014.

Our custodial staff is so important for us to move forward as a church. The cleaning of the facilities, setting up and tearing down of all the many events, and being the first ones in the building in the morning and the last ones to leave at night make their role so very necessary for the growth and support of our church. Please thank our staff members: Stan Miller (7yrs of service), Wes Hovind (3.5yrs of service), Dave Wilkes, Devan Flory, Henry Rodriguez, and Micaela Yagelniski.

I would also like to thank the many church family trades that we use and consult with throughout the year: Ross Kostron (Mr. Electric), Drew McMaster (Eagle Electric), Ron Fiander (Reliable Heating and Cooling), Larry Pigeon (Homewood Bound Construction), and John Stockdale (Stockdale Electric) just to name a few. Thank you for your many volunteer hours and “family discounts” you provide to your home church.

The administration and support of our Board of Deacons Members cannot go without saying. The long hours these men put in for free on a volunteer basis is truly selfless. They love the church so much that they give their valuable time to make the important decisions and help see the church grow. In a time where people feel stretched and overwhelmed with their own personal lives this group of men devote the time to fulfill God’s plan for our church. Special thanks to Cal Martin and Mark Gibson for all the support they give to me.

If you feel a calling to help support your church and volunteer with any of your natural gifting’s please let us know. Submitted By Mike Stopanski, Building Manager

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Needs Report Balance as of January 1, 2013 $1,056.06

Designated Offerings & Donations $15,295.90

Disbursements:

Needs $6,703.87 Regina Food Bank $1,200.00 Souls Harbour Rescue Mission $4,800.00 Totes for Christmas Hampers $ 186.62 Christmas Turkeys for Hampers $ 182.75 Gift Cards for Christmas Hampers $ 450.00 Expenses for Support Groups $ 200.00 TOTAL $13,723.24

Balance as of December 31, 2013 $2,628.72

I would like to thank all the people who so generously gave and helped with our Needs Ministry this past year. May God bless you. This upcoming year I will be looking to find warehouse space in order to store furniture and other household items that can be used by our own church families as well as people less fortunate than us. So please continue to call or email me regarding these items. Submitted By

Dan Leier, Needs & Transportation Coordinator

Prayer Centre Report

We started 2014 with a 24 Hour Prayer event that was well attended. It appears that more and more

people are frequenting the Prayer Centre not only on our regular Friday and Saturday 24 hour prayer

events but throughout the week. People of all ages and involvements in our church are coming

regularly to worship and to pray. I believe that the word spoken over our church that one day we will

have 24 Hour Prayer that runs seven days a week is going to be fulfilled. As we continue to raise the

awareness and importance of seeking God’s face, spending time in His presence and lifting requests

before Him it positions our church well to fulfill our part of the mandate in the Great Commission. If

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you have not come to the Prayer Centre, please take the opportunity to acquaint yourself with it. It is

a wonderful place to meet with the Lord.

Submitted By

Pastor Rob Reimer, Associate Pastor of Discipleship

Library Report

The goal of our church library is to provide God-honoring materials based on Biblical principles for

children and adults alike. We encourage everyone to take advantage of these resources.

The library is made possible, financially, by means of a grant from the church plus designated

offerings made by individuals. All financial support is sincerely appreciated.

Staffing is made up of a dedicated team of volunteers, ready and willing to assist those making use of

the library. A sincere thank you to Gaylene Behnke, Mardell Blackwood-Wedel, Andrea Deregowski,

Melisa Hall, Nathalie Janiskevich, Wendy Rapley and Beryl Ann Rasmussen for your faithful service.

Submitted By

Bonnie Martin, Librarian

Library Financial Report

Year Ending December 31, 2013

RECEIPTS

Grants $1800.00

Designated Offerings $105.00

Total Receipts $1905.00

DISBURSEMENTS

Bank Charges $48.00

Library Materials $2086.16

Total Disbursements $2134.16

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Excess of Receipts Over Disbursements $-229.16

Cash on Hand, January 1, 2012 $429.67

Cash on Hand, December 31, 2012 $200.51

Submitted By

Bonnie Martin, Librarian

Senior’s Committee Report

We began our events for 2013 by having 53 seniors join together at Tony Roma's for lunch, we then watched the Imax presentation of "The Arctic 3D"; after which we spent a couple of hours enjoying the beautiful surroundings at the Floral Conservatory were we enjoyed coffee, tea, goodies and fellowship. In June we encouraged our seniors to be part of Seniors Camp at Kedleston. Bob Tauber served as our camp pastor and Doug Siggelkow as our main speaker. On August 17; 55 Seniors boarded an old Heritage train in Ogema, SK and traveled the "Great Train Ride" to Pangman were we spent 3/4 of an hour browsing a farmers market. Boarding the train again we returned to Ogema and enjoyed a picnic lunch in the park with Tim Horton's coffee and tea. After lunch we spent time in the local museum and on the way home we stopped for ice cream and a cold drink. In the Fall, on Sept 26th, we had a barbeque supper at the Retzer farm. We enjoyed a great meal prepared by Dorothy and her mother followed by a good old time of singing and fellowship in Retzer's Rec room, with Pastor Parkyn leading us. We planned a fall supper but cancelled it because our only date available happened to conflict with Grey Cup Sunday. So we all had our own parties to cheer on the Roughriders as they victoriously won the Grey Cup. We are planning another outing in 2014 - on February 13 we will share lunch at Tony Roma's, Imax (Animal Kingdom) and Floral Conservatory. On July 10, 11, 12, 2014 we have planned a “Big Road Trip” - taking in a dinner theatre at Rosebud, then one night at the Great Quartet Convention in Red Deer. We have booked a Moose Mountain bus, two nights in hotels and tickets to Rosebud dinner theatre and Quartet convention. The tickets to the Red Deer event must be confirmed on or before Feb 28, 2014. A $50.00 deposit will hold your seat. The total cost of the trip is $250.00 per person.

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We want to thank the Board of Deacons for granting us a subsidy of $5,000.00(per year) for road trip transportation, so that buses can be booked instead of car pooling. Thanks to our committee of Alfred Behnke, Fred and Gail Braun, Carol Kerr, Pastor Ernie Metz, Bob and Irma Stevenson, Larry Borowko as Board Representative and Merv Switzer as chair. We are looking for 4 more committee members to bring a younger perspective to our seniors involvement. If you are interested please contact Merv Switzer.

Submitted By

Pastor Merv Switzer, Chairman RAC Senior Committee

Seniors Committee Financial Report January 1, 2013 – December 31, 2013

Ledger Balance January 1, 2013 $2,950.71 Income: Trip collections $4,724.00 Donations $ 75.00 Regina Apostolic Church transport Sub. $5,000.00 Total $9,799.00 Expenses: Meals $ 823.20 Transportation $ 690.00 Tour/Tickets $2,628.41 Refunds $ 122.00 Total $ 4,263.61 Income Over Expenses $ 5535.39 Ledger Balance December 31, 2013 $ 8,486.10 Submitted By

Carol Kerr, Treasurer

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Storie Manor Report

Storie Manor continues to be a highly sought after building for senior rentals. We have over 30

applications on file of people waiting to get in. We have a very nicely maintained building that offers

rent below the average market rent in Regina.

In 2013 we had very little turnover with only 2 new tenants moving in. To date we still have 16

people waiting on a 2 bedroom apartment and 22 people waiting on a 1 bedroom apartment.

We have less than 4 years remaining on our Mortgage and with interest rates so low we no longer

receive a subsidy from Saskatchewan Housing to offer subsidized rent. However, we are still

fortunate enough to run a well maintained/well managed building at rents below the average rent in

Regina making us the most affordable and well cared apartment for seniors.

We will continue to work on landscaping around Storie Manor throughout 2014, but we have no plans

for any major renovations or work to the facility.

In 2013 the Auxiliary was made up of:

Frieda Behnke – President Lois Rosom – Secretary

Sylvia Hancock – Vice President Dianne Cooke – Treasurer

We have an excellent community within Storie Manor and the reason for this is the people that live

there. We have a lot of residents who love to help out and I’d like to express a gracious thank you to:

Alfred Behnke, George Gillespie, Doug Hindle, and Wilma Wilson just to name a few.

Submitted By

Mike Stopanski, Building Manager

Funeral Lunches Report

In 2013 RAC funeral lunches were provided for nine funerals.

Women from our church family are divided into three groups under leaders, Janette Powers, Mary

Switzer and Judy Stockdale. Food is provided and served by the funeral committees regardless of size

of the funeral. There is no charge for the lunch but with donations given the money goes to AWM for

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their ministry which consists of money for students at Eston College, missionaries, and needs as they

arise. This year’s donation was $1200.00. The lunch coordinator and overseer, Judy Stockdale, keeps

records, bulletins and expenses, receipts /bills for each funeral.

I would like to thank each leader of our groups and the workers and people who provide the food.

We are thankful for your help and support with this important ministry in our church.

Our Account Balance:

Year Beginning January 31, 2013 $634.68

Year End December 31, 2013 $1862.00 Submitted By

Judy Stockdale, Funeral Lunches Coordinator

Apostolic Women Ministries Report

Listed are some of the activities we participated in during this past year.

Provided and served lunches for nine funerals from our church.

Made 100 pies for Kedleston Camp – made on site at the Camp Kitchen. All ladies enjoy this

outing.

Held a Mother’s Day Tea, as well as a Christmas Tea and Bake Sale at Storie Manor.

Held our annual Christmas Luncheon at Tony Roma’s Restaurant, all ladies are invited to attend.

Helped sort and count out vitamin pills for a hospital clinic to send to Haiti along with Elva Brisbois

and a team of nurses.

We meet monthly, except for July and August, or for the months we have a special event. We have a

short devotional or a special speaker, as well as a time of prayer for our missionaries and other prayer

requests. A time of fellowship and afternoon tea time follows.

All ladies are welcome to join us at any time. We sincerely thank each person who has helped us in

any way – financially, physically and with prayer.

Submitted By

Irma Stevenson, AWM Secretary

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Apostolic Women Ministries Financial Report

January 1, 2013 – December 31, 2013

Year End Balance December 31, 2012 $4,705.84

INCOME

Offerings & donations through the Church $961.47

Donations for Serving funeral lunches $1,200.00

Spring & Fall Tea & Bake sales $856.22

Interest $00.02

Total $3,017.71

EXPENSES

Gifts to Eston College Students (17) $425.00

El Salvador (student sponsorships) $400.00

1 Memorial $200.00

Supplies & Ministry in Haiti $530.00

Pies for Camp [some supplies] $58.13

Krista Woelk (India) $500.00

Coxes $300.00

Danny Delong $300.00

Gary Chupik $300.00

Eston College Student Bursary $500.00

Bake sale expenses $27.50

Dorothy Gammie $400.00

Christmas luncheon $282.77

Soul's Harbour $400.00

Office Supplies $10.06

Total $4,633.46

Year End Balance December 31, 2013 $3,090.09

Submitted by

Mary Switzer, AWM Treasurer

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Breakaway Moms Group Report

2013 was an exciting year for Breakaway. We meet every Monday morning from 10-11:30.

Attendance was between 15 and 25 any given week. Moms that attend were from both our church

family and the community. Following our ice breaker question and announcements, someone from

our leadership team led a topic for discussion. Carla Toth and Karen Kostron have taken over

leadership of the group. We are assisted by Jenn Dean and Leanne Blanco.

We are very grateful for our childcare! We now have 3 ladies that care for the children, usually 15 to

18 every week. The older children attend Wee College.

We discussed many topics relevant to parenting including insecurity, discipline, fairness, midwives,

serving, and we even had a cooking demonstration! We also discussed several topics from the series

“Parenting is Heart Work.”

We were grateful for our guest speakers Deb Beke, Linda Parkyn and Mary Switzer. These women

have incredible knowledge and wisdom; we were very blessed to learn from them.

Our group is passionate about serving our church family and community. We had teams make supper

and bake dessert for Alpha, assisted assembling the Christmas Food Hampers, donated cookies and

volunteered at Journey to Bethlehem, helped to organize the Youth Menu Auction, and we

volunteered for the Salvation Army Christmas kettle campaign at the Southland Mall.

Submitted By

Karen Kostron & Carla Toth

New2You at the Ap Report

New2You at the Ap is a semi-annual children's consignment sale. Approximately 100 consigners and

40 volunteers come together to run this event. Friday night consists of drop off and organization of

items. The sale takes place Saturday morning. People typically start lining up 2hrs in advance and we

see about 300 people come to the sale.

New2You is a great outreach opportunity. We have really been able to draw the community into our

church with this sale. Approximately 50% of our volunteers and 75% of our consigners are community

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members and have had no prior connection with our church. It has been a great way to build

relationship and invite them to relevant ministries in our church.

New2You pays consigners 75% of their sales. The remaining 25% is used to pay expenses and then

split between two ministries. The committee chooses one community based and one church based

ministry to support each sale. We have supported Soul's Harbour, NICU at Regina General Hospital,

Options Pregnancy Centre, RAC Needs fund, RAC Youth and RAC Young Families.

Many families choose to donate their unsold items. We have partnered with many community

organizations to bless families, single parents, foster families and others with all sorts of great

children's items.

On behalf of the committee, we are very excited about the opportunity to bless families and the

community through this sale. We are very thankful to the church leadership for their continued

support and we are looking forward to our next sale on March 22, 2014.

Submitted By the New2You Committee,

Carla Toth, Chair

Karen Kostron, Janelle Laspa, Yolanda Maat, Kelly Phillips, Naomi Picard, Julie Sims, Theresa Stewart

New2You at the Ap Finance Report

Bank Account January 1, 2013 $ 335.11

Income: Sale of Items $24,245.20 Lunch $ 310.25 Total $24,555.45

Expenses: Bank Charges $ 286.54 Community Organization Donation $ 2603.00 Consigner 75% $18,029.38 Hospitality $ 402.47 RAC Ministry Donation $ 1000.00

Supplies $ 695.90 Tithe $ 483.10

Total $ 23,500.39

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Bank Account December 31, 2013 $ 1,390.17

Submitted By the New2You Committee,

Carla Toth, Chair

Karen Kostron, Janelle Laspa, Yolanda Maat, Kelly Phillips, Naomi Picard, Julie Sims, Theresa Stewart

Alpha Report

In 2014 we are currently planning on having two Alpha classes that will run here at the church. One

will take place during what we have come to know as ‘Spring Session’ and the other will start in

September as we have done over the past few years. Graham and Debra Beke will continue to play an

important part in the leadership of Alpha as we have a nice mix of people coming, including some ESL

students. We have just finished a sermon series on “Being on Mission”. We really do want to see a

cultural shift in our church where we see more of our congregation cooperating with the Holy Spirit to

walk across the room to build relationships with people and be a light to those around them. Alpha

can be such an easy way to encourage people to take that next step on their spiritual journey. We

trust more of our congregation will take advantage of this year’s classes to do just that.

Submitted By

Pastor Rob Reimer, Associate Pastor of Discipleship

Discipleship Classes Report

I am so thankful for the discipleship process we have here at Regina Apostolic Church and for the

teachers who have so willingly given of their time. I hear testimony after testimony of people who

have been growing in their faith, making connections with other people and just generally

encountering God as a result of being in a Discipleship Class. In one of the classes that I was teaching,

a newer believer stepped out and shared a prophetic word with a lady in the class. What was neat

was the lady had just recently had a dream where the Lord had shared the same word with her. In

the same class, one of the students came and shared with me a prophetic word God had given him

several times during the week that pertained to my own life. It was all very encouraging. We are

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continually adjusting the material to the classes as a result of feedback that we get on the class

evaluations and new promptings we feel from the Lord. As a church, we are hoping to see that

everyone who is involved in serving will be committed to continuing through the process until they

have completed 401. This allows us all to be aware of what our church believes in different areas but

also to build relationships with people we may not have met before. We have consistently seen how

these relationships that have formed out of Discipleship Classes have been enriching lives. Currently

classes are being offered on Sunday morning and Wednesday evening as this seems to be the times

that people have preferred to attend.

Submitted By

Pastor Rob Reimer, Associate Pastor of Discipleship

Faith@Home Report

And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow him. Let your roots go down into him,

and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness.

Colossians 2:6-7 (NLT)

Reflecting on 2013 FAITH@Home is a simple, yet intentional, approach to forming godly values and building biblical foundations for life. Our goal through FAITH@Home is to equip families for a life of faith. Jesus stated to his disciples in John 10:10, “My purpose [for coming] is to give [you] a rich and satisfying life.” The life that Jesus promises is abundant. Other places in Scripture use references that describe having fullness in Christ. Our desire through FAITH@Home is to bring parents and children together in such a way that they can interact in a learning atmosphere that fosters the development of a faith-filled life. We want to see roots go down into Christ that becomes the foundation on which parents and children can stand together. We want families to become strong in their faith and homes to become places where truth is taught and where thankfulness overflows. Parents and family are the greatest influence in a child’s life. Through FAITH@Home, we seek to support this influence and strengthen it by using age-appropriate interactive lessons at every age level from two to eighteen years of age that families can continue to use at home. FAITH@HOME teaches children and parents alike the importance of a personal walk with the Lord and how to put that faith

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into practice at home and into everyday life. FAITH@HOME offers a wealth of practical wisdom, inspirational ideas and stories, and biblical truth designed to encourage, motivate, and prepare families to be relationally strong and spiritually healthy. Looking Into 2014 On average, we have between 8-10 families participate in most of the Weekend FAITH@Home Sunday Events that take place during the message in both the 9am and 11am services two times a month. Our goal as we approach FALL 2014 is to strengthen the @Home part of FAITH@Home by incorporating some of the At Home Curriculum produced by AWANA. Not only is this excellent biblically based curriculum that parents can use with their children throughout the week, incorporating this curriculum will help link the AWANA program to our FAITH@Home efforts and strengthen our mission of equipping families for a life of faith. Live full of faith in the Lord! The One who has called you is faithful. Thank you for your continued prayer and support. Submitted by Pastor Llewellyn, Associate Pastor of Families

Family Life Report

Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. Romans 12:15 (NIV)

Reflecting on 2013 As I reflect back on 2013, I can honestly say that walking alongside and working with parents in their efforts to raise the family that God has entrusted to their care is truly a blessing. It is so rewarding to see families connecting with one another, growing in the Lord together, and serving faithfully together with incredible passion and commitment. I often marvel at the busyness of life that I see and hear among the families who are under our pastoral care as they try to fit so much into their daily and weekly schedules—day-to-day routines, playtime, school, work, cleaning, laundry, meals, sports, church, children’s and youth programs, birthday parties, music or dance lessons (or both), family outings, grandparents, shopping, etc. I remember those days well. And even though our children are now somewhat older and seemingly less dependent on us [or at least they think so], we still face many of the same scheduling challenges as these younger families.

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I believe that, no matter the age or stage of the family, a parent continuously thinks about their child’s health and welfare—physically, mentally, emotionally, relationally, and spiritually. A parent wants what’s best for their child. A father wants to provide. A mother wants to love. And a child, well let’s say that a child just wants! Finding the balance and consistency in these wants is one of the great challenges of parenthood, as is instilling faith and contentment. A parent wants what is best for their family. God does too! He wants what is best for his family—the people who make up His church. As Family LIFE Pastor in our church, I too want what is best for the families that my wife, Kowanda, and I have the privilege to both serve and lead. So much goes into giving and drawing out the best: connecting, listening, encouraging, mentoring, sharing, providing, advising, empowering, and praying. We love the opportunities that we have to celebrate with families in their happy moments through births, first dedications, first baby steps, family events (both planned and spontaneous), everyday life moments, graduations, and weddings. Yet we also embrace the not-so-celebrative moments where consolation and comfort are needed as families struggle through loss and death. At the top of my report I included this verse from Romans 12:15, “Rejoice with those who rejoice, mourn with those who mourn.” The Message translation says to “laugh with your happy friends when they are happy; share tears when they are down.” Along with our ongoing effort to provide relevant teaching and practical resources to our parents, this really is the heart of our pastoral ministry. Looking Into 2014 Our mission continues to be one of building strong, unified families and future generations. Each day we look for creative ways to fulfill this mission! So, as we approach Family LIFE Ministry in 2014, our priority falls into three categories: presence, partnership, and prayer. We will continue to increase the level of pastoral presence, care, and support for families. We will look for creative ways to partner with families in further ministry to families. And, we will develop more strategic prayer and outreach initiatives in our stay focused on “living on mission” as we minister to the needs of families and seek to introduce new families to faith in Christ. We expected a year of growth in among our families this past year, and we anticipate more growth again in 2014. Your prayers for our families are always welcome and we invite any involvement that you can give through serving and volunteering. We are committed to working with and celebrating with young families whenever and wherever we can, crying with young families when we must, and praying for families always! And, we are honored to be part of the pastoral team that we have here at Regina Apostolic Church! Submitted by Pastor Llewellyn & Kowanda Janzen, Associate Pastor of Families

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Nursery Report

You have taught children and infants to tell of your strength [to give you praise], silencing your enemies and all who oppose you.

Psalm 8:2 (NLT emphasis added)

Listen carefully to a baby’s cry. There is something unique, special, and captivating that pulls you toward it. Each sound says something different about what the baby wants—needs. It may be a faint whimper in the background. It may be a call to feed. It might be a polite attention-getting plea to be changed. Or, it may be a forceful scream of pain. Each sound has a purpose.

I love the fact that children and infants have the ability to attract the attention of God and command the attention of the enemy. The sound of an infant chatter is praise to the Lord that speaks of His strength. God loves both the laughter and the little cries made by children and infants. Each laugh or cry has an effect in the spirit—for the sake of God’s kingdom—in that they also make a silencing statement to an enemy who seeks to oppose the growth and advancement of the church reflected through each new voice. Therefore, we covet your prayer on behalf of those who work in the Nursery and the families with young children.

In August 2013, the Nursery became another part of our Family LIFE Ministry. As I observe the activity that takes place in the Nursery from week to week and during the week, it is a busy and active place. It is also an attractive place. A growing Nursery is a sign of a growing church!

We are blessed to have the number of babies, parents, and families that we have in our church. Thank you to Carla Toth, Karen Kostron, and Elisabeth Whitbred who give leadership to our Nursery and schedule the many faithful volunteers who care for these beautiful infants and children. Your help and commitment is so much appreciated.

We continue to see more families who are attending our church, and new families choosing to attend our church, having babies. In fact, since writing this report and by the time you read it, three new babies will have been born who will need the services of our Nursery! With this growing number of infants to take care and with our new Plan to Protect Policies and Procedures, meeting the ratio of workers to supervise these infants becomes increasingly challenging. So, first of all, we thank you for your prayer support. Secondly, we ask that if you can serve in any capacity in the Nursery during any one of our three weekend services, will you please consider helping. You are more than caring for infants; you are helping us grow our church by meeting a very real need for families.

We look forward to the growth that we will see in the Nursery in 2014!

Submitted by Pastor Llewellyn, Associate Pastor of Families

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Next Generation Report In August 2013 the Leadership Team at RAC made some changes which resulted in my Pastoral Ministry growing to include everyone from Age 2 – 18. This is now called ‘Next Generation Ministry’ which includes children, preteen & youth. I work together with 3 ministry assistants to minister to these amazing age groups. Nathan White joined with us in October 2012 and has remained as a ministry assistant to youth. In September 2013 we added two staff members: Candice Snyder, who serves as a ministry assistant to both youth & children focusing on P2P (Plan to Protect) and special events and Claire Cranston, who serves as a ministry assistant to children focusing on weekly programming. The following report is broken into the three age categories that we serve in order to give a clearer picture of our ministry.

Children’s Ministry This year was marked with many changes to Children’s Ministry at RAC, the most significant being that after faithfully serving the children & their families of this church for ten years, Pastor Gary & Linda Clifford felt that it was time to move to Calgary to be with their son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren. I pray God’s blessing on them as they continue to follow God’s leading in their lives. I believe that children are a vital part of our church and God’s kingdom and I am excited about the opportunity to minister to them. I would like to touch on three other significant changes in children’s ministry this past year: The beginning of a Contemporary 9am service, the implementation of a new safety policy (P2P) for our kids and youth and a change to our Wednesday evening kids programming.

9am Service In May this year we switched to a contemporary worship service at 9am on Sundays and also added duplicate children’s ministry at the 9am service. This meant an increase of volunteers in order to continue excellent ministry to our kids at both of the Sunday services. I am so thankful to both the volunteers that moved to 9am from 11am as well as for all the new volunteers that have stepped up in order to ensure our kids are ministered to at both the 9 & 11am services. We also provide children’s ministry during the Saturday 7pm service for children in Grades 4 and under. The kids have a great time during their classes playing games, doing crafts and hearing lessons with a Biblical emphasis. P2P - a Safety Policy for our kids Your children and youth are precious to you and we want to value them as much as you do. In order to do this, we are in the midst of starting a new policy P2P (Plan to Protect). Although some of the policy items were already in place it wasn’t a comprehensive plan for all ministries to those under 18. We believe this is an essential piece in order to ensure safety for our kids. However, it is a huge task and will take a significant amount of time to ensure policies are being abided by. All of our workers and volunteers are required to meet strict requirements before they are permitted to work with your children and we are working on having all volunteers attend ‘P2P’ training sessions.

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Wednesday Evenings In September 2013 we changed our kids program on Wednesday evening to AWANA. AWANA Clubs provides weekly programs and special events that introduce children to Jesus Christ and build a biblical foundation for faith. There are different programs for all the ages: Puggles (age 2 & young 3’s), Cubbies (age 3 & 4’s), Sparkies (K - Grade 2) and T&T (Grade 3&4). We have over 115 kids currently registered in these programs. I want to thank all the volunteers that have agreed to be part of the ministry team for AWANA. We have a great team of people ministering to these kids on Wednesday evenings! We are still in need of more assistance so please feel free to contact me to get involved!

This past year we also had our Summer Sports & Arts Camps with 22 kids giving their lives to Jesus!! It was an amazing two weeks. Wee College, which is a program for 4 year olds that focuses on teaching them the Bible started again in September 2013 and is a great program to have at our church. We also have Noah’s Ark Preschool which is a wonderful preschool for 3 & 4 year olds in our church and community. Every weekend we are honored to minister to approximately 110 - 145 kids between the ages of 2 to grade 4. I want to thank all of those that have served for many years in children’s ministry as well as all those that joined us this year! Thank-you for serving Jesus by loving kids!

Pre-teen Ministry - Linked56 As a leadership team, we felt that it was important to acknowledge that kids in Grades 5 & 6 are at a unique stage. They are not yet youth but really don’t identify as children and therefore Linked56 started in Fall 2012. At this time we are currently ministering to 20 - 25 preteens on Wednesday evenings and approximately 15 on Sunday mornings at 11am. There are five very faithful volunteers that serve in our pre-teen ministry either weekly or once a month. Thank - you for your faithfulness and for serving Jesus by loving pre-teens!

Youth Ministry This was another exciting year in youth ministry! As part of our youth ministry we have a Student Leadership Program for senior youth. This program gives them the ability to grow in spiritual leadership qualities through deeper bible study and direction from our gifted student leadership leaders, Janet & Chris Michalylow. They are doing an amazing job. This year was the 5th year of this exciting leadership development program. We continued with our weekly programs. Wednesday evenings is designed specifically for those youth who want to dive deeper in their relationship with God. Youth learn how to apply God's Word to their lives and grow deeper in their relationship with Him. The evening is divided into a Jr. Youth Group (Grades 7-9) and a Sr. Youth Group (Grades 9-12). Friday evenings this year we have continued with the same format as last year. We begin the evening at 6:30pm with food and hang out time, some bump and then we officially begin the night at

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7:30pm. An important part of our evening is when the youth are broken into small groups. This is to enable our youth to discuss what was taught and to build relationships with Godly young adults who can answer questions, pray for them and walk with them through their journey. We have a wide range of youth coming, those that have not yet made a commitment to Christ, very new Christians and others that have grown up in church and have a deep faith and love for God. Some of the highlights for the youth on Fridays are the all-nighters, car rallies and kickoff!! This past fall we have started a youth band and it has been really exciting to see them develop & grow. It’s been awesome to have them lead us into God’s presence on Friday evenings. Our youth retreat this year was called Chosen. We were honored to have Elsie Welch as our speaker and a band which consisted of young adults from our church. This was a very powerful weekend and God touched many of our youth for the very first time as well as some that renewed commitments to God. I want to say thank-you to all the volunteers, to the band, cooks, concession workers and security. It takes so many to put on a weekend like this! There are so many people who served our youth this last year. God bless all of you that have served for your commitment, love, energy and time that you have given to the youth of our church and our community! Thank-you for serving Jesus by loving youth! Submitted By Pastor Jori Stockdale, Associate Pastor of Next Generation

Young Adult Ministry Report

We minister to those who have graduated high school until the age of 30. Our ministry is based on a

volunteer team of servants whose continual ministry and dedication enable young adult ministry to

thrive. We meet twice a month with our leadership team for teaching, prayer, ministry and planning.

This year we have concentrated on mobilizing more leaders to mentor others in the young adult

range. I would like to thank all the volunteers who make this ministry possible. I would also like to

thank my wife, Sherri Westby, for partnering with me. She is an amazing woman of God.

Mission statement: Because the Gospel is central we - desire young adults to be deeply rooted in

Word, Spirit and Community - to live and serve as ambassadors of Christ.

I believe people need to know the Word and Holy Spirit in order to be on mission for Jesus – that is to

seek and save the lost. Community is key in seeing lives transformed, hearts cared for and people

serving in the gifts.

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Reflecting on 2013

We have 4 community groups that gather on Monday nights and we worship together, have a shared

teaching time and separate into smaller groups. These groups continue to foster our spiritual growth

and aid to release gifting in people. We are blessed by amazing leaders and great hosts at our

community groups.

Sarah Switzer, Christian Mbanza, Nathan White, Sherri Westby, Brenden Branscombe,

Mackenzie Reimer, Joanne Woodward, Shane Williams, Adam Tippe, Stephanie Toth, Peter

and Marcy Switzer, David and Shannon Stevenson, Kristen Belous, Divin Mvoula, Matt

Weisbrod, Jocelyn Wedel, Brittany Sklar, Claire Cranston, and Landon Lavigne.

We continue to host fellowship events after every service that draw a large number of young adults.

The core of people has been growing deeper in the Lord and larger as well. We are very happy to

have people saved, baptized, married, and moving towards having families.

We continue to see a number of our young adults actively participating in evangelism and the mission

of Jesus. We are believing for more souls for the Kingdom of God.

Looking ahead to 2014

6 Community Groups in early spring 2014.

All Young Adults involved in the “Spring Session” classes April 30- June 25.

Further discipleship of the people we work with. Including the leadership team we work with and that they would mentor people well.

More salvations as we live the mission of Jesus through life, Young Adult events and Service.

We desire to see the Spirit and truth of God move upon people to see further physical, emotional, and spiritual healing.

Submitted By

Pastor Chris Westby, Associate Pastor of Worship Arts & Young Adults

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Young Adult Financial Statement

Year Ended December 31, 2013

REVENUE

What a Saviour Conference $ 4,467

Donations collected $ 2,850

Collected for Community Group Materials $ 1,265

Collected for Events $ 587

Grant $ 475

Honorarium $ 436

$10,080

EXPENSES

What a Saviour Conference $ 5,350

Events $ 3,420

Donations $ 2,850

Community Groups $ 2,275

Leadership Team $ 1,502

Resources $ 1,140

Art Supplies $ 699

Social Networking $ 452

Conferences $ 336

Mentorship $ 309

Misc $ 189

Sponsorships $ 140

$18,662

Deficiency of Revenue over Expenses $(8,582)

Cash on Hand, January 1, 2013 $12,952

Cash on Hand, December 31, 2013 $ 4,370

Submitted By

Melanie Heebner, Young Adult Treasurer

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Worship Arts Report

Leading the Church to Glorify God in His Presence

Psalm 96:1-4

Oh sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth!

Sing to the Lord, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day.

Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!

For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; he is to be feared above all gods.

At RAC we’ve defined Worship as recognizing who God is and what He has done and then offering

your actions, creative expression, speech, song, thoughts and emotions in obedience and sacrifice.

Reflecting on 2013

Firstly, I would like to thank each and every volunteer who puts time into the Worship Ministry at our

Church. There are over 100 Volunteers in the Worship Arts Ministry. This includes everyone from

singers to musicians as well as artists and dancers and everyone in the technical areas. THANK YOU

SO MUCH! Without you we couldn’t do it!

2013 marked a year of change for worship in our church. Our 9am service was re-launched with

contemporary worship and new teams and musicians. A strong foundation of worshippers enabled

the new format to the service to continue growing. I want to personally say “Thank you” to all those

who served in worship ministry in the traditional 9am service. We were able to host a supper to thank

all those who had served over the years.

Our Worship artists, directed by Amanda Walton, continue to minister in services and doing projects,

especially for Advent. The artists glorify God through photography, canvases, and other ways. As well

our dancers continue to minister with the power and presence of the Lord directed by Erica Gray.

What a blessing it is to have God’s creative power flowing through these ministries!

Looking ahead for 2014

As I look toward the future I desire to see;

Further depth of our musicians and leadership within our department.

New leaders, teams and musicians trained and raised up.

Workshops for specific instruments to train them in worship.

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As I look at the corporate services I desire to see people glorifying God, God’s manifest-presence

changing lives, and people built up through worship. I believe God’s healing can come to people,

hearts, souls, and bodies in the midst of worship.

Submitted By

Pastor Chris Westby, Associate Pastor of Worship Arts & Young Adults

Master’s Commission Report

Student enrollment in Master’s Commission is currently higher than it has even been and we are

having a great year so far. Our students are involved in many aspects of life and ministry here at

Regina Apostolic Church. There is good diversity in the perspectives and experiences that they share

which makes our classroom interactions very interesting. There have been powerful times of

encountering God’s presence on Tuesday when we meet with the prophetic flowing freely and

physical healings taking place. There seems to be a new emphasis in the program of walking in the

power and anointing of God’s presence and it is wonderful to see. We are anticipating continued

growth in the program as the spiritual hunger in our church continues to rise. More people want to

go deeper into God’s word and to have concentrated times of study and mentorship. Please continue

to pray for the program as a whole and the individual students you know during this time they have

set aside to see God’s work done in their lives.

Submitted By

Pastor Rob Reimer, Associate Pastor of Discipleship

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Master’s Commission Financial Report

ASSETS As at 12/31/2013

As at 12/31/2012 Percent

Current Assets

Petty Cash 55.57 100.00 (44.43)

Chequing Bank Account 33,135.16 27,707.78 19.59

Total Cash 33,190.73 27,807.78 19.36

Accounts Receivable 313.00 0.00 0.00

Reimbursements Receivable 83.03 83.03 0.00

Total Receivable 396.03 83.03 376.97

Prepaid Expenses 0.00 0.00 0.00

Total Current Assets 33,586.76 27,890.81 20.42

Inventory Assets

Student Materials inventory 0.00 0.00 0.00

Books inventory 0.00 0.00 0.00

CDs inventory 0.00 0.00 0.00

Other Inventory 0.00 0.00 0.00

Total Inventory Assets 0.00 0.00 0.00

TOTAL ASSETS 33,586.76 27,890.81 20.42

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LIABILITIES

Current Liabilities

Accounts Payable 0.00 0.00 0.00

MasterCard Payable 1,720.14 1,871.35 (8.08)

PST Payable 1,720.14 1,871.35 (8.08)

GST Charged on Sales 0.00 0.00 0.00

GST Paid on Purchases (439.26) (252.30) 74.10

GST Adjustments 0.00 0.00 0.00

GST Owing (Refund) (439.26) (252.30) 74.10

Prepaid Sales/Deposits 0.00 0.00 0.00

EI Payable 0.00 0.00 0.00

CPP Payable 0.00 0.00 0.00

Tax Payable 0.00 0.00 0.00

Total Current Liabilities 1,280.88 1,619.05 (20.89)

TOTAL LIABILITIES 1,280.88 1,619.05 (20.89) ___________ ___________

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EQUITY

Equity Retained Earnings - Previous Year 26,271.76 54,875.64 (52.12)

Current Earnings 6,034.12 (28,603.88) (121.10)

Total Equity 32,305.88 26,271.76 22.97

TOTAL EQUITY 32,305.88 26,271.76 22.97 ___________ ___________

LIABILITIES AND EQUITY 33,586.76 27,890.81 20.42

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Submitted By

Linda Parkyn, Master’s Commission Treasurer

Missions Report

In 2013 among other mission’s endeavors, we sent a team to Cambodia to work with the ministry of

TransformAsia that deals predominately with at risk women and children. The team had a successful

trip and shared with a good crowd of people that came to their informational meeting in the gym. It

seems many were inspired to not only support this kind of work abroad, but also here in Regina.

Some good steps have been taken in this past year as it relates to the missions department here at

Regina Apostolic Church. We have updated our application process and we now have a short term

mission’s form that we have made available. There is still work to be done to finalize the mission’s

handbook and policy for our church but some good progress has been made. The mission’s budget

has outlined who we are supporting and we have endeavored to stay in touch with as many of these

folks as we can. As we have mentioned before, it is very much our goal to see our church be on

mission for Christ in an increased way, not just globally but right here in Regina as well. We believe

that as people are stirred to reach a lost world, that they will know their place in the mission field.

Please remember to pray for our missionaries as they are doing a great job.

Submitted By

Pastor Rob Reimer, Associate Pastor of Discipleship

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Community Groups Report We are made to live in community, and Community Groups respond to that need in our church family. I appreciate very much Pastor Chris and Pastor Llewellyn, who so faithfully work alongside of me as Community Group coaches. A very special thank you to each Community Group leader for their part in this most important ministry. Community groups create a wonderful place to share life together with others. Thanks to the following list of individuals and couples who have given leadership or hosted a group: Anita Atkins Graham & Debra Beke Mark & Peggy Gibson Perry & Della Godzinski Pastor Jori Stockdale Judy Roberts Ruby Tuck-Mackie Wendell Mills Bill & Nadine Chupik Marko & Janelle Laspa Jon & Amanda Fischer Linda Parkyn Karen Kostron Carla Toth Ruby Goertz Doug Holmes Karen Jensen Igor Redkin Don Giles Graham & Debra Beke Arodi Blanco Nathan Collins Gerald & Anna Matthews Rob & Jocelyn Reimer Carol Kerr Duane & Nathalie Janiskevich Barbara Metz Blair Mills Alex Coleman Clint & Tina Maki John Hogan June Sherring Andrea Shick Thomas Wen Young Adult Leadership Team: Sarah Switzer Christian Mbanza Nathan White Sherri Westby Brenden Branscombe Nathan White Mackenzie Reimer Joanne Woodward Shane Williams Adam Tippe Stephanie Toth Peter and Marcy Switzer David and Shannon Stevenson Kristen Belous Divin Mvoula Matt Weisbrod Jocelyn Wedel Brittany Sklar Claire Cranston Landon Lavigne Submitted By

Pastor Ernie Metz, Associate Pastor of Care

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Pastoral Care Report I am indeed grateful for all those who have chosen to give care within our church during 2013 whether you were on an official list or just going about giving care where needed. The following individuals are care givers in our church body:

Anita Atkins Allan and Joyce Beke

Freida Behnke Wendy Coutts

Jennifer Case Dave & Ruth DeLong

Ken & Heather Dynna Todd & Kim Girqulis

Dianne Hunt Carol Kerr

Barbara Metz Clint Maki

Wendy Rapley Frank and Shirley Redekopp

June Sherring Judy Stockdale

Don & Thelma Booth Bill & Nadine Chupik

Chuck & Marie Flavelle Glen & Roberta Mills

If you have interest in the area of visiting shut-ins and those in care homes please let me know.

During 2013, I once again have done the following to meet needs in our church body and to make

connection with community people. I have held three, “Anger in Relationship” workshops. In April a

workshop on “Time Management” was given, and then in May, four Sunday nights were devoted to

“How Boundaries Enhance Relationships.” In the fall there was an eight week series on “Success in

Marriage.” Many community people attended this workshop.

Submitted By Pastor Ernie Metz, Associate Pastor of Care

Support Group Report

Emotional healing and wholeness happens in the context of Support Groups. Besides ministering to those within our church body, Support Groups help us to reach into the Community. Support Groups are also another doorway into our church and ultimately where some experience a personal relationship with Jesus.

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I want to thank the following very faithful leaders: Divorce Care (for those that are separated or divorced) Leaders: Wes and Heather Hovind Assisting: Kim Douglas Grief Share (for those that have lost a loved one)

Leader: Diana Neisz. Diana has ministered in this area for a number of years and has concluded her involvement the end of 2013. Isaac Wiebe also helped along with Diana this past year.

CELBRATE RECOVERY (for anyone that struggles with any type of addictive behavior) Leaders: Kevin and Elisha Struthers Those that help in this ministry are Stan Miller, Nicole Williams, Randy Thunberg and Steve Juby. This ministry was suspended in November due to lack of leadership available. If you have interest in this area, please talk with me. Thank you. Submitted By Pastor Ernie Metz, Associate Pastor of Care

Lead Pastor’s Report

Psalms 46:4 “There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.” There are six specific areas that we have felt God has called RAC to focus on this past year:

1. Weekend Worship Experience – 2013 has been a year of refreshing Weekend Services with strong Praise & Worship in all the

three services with solid Word based preaching and compassionate Altar Ministry. It has also

been a challenging time as the Joint Leadership Team of Elders, Board of Deacons and Pastoral

Staff felt to shift the worship style in the 9:00am Sunday service to contemporary worship.

About 200 people agreed to move from the 11:00am service to the 9:00am service which has

changed the dynamics of the service. It is great to see the number of little kids attending with

their parents and it has given us some room to grow again in the 11:00am service. There has

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been an increased number of healings flowing out of the preaching of the Word, Praise &

Worship and increased Prayer.

2. Relevant Ministry - We feel called to minister to every age and stage of life. We have seen an increased number of

children attending our body which has stretched our Christian Ed. Department. We introduced

the AWANA program and it has been well received along with our Preschool Program with

Melanie Dueck and our Wee College Program.

Our Youth Department has continued to grow and meet the needs of this age group. It is a

very challenging time for this age group and our Youth Leaders have ministered so well to the

youth.

We have a very vibrant Young Adult Ministry which lead us to do a Young Adult Conference in

September which was a great blessing. There has been a growth in Community Groups with

the Young Adults.

Pastor Switzer and his Team have provided a number of activities for Seniors including a train

ride in Southern Saskatchewan.

3. Community Groups - Under the able leadership of Pastor Ernie and his team, the number of Community groups has

grown and strengthened our church. This needs to be a renewed focus as we grow larger we

must grow “smaller” with small groups.

4. Living on Mission & Outreach - We haven’t been involved with any large “Crusades” to reach people for Christ but we have

consistently seen members of the body leading people to the Lord which has resulted in larger

attendance at Weekend Meetings and at Community Groups.

5. Prayer - This has been a year of increased Prayer across the body. Friday Night All Night Prayer has

been so encouraging and stretching. Under the direction of Pastor Rob more people of all ages

have been using the Prayer Room more than ever.

6. Discipleship - This has been a very active year of offering Discipleship Classes 101, 201, 301 & 401. We have

been encouraged to see how many people have been involved with the Process and then

joining a Community Group afterwards. Also this year we have seen the most people be

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involved in Master’s Commission as compared with all the other years we have offered this

ministry.

Areas I oversee:

Board of Elders

This year we saw two new members added to the Elders Board. We were pleased to have Clay

Bergen & Graham Beke join the Elders. This has increased our Prayer Focus and Evangelism.

Board of Deacons

The Board of Deacons have worked hard over the year of 2013 being involved with the

financial ministry of the church and are spear-heading the plan to build onto our church

building which is to be presented to the congregation at the 2014 Annual meeting.

Staff

The Staff have been a pleasure to work with! We regretted saying goodbye to Pastor Gary &

Linda Clifford after ministering with them over a ten year period in Children’s Ministry. Pastor

Jori Stockdale is now overseeing the Next Generation Department which covers age 2 – age

18. We welcomed Nathan White to work with Pastor Jori in Youth Ministries and Claire

Cranston & Candice Snyder to minister with Children. We also said goodbye to Brenden

Branscombe and welcomed Matt Weisbrod to our Administrative Team.

It was a pleasure to have Cal Martin come on Staff in September as Manager of

Administration. He has performed so well having been formerly part of the Church Body, the

Board of Deacons and Treasurer of our church. This has helped our lines of communication

between Elders, Board of Deacons and the Pastoral & the Administration Staff as he attends all

the Elders, the Board and Staff meetings.

Summary:

We have certainly been blessed as a Church and as the Province of Saskatchewan. We praise

our God for His Goodness, Mercy & Grace!

Psalms 36:8 “You feed us from the abundance of your own house, letting us drink from your rivers of

delight.”

Submitted By

Pastor Rick Parkyn, Lead Pastor

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Expression of Appreciation

The Board of Elders would again like to express our gratitude and appreciation to all those that have

served God by supporting His church this past year through various forms of ministry.

We would like to echo Paul’s sentiments to the churches in his epistles to our church as well: “Grace

and peace to you, from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. We thank our God on your

behalf”.

An expression of appreciation to:

Our Pastoral staff

The Board of Deacons

Church office staff

Managerial and maintenance staff

Those involved in Christian Education

Those involved in outreach ministries and programs

Those that have been faithful in the area of prayer

Worship Leaders and Musicians

Those faithful in giving financially

Ushers, Greeters and Info Centre workers

Nursery workers

Those involved in seniors’ ministry.

Those faithfully visiting the shut-ins, sick in hospitals and care homes

To all those helping in the kitchen, setup and cleanup for funerals and special events.

Those in charge of and those participating in special events during the year.

As members of the same body we minister to one another through the gifts that we have been given.

Submitted By

The Elders of the Regina Apostolic Church

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Finance Chairman Report

The past year our church was once again blessed with faithful support. We ended off the year with a

net income of about $82,000. We did not have the opportunity to complete the parking lot project

but would have likely been near the breakeven point if we had. We are in a healthy financial position

with healthy bank account with about 1 month worth of expenses on hand and an additional

$340,000 put away in high interest savings.

The tithe once again increased by $150,000 or 10.6 % over 2012 actuals which is both a sign of growth

and faithful giving. This is nearly the same dollar figure increase as in 2012 compared to 2011.

We did not have any significant capital projects this year however we did see some changes in other

ways.

Cal Martin retired mid-way through the year and the Church was fortunate to be able to hire him as

the Manager of Administration. This did mean that Cal had to step off of the Board of Deacons and his

position as treasurer of the Church. In his new role, Cal still maintains the financial accounts for the

church and has many other new duties overseeing the administration of the church. Having Cal

available as a resource has made my transition into the role of Treasurer very smooth and I thank him

greatly for his patience as I ask many questions and require much assistance.

We changed some of the methods that we used to set the budget this year. In the past each area

submitted what they would like to see as their budget. The Finance Committee would review this and

match the numbers up against the expected income and then make a recommendation to the Board

to review before bringing it to the congregation. Almost invariably, the hoped for dollars would

exceed the amount of income expected and items would have to be removed from the budget. This

was a difficult process on everyone involved. We tried something different this past year. The Finance

Committee looked at the past 5 or so years of budgets and calculated approximately what percentage

each area required. We then analyzed the giving patterns and made the budget projections for

income. Having these numbers, each area was given a dollar amount and asked to fit their budgets

into those amounts. The people in each area know the priorities for that area far better than either

the Finance Committee or the Board of Deacons. Each area completed this task and returned their

budgets to the Board. This has simplified the preparation of the budget and reduced the workload

and stress on everyone involved.

As we look forward into 2014, we are facing a number of exciting challenges. We have only forecast a

similar dollar value increase to the income as we have seen the past two years. We are carrying over

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some capital projects from last year in addition to some new ones. As a result of this we are also

carrying over money raised for them last year as accrued funds. We are also increasing our savings to

the high interest savings account as we had indicated we would. We will be putting over $50,000

away this year.

One major change that will be noted in the budget is the daycare. We had decided to keep a separate

accounting for the daycare. However as the daycare operations are being wound down at the end of

March 2014, we are including all daycare amounts in the budget for clarity purposes.

Our operating budget for 2014 will be in the neighbourhood of $2.3 million. That is nearly $45,000

dollars passing through every week. The administration, handling and responsibility for this amount is

not a small task.

It is for this reason that I am very thankful for all involved whether giving the tithe and offerings,

collecting the offerings, counting the money, entering the amounts, depositing the money, keeping

the accounts and paying the bills or helping to make the decisions about the use of the money. I also

do not want to forget to thank those faithful prayer warriors who hold this church up in prayer on a

regular basis. I know that many of you toil on without notice by most, but want to assure you that

your good work is noticed by Him who matters most. A very sincere thank-you to you all.

We have been a blessed church over the past years and have been able to do much for the Lord with

his provisions. It is very exciting to see what he will do with us next!

Submitted By

Arlen Reed, Treasurer & Finance Chairman

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Regina Apostolic Church Summary Budget 2014

Please note that some items do not match with the 2013 budget or actual amounts due to budget restructuring. Every attempt has been made to correlate amounts but this has not always been possible. Please refer to footnote references at the bottom. (*then letter)

2013 Budget

(*a) 2013 Actuals

(*b) 2014 Budget

REVENUE

Tithes & Designated Offerings

Tithes 1,700,000 1,628,179 1,800,000

General Offerings (Loose Cash) 17,000 15,414 16,500

Building Fund (includes Projects) 185,000 46,540 100,000

Total Tithes & Building Fund Offerings 1,902,000 1,690,133 1,916,500

Needs Fund 12,500 14,559 12,500

Love Offerings 9,000 18,972 10,000

Other Offerings 9,925 20,210 0

Ministry Related Income 17,170 36,571 41,800

Total Tuition, Fees or Sales 38,040 29,106 75,700

Daycare grants/subsudies & fees 24,015 198,094 33,500

Total Miscellaneous Receipts 21,500 6,013 11,200

Total Other Income 132,150 323,525 184,700

Accrued funds brought forward from 2013 0 0 100,000

Total Income for RAC Internal Use 2,034,150 2,013,658 2,201,200 Total Designated Funds 179,500 191,246 185,000

Total Income 2,213,650 2,204,904 2,386,200

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EXPENSE 2013 Budget 2013 Actuals 2014 Budget

Total Designated Funds 184,800 191,246 185,000

Total Board Directed Missions (Tithe Fund) 128,820 176,446 151,800

Building Capital 150,000 48,583 248,600

Building Operating, Maintenance and Repairs 238,820 254,658 250,000

Tech Committee Portion 33,900 29,978 29,000

Total Building 422,720 333,219 527,600

Sundry (Administration portion 40 %) 52,140 57,583 57,000

Sundry (Board portion 60%) 93,870 101,471 126,320

Total Sundry 146,010 159,054 183,320

Daycare Wages 153,950 126,053 32,600

Daycare Severance 0 0 4,700

Daycare Operating 18,000 16,061 1,850

Total Daycare 171,950 142,114 39,150

Ministry (administrated by Pastors 92%) 220,133 204,816 231,385

Ministry (administrated by Board 8%) 16,800 44,096 21,800

Total Ministry 236,933 248,912 253,185

Total Salary Related Expenses (excluding Daycare) 912,258 871,715 980,923

Total Expenses for RAC internal use 2,018,691 1,931,460 2,135,978

Total Overall Expenses 2,203,491 2,122,706 2,320,978

Net Profit/Loss 10,159 82,198 65,222

FOOTNOTES: *a – the 2014 budget numbers presented here may not match the 2013 budget numbers as presented in the previous year’s annual report due to potential regrouping of categories or renaming of sub-accounts. Direct comparison is often difficult to make for this reason. The numbers presented here are from the final budget approved after the last annual meeting and submitted for use by the auditors.

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*b – the 2013 actual amounts listed here may differ slightly from the audited statement. The categories may have been grouped differently in the two reports. As well these numbers are all rounded off to the nearest dollar which may cause slight differences as a large quantity of numbers are tallied.

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Regina Apostolic Church Statement of Faith Addition:

ARTICLE 4 – ARTICLES OF FAITH

The Articles of Faith of the Corporation are:

1. Inspiration of the Scripture – We believe all scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is

therefore the infallible Word of God. II Timothy 3:16; II Peter 1:21;

2. The Godhead – We believe there is one living, true, eternal and everlasting God, of infinite

power, wisdom and goodness, the Maker and Preserver of all things, visible and invisible, and

that this one true God has revealed Himself to the world as the Father, as the Son, and as the

Holy Spirit. John 14:7-11; Colossians 2:9; John 14:16-20; II John 5:20;

3. Jesus Christ, the Son of God – We believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, was God manifest

in the flesh, took upon Himself the form of man, that He might offer Himself a sacrifice on the

Cross of Calvary for the sins of the whole world. We believe no man can come unto the Father

but by and through the Lord Jesus Christ, and His shed blood. John 1:18; I Timothy 3:16; John

14:6

4. Repentance – We believe in repentance to God, confession of ourselves as sinners and that a

definite turning is essential to salvation. Acts 17:30; 26:20; 11:18; 2:38-39; I Thessalonians 1:9-

10;

5. Judgment on Adam and the Whole Human Family – We believe all mankind become sinners as

a result of the fall of Adam. Romans 5:12; 3:23; I Corinthians 15:22-23;

6. Justification and Redemption or a Definition of Justification and What it Means – We believe

our redemption has been accomplished solely by the shed blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, who

was made sin for us, dying in our room and stead, rising again from the dead, ascending with

His glorified body to the right hand of God, and by believing in this finished work, we are

justified before God, cleansed of all our sins and redeemed from the curse of the law. John

3:3; Romans 5:1; 14:21; Galatians 2:16; 3:13; I Peter 1:18-19; Titus 2:14; Revelation 5:9

7. Eternal Life – We believe every believer receives Eternal Life as a free gift when saved or born

again. Romans 6:23; John 5:24; 10:28

8. Water Baptism – We believe in water baptism in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ by

immersion for believers as taught in the scripture, and practiced by the early Apostolic Church.

Matthew 28:19; Acts 2:38; 8:16; 10:48; 19:5; Romans 6:3-6; Colossians 2:12; I Peter 3:21

Regina Apostolic Church

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9. Baptism of the Holy Spirit – We believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit, with the same Bible

evidence of speaking in tongues as the Spirit gives utterance, as a distinct separate and

subsequent experience to conversion, and is the enduement of spiritual power for Christian

living and service. Also that it is the standard of normal Christian experience since Pentecost.

Mark 16:16-17; I Corinthians 14:21; Isaiah 28:11-12; Luke 24:49; John 14:15-17; Acts 1:8; 2:4;

10:44-46; 19:1-6;

10. Divine Healing – We believe healing is in the atonement and that God is still the Healer of His

people, and that the church should recognize and practice this ministry as directed by the Lord

Himself and practiced by his Apostles. Exodus 15:26; Isaiah 53:5; Mark 16:18; James 5:14-15;

Hebrews 13:8;

11. The Lord’s Supper of Communion – We believe that all Followers of Christ should partake of

the Communion of the Lord’s Supper, in remembrance of His death until He comes again.

Luke 22:19-20; Matthew 26:29; I Corinthians 11:23-24

12. The Gifts of the Spirit – We believe the nine gifts of the Spirit should be manifest in the Church

today and that all Spirit filled believers should earnestly covet the best gifts for the edification

and upbuilding of the church. I Corinthians 12:8-11; 14:1

13. The Fruit of the Spirit and Godly Living – We believe all Spirit-filled believers should produce

the fruit of the Spirit in their lives and their walk should be according to godliness and holy

living. Galatians 5:22-23; I John 2:6; I Peter 1:16; Titus 2:11-13; II Corinthians 7:1

14. Second Coming of Christ – We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ will return in person, first in

the clouds of the air to catch away His own unto Himself, and later to return with all His saints

to set up His millennium reign on the earth. Acts 1:10-11; I Thessalonians 4:16-17; Jude

14&15; Revelation 19:11-16; 20:1-6

15. Rewards – We believe the Bible clearly teaches a distinct judgment for believers only, spoken

of in the scriptures as the Judgment Seat of Christ, where believer’s works will be judged, (not

for their sins) and rewards are in question, not salvation. II Corinthians 5:10; I Corinthians

3:11-15; Revelation 20:4-6

16. The Final Judgment – We believe that there will be a great final judgment, as recorded in the

Word of God. Hebrews 9:27; Revelation 20:11-15. This is the judgment of the unjust where all

the wicked are judged;

17. Marriage - We believe in the sanctity of marriage, as a life long exclusive commitment

between one man and one woman. Matthew 19:4-6.

*TO BE INTRODUCED TO THE MARCH 2, 2014 ANNUAL MEETING OF REGINA APOSTOLIC CHURCH

INC., AND THEN TO BE TABLED AND BROUGHT FORWARD AT THE NEXT ANNUAL OR SPECIAL GENERAL

MEETING FOR A VOTE OF ACCEPTANCE.