LBC Langley
TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT 2023
st – st 1 January 31 December 2023 Charity No: 1141152
Our registered charity name is LBC Langley. (Previously known as Ebenezer Wesleyan Reform Church).
We recruited our Trustee’s and wanted a mixed board of Trustee’s who could offer up different skill sets and giftings and experience, hence we have a board of Trustee’s who have a variety of skills to enable us to run the charity to its fullest potential.
Address: LBC Langley, High Street, Langley, B69 4SL
Trustee’s: Aaron Jarvis, Helen Jarvis, James Massingham, Bethan Massingham
We are a Christian church who wants to see the advancement of the Gospel. We support a number of churches, who are affiliated with LBC. Our affiliated churches work closely with LBC and the Senior Leader and Eldership team over LBC work closely with all affiliated church congregations.
LBC Senior Leader: Aaron Jarvis
Overview:
We promote the Gospel of Jesus.
We believe:
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The one true God who lives eternally in three persons—the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
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The love, grace and sovereignty of God in creating, sustaining, ruling, redeeming and judging the world.
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The divine inspiration and supreme authority of the Old and New Testament Scriptures, which are the written Word of God—fully trustworthy for faith and conduct.
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The dignity of all people, made male and female in God's image to love, be holy and care for creation, yet corrupted by sin, which incurs divine wrath and judgement.
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The incarnation of God’s eternal Son, the Lord Jesus Christ—born of the virgin Mary; truly divine and truly human, yet without sin.
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The atoning sacrifice of Christ on the cross: dying in our place, paying the price of sin and defeating evil, so reconciling us with God.
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The bodily resurrection of Christ, the first fruits of our resurrection; his ascension to the Father, and his reign and mediation as the only Saviour of the world.
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The justification of sinners solely by the grace of God through faith in Christ.
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The ministry of God the Holy Spirit, who leads us to repentance, unites us with Christ through new birth, empowers our discipleship and enables our witness.
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The Church, the body of Christ both local and universal, the priesthood of all believers—given life by the Spirit and endowed with the Spirit's gifts to worship God and proclaim the gospel, promoting justice and love.
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The personal and visible return of Jesus Christ to fulfil the purposes of God, who will raise all people to judgement, bring eternal life to the redeemed and eternal condemnation to the lost, and establish a new heaven and new earth.
We are committed to enabling as many people as possible into worship at our church and to encourage them to become part of our church community.
We continually look at how we can engage people within our communities into the church and faith. We provide a number of evangelistic outreach events throughout the year, which are always well attended and supported by our communities. During these events we are able to talk with people share our faith.
We promote our services and encourage those who are part of LBC and new people to attend, we hold services on Sundays, where we also provide creche, kids and youth provision with a well trained and certified team, we encourage our children and young people to be very much part of our church community. We hold weekly prayer meetings which are integral to the growth of our church, our prayer meetings are one of the most
LBC Senior Leader: Aaron Jarvis
important services provided.
We take the pastoral care of people very seriously and we are privileged to be in a position where we can offer help and support to everyone.
2023:
In March 2023, we started a whole new adventure that we believed God had opened the door to for us. We officially joined LBC. LBC is a church that has a simple, but God given vision: to plant churches from here, to the coast, into Europe and into the world.
We were in a place where we had become few in a number and we were all getting older. We have been blessed and encouraged to see how God has empowered the joining of us to LBC and to witness the growth both numerically and spiritually has been a privilege.
We have seen baptisms, outreach events, carol services, children’s work return, and we have had a great number of new people join us. We are excited to see things develop more.
We have been exposed to the vision and have joined LBC in raising funds for churches abroad, in particular LBC Pakistan who suffered great persecution in August, it was wonderful to see the body of Christ come together to pray and be able to offer financial support.
In our first year of being LBC Langley we are so thankful we made this step, to see God move the way He has and how He has sustained is truly wonderful.
We have been able to allow the younger ones amongst us take on the work we are no longer able to do, which is an answer to prayer.
When we became LBC Langley, we were pleased to hear we would be supported by Aaron and Helen every other week. We had people within who would help with preaching and as we saw new people come in, we saw the giftings God had placed on their lives too. Aaron explained that he was currently training James up to become a Pastor and after much pray from both Aaron and James, it was confirmed that James will Pastor LBC Langley at the right time, he will be supported by his wife Beth. Currently Aaron and Helen are working closely with James and Beth in leading LBC Langley alongside the previous leadership team.
2023 has been fruitful and we are looking forward to our future.
The Future:
We are excited and expectant for all we will see in 2024.
We are hopeful to see far more events we are able to provide for our community and to see more people be transformed by the love of God.
Finance:
We have seen a steady increase in our finance, we are in a reasonably healthy position currently. For the future we will need to see more of an increase in order to pay a Pastor.
LBC Senior Leader: Aaron Jarvis
We also want to be able to support an affiliated LBC church in the future, this is how LBC works and how we work together. We wait for God to open the door for us to allow us to support a church.
LBC Senior Leader: Aaron Jarvis
| 3t.t2.23 | 31.t2.22 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unrestricted | Restricted | Total | Total | ||
| Notes | tund f |
tund f, |
fimds g |
funds f, |
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| INCOMEAIIDEDIDOWMEN'TSFROM | |||||
| Donationsandtregacies | 28,297 | 1,443 | 29,340 | 12,437 | |
| GiftAid | 2,3M | ||||
| RoomHfue | 5,680 | 5,680 | \2Lq | ||
| 33,977 | 1,043 | ; | 15,991 | ||
| EJPENDITUREON | |||||
| Charitrble activitie* | |||||
| Services&Outreach | 1,026 | 1,599 | |||
| Premises Costs | 13,491 | 'u., | 13,491 | 5,888 | |
| Equipment | 4,621 | 4,621 | |||
| AdministrationCosts | 4,642 | 4,642 | 4,724 | ||
| 4288 | |||||
| Donations | 4,288 | ||||
| OtherCosts | 2,201 | 2.20t | |||
| Total | 30,29! | s63 | 34.832 | 10,612 | |
| I\TETINCOMEi(EXPENDITURE) | 3,308 | 480 | 4,188 | 5,3',79 | |
| ROCONCILIATION O['FUNDS | |||||
| Totalfundsbrought forward | 17,l4l | 17,l4t | 11,762 | ||
| TOTALFUNDSCARRIEDF'ORWARI) | 20,M9 | 480 | 21,329 | t7,l4t |
| BalanceSheet 3lDecember 2023 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31.t2.23 | 31.12.22 | ||||
| Unrestricted | Resficted | Total | Total | ||
| Notes | tuLd f |
tund I |
funds f, |
funds f, |
|
| CT}RRENTASSETS | |||||
| Cashinhand | 20449 | 880 | 21,329 | 17,t4t | |
| I\TETCT]RRENTAS$ETS | 20,449 | 880 | 21,329 | 17,1,41 | |
| IOTALASSETS LESSCURBENT | |||||
| LIABILITIES | 20,449 | 880 | 21,329 | 17,l4l | |
| NETASSETS | 20,449 | 880 | w | 17,141 | |
| FUNDS | |||||
| Unrestricted firnds | 24,449 | 17,141_ | |||
| Restricted funds | 880 | ||||
| TOTALFT]}IDS | 2W | 17J4J. |
| LBCLaneley | ||
|---|---|---|
| DetaildStatem€iltotfioecialActivitie$ | ||
| fortheYearEnded3lPecember ?023 | ||
| 3t.12.23 | 31.t2.22 | |
| f. | f. | |
| INCOME ANDENDO\YMENTS | ||
| Donationsand legacies | ||
| Donations | 28,297 | 12,437 |
| GiftAid | 2344 | |
| RoomHire | s,680 | t,rto:- |
| KidsChurch | 503 | |
| YouthChurch | 540 | |
| Total incomingresources | 35,020 | 15,991 |
| EXPENDITURE | ||
| Charitable Activities | ||
| Serrices&Outreach | ||
| OufeachCosts | 465 | |
| Resources | 521 | |
| KidsChurch | 276 | |
| YouthChurch | 287 | |
| VisitingSpeaker | 40 | |
| Premises Costs | ||
| Premises Costs | 4,579 | 5,888 |
| Light&Heat | 6,554 | |
| Insurance | 2,125 | |
| Water | 233 | |
| AdministrationCosts | ||
| AdministrationCosts | 363 | 4,724 |
| SupportforAJarvis | 3,500 | |
| Telephone | 179 | |
| Equlpment | 4,621 | |
| Donations | ||
| ChurchTithe | 1,909 | |
| PlantDonations | 1,309 | |
| ChurchPlant | 800 | |
| Gifts | 270 | |
| OtherCosts | ||
| Travel | 2,131 | |
| MeetingCosts | 70 | |
| 30,832 | 1,4,612 |
| 3t.t2.23 | 31.t2.22 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unrestricted | Restricted | Total | Total | ||
| Notes | tund f |
tund f, |
fimds g |
funds f, |
|
| INCOMEAIIDEDIDOWMEN'TSFROM | |||||
| Donationsandtregacies | 28,297 | 1,443 | 29,340 | 12,437 | |
| GiftAid | 2,3M | ||||
| RoomHfue | 5,680 | 5,680 | \2Lq | ||
| 33,977 | 1,043 | ; | 15,991 | ||
| EJPENDITUREON | |||||
| Charitrble activitie* | |||||
| Services&Outreach | 1,026 | 1,599 | |||
| Premises Costs | 13,491 | 'u., | 13,491 | 5,888 | |
| Equipment | 4,621 | 4,621 | |||
| AdministrationCosts | 4,642 | 4,642 | 4,724 | ||
| 4288 | |||||
| Donations | 4,288 | ||||
| OtherCosts | 2,201 | 2.20t | |||
| Total | 30,29! | s63 | 34.832 | 10,612 | |
| I\TETINCOMEi(EXPENDITURE) | 3,308 | 480 | 4,188 | 5,3',79 | |
| ROCONCILIATION O['FUNDS | |||||
| Totalfundsbrought forward | 17,l4l | 17,l4t | 11,762 | ||
| TOTALFUNDSCARRIEDF'ORWARI) | 20,M9 | 480 | 21,329 | t7,l4t |
| BalanceSheet 3lDecember 2023 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31.t2.23 | 31.12.22 | ||||
| Unrestricted | Resficted | Total | Total | ||
| Notes | tuLd f |
tund I |
funds f, |
funds f, |
|
| CT}RRENTASSETS | |||||
| Cashinhand | 20449 | 880 | 21,329 | 17,t4t | |
| I\TETCT]RRENTAS$ETS | 20,449 | 880 | 21,329 | 17,1,41 | |
| IOTALASSETS LESSCURBENT | |||||
| LIABILITIES | 20,449 | 880 | 21,329 | 17,l4l | |
| NETASSETS | 20,449 | 880 | w | 17,141 | |
| FUNDS | |||||
| Unrestricted firnds | 24,449 | 17,141_ | |||
| Restricted funds | 880 | ||||
| TOTALFT]}IDS | 2W | 17J4J. |
| LBCLaneley | ||
|---|---|---|
| DetaildStatem€iltotfioecialActivitie$ | ||
| fortheYearEnded3lPecember ?023 | ||
| 3t.12.23 | 31.t2.22 | |
| f. | f. | |
| INCOME ANDENDO\YMENTS | ||
| Donationsand legacies | ||
| Donations | 28,297 | 12,437 |
| GiftAid | 2344 | |
| RoomHire | s,680 | t,rto:- |
| KidsChurch | 503 | |
| YouthChurch | 540 | |
| Total incomingresources | 35,020 | 15,991 |
| EXPENDITURE | ||
| Charitable Activities | ||
| Serrices&Outreach | ||
| OufeachCosts | 465 | |
| Resources | 521 | |
| KidsChurch | 276 | |
| YouthChurch | 287 | |
| VisitingSpeaker | 40 | |
| Premises Costs | ||
| Premises Costs | 4,579 | 5,888 |
| Light&Heat | 6,554 | |
| Insurance | 2,125 | |
| Water | 233 | |
| AdministrationCosts | ||
| AdministrationCosts | 363 | 4,724 |
| SupportforAJarvis | 3,500 | |
| Telephone | 179 | |
| Equlpment | 4,621 | |
| Donations | ||
| ChurchTithe | 1,909 | |
| PlantDonations | 1,309 | |
| ChurchPlant | 800 | |
| Gifts | 270 | |
| OtherCosts | ||
| Travel | 2,131 | |
| MeetingCosts | 70 | |
| 30,832 | 1,4,612 |