## **LBC Langley**
**TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT 2024**
> **st – st 1 January 31 December 2024 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:
- The one true God who lives eternally in three persons—the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
- The love, grace and sovereignty of God in creating, sustaining, ruling, redeeming and judging the world.
- 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.
- 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.
- The incarnation of God’s eternal Son, the Lord Jesus Christ—born of the virgin Mary; truly divine and truly human, yet without sin.
- 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.
- 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.
- The justification of sinners solely by the grace of God through faith in Christ.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
## **2024:**
As we entered into 2024, we were excited to see all God had planned for LBC Langley and we all felt very thankful for the last 9 months of us joining together and being part of a bigger vision.
Over the previous 9 months we have seen the church grow, both numerically, spiritually and financially – we are very thankful to God for doing this.
2024 was a year where we have witness God at work – we have seen baptisms, salvation, outreach events and growth from within.
LBC Langley has continued to be supported by myself and Helen every other week and on the leadership. We have worked very closely with James and Beth and the leaders.
We have seen the congregation step into roles that God has called them into within the church and it’s been wonderful to see the church serve in so many areas.
LBC Langley is in a healthy position as we look at the leadership, the finances and the church – it’s through God’s faithfulness we are where we are.
In March we sadly said our goodbyes to the wonderful Graham – a faithful servant who had really supported the vision of LBC – after a short illness, he went home. There was a real sense of loss within the church and the leadership as we were just short of our one-year anniversary, but we know he will be rejoicing in where LBC Langley is today.
Prayer evening became more of a focus for us during 2024, we have been committed to the ‘engine room’ and seeing God move from here. The first 12hr prayer event took place in October and this was supported by many in the church and from others connected to different LBC congregations.
In the summer stay and play began – a term time group for younger children and their parents/carers – it’s been going strong and continues to be supported from within whilst reaching many in our local community.
During the summer we held a community outreach day where we provided fun and games, BBQ, face painting and much more – all free for the community. The weather held off and the day was a great success!
A visit to Kenya took place and on return we had LBC Kenya which is supported by LBC Langley.
Towards the end of the year a new ministry was born – Breakfast café on a Monday. This has been a great success where we have seen many come through our doors, where they have been physically and spiritually fed. We are looking forward to seeing this grow in 2025.
LBC Senior Leader: Aaron Jarvis
We look forward to seeing what 2025 holds for LBC Langley.
## **The Future:**
We are excited and expectant for all we will see in 2025.
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.
We now support LBC Kenya which is what we wanted to be able to do at the end of 2023, so this is great for us as we are supporting the vision on LBC: to plant churches from here to the coast, into Europe and into the world.
LBC Senior Leader: Aaron Jarvis
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|ReportoftheTru*w|t i02|
|Ia&peu&ntEumino,CsRsportStatement|3|
|ofFinancialA,Etivities|4|
|BalauceSheet|5|
|DetailedStatementofFinancialActivities|6|
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|INCOMEANDENNOTYMENTSTROM||||||
|Dorationsandlegacies||35aas|1386|36,651|29,340|
|GifrAid||8l2o||8220||
|RoomHirr||1J?0||r5?a|s.680|
|||45,055|1,396|46,441|35"OZO|
|$(PENDITT'REON||||||
|CharittbleactMties||||||
|$ervices&Outreach||1,106|1,818|2,924|,,rr:|
|Salaries||6,000||6,000||
|TravelExpe,nsos||4,416||4,476||
|krnisesCosts||10,545||10,545|131491|
|Equipmeirt||767||76',1|4,52L|
|AdministationCosts||2,515||2,515|4,642|
|BrealdastCaf6||814||814||
|Doaations||5,154||5,154|4288|
|OtherCosA||630||6J0|2,241|
|Total||32,M7|_1.818|33.ES5|30,832|
|NETINCOtT{E/{m(PENDIfiinE)||12,988|{432)|12,556|4,189|
|RECONCILIATIONOF FT]NDS
Totalfundsbrought forward||2A,49|880|21,329|t7,t{t|
|TOTALTUNDS CARRIEDTORWARI)||33.437|,tt48|33-8&5|_329|
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|CUNRTNTASSETS||||||
|Cashinhand||73,437|448|33,885|21,329|
|NETCURRENTASSETS||33437|$e|31.8E5|21.3?e|
|TOTALASSETS LESSCURRSNT
LIABILITIES||33i37|48|33,885|21,329|
|HETASSETS||fiATZ|_*34S|31q65|zL3E|
|rUNDS||||||
|Unreshictedfimds||||33,437|2A449|
|Reseictdfunds||||48|880|
|TOTALfl]NDS||||$gql|uaza|
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|Detailed $atementsfFinmci+lActivitie+
fE-theYearEnaled 31&cenrber202,1|||
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||31.12-23,|3t.12.23
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|INCOMEANDEIIDOWMENTS|||
|Ilonationsardlegacies|||
|Donations
ciftAid|34,637
8320|28297|
|RoomHire|1,570|5,680|
|Kids Church|4|503|
|YouthChurch|67|540|
|LBCKenya|1,316||
|OtherIrcsme|627||
|Total lncomlngreroursg|46,441|35,020|
|EXPENDITTJRE|||
|Charitable Aedvities|||
|Servlces&0utreach|||
|OutreachCosts|623|65|
|Resources||521|
|KidsCturch|&2|276|
|YouthChurch|388|?87|
|LBCKenya|r2.e0||
|VisitingSpeaker|||
|Breakfast Cafe|874||
|Premise$Corts|||
|PremisesCosE|3,750|4,579|
|Light&Hd|4,396|6,554|
|Iasumnce|2,155|22t5|
|Water|253|233|
|AdminfotrattonCosts|||
|AdministrationC.osts|1,237|363|
|SupportforAJarvis|6,000|3,5@|
|Telephono|1278|779|
|Equipment|?6?|4,621|
|Church Tilhe|3,134|1,909|
|Church Plant Donations|2,ooo|1,309|
|ChurchPbnt||8m|
|Gifts||270|
|Travel Cosb|4,476|2,131|
|MeetingCosts|233|70|
|ProfessioaalFem|250||
|OtherCosts|148||
||33,985|30,832|
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|ReportoftheTru*w|t i02|
|Ia&peu&ntEumino,CsRsportStatement|3|
|ofFinancialA,Etivities|4|
|BalauceSheet|5|
|DetailedStatementofFinancialActivities|6|
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|Statem€otofFinapoialActivitiss
fortheYpef Eaded3 1Decwl.bE20.?4||||||
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|||Unresilicted|Reseicted|Total|Total|
||Notes|fird
f|futrd
s|funds
f|ftndsf|
|INCOMEANDENNOTYMENTSTROM||||||
|Dorationsandlegacies||35aas|1386|36,651|29,340|
|GifrAid||8l2o||8220||
|RoomHirr||1J?0||r5?a|s.680|
|||45,055|1,396|46,441|35"OZO|
|$(PENDITT'REON||||||
|CharittbleactMties||||||
|$ervices&Outreach||1,106|1,818|2,924|,,rr:|
|Salaries||6,000||6,000||
|TravelExpe,nsos||4,416||4,476||
|krnisesCosts||10,545||10,545|131491|
|Equipmeirt||767||76',1|4,52L|
|AdministationCosts||2,515||2,515|4,642|
|BrealdastCaf6||814||814||
|Doaations||5,154||5,154|4288|
|OtherCosA||630||6J0|2,241|
|Total||32,M7|_1.818|33.ES5|30,832|
|NETINCOtT{E/{m(PENDIfiinE)||12,988|{432)|12,556|4,189|
|RECONCILIATIONOF FT]NDS
Totalfundsbrought forward||2A,49|880|21,329|t7,t{t|
|TOTALTUNDS CARRIEDTORWARI)||33.437|,tt48|33-8&5|_329|
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|BalaaceShe*
31Dscember?.2a||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||3t.1224|3L.l22l|
|||Unresticted|Restict€d|Total|Total|
||Notes|fimd
f,|fimd
f,|funds
f.|fundsf|
|CUNRTNTASSETS||||||
|Cashinhand||73,437|448|33,885|21,329|
|NETCURRENTASSETS||33437|$e|31.8E5|21.3?e|
|TOTALASSETS LESSCURRSNT
LIABILITIES||33i37|48|33,885|21,329|
|HETASSETS||fiATZ|_*34S|31q65|zL3E|
|rUNDS||||||
|Unreshictedfimds||||33,437|2A449|
|Reseictdfunds||||48|880|
|TOTALfl]NDS||||$gql|uaza|
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|Detailed $atementsfFinmci+lActivitie+
fE-theYearEnaled 31&cenrber202,1|||
|---|---|---|
||31.12-23,|3t.12.23
f|
|INCOMEANDEIIDOWMENTS|||
|Ilonationsardlegacies|||
|Donations
ciftAid|34,637
8320|28297|
|RoomHire|1,570|5,680|
|Kids Church|4|503|
|YouthChurch|67|540|
|LBCKenya|1,316||
|OtherIrcsme|627||
|Total lncomlngreroursg|46,441|35,020|
|EXPENDITTJRE|||
|Charitable Aedvities|||
|Servlces&0utreach|||
|OutreachCosts|623|65|
|Resources||521|
|KidsCturch|&2|276|
|YouthChurch|388|?87|
|LBCKenya|r2.e0||
|VisitingSpeaker|||
|Breakfast Cafe|874||
|Premise$Corts|||
|PremisesCosE|3,750|4,579|
|Light&Hd|4,396|6,554|
|Iasumnce|2,155|22t5|
|Water|253|233|
|AdminfotrattonCosts|||
|AdministrationC.osts|1,237|363|
|SupportforAJarvis|6,000|3,5@|
|Telephono|1278|779|
|Equipment|?6?|4,621|
|Church Tilhe|3,134|1,909|
|Church Plant Donations|2,ooo|1,309|
|ChurchPbnt||8m|
|Gifts||270|
|Travel Cosb|4,476|2,131|
|MeetingCosts|233|70|
|ProfessioaalFem|250||
|OtherCosts|148||
||33,985|30,832|