Trustees’ annual report (including Directors’ report) for the period From: Period start date: 01/11/2022 To: Period end date 31/10/23 Charity name: Overcoming Faith Outreach Ministries International Charity registration number:1164401 (Company number) Objectives and activities |Objectives and activities||| |---|---|---| |**Summary of the**
**purposes of the**
**charity as set out in**
**its governing**
**document**|**SORP**
**reference:**
**Para 1.17**
|**The object of this CIO is to advance the**
**Christian faith in accordance with the**
**bible in such ways and in such parts of**
**the United Kingdom or the world as the**
**Trustees from time to time may think fit.**| |**Summary of the main**
**activities in relation**
**to those purposes for**
**the public benefit, in**
**particular, the**
**activities, projects or**
**services identified in**
**the accounts.**|~~Para~~
|Christian activities, welfare of members,
hosting gospel night of songs, bible
teaching
programs
for
emotional/psychosocial development of
members of the ministry and the local
Communities in which we worship.
Over the period of the pandemic, we
adjusted our services which were moved to
zoom to maintain social distancing and
comply with the restrictions in place. Face
to face services have been re-started on
Sundays.
However, we have continued to retain the
online services during the week on
Tuesdays and Thursdays.| ||1.17 and
1.19|| |**Statement confirming**
whether the trustees
have had regard to the
guidance issued by the
Charity Commission on
public benefit.|Para 1.18|We are aware of the guidance on public
benefit and have taken this into account
when making decisions on church
programs.
Special community- oriented programs
such as the night of prayer and reflection
which happens once a month have been
well received by families needing a
reflective prayer time from their busy
schedules over the month, have continued
online to provide avenues to engage the
public to provide support as needed.
Many in our community have continued to
engage with our Sunday services which
start later in the
afternoon in London as it affords them time
to rest in the morning after their busy| |||schedules during the week and to still be
part of the evening church service.
We are pleased to report on the growing
young people choir and leadership training
which is developing further.
Our December 2022 Levites Gospel
conference in Cambridge, which featured
songs, gospel messages and seminars on
spiritual empowerment was well received by
the public as a way engaging the
community in the things of God and
supporting people in their spiritual journey.| |---|---|---| |**Achievements and**
**Performance**||| |Summary of the main
achievements of the
charity, identifying the
difference the charity’s
work has made to the
circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any
wider benefits to
society.|Para 1.20|Despite the loss of our senior pastor (Pastor
Friday Adejo on 02/09/2021) after a brief
period of illness, God has remained faithful
to his course in our hands.
We have had several new visits, with the
online services continuing to prove very
popular as people from various countries
can join.
As a charity, our international service that
celebrates the diversity of our community
and the membership has continued to
attract new visitors: the event was hugely
successful.
Following on from the pandemic have
become accustomed to the new normal, our
key focus has been to continue to provide
emotional, spiritual, psychological and
practical support to our members and the
wider public.
Our online services have been a huge
success attracting people from all works of
life from various parts of the world who
report that they feel spiritually, emotionally,
and psychologically empowered through the
ministration of the word as well as the
practical support given in some cases. Our
services and outreaches incorporate bible
teaching sessions, songs/ worship sessions
and corporate prayer sessions. Participants
have continued to be both socially,
emotionally empowered and spiritually
energized.| |||Like in previous years, the church held a
community barbecue on 19thof August 2023
which was well attended. We continue to
create an opportunity for dialogue,
refreshment and understanding with people
from the local community through our online
mid-week services and our face-to-face
Sunday services. We continue to be
financially, spiritually supportive of members
in need including where there has been
bereavement or unemployment.| |---|---|---| |**Achievements**
**against objectives set**|Para 1.41|Our Annual conference (Levites
conference) was held in Cambridge from
15thto 17thof December 2022. This
continues to be a time of refreshing in the
presence of God. A time to recalibrate as a
ministry.
We have instituted a youth fellowship /
youth prayer meeting/ youth training which
runs every first Saturday each month. The
aim is to grow the faith in the younger
generation and engage
them in being responsible members of
society as they grow.
We also now run a special program for
women during mother’s Sunday and one for
men during Father’s Day. this year, the
women’s program was held at Cosmo
Romford and the men’s special program
was held in Manchester in June. We also
held an all-church Easter retreat in
Birmingham in April which was well
attended.| |**Financial Review**||| |**Review of the**
**charity’s financial**
**position at the end of**
**the period**|Para 1.21|Total receipts of unrestricted funds for the
period was £7606 of which £2248 was the
expenditure on welfare of church members
in need (as well as dealing with
bereavement and burials). Our expenditure
during the period covered the purchase of
refreshment for members after church
programs and rent of premises where we
hold bible study and regular church
services.| |**Statement explaining**
**the policy for holding**|Para 1.22|It’s our policy to try to maintain a reserve of
at least £500 in order to address
emergency situations requiring welfare| |**reserves stating why**
**they are held**||support among our members or in order to
pay rent for the property used for church
meetings. This is necessary as receipts of
freewill offering might not be of equal
amount from month to month. Some
months we experience a downward trend of
giving from members.| |---|---|---| |**Amount of reserves**
**held**|Para 1.22|**£3,000**| |**Reasons for holding**
**zero reserves**|Para 1.22|**This is not applicable**| |**Details of fund**
**materially in deficit**|Para 1.24|**This is not applicable**| |**Explanation of any**
**uncertainties about**
**the charity**
**continuing as a going**
**concern**|Para 1.23|Although there has been an
economic squeeze during the
pandemic and a downward trend
in free will offering since the
pandemic, we continue to
have the funds needed to continue as a
charity.| |**The charity’s**
**principal sources of**
**funds (including any**
**fundraising)**|Para 1.47|Free will offerings and other free will giving.| |**Investment policy and**
**objectives including**
**any social investment**
**policy adopted**|Para 1.46|None.| |**Structure,**
**governance and**
**management**||| |**Type of governing**
**document: for**
**example,trust deed,**
**memorandum and**
**articles of**
**association etc**|Para 1.25|**Trust deed**| ||**OVERCOMING FAI**|**OVERCOMING FAI**|**TH OUTREACH MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL (OFOMI)**|**TH OUTREACH MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL (OFOMI)**|**1164401**|||**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||||||| ||||Receipts and payments accounts|||||| ||**For the period**
**from**||**01/11/22**|**To**|**3**|**1/10/23**||| |||||||||| |||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||| ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**|**Endowment funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**| ||**to the nearest**
**£**||**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**| |**A1 Receipts**||||||||| |Donations (Offerings, Tithes and
Pledges)|**15,145**||**-**|**-**||**15,145**||**7,606**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**15,145**||**-**|**-**||**15,145**||**7,606**| |**A2 Asset and investment**
**sales, (see table).**||||||||| ||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||| ||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| |||||||||| |**_Total receipts_**|**15,145**||**-**|**-**||**15,145**||**7,606**| |||||||||| |**A3 Payments**||||||||| |
Rent|**8,893**||**-**|**-**||**8,893**||**5,460**| |Transportation|**766**||**-**|**-**||**766**||**-**| |Welfare|**2,835**||**-**|**-**||**2,835**||**2,248**| |Outreach Programmes|**2,259**||**-**|**-**||**2,259**||**1,615**| |Television and Telecommunication|**5,460**||**-**|**-**||**5,460**||**653**| |Printingand Stationeries|**694**||**-**|**-**||**694**||**267**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**20,907**||**-**|**-**||**20,907**||**10,243**| |||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||| ||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||| ||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| |||||||||| |**_Total payments_**|**20,907**||**-**|**-**||**20,907**||**10,243**| |||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**5,762**
**-**||**-**|**-**||**5,762**
**-**||**2,637**
**-**| |**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| |**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**20,289**||**-**|**-**||**20,289**||**22,926**| |**_Cash funds this year end_**|**14,527**||**-**|**-**||**14,527**||**20,289**| |||||||||| |||||||||| |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities a**||||**t the end of the period**||||| |**Categories**|**Details**|||**Unrestricted funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**| |||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B1 Cash funds**|Cash in Bank|||**14,527**||**-**||**-**| |||||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**_Total cash funds_**|||**14,527**||**-**||**-**| ||(agree balances w ith receipts and payments
account(s))|||OK||||**OK**| |||||**Unrestricted funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**| ||**Details**|||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B2 Other monetary assets**||||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||||||||| ||**Details**|||**Fund to which asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B3 Investment assets**||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||||| ||**Details**|||**Fund to which asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||||| ||**Details**|||**Fund to which liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||**When due**
**(optional)**| |**B5 Liabilities**||||||**-**||| |||||||**-**||| |||||||**-**||| |||||||**-**||| |||||||**-**||| |||||||||| |Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|Signature|||Print Nam|e|||Date of
approval| ||Padejo|||Praise Ad|ejo|||10/10/2024|