2020-11-24-accounts

Aims and Purposes

The Lord Reigns International Ministry (LORIM) has the duty of propagating the mission of the Church such as evangelism, sharing the Gospel of Christ, attending to the sick and the disabled and to advance Christianity.

Objectives and Activities

The LORIM is committed to equip as many people as possible to become soul winners and to worship at our church and to become part of our church community. The LORIM maintains an overview of worship throughout the local community near our church and involving as many groups as possible throughout the whole of England. Our services and worship put faith into practice through prayer, bible study, music ministry, sharing the gospel and mini concerts all over London.

When planning our activities for the year, the LORIM is strictly guided by the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit and, in particular, the specific guidance on charities for the advancement of religion. We enable the members to live out their faith as part of our Christian community through:

Worship and prayer; learning about the Word of God through the Bible; equipping the members to become soul winners; attending to the spiritual upliftment of those who are sick, disabled and have less in life.

Provision of pastoral care for people who work and live near the Church. Missionary and outreach work.

To facilitate this work it is important that we adopt the mission and ministry of Jesus Christ while living here on earth and maintain the fabric of the Church of LORIM.

Achievements and Performance

The LORIM is divided into 2 service locations namely : 123 Castlehaven Road Camden Town London NW1 8RU ( formerly 40 Granville Carlton Valle NW6 5HE) pastored by Josemar Montalbo who is also a trustee and the second was transferred to 96 Malmesbury Road Morden Surrey SM4 6HF (formerly Flat D7 Princess Parade Crofton Road, Orpington BR6 8NP) pastored by no less than the head pastor Pstr. Reymundo Gamboa which also served as his family’s residence at the same time.

From early March of 2020, the Church service had been temporarily stopped due to the pandemic but the church members and officers are determined to continue sharing the Word and the Gospel and to share their testimonies of the goodness of the Lord, thus the beginning of online service via Zoom.

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The reason for such strategic division was in order to reach more people and to evangelise more people coming from opposite geographical divide or put simply, between North and South of London.

While this year membership number has a modest growth, we aim to reach more people and to evangelise more people by making Church service and bible studies more accessible. Our 2 churches are operating through the graces and generosity of its members and the selfless voluntary service of its officers especially the pastors.

Just the same LORIM is keen to offer a range of activities during the week and the course of the year that our church find both beneficial and spiritually fulfilling. Such as Bible Study every Wednesday or Friday at selected members’ homes, prayer meetings every Saturday at selected members’ homes, mini concert at open public spaces and nursing homes for the disabled to provide joy and enriching music to those who have learning disabilities and street evangelism such as track giving and inviting people to the church service.

This year we have recruited more families to our church and have added more schedules for bible study and prayer meetings. This has meant that special arrangements were made to facilitate for more baptisms throughout the year.

All are welcome to attend our regular services. While the church is still struggling to grow and become more significant, at present there are almost 80 church members on the Church Electoral Roll. 10 names were added during the year. The average weekly attendance counted during December 2019 has slowed down a bit, averaging 15 attendees for each church but this number increases at Church Anniversaries, Family days, festivals such as Christmas and New Year.

On top of our regular services, our church is also engaged in baptism where we thank God for the gift of life, in marriage where public vows are exchanged and blessing of God shared, and in funeral services where friends and family express their grief and prayer for the redemption of souls . We have celebrated 5 baptisms and 0 wedding vows and 0 funeral service.

In pursuit of achieving the aim of widening the scope of the Church activities with more attendees, more Christians converts or devotees, the Church is blest with a minibus vehicle which can carry 15 passengers and help transport members and officers to and fro prayer meetings and bible studies with special provision for members with disability. All of these were made possible by the generosity of members and officers while the Church cannot yet afford to acquire one out of their own budget.

Mission and Evangelism

Our mission is to advance Christianity is such ways as we see appropriate under the circumstance such as to pastor to every person to receive Jesus Christ as Saviour; to evangelise souls and equipping them to fulfil their divine destinies in Christ Jesus, to go out and bear fruit and ensure

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that the fruit remains; to conquer the enemy (the Devil) by healing the sick, deliverance, inner healing and teaching the Word of God; to establish a place of worship; and to pray for and win unbelievers into the faith.

Our church tracks citing bible verses and inviting people to the church with details printed are distributed monthly to nearby public places frequented by people such as Orpington in Kent and Kilburn area, as well as North end market. We are very thankful to all volunteers of the church in making this effort possible in the best way we can. This tracks and evangelism efforts help invite people to receive Jesus Christ as their Saviour and to teach them about the Word of God.

Financial Review

Our church is slowly establishing financial stability with contributions coming from both officers and members. Our 2 churches cannot afford to maintain paid personnel as yet nor are we prepared to engage any form of employment. Inspite our limitations, our church has slowly achieved a level of success in its efforts to spread the good news about the Word of God and invite people to join us in our worship and evangelism works. We are slowly increasing in number and strengthening our member’s determination to evangelise souls and to win as many people into the Christian faith.

Volunteers

We thank all the volunteers who work selflessly to make our Church become more effective in evangelising souls and administering the Word of God to those who have no personal relationships with Christ and in recruiting more people into the Christian faith. These volunteers have made our church alive, full of activities and inspiring. We also thank them for putting efforts to make our service lively and vibrant without any promise of reward but purely on serving God out of love.

Structure, governance and management

The method of appointment of charity trustees is set out in the governing document of the trust. The board of trustees of LORIM or The Lord Reigns International Ministry consists of the incumbent Head Pastor, Managing Trustee, Secretary, Treasurer and 4 other trustees. The Managing Trustee and President at the same time is elected by the majority of the board of trustees.

The board of trustees is responsible for making decisions on all matters of general concern and importance to the church including deciding on how the funds of the church are to be spent.

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Given the board’s wide responsibilities, the LORIM has a number of committees each dealing with a particular aspect of ministry life. These committees include worship team, music ministry, missions, evangelism, logistics and finance. They are all responsible to the board and regularly report back to the board with minutes of their deliberations being received by the whole of the board of directors, where discussions are encouraged.

Administrative Information

The Lord Reigns International Ministry or LORIM is currently located at 96 Malmesbury Road , MORDEN , Surrey , SM4 6HF.

The Board of Directors who have served from May 2017 to November 2017 are the following:

Pastor Reymundo Gamboa	-	Head Pastor
Mr Antonino Gamboa	-	President/Managing Trustee
Mrs Marlie Bottarelli	-	Vice-president, Finance
Ms Arleen Odi	-	Secretary
Mrs Cristeta Gamboa	-	Trustee
Mr Domingo Santos Castro	-	Trustee
Mrs Jennica Cassandra Sayas Castro	-	Trustee
Mr Josemar Montalbo	-	Trustee

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The Lord Reigns International Ministry

Summary of accounts December 2019 to November 2020

				Balance on
Dates	Income	Spending	Total	ACCOUNT
November				£3,759.55
December	410	578	-168	3,591.55
January	945	930	15	3,606.55
February	857	830	27	3,633.55
March	693	842.5	-149.5	3,484.05
April	580	700	-120	3,364.05
May	725	810	-85	3,279.05
June	875	952.5	-77.5	3,201.55
July	951	1030	-79	3,122.55
August	600	570	30	3,152.55
September	564	742.5	-178.5	2,974.05
October	0	0	0	2,974.05
November (Pstr Montalbo)	518.5	500	18.5	2,992.55

Balance on Account:

2,992.55