## **Kingdom Culture Church** 

## **Annual Report 2024/25** 

## **Introduction** 

This annual report highlights the work of the Church during 2024/25 and the current financial position. 

## **General Update** 

We started the year with a theme of “Thinking Big in life and work”. Some of the areas we have covered are: 

God and His kingdom have no limitations 

Expanding our territory, set goals and be consistent 

Firm foundations, setting boundaries and establishing priorities 

Constant renewing of our minds 

Stepping out, being comfortable in the stretch 

Living each day for eternity, a living legacy 

The preaching was well received and helps people on their journey in Christ 

In April five church members went to Bangalore and Nepal. This was a very fruitful and busy 2 ½ weeks. A youth summer camp was held in a hotel in Nepal for 70 young people over 3 days. The whole project was funded by ring-fenced donations from KCC congregation members and the budget of KCC, including a safari. 

A youth conference was also held in Bangalore, and 140 young people attended. 

Both events had a real positive impact on the young people, and the Holy Spirit ministered to many hearts. We also had services with PS Immy and PS Sam in their churches and the slums. 

For July, our preaching series was the book of 2 Timothy – ‘The Making of Timothy’. 

A new prayer Kingdom Group started at the end of June, this will run alongside our existing Kingdom Groups. 

Our Pastors attended a ‘At Home’ event with the new Spennymoor Mayor in June. 

During August we made some changes to our current Church services to take account of people’s holidays and to allow team members to have a break from serving. 

Plans for August were: 

4 August - no morning service but we are having a worship evening. 

11 August - a shorter AM service followed by a BBQ for the Church and community. 

18 & 25 August - no services. 



It was great to see some people from the community join us for the BBQ in August and good conversations were had with them. We are continually looking for opportunities and avenues to engage with the community. 

A Touching Heaven worship evening was also held in August. This was very well attended and was a powerful night of worship and seeing His Kingdom come. 

We had 12 people on the Durham cohort of the Growing Leaders programme led by Cranmer Hall  Durham  University.  We  also  have  1  person  attending  the  Teesside  cohort.  The individuals have reporting very positive feedback from the programme. 

From September our series was “Whole life generosity” Some of the areas we’ve looked at are: 

Is God generous 

The generous Church 

Whose life is it anyhow 

A generous heart 

Generous on purpose 

Time your most precious resource 

Talents – a parable 

Radical hospitality 

Money. Money, Money 

Following on from our series “Whole life generosity”, it was good to be able to give from KCC funds over £6,000 during the Christmas period to Local, National, and International causes. We have been called not only to be blessed but to be a blessing. 

The preaching has been well received, hearing testimonies of how people’s hearts have been stirred and challenged resulting in looking for opportunities to bless and establish a culture of generosity. 

We have been able to find an office and 2 storage cupboards at Tudhoe Community Centre, which will be very useful as a local base. The lease will begin 1/11/24. 

We are seeking God for direction for KCC, revisiting prophetic words and praying to discern the next steps. What does the Church like, where should we be based, should we have our own building, and who should we be networking with? 

Appreciating Theology (the title of our church research project) information and update sessions will started in January 2025 as we take forward the actions from the research. 

The children and youth attendance has grown a lot in the last while which is good to see. The Youth have commenced the new Youth Alpha once a fortnight on a Sunday morning. 

The preaching series commenced in January called “Count Me in”, looking at excuses from the life of Moses as to why we can’t fulfil what God is asking of us, knowing that in our weaknesses, God shows Himself strong. 

We  sponsored  the  community  meals  that  Spennymoor  Football  Club  serve  into  the community several times a week and are looking to see how we can strengthen the support of reaching into the community. 



We continue to provide lifts to mainly Nigerian families both with minibuses and cars. It has been good to be able to do this and to see them become part of our KCC family. 

## **Finance** 

Church income remained steady throughout the year at £104,432 with expenditure being £58,509. 

The Church had £215,429 in savings to the end of March 2025. 

We  were  able  to  support  several  causes  throughout  the  year  including  Mercy  Ships, Spennymoor Town Football Club community meals service as well as those causes outlined above in India. 



Section A Receipts and payments 

A1 Receipts Tithes / Offerings Gift Aid Water Carriers Bangalore Kingdom Heart India Covid Appeal External Gift & Programmes Other 

Missions Interest Sub total(Gross income for AR) 

A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). 

Sub total 

Total receipts 

A3 Payments Bangalore Water Carriers India Covid Appeal External Giving - General Kingdom Heart Internal Programmes - Other Visiting Speaker Kingdom Kids & Teens Other Offerings Courses Bank Charges Insurance Professional Fees Media Safeguarding Subscriptions Equipment Baby Showers Catering / Hospitality Flowers Gifts Postage / Stationery / Printing 

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Room Hire Welcome Packs Ukraine Appeal Events Licences Missions Food Bank She Is St Johns Transport Community Outreach Sub total 

A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) Video Equipment 

Sub total 

Total payments 

Net of receipts/(payments) A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds this year end 

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Categories 

B1 Cash funds 

B2 Other monetary assets 

B3 Investment assets 

B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use 

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B5 Liabilities 

Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees 

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## KINGDOM CULTURE CHURCH 

Receipts and payments accounts For the period from 

## 01/04/24 

|Unrestricted funds||Restricted funds|
|---|---|---|
|to the nearest      £||to the nearest £|
||78797|-|
||15619||
||2500|-|
||860|-|
|-||-|
||2100|-|
||1035|-|
||1872|-|
||1649|-|
||3617||
||108049|-|
|-||-|
|-||-|
|-||-|
||108049|-|
||930|-|
||5125||
||3600||
||420||
||516|-|
|-|||
||3770|-|
||608|-|
||5050|-|
||12|-|
||121|-|
||247|-|
||180||
||2520||
||896||
||2352||
||5381||
|-|||
||1754||
||641||
|-|||
||1824||



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||7995||
|---|---|---|
||685|-|
|-||-|
||259|-|
|-||-|
||3500|-|
|-|||
||1942||
|-|||
||8181||
|-||-|
||58509|-|
|-||-|
|-||-|
|-||-|
||58509|-|
||49540|-|
|-||-|
||172188|-|
||221728|-|



## Details 

Bank Account - HSBC Savings Bank Account - HSBC ****8742 

Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) 

## Details 

Details 

Details Video Equipment 

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Details
Signature
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1192702 

CC16a 

31/03/2025 

To 

|Endowment funds|Total funds||Last year||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|to the nearest £|to the nearest £||to the nearest £||
|-||78797||66277|
|||15619||41059|
|-||2500||200|
|-||860||880|
|-|-||-||
|-||2100||1095|
|-||1035||6371|
|-||1872||493|
||||-||
|-||1649||1184|
|||3617||1815|
|-||108049||119374|
|-|-||||
|-|-||-||
|-|-||-||
|-||108049||119374|
|-||930||1420|
|||5125||2000|
|||3600||6000|
|||420||10068|
|-||516||1138|
||-|||2285|
|-||3770||2100|
|-||608||330|
|-||5050|-||
|-||12|-||
|-||121||114|
|-||247||236|
|||180|-||
|||2520||4652|
|||896||149|
|||2352||1617|
|||5381||7362|
||-||-||
|||1754||1716|
|||641||997|
||-||-||
|||1824||1710|



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|-|259|1523|
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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional) When due (optional) - - - - - Print Name Date of approval MICHAEL CLOSE 

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