HOUSEHOLD CHRISTIAN CHURCH ANNUAL REPORT
This report is very brief for the simple reason that we are a very small church and there are not many activities going on, hence, the brief report. Our Sunday church attendance ranges from 10 to 20 adults and 5 to10 children. Although we are just a handful of believers, our influence goes beyond the four walls where we meet for church services. We have a Facebook page where we post our weekly preaching for others on social media to have access to. We have a church branch in Ghana, we support seven disadvantaged people on monthly basis, and we also make one-off donations to people in need both home and abroad.
PERSONAL GROWTH
As disciplesofJesusChrist,personalgrowthintotheknowledgeofGodisourpriority.Peoplebecome believers with little or no knowledge of the Christian faith. The Bible calls this “babes” in the Lord. But then weareexpectedtogrowintomaturityofthefaith.
Household Christian Church prepares its members for growth through Bible Studies, Preaching, Prayer, Worship and Fellowship. The Bible Studies are conducted two times in a week. One on Sunday as part of the church service and the other on Tuesday specifically for that. We use well known Bible study guides which are designedforChristiangrowth.Theyarestructuredwithsomekeytopicswhicharerelevantforthe Christian faith.
The topicsare designedtohelpbelievers withour walkwithGodas wellas our relationshipwithfellow human beings. Our Bible studies facilitator is very elaborate and passionate about leading the adult class. He uses a lot ofillustrationsandreal lifeexperiencestobringthemessagealive.
The Sunday Bible studies deals with different topics from character building to empowering believers to have a closer relationship with God. Unlike the Sunday Bible studies which is part of the church service, the Tuesday Bible studies takes an hour and the whole hour is dedicated to the Bible studies. The style of the Tuesday Bible studies is slightly different. There we treat one topic at a time, and it can last for several months before we finish and move on to another topic. We also have separate Sunday schools for the youth and the children. It provides the opportunity for the young ones to ask any question that they may be curious about. It also gives them the chance to share their knowledge and take part in a group discussion.
PRAYER
We believethatprayerplaysacrucialpartinthebeliever’slifethatiswhywehavethreedifferentsessions of prayersinthechurch.Thefirstsessionis30minutesofprayer.ThisispartoftheSundayservice,anditis the firstthingwedowhenwecometochurch.ThesecondsessionisaFridaynightprayermeetingwhich lasts foranhourandahalf.Thisgivesusabitmoretimetobuildourprayerstaminaandalsotoprayabout variousthings withinthe time.The weeklyFridaynightis devotedtoprayer alone.The final sessionis our monthly half-nigh prayers. This happens on the last Friday of every month. The prayer session lasts for 3 hours. It is designed to encourage the church members to spend a longer time in prayer. The three whole hours of prayer is not the only challenge in that prayer session, the real challenge is that part of the night chosen for the prayers between the hours of 10pm and 1am.
PREACHING
The preachingtime, for most preachers, is the most and best part of the service. The preaching time is where the preachergets the opportunity to share with the congregation whatever message they have prepared. In the past,themain Pastor was the only preacher. But this year the church has been fortunate to have another preacherwhoalso supports the preaching ministry. We were also fortunate to have three of our matured Christianbrothers who preached few times during the summer period. The preaching of the word is very crucial tothechurch’s service. The preaching comes last after the other main activities of the service so that church canremember some of the things that were preached.
PRAISE AND WORSHIP
Another area we were struggling with was the area of praise and worship. We did not have a praise and worship leader until recently when the second Pastor’s wife took up the position. It has been a tremendous relieve to see that area covered.
CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICE Thechurch has separate services for the children and the youth. When the children Sunday school teacher migrated abroad, the children were lucky to have another teacher straightaway without any issue. Few months later, the youth Sunday school teacher went to university and the youth struggled to get a replacement teacher. Since there was no one to lead them, they had no choice but to merge with the children so that they would all have one teacher. After a while, this proved to be difficult as the different age groups meant that the two needed to be separated for different focus. The youth now have two adult volunteers who supervise them of Sundays.
OUTREACH AND EVANGELISM The churchgrowth has been very unstable. We had some good number of visitors but most of them did not stay. The church attendance for the regular members has also one down. We have seen inconsistency of the church attendance. This is also due to the fat that two families move to settle abroad. Outreach andevangelism is solely done by the Pastor. He goes out on Saturdays and preach the word of God in Town. Hegives out tracts and do one on one evangelism. This year, there has been a lot of outreach cancellationsbecause of different activities crashing on the Saturdays. Sometimes the Pastor is out of town for differentactivities and other times he is in town but involved in different tasks.
BABIES Unfortunately,one family in the church lost their newborn baby due to complications found in the baby few hours afterhewas born. The Doctors did whatever they could do to save that precious baby’s life, but unfortunately,he could not survive. The whole church mourned with them and prayed that the Lord would comfortthemand replace what they have lost. On the other hand, a mother welcomed her first children a bouncingbabyboy. She felt the arrival of the baby compensated her for all the troubles she went through duringthepregnancy. The church rejoiced with her.
INTERNATIONAL MINISTERIAL COUNCIL OF GREAT BRITAIN
InMay2023, thechurchmovedfrom being an independent church tobecoming part of the International Ministerial Council of Great Britain (IMCGB). The IMCGB is a
group of independent churches who were not recognised as part of the mainstream churches in the United Kingdom who are also known as the Churches Together in Great Britain and Ireland. However, the independents churches under the umbrella of the IMCGB have now been recognised as part of the Churches Together in Great Britain and Ireland.
The IMCGB membership also provided the opportunity for Household Christian Church’s Pastor to be ordained. The pastor had remained a lay-pastor for many years leading to the ordination. The church celebrated the IMCGB membership and the ordination service together. It was nice to see some old pastor friends who came from London to grace the occasion in Swindon. The refreshment and fellowship afterwards were amusing.
CHAPLAINCY TRAINING
Household Christian Church’s Pastor enrolled on a chaplaincy course last year September and completed the course July this year. He thanked the church for their prayer and support which helped him to complete the course. He said the purpose of the course was for two things. First, it will help him to take a post as a
chaplain which will give him more flexibilities to concentrate on the church’s work. Lastly, it will help him to extend his ministry beyond the four walls of the church to the hospital environment where he will often meet different people with various needs.
THE ELECTRIC DRUM
The whole church was very happy when a church member decided to buy an Electronic Drum kit as a gift to the church. The Drum has really brought transformation to the praise and worship of the church. Prior to that the church either picked songs from YouTube and sing-along or clap our hands and sing without instruments. This was mainly because the church did not have an instrumentalist who could play for us. Interestingly, the church member who purchased the Electronic Drum for the church is also an instrumentalist who currently plays the drum in the church.
CANCELLATIONS
There were cancellations of three main activities of the church. The first one was the trip to the beach which was cancelled because of bad weather. The second one was the Picnic at the Park, which was also cancelled because of bad weather. The last one was the baptism of six candidates. It was cancelled because the Centre where the baptism was to take place was flooded. The church now has to look for another venue to do the baptism. The picnic was later held at the Pastor’s house and the church members who attended had a good time. The only thing the church did not attempt again was the trip to the beach. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Minutes from previous year (unedited) Meeting 19/01/2025 @ 10am AGENDA: Youth Bible Studies Children’s Ministry Praise And Worship Team Women’s Ministry Men’s Ministry Technical Management Team Thanksgiving Service International Day Evangelism Crusade Church Retreat Men’s Game Day Cell Groups Family Service General meeting date Departmental meeting Work Vacancies During this year’s Annual General Meeting, the Church concluded that we need to plan events ahead of the months so that everyone will know what is on the Church’s calendar. Below are some of the things we talked about, but we did not fix dates on all of them.
To plan for the year the programs we want to do.
Youth Bible Studies- youth day February, control the whole service.
February 23rd offering goes to youth Thorpe Park day. Youth retreat and children- summer time, date to be confirmed 3 days. To be considered. Once this year. Movie night every quarter of the year. Parents can join. Suggestion- More Youth days.
Children’s Ministry 1 – one day outing, vacation bible school, camping. Children’s bible day. Easter
program. Church annual day- activities on the side provided by them. Outing same day as the Youth – date yet to be confirmed. Camping, still in planning. VBS- still in the process of planning. Last Sunday of May. Still working on the children’s day. Suggestion- each child can preach for 10 minutes each.
Praise And Worship Team, worship night 8th April 2025 or/and 25th August 2025- time and date yet to be
confirmed. Details to be released closer to the date. Youth praise and worship may have days where they can sing to the church.
Women’s Ministry- women’s meeting every 2nd Saturday of the month 10:30- 12:00, meetings, women ministry program, day of women leading. Empowering women- date yet to be confirmed. Men’s Ministry- no leader? men’s day
Usher Department – no programs, ushers’ meetings and prayer, cleaning and maintaining the church, organise a user training one Saturday for the training. They need resources like a toilet cleaning in progress sign, date? May?
Technical – they all need to work as a team, they are making a go for the team, they want to move that table to the back not at the front of the church, enhance online activity for example extend to YouTube.
Management Team- BBQ, beaches, they want to switch up not everything in order, maybe another
international day, in the summer push beach to august and BBQ September, different restaurant for December so no Chinese and it’s a love feast in December.
Thanksgiving Service- Nov? Dec?
International Day- Sep in the first week
Deliverance service- other pastors? Every quarter? 2 a year
Evangelism- 3rd week of every month. May start in Feb
Crusade? Conference? maybe 3 day Invite guest ministers? And attract people to come and join.
Church Retreat in summer 6-week holiday, retreat centre?
Men’s Game Day
Cell Groups- revive the cell groups,
Family Service (April) Couples service? Married couples? Singles service/ parents men woman.
General meeting date? Towards Jun-Jul and Nov-Dec
Departmental meeting (Feb) breaks them down into different days and dates for each department.
Look at the work vacancies making sure that everyone in the church has a job and something to do.
HOUSEHOLD CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Trustees Report for 2024
The Friends of Household Christian Church is a registered charity, number 1197453. The address to which correspondence to the charity should be sent is Household Christian Church, Central Community Centre, Emlyn Square, Swindon SN1 5BP,
The Trustees of the charity at 15 Oct 2025, when this annual report was approved, were as follows:-
| Mr Jacob Frimpong | (Chairman & Treasurer) | JF | 15/10/2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs Gifty Frimpong | (Trustee) | GF | 15/10/2025 |
| Mr Amaresh Velamuri | (Trustee) | AV | 15/10/2025 |
HOUSEHOLD CHRISTIAN CHURCH
ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR TO DEC 2024
For period 01/01/24 - 31/12/24
| TOTAL EXPENDITURE INCOME EXPENDITURE Surplus/(Deficit) International Support Church Welfare Church Get- together Piano Lessons Visiting Preachers Others 3,361.00 £ 1,673.99 1,100.00 720.00 700.00 3,291.45 Tithe & Offerings Total |
10846.44 £ 13,211.06 13,211.06 |
|---|---|
| 2,364.62 |
Balance Sheet as at 31/12/2024
Current Assets
Bank - Currents accounts
4756.63 Represented by: Opening balance - 01/01/24 2,392.01 Bank – Current account Surplus/ (Deficit) for the year 2,364.62
Surplus/ (Deficit) for the year
INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF
HOUSEHOLD CHRISTIAN CHURCH
For the financial year ended 31st December 2024 BASIS OF INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT
My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by The Charity Commissioners under section 43(7)(b). That examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by The Trustees and a comparison of the Accounts with those records. It also includes considering any unusual items or disclosures in the Accounts and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently I do not express an audit opinion on the view given by the Accounts.
INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S STATEMENT
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:
(1) which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements:
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to keep accounting records in accordance with section 41 of the Act; and
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to prepare Accounts which accord with the accounting records and to comply with the requirements of
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the Act, have not been met; or
(2) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the Accounts to be reached.
Imad Ahmad – IFA MIPA