About The Founding Pastors
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 The Tengnagels are ordained ministers of the Gospel. They have both completed the "Accelerated Christian Education" (A.C.E.) Training program for Administrators in Lewisville, Texas. Kees is the president of an Ontario ministerial association and serves as a director of a number of church and para-church organizations. He has also served as a local ministerial association president. Kees and Faith demonstrate sensitivity to the moving of the Holy Spirit in their ministry. Faith operates with an anointing to minister healing to the sick while Kees is used to minister the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the initial outward evidence of speaking in tongues. They both frequently operate in the utterance gifts. Kees and Faith are effective teachers of the Bible, particularly in the areas of biblical faith, healing and being led by the Spirit of God. Their divine mandate is to convert God's people from religion and tradition to His uncompromised Word. Consequently, they are strong advocates of the local church and its role in the spiritual growth and development of the believer
Kees graduated from RHEMA Bible Training Center in Tulsa, OK in 1985. Unable to work secularly because of U.S. immigration laws, Kees and the family experienced first-hand God's miraculous provision to meet their financial needs during the two years of training at RHEMA. In 1990, five years after graduation, God's apostolic commission upon his life became evident. Holy Spirit re-directed him to Matthew 9:35-38, one particular scripture given to him in 1981 to confirm his calling. Here we see that Jesus went from town to town teaching and preaching the Word of God to the people, looking upon them as sheep with no shepherd, and giving instruction that prayer should be presented to God for labourers. God's apostolic calling to plant new churches became clear. Since then, eight churches have been pioneered, one in New York, one in Michigan and six in Ontario. In addition to church planting, he is a speaker at ministerial conferences, participates in a live, open-line Christian television program, is President of an Ontario ministerial association and is an officer of the local Niagara Falls Ministerial Fellowship. He has also taught at a Toronto Bible school for five years.
Faith graduated from RHEMA Bible Training Center in Tulsa, OK. in 1985. The calling upon her life has not been easy to fulfil because of the religious traditions of man as they pertain to women in the pulpit. Notwithstanding, she co-pastors with her husband and is just as much a part of the apostolic call, for it was to her that God first spoke of planting churches, comparing them to lighthouses on a channel filled with danger. From these churches, the Word of God is to flow bringing hope and faith by illuminating the pathway of the saints in a world filled with darkness. Faith has a strong desire to teach and train God's people, to make disciples and equip them to do the work of the ministry as instructed in Ephesians 4:12. She has also been an instructor at a Toronto Bible School and a speaker at church leadership and ministerial conferences. |
Kees (pronounced 'case') was born in Holland in 1947. His family came to Canada in 1951 and became Canadian citizens in 1964. After graduation from an Ontario high school, he began a successful banking career that spanned over sixteen years. In 1971, he met Faith. They were married in 1972 and now have two adult children. Kees accepted Jesus as his personal Lord and Saviour and received his call to the ministry in April of 1981. 
Faith was born in Toronto in 1947 and was raised and educated there. Her early spiritual life was spent in the Anglican (Episcopal) Church. Faith accepted Jesus when she was 7 years of age and received her call to the ministry at age 19. She held positions with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and the Ontario Provincial Police before resigning in 1973 to start a family. She has personally experienced the healing power of God in her own life.  | |
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