Greetings to all! We have just completed a powerful and wonderful week of Camp Meeting at Dogwood Valley Camp last month.  With the ministry team of Bro. Nathan Scoggins, Chris Green, and Bro. & Sis. Hyden we were blessed from the youngest to the oldest.  Thirty plus people received their first Pentecostal "outpouring" of the Holy Ghost.  A great amount of attendants received a refilling and renewing of their experience with God.  It was truly a wonderful visitation and demonstration of the power of God with us each day and night.

Kudos to the DVC team, Bro. Russell Garrett (Business Manager), Ron Ens (Building Committee Chairman) and the host of volunteers that they supervised and made our renovated tabernacle a possibility bringing it to a useable stage for Camp Meeting.  What a great improvement!  During the week, the great people of the British Columbia District responded as they usually do with a tremendous pledge offering of over $73,000.00 to help us finish the building and cover the cost overruns from the project.  Hats off to the BC/NWT people who always comes through.  

District Conference was completed on the Monday of Camp Meeting, July 17, 2017, with some changes.  The following are the elected officers for the next two years.

Albert Foster - District Secretary/ Treasurer

Jason McLaughlin - BC North American Missions Director

Anthony Ens - BC North American Missions Secretary (for 

                            1 year)

Devon Katerberg - Sunday School Secretary

Andon Dillon - Youth Secretary

Leanne Garrett - Ladies Ministries Secretary

Heath MacDonald - Apostolic Man Secretary

F.W. Mason - Ministers Appeal Council Nominee

Special mention to Bro. Phil Lemke, our outgoing BC NAM Director, who has done a tremendous job leading this department and ministry.  Thank you Bro. Lemke for your efforts on the behalf of our church planters and missionaries in BC.

Looking forward, BC Purpose Institute's 2017/2018 school year is beginning in September.  At Camp Meeting we honoured our 2-year certificate graduates and we would like to encourage you to be a part of this year's student body in one of the three campuses across our District.

General Conference is coming up on September 26-29 at the Kansas City Convention Center in Kansas City, Missouri.  This will be followed by BC Ministers Retreat on November 1-3 with some arriving early (October 31) for planning session.  The Filipino Evangelism Conference is presently scheduled for December 1-2.  There will be updates on all of these events as we move forward.

2017 has been a great year of advancement thus far and we are expecting God to continue His blessing as we continue to advance throughout this year. 

 

May God Richly Bless You,

At District Conference this year we transitioned our Constitution and By-Laws to the new Societies Act.  Every society in BC must transition by November 2018 or they will lose their society status which will result in revocation of charity status by Charities Directorate.  The governing documents that we passed at conference were prepared and approved by our society's solicitor.  I have received many telephone calls before and after conference about the transition.  As a result, I will endeavour to give you information so that you can work on your Constitution and By-Laws.  I have three attachments as follows: "Preparing for B.C.'s New Society Act," "New Societies Act: Impact on Pre-Existing Societies" and a summary.  As you work through the paperwork you can use the District one as an example template, but you must modify your own.  The big change is that the constitution is now a separate document from the by-laws and the constitution can only have your name and purpose(s), nothing else.  The current purpose(s) that will go into your constitution cannot be changed until the transition is passed, which is why we passed a resolution to add the camp to our purposes after the transition was approved.  Wading through the rules, etc. is not pleasant, but must be done.  When reviewing our by-laws as a template please look at article IX "Provisions From The Society's Pre-Transition Constitution."  This is what is called the Non Profit Clause and the CRA will look for this, because once you have transitioned you must send a copy of the transitioned constitution and by-laws to the Charities Directorate.  I trust this will be helpful, and yes, you can do it on your own.  But if you're not sure, please seek legal advice.

Preparing for BC New Society Act

Impact on Pre-Existing Societies

New BC Society Act Summary