Trinity Reformed Baptist Church

Annual Business Meeting January 30, 2008

State of the Church Summary 

1. Trinity Reformed Baptist Church of Topeka Kansas conducted two business meetings during 2007:

   1. On January 31, 2007, we conducted our annual business meeting in accordance with our church constitution.  During that meeting, we reviewed both receipts and expenditures for 2006, and proposed an annual budget for 2007. {The 2007 report is at the lower portion of this page.}

    

       b.   On June 20, 2007 we voted to incorporate and/or expand our missionary-support programs as follows:

                                                               i.      Mount Zion’s Prison Ministry at $75 per month..

                               ii   A one-time gift of $200 to the Founder’s Ministry.

                              iii   Crisis Pregnancy Center at $40 per month with one initial gift of $500.

                              iv      Abortion Recovery Center at $40 per month with one initial gift of $500.

                                                            v    John MacArthur’s Master’s Academy for the Italian branch at $75 per month.

                                                          vi   We increased our support to the Association of Reformed Baptist Churches of America to $200 per month.

2. The following projects were completed in 2007:

   1. We continue to distribute sermons and tracts on the doctrines of grace. 

   2. We placed our church information in the Christian Business Directory.

   3. Established our church website with our uploaded sermon files being added weekly.

   4. IRS tax exemption was approved:  July 17, 2006 (dated correspondence May 31, 2007 was completed).

   5. Placed our church’s name and website on the Topeka West High School 2007-2008 Winter Sports Calendar.

   6. Established an advertisement in the Topeka Capital Journal each Saturday in the “Devotional Guide” section.

   7. Sent Russian literature packages to three locations in Siberia, Russia.  These packages included Russian literature i.e. gospel tracts and booklets were printed and mailed by Mt. Zion Publications, Pensacola, Florida.

   8. We purchased and donated over $430 worth of clothing items to the Topeka Rescue Mission for the Christmas Holiday Season, and other benevolence projects as needs arose and were worthy of our consideration..

3. The following expository sermons  have been completed, and some are on-going series as noted:
   1. “The Resurrection of Jesus Christ” in two parts
   2. Gleanings from the Nativity, “What Child Is This?”
   3. Gleanings in Deuteronomy, chapter 5 (on-going series)
   4. “Examples of Motherhood” and “Examples in Fatherhood”
   5. Completed Gleanings in Esther, chapter 2 (series on-going series).
   6. Gleanings in the Book of Acts, completed chapters 1- 2 (on-going series).
   7. Gleanings on Pre-millennial Dispensationalism (on-going series), first seven sermons.
   8. “Parable of the Sower” (mini-series), completed introduction, “Wayside Hearer” and “Stony Ground Hearer”
   9. Completed Gleanings in I John, a defense against the Carnal Christian teaching, (re-taught and recorded the missing first three chapters to have the entire series for our church website).
   10. Nine Marks of a Healthy Church, (on-going series), worked on sections on “The Gospel”, “Conversion”, “Pictures of a Christian”, and “The Armour of God”

    

4. The congregation attendance remained steady and we had three new adult visitors to our church this year. We continue to worship our Lord in Spirit and in Truth, and cordially invite others with a teachable spirit to join with us. We remain resolute to honor our Lord and Savior and to advance His Kingdom as He gives us opportunity. Amen!

Scheduled Business Meeting  

 The Trinity Reformed Baptist Church of Topeka, Ks. on 13 Jun 07 gave thanks unto our God for the recognition of our church by the federal government in April 07. Also for the progress to date in this congregation and through this website ministry. The assembly  unanimously approved the desire to advertise our church in the local newspaper, and also the  support of five new missions projects during the forth coming year: 

• The Abortion Recovery Center -and- Outreach Crisis Pregnancy Center of Topeka, Ks.

• The Master's Academy for the training of foreign pastor-teachers in their ten homelands.

• Mount Zion prison ministries.

• The Founder's Ministry.

The congregation was blessed with a message on The Exalted Suffering Savior prior to the business meeting, and we had communion with our Lord, giving thanks for His finished work on the cross.  Amen! 

Annual Business Meeting   

State of the Church Summary 

31 Jan 07

On 14 Jun 2006, we met as a body of Christian believers and constituted ourselves as The Trinity Reformed Baptist Church of Topeka, Ks.  On 21 Jun 2006, we met as a congregation and adopted the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith as our formal doctrinal statement, and in July 2006, we finalized our church Constitution. We are in the final phase of being recognized by the Federal government as a 501{3] c. religious organization.

Bob Spagnuolo was appointed interim pulpit-fill to teach and preach the Word of God, using the blessed  Authorized King James Version of the scriptures.

Bob was ordained in 1979 to the gospel ministry at the Bible Baptist Church in Minot, North Dakota.   He has fill numerous Bible Study and pulpit teaching ministries,  preaching  the doctrines of grace since his ordination.

In August, 2006, TRBC adopted four missions’ projects which we support monthly:

• The Topeka Rescue Mission  - The Trinitarian Bible Society-USA  -  The Association of  Reformed Baptist Churches of America for foreign mission works in China and Cuba. 

• For 2007, we have adopted three foreign mission works in: Carlos Paz Argentina  -  Quebec, Canada  -  and Kenya, Africa  - also The  National Pastors’ Book Fund for foreign missions pastors and workers.

The various series of messages completed to date at Trinity Reformed Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas  includes: