Our Vision - What We Believe - Our Mission Statement - Our History
OUR VISION
Reaching Up, Reaching In, Reaching Out
What We Believe
We believe the Holy Scriptures to be the divinely in-breathed, infallible, inerrant and authoritative Word of God.
We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in the Persons of the Holy Trinity.
We believe in the virgin birth of the Lord Jesus Christ, His deity, His sinless humanity and perfect life, the eternal all-sufficiency of His atoning death, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the Father’s right hand, and His personal coming again at His second advent.
We believe that justification is a judicial act of God on the believer’s behalf solely on the merits of Christ, and that regeneration by the power of the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential for personal salvation.
We believe in holy living, the present day reality of the baptism in the Holy Spirit according to Acts 2:4, the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and the Lord’s supernatural healing of the human body.
We believe in Christ’s Lordship of the church, the observance of the ordinances of Christian baptism by immersion for believers and the Lord’s Supper.
We believe in the eternal blessedness of the redeemed in heaven and the eternal doom of the unregenerate in the lake of fire.
We believe the Holy Scriptures to be the divinely in-breathed, infallible, inerrant and authoritative Word of God.
We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in the Persons of the Holy Trinity.
We believe in the virgin birth of the Lord Jesus Christ, His deity, His sinless humanity and perfect life, the eternal all-sufficiency of His atoning death, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the Father’s right hand, and His personal coming again at His second advent.
We believe that justification is a judicial act of God on the believer’s behalf solely on the merits of Christ, and that regeneration by the power of the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential for personal salvation.
We believe in holy living, the present day reality of the baptism in the Holy Spirit according to Acts 2:4, the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and the Lord’s supernatural healing of the human body.
We believe in Christ’s Lordship of the church, the observance of the ordinances of Christian baptism by immersion for believers and the Lord’s Supper.
We believe in the eternal blessedness of the redeemed in heaven and the eternal doom of the unregenerate in the lake of fire.
Our Mission Statement
Building a family to reach a community
Grounded in the word
Free in worship
Focused on wholeness and maturity
Building a family to reach a community
Grounded in the word
Free in worship
Focused on wholeness and maturity
Our History
In January 1935, Rev. Crosen, a veteran of the New Zealand Army, who had served in WW1, and been miraculously healed from a gun shot wound, came to Exeter to serve in Christian ministry. He held meetings in the upper part of the Old Opera House, on Main Street in Exeter, owned by Art Jones, who offered the building for weekly meetings. Mr. Jones gave his heart to Christ, and meetings, with attendance up to 250 continued to be held. The meetings were lively and exuberant, with many people reporting decisions to follow Christ, and many healings were reported.
In 1936, the congregation moved to a house at 32 Nelson Street, owned by Della Peart. Thomas Edgar came to be the first pastor here. This group of believers became affiliated with the PAOC in 1936.
By 1938, the congregation was struggling and Rev. and Mrs. Ernest Clemens came to be the pastors in the later years of the Great Depression. More families joined the church under his ministry. Rev. Harold Kendrick came in 1944 and encouraged the congregation to buy the property on Main Street where Belongers and TJ’s are now.
People in the church, including Jenny Kipfer, put their shoulders to the wheel and built the new meeting place, which opened in Sept. 1947. This first building was gutted by fire the next February, and the church was rebuilt.
Some of the pastors through the years have been Rev. Ken Norcross, Rev. Lorne Krause, Mrs. Louise (Winn) Butler, Rev. Mel Holmes, Rev. Larry Talbot, Rev. Lloyd Johnston, Rev. Floyd Rhude, Rev. Austin Gedcke, Rev. Brian Colborne, Rev. Don Forrest, Rev. Keith Gonyou, Rev. Bob Donnan, Rev. Vernon Dean, Rev. Rod Chaulk, and presently Rev. Bob Loohuizen.
In 1970, the church relocated to the former Main Street United Church, and in 1985, another move was made to the new building at our present location.
This is the history of the buildings where the believers met, but the real history is in the hearts and souls of the many who have come to Christ and been filled with the Holy Spirit during this time. Only eternity will tell the results of the thriving ministry of Exeter Pentecostal Tabernacle.
In January 1935, Rev. Crosen, a veteran of the New Zealand Army, who had served in WW1, and been miraculously healed from a gun shot wound, came to Exeter to serve in Christian ministry. He held meetings in the upper part of the Old Opera House, on Main Street in Exeter, owned by Art Jones, who offered the building for weekly meetings. Mr. Jones gave his heart to Christ, and meetings, with attendance up to 250 continued to be held. The meetings were lively and exuberant, with many people reporting decisions to follow Christ, and many healings were reported.
In 1936, the congregation moved to a house at 32 Nelson Street, owned by Della Peart. Thomas Edgar came to be the first pastor here. This group of believers became affiliated with the PAOC in 1936.
By 1938, the congregation was struggling and Rev. and Mrs. Ernest Clemens came to be the pastors in the later years of the Great Depression. More families joined the church under his ministry. Rev. Harold Kendrick came in 1944 and encouraged the congregation to buy the property on Main Street where Belongers and TJ’s are now.
People in the church, including Jenny Kipfer, put their shoulders to the wheel and built the new meeting place, which opened in Sept. 1947. This first building was gutted by fire the next February, and the church was rebuilt.
Some of the pastors through the years have been Rev. Ken Norcross, Rev. Lorne Krause, Mrs. Louise (Winn) Butler, Rev. Mel Holmes, Rev. Larry Talbot, Rev. Lloyd Johnston, Rev. Floyd Rhude, Rev. Austin Gedcke, Rev. Brian Colborne, Rev. Don Forrest, Rev. Keith Gonyou, Rev. Bob Donnan, Rev. Vernon Dean, Rev. Rod Chaulk, and presently Rev. Bob Loohuizen.
In 1970, the church relocated to the former Main Street United Church, and in 1985, another move was made to the new building at our present location.
This is the history of the buildings where the believers met, but the real history is in the hearts and souls of the many who have come to Christ and been filled with the Holy Spirit during this time. Only eternity will tell the results of the thriving ministry of Exeter Pentecostal Tabernacle.
