A Letter from Pastors Ben & Heather

Welcome to the 2024/25 edition of Kingdom Builders (KB) Magazine. 

We invite you to explore this magazine and discover how we are on mission as a church community in Calgary and globally. You'll be blessed by the stories of what God has done through Kingdom Builders, and we know you'll be excited to learn more about our plans for the coming year. This past year has once again been marked by God's favour upon our church, as we've witnessed the expansion of the Gospel through First Assembly both locally and globally. Last year through KB Missions, First Assembly was able to invest in the work of God in dozens of countries, impacting thousands of lives for eternity. Your generosity provided monthly support to over 12 global and local workers and missionaries. We were also able to sow into multiple global projects, including responding to humanitarian crisis situations. 

 Our KB Missions strategic focus remains centered on the priority of reaching; unreached people groups, the disadvantaged (including the poor, orphaned, and widowed), church multiplication, local church leadership and the next generation. Because of your faithful support last year, we will be supporting 3 new global workers and adding new strategic missions projects this year. At First Assembly, our mission is to expand not only globally but locally. We continue to support the PAOC* and our Calgary Dream Center as strategic missional partners. This past year, we've continued to extend our local reach through TMS** leadership schools, discipleship training, youth and kid’s programs, camps, and benevolence initiatives like FA Cares. 

Through Kingdom Builders Vision 100, we've now begun initial planning for FA's eventual expansion in South Calgary. With that, we launched our Seton Campus on Easter Sunday 2023. Now, nearly 300 attendees gather in the south at our 10:30 AM service time. By God’s grace, we are establishing a strong gospel presence in the south while we make preparations for our future south property. These are milestones worth celebrating, and we give God all the glory! 

As God has blessed and called First Assembly, He has called us to be a blessing. Let's continue sowing seeds of generosity, faith, and obedience, stretching beyond our regular giving to fulfill the Great Commission both globally and locally, so we can reach as many people with the Gospel as we can, everywhere we can.

Pastor Ben and Heather Johnson

Lead Pastors, First Assembly Church

*Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada

**Tehillah Ministry School