Core Identity
• Elder-Led, Apostolic House: We practice a plurality of elders. Although Dr Vincent G. Valentyn serves translocally as an apostle to the nations, within KLMI he functions as an apostolic elder—serving with and accountable to the eldership team.
• KLMI is a household of faith within the spiritual family Emmanuel Ministries International (EMI). EMI provides spiritual oversight—guarding doctrine, offering counsel, and ensuring mission alignment—while local governance remains with our elders.
• Word-and-Spirit Integration: Theological clarity and expository preaching joined to reverent, Spirit-led worship and obedient practice.
• Covenantal, Multigenerational Family: We endeavour to disciple households, not just individuals.
• Family-Integrated Worship (No Children’s Church): Children fully participate in the celebration service with their parents; parents are primary disciplers; the church equips and reinforces.
• Missional Marketplace Posture: Vocation, enterprise, and public service are Kingdom callings lived out for citywide and translocal impact.
Leadership & Governance Model
• Plurality of Eldership (the “4Ds”): Doctrine, Direction, Discipline, and Deacons. Operations are stewarded by the Eldership Team in mutual submission to the Word and the Spirit.
• Apostolic Elder (Local Function): Guards apostolic doctrine and mission alignment; catalyses vision; forms leaders; represents the house translocally while remaining locally accountable.
• Fivefold in Team: Apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers operate collaboratively; gifts serve the body and do not override team governance.
• EMI Spiritual Oversight: EMI provides apostolic/spiritual oversight—doctrinal guardrails, counsel, accountability, and alignment—without displacing local eldership governance.
• Relational Accountability with EMI: The Apostolic Elder and Eldership maintain regular touchpoints with Apostle David Clemetson and the EMI apostolic leadership team for prayer, review, and strategic alignment.
• Decision Rights (RACI-style):
• R — Responsible: The doers. They execute the work and draft the recommendation.
• A — Accountable: The single owner of the outcome. Signs off, answers for results, can approve/veto. One “A” per decision.
• C — Consulted: The advisors. You must seek their input before a decision (two-way communication).
• I — Informed: The audience. They receive the decision and next steps (one-way communication).
• Why this matters: RACI prevents “decision fog”—everyone knows who drives, who signs, who advises, and who’s looped in.
o Doctrine & Direction: R = Eldership Team; A = Apostolic Elder with Eldership; C = Fivefold/ministry leads; I = Congregation.
o Discipline & Care: R = Assigned elders; A = Eldership Team.
o Finance & Stewardship: R = Bookkeeper + Auditor; A = Eldership Team; C = Ministry leads; I = Congregation (bi-annual summary).
o Pulpit: R = Preaching & Teaching; A = Apostolic Elder with Eldership & Emerging leaders.
• Cadence & Accountability: Fixed monthly governance meetings; minuted decisions with relevant leaders; consensus governance; periodic theological and operational reviews.
Distinctives
1. Expository, Kingdom-focused preaching forming worldview and practice.
2. Presence-driven, Scripture-anchored worship with ministry to the Lord and one another.
3. Prayer and intercession as the operational backbone (corporate, house-to-house, leadership intercession).
4. Fathering and formation—sons and daughters established through doctrine, fathering, and measurable growth.
5. The Table, shared life & benevolence—hospitality, communion, and practical care for members in financial need.
6. Commissioning culture—laying on of hands to deploy people into ministry, vocation, and nations (in partnership with EMI).
7. Marketplace engagement—ethics, excellence, value-creation, and social impact as worship.
8. Generosity & financial integrity—funded by tithes, general offerings, and first-fruit offerings; records maintained by a bookkeeper; audited annually with transparent reporting.
9. Cross-cultural unity—intentional reconciliation across language, class, and culture, advocating the ”one new man concept”.
10. Family-Integrated Worship—children worship, pray, hear the Word, receive Communion, and serve alongside parents in the main service.
11. Compassion & public witness—proactive societal service as salt and light in Cape Town and beyond.
12. EMI spiritual family rhythm—mutual strengthening and corporate synergy within EMI, under its spiritual oversight.
Operating Principles
• Truth over sentimentality: Emotion welcomed; doctrine governs experience.
• Team over celebrity: Leadership is shared; no personality cults.
• Order with flexibility: Robust governance without quenching the Spirit.
• Holiness as wholeness: Character, household health, and vocational stewardship are non-negotiable.
• Household discipleship first: Parents are the first pastors of their children; church life equips the home.
• Holistic prosperity & health: We contend for spiritual, relational, material, and physical wellbeing—“prosper and be in health”—with stewardship and diligence.
• Relational honour: We honour and collaborate with the wider EMI family while stewarding local assignments faithfully.
Discipleship Pipeline
• Alpha → Anchor: Gospel invitation → Foundations of the Kingdom → House-to-House Ekklesia.
• Formation Tracks: Scripture & doctrine, prayer, character, family, finance, vocation.
• Leadership Development: Trained cohorts, practicums, and commissioning (families included where appropriate).
• Mission Mobilisation: Exposure trips, EMI partnerships, and long-term worker support.
Finance & Stewardship
• Funding Streams: Tithes; general offerings; first-fruit offerings; translocal giving to EMI (monthly tithe + annual first-fruit); designated gifts tracked separately.
• Bookkeeping & Audit: Professional bookkeeper maintains records; independent annual audit; transparent reporting to the congregation.
• Controls: Segregation of duties; dual signatories; thresholds; monthly reconciliations; management accounts to Eldership; annual budget with quarterly reviews.
• Designations: Donor intent honoured for missions, compassion, and projects; EMI translocal giving scheduled and recorded; conflict-of-interest disclosures maintained..
Benevolence & Public Witness
• Member Care (Benevolence): Confidential assessments; time-bound relief; budgeting and employment coaching; pastoral follow-up.
• Societal Service (“Salt & Light”): Partnerships with civic initiatives; tangible service and advocacy; measurable community outcomes—often in collaboration with peers.
Guardrails (What you won’t find)
• Program-driven consumer Christianity, hype-driven services, prosperity excess, syncretism, and isolationism.
• Age-segregated “children’s church” during the main celebration service. We prioritise family-integrated worship.
• Personality-driven governance or decision-making by charisma.
Impact Outcomes (How fruit is tracked)
• Disciples established; marriages strengthened; next-gen leaders emerging (including children’s spiritual habits).
• Marketplace influence: ethical business, job creation, fair practice, and community upliftment.
• Benevolence cases resolved with stability plans; reduced recurrence through discipleship and support.
• Church oversights and translocal partnerships (including EMI collaborations) strengthened across nations.
• Verified testimonies of transformation and measurable compassion initiatives.