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The Tengnagels are ordained ministers and 1985 graduates of Rhema Bible
Training Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma (aka Kenneth Hagin Ministries) and have
been in full time ministry for over 24 years. They have also both completed
the Accelerated Christian Education(A.C.E.) Training program for
Administrators in Lewisville, Texas. Kees is founder and president of a
ministerial organization and serves as a director of a number of church and
para-church organizations. He has also served as treasurer and president of
local ministerial fellowships.

Kees and Faith demonstrate sensitivity to the moving of Holy Spirit in their
ministry. Faith operates with an anointing to minister healing to the sick
while Kees is used to minister the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the
initial outward evidence of speaking in tongues. They both frequently
operate in the utterance gifts. Kees and Faith are effective teachers of
the Bible, particularly in the areas of biblical faith, healing, prayer and
being led by the Spirit of God. Their divine mandate is to convert God's
people from religion and tradition to His uncompromising Word.
Consequently, they are strong advocates of the local church and its role in
the spiritual growth and development of the believer (I Timothy 3:15)
Faith was born in Toronto in 1947 and was raised and educated there. Her
early spiritual life was spent in the Anglican (Episcopal) Church. Faith
accepted Jesus when she was 7 years of age. At nineteen years of age, she
was baptized in the Holy Spirit and received her call to the ministry. She
held positions with the Ontario Department of Labour, Ontario Ministry of
Natural Resources and the Ontario Provincial Police before resigning in 1973
to start a family. She has personally experienced the healing power of God
in her own life.

Faith graduated from RHEMA Bible Training Center in Tulsa, OK. in 1985. The
calling upon her life has proven to be a challenge to fulfil because of the
religious traditions which exist pertaining to women in the pulpit.
Notwithstanding, she co-pastors with her husband and is just as much a part
of the apostolic call, for it was to her that God first spoke regarding the
planting of churches. He compared them to lighthouses on a channel filled
with danger. From these churches, the Word of God is to flow bringing hope
and faith by illuminating the pathway of the saints in a world filled with
darkness.
Faith has a strong desire to teach and train God's people, to make disciples
and equip them to do the work of the ministry as instructed in Ephesians
4:12. She is a speaker at leadership and ministerial conferences, women’s
advances and has also been an instructor at a Toronto Bible school.
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Kees (pronounced 'case') was born in Holland in 1947. His family came to
Canada in 1951 and became Canadian citizens in 1964. After graduation from
an Ontario high school, he began a successful banking career that spanned
over sixteen years. In 1971, he met Faith. They were married in 1972 and
have two adult children. Kees accepted Jesus as his personal Lord and
Saviour and received his call to the ministry in April of 1981.
Kees graduated from RHEMA Bible Training Center in Tulsa, OK in 1985.
Unable to work secularly because of U.S. immigration laws, Kees and the
family experienced first-hand God's miraculous provision to meet their
financial needs during the two years of training at RHEMA.
In 1990, five years after graduation, God's apostolic commission upon his
life became evident. Holy Spirit re-directed him to Matthew 9:35-38, one
particular scripture given to him in 1981 to confirm his calling. Here we
see that Jesus went from town to town teaching and preaching the Word of God
to the people, looking upon them as sheep with no shepherd, and giving
instruction that prayer should be presented to God for labourers. God's
apostolic calling to plant new churches became clear. Since then,
eight churches have been pioneered, one in New York State, one in Michigan
and six in Ontario. In addition to church planting, Kees is founder and
president of a ministerial organization and is a speaker at ministerial
conferences. He has also been a guest panellist in a live, open-line,
Christian television program and an instructor at a Toronto Bible school.



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