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.

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.