Accountability

Paul Tan was born in Jakarta, Indonesia. He moved to the United States in 1979 to start his college education. Through the living witness of a friend he accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior in 1980. His conversion to Christianity led to his involvement in the mighty move of God during the early 1980s among the Indonesians residing in the U.S. – which became known as the “Indonesian movement.” In 1989 he left his business and career in real estate and import-export to answer God’s calling to become a full-time pastor. He is now serving as the Senior Pastor of Los Angeles City Blessing Churches (LACBC) in Southern California and is also the President and Apostle of City Blessing Churches Worldwide (CBCWW).

The Lord has also led Paul to take an active role in reaching the local community through networking with other churches and ministries in the cities. As he obeyed, the Lord also opened many doors and opportunities to make the vision to win the cities to come to pass. One is through C.I.T.I. (Churches In Transformation International), which started as a network of churches in the city of San Bernardino, California, working together toward the transformation of that city.

He is also the president of World Blessing Foundation, a non-profit relief aid organization that he founded along with a group of Indonesian Christian businessmen in the United States. WBF’s current project is Indonesian Relief Fund, which was started as a way to help alleviate the sufferings of the poor and needy in Indonesia who were especially hard-hit by the economic crisis in the late 1990s. Paul Tan resides in Chino Hills, California, with his wife Joyce and two daughters

Ron Hogue is founder and president of Nations Training Institute, a ministry committed to training the indigenous pastors of the developing nations of the world. He has traveled extensively internationally having conducted schools of ministry training in countries such as India, Nepal, Cambodia, Malaysia, and Nicaragua. Having been in full-time ministry for over 20 years, he is presently the senior leader of Restoration Church of Euless, Texas. He is associated with the apostolic network of churches entitled Fellowship of Connected Churches and Ministries. He has served churches in Vancouver, British Columbia, California, Georgia, Oklahoma, and Texas. He has earned his Master of Divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. He and his wife, Jaylyne, have been married for 23 years and have 3 children: Benjamin, Tyler, and Charity.

Apostolic Oversight /Accountability

According to our understanding of the Scripture, every local church is to be a self- governing body of believers who hold authority within their own congregations. Because of this Living Springs Community Church is a non-denominational church which seeks to restore and practice what has been called “Apostolic Oversight.” There are no longer any New Testament Apostles. However, we are accountable to to those who have the Apostolic gift of spiritual oversight, much like the 1st Century Apostles.

Apostolic Oversight is actually a church choosing to be accountable to those who function in translocal ministries with apostolic and prophetic giftings. This accountability is established solely upon relationship and what is called the “authority of honor.” In other words, the leadership of this church chooses to make itself accountable to certain men as led by the Holy Spirit. The things that these men speak into the life of LSCC will be received, discerned, and either accepted or prayed over for the proper response. These relationships can change as God changes how we relate to one another. This form of accountability, though foreign to most churches of today, was the pattern of the early church.