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LIVING WATERS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP

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PRESIDENT	SECRETARY	TREASURER	VICE PRESIDENT
RODNEY W WICKLUND	MINNARD HOJEM	ROBERT PINKSTON	MARK LANGER

Rodney W Wicklund has been the pastor at Living Waters for the past 17 years. Pastor Wicklund was saved at the age of twelve at a Covenant Church Lake Beauty Bible Camp in Long Prairie Minnesota. At the age of twenty five Pastor Wicklund had not lived out his salvation. He was sick 180/120 blood pressure. It was at this time that he called upon the name of the Lord in a healing service and was healed of the sickness and filled with the Holy Spirit having the evidence of speaking in tongues. He began to attend Living Word Christian Center in Brooklyn Park Minnesota where he was later licensed and ordained as a pastor. Pastor Wicklund had a praying Grandmother Agnes Wicklund of Lund Wisconsin. Agnes was a woman of prayer and wrote many psalms. Pastor Wicklund attributes his current position to God answering the prayers of his Grandmother.	Minnard Hojem has been the associate pastor at Living Waters for the past 15 years. Pastor Hojem and his wife, Edith, were active in church and took their six children to church and Sunday school. After going into the Insurance business, he began to drink, and this led to serious marriage problems. One evening their daughters were upstairs praying for their parents. He could not sleep and calling the girls downstairs from their time of prayer, Pastor Hojem and his wife Edith renewed their commitment to the Lord in their home praying with their children. God also turned a hopeless financial situation around preserving and restoring their family. Pastor Hojem leads a weekly bible study at his home, a monthly meeting of Promise Keepers at the church and monthly outreach to the St Croix County jail. Minnard and Edith, who have been married for fifty five years, still find time to visit their children, grandchildren and great grandchildren spread out over many states. Pastor Hojem has one grandson who is very special who committed a crime was sent to prison and later received Jesus as his personal Savior. Pastor Minnard and Edith Hojem on a weekly basis have not ceased to pray for and visit this grandson in prison. They know the power of forgiveness and salvation.	Robert Pinkston has been the treasurer of Living Waters and taught in the Bible Institute for the past 15 years. Mr. Pinkston previously was a pilot for Delta Airlines. Mr. Pinkston comes from simple beginnings of a small farm in Idaho. Robert grew up in an environment of poverty and was confronted with the hopelessness of living out the rest of his days in the same situation as those around him. It was during this time that Mr. Pinkston decided to press beyond the borders of hopelessness and God took him from that small town into the Airforce and on to Delta Airlines. Bob and his wife Pat came upon the teaching of Kenneth and Gloria Copeland. The Word of God transformed their situation and they have seen God work in the area of finances. During this time one of Pastor Minnard's monthly newsletters from the Copelands was deliverd to Mr. Pinkston's house. As the plan of God would have it, Mr. Pinkston met Pastor Hojem and they have been studying the Word of God weekly ever since.	Mark Langer has been the Vice President of Living Waters for the past two years. Mr. Langer is a pilot for Northest Airlines. Mr. Langer was raised in a very religious home where rules were exalted over relationships Mr. Langer was very angry as a result of religion. Mark has a beautiful wife Marie who later confronted him and refused to let him treat her the way he was any longer. It was at this point they were introduced to marriage relationship teaching by author Harley and others. God saved their marriage and their family. Mark and Marie continue to pursue the Word of God on relationships. They have had bible studies in their home. The one thing that is very important to them is that the church not treat people simply as a number. They love people and they love family. They believe in ideals and homechooled their boys. Living Word Christian Center hosted a weekend with Al Linder and the Infisherman. Mark was a fishing guide for this organization. As the plan of God would have it Pastor Wicklund ended up in Mark's boat with him as his guide. They have been studying and discussing the Word of God together ever since.

STATEMENT	OF	FAITH	WE BELIEVE...
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We Believe.... THE SCRIPTURES - The Bible is the inspired Word of God, the product of holy men of old who spoke and wrote as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. The New Covenant, as recorded in the New Testament, we accept as our infallible guide in matters pertaining to conduct and doctrine (2 Tim. 3:16; 1 Thess. 2:13; 2 Peter 1:21).	We Believe.... THE GODHEAD - Our God is one, but manifested in three Persons - the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, being coequal (Deut. 6:4;Phil. 2:6). God the Father is greater than all; the Sender of the Word (Logos) and the Begetter (John 14:28; John 16:28; John 1:14). The Son is the Word flesh-covered, the One Begotten, and has existed with the Father from the beginning (John 1:1; John 1:18; John 1:14). The Holy Spirit proceeds forth from both the Father and the Son and is eternal (John 14:16; John 15:26).	We Believe.... MAN, HIS FALL AND REDEMPTION - Man is a created being, made in the likeness and image of God, but through Adam's transgression and fall, sin came into the world. The Bible says "...all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God," and "...There is none righteous, no, not one." (Rom. 3:10; 3:23). Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was manifested to undo the works of the devil and gave His life and shed His blood to redeem and restore man back to God (Rom. 5:14; 1 John 3:8). Salvation is the gift of God to man, separate from works and the Law, and is made operative by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, producing works acceptable to God (Eph. 2:8-10).	We Believe.... ETERNAL LIFE AND THE NEW BIRTH - Man's first step toward salvation is godly sorrow that worketh repentance. The New Birth is necessary to all men, and when experienced, produces eternal life (2 Cor. 7:10; John 3:3-5; 1 John 5:12).
We Believe.... WATER BAPTISM - Baptism in water is by immersion, is a direct commandment of our Lord, and is for believers only. The ordinance is a symbol of the Christian's identification with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection (Matt. 28:19; Rom. 6:4; Col. 2:12; Acts 8:36-39). The following recommendation regarding the water baptismal formula is adopted; to wit: "On the confession of your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and by His authority, I baptize you in the Name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Amen."	We Believe.... BAPTISM IN THE HOLY GHOST - The Baptism in the Holy Ghost and fire is a gift from God as promised by the Lord Jesus Christ to all believers in this dispensation and is received subsequent to the new birth. This experience is accompanied by the initial evidence of speaking in other tongues as the Holy Spirit Himself gives utterance (Matt. 3:11; John 14:16,17; Acts 1:8; Acts 2:38,39; Acts 19:1-7; Acts 2:1-4).	We Believe.... SANCTIFICATION - The Bible teaches that without holiness no man can see the Lord. We believe in the Doctrine of Sanctification as a definite, yet progressive work of grace, commencing at the time of regeneration and continuing until the consummation of salvation at Christ's return (Heb. 12:14; 1 Thess. 5:23; 2 Peter 3:18; 2 Cor. 3:18; Phil. 3:12-14; 1 Cor. 1:30).	We Believe.... DIVINE HEALING - Healing is for the physical ills of the human body and is wrought by the power of God through the prayer of faith, and by the laying on of hands. It is provided for in the atonement of Christ, and is the privilege of every member of the Church today (James 5:14,15; Mark 16:18; Isa. 53:4,5; Matt. 8:17; 1 Peter 2:24).
We Believe.... RESURRECTION OF THE JUST AND THE RETURN OF OUR LORD - The angels said to Jesus' disciples, "...This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven." His coming is imminent. When He comes, "...The dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air..." (Acts 1:11; 1 Thess. 4:16,17). Following the Tribulation, He shall return to earth as King of kings, and Lord of lords, and together with His saints, who shall be kings and priests, He shall reign a thousand years (Rev. 5:10;20:6).	We Believe.... HELL AND ETERNAL RETRIBUTION - The one who physically dies in his sins without accepting Christ is hopelessly and eternally lost in the lake of fire and, therefore, has no further opportunity of hearing the Gospel or repenting. The lake of fire is literal. The terms "eternal" and "everlasting," used in describing the duration of the punishment of the damned in the lake of fire, carry the same thought and meaning of endless existence as used in denoting the duration of joy and ecstasy of saints in the Presence of God (Heb. 9:27; Rev. 19:20).