Renew Church
Publicly funded institution · Surrey, British Columbia · BN 119056794RR0001 · Christianity · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,823,794) as filed with the CRA.
Renew Church is a charitable organization based in Surrey, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under christianity. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.9M in revenue and $1.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 20% from donations, 60% from government, 9% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget.
Compared with 81 religious institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 56% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 17 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 13 qualified donees totalling $77K in 2024, the largest being $51K to Hungry for Life International. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $960K in 2020 to $1.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Provided worship services Sunday school youth programs home support groups ladies men and senior ministries. Preschool daycare and after school care is provided with benevolent services to the community. We provide free conversational English classes. We support missions work abroad and locally and kids camps like Qwanoes and Sunnybrae.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.9M | $1.8M | $1.6M | — | $77K | $1.2M |
| 2023 | $1.8M | $1.8M | $1.6M | — | $78K | $1.1M |
| 2022 | $1.5M | $1.3M | $1.1M | — | $80K | $1.1M |
| 2021 | $1M | $962K | $821K | — | $62K | $856K |
| 2020 | $960K | $844K | $702K | — | $60K | $798K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $77K to 13 qualified donees:
- Hungry for Life International$51K
- Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in British Columbia and Yukon$9,205
- The Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada$5,500
- Outreach Canada Ministries Inc.$2,650
- Power to Change Ministries$2,629
- Movein Vision Team$1,450
- International Christian Mission Services$1,322
- The Association of Fellowship Baptist Churches of South Central British Columbia$1,020
- Child Evangelism Fellowship of British Columbia$1,020
- Camp Qwanoes$1,020
- Crisis Pregnancy Centre of Vancouver Society$600
- Myanmar Canadian Fellowship Church$300
- The Evangelical Alliance Mission of Canada Inc.$100
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,99910 positions
- $1–39,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions17
- Total compensation, all staff$1.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lorne Hunter (director); Dustin Laird (pastor); Darrin Leite (treasurer); Raul Manucduc (director); Elissa Buikema (director); Lawerence Lagerstrom (director); Richard Tonn (director); Radek Koziol (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Renew Church’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119056794RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.