Senior Pastor Alan G. Braun Personal Information Birth Date: May 11, 1959 Marital Status: Married Wanda Leite 1979 Children: Richard, born 1980, Simon, born 1982, Sharon, born 1984, Jerry, born 1985 Ordained: 1992, Faith Baptist Church, Penticton, B.C.

Work Experience

Senior Pastor, Abundant Life, Penticton, British Columbia, 1989 — 2006
Arrived at the then called Faith Baptist Church, in Penticton, congregation at 10 people in attendance. The church grew to a maximum of 500 people average in attendance.

Natural Church Development (NCD) gave Abundant Life a rating mark of over 65% in all eight priority standards of a healthy congregation, five years in a row. Abundant Life was considered one of the healthiest churches in Canada.

• Reorganized the congregation to understand, adopt and work out a vision under the guidance of the Lord.
• Developed systems to train church in soul winning
• Developed systems to educate new believers
• Developed systems to assimilate new members
• Developed systems to partner with fellow, like-minded churches
      Direct Partnerships with FBC Pampa, TX & Immanuel, Odessa, TX, & FBC Jonesboro, Atlanta
• Have consistently taught the value of church planting
  • Direct church plants — Armstrong, BC, Creston, BC, Salmo, BC (Restart), Osoyoos, BC, Westbank, BC
  • Indirect assistance of church plants — Pacific Rim, Langley, BC, & White Horse, YK

Church Evangelism Team — 2005 — present

• Trained in NCD
• Trained in four major leadership courses under the Church Health department

National Leadership Board — 1997 — 2001

President, Canadian Convention of Southern Baptists, 1999 — 2001

• Contribution was bringing a spirit of unity and motivation to the convention of churches
• Leading a major shift in the National Leadership Board, from committee lead to the current Governing Structure

President of Penticton Ministerial, Penticton, British Columbia, 1997 — 1998, 2000 — 2001, 2003 — 2006

Assistant to the Pastor, First Baptist Church, North Battleford, Saskatchewan, 1985 — 1988
    Worked under Paul Johnson

City of North Battleford Fire Fighter, 1980 — 1988
    Received highest rank — first class fire fighter; President of Fire Fighter Union — 1985 — 1987

Publications

“How To Draw With Pen & Ink” 1988, Book in Canadian Library of Congress
“Braun's World”, Weekly Cartoonist for Western Newspaper.
“Fishers of Men” 1998, Book in Canadian Library of Congress

Spritual Gifts

I believe the spiritual gifts the Lord has given and holds me responsible to use are; Evangelism, Leadership and Counseling.

References

• Dr. Henry Blackaby
• Dr. Richard Blackaby
• Dr. Mike McGough
• Paul Johnson