City Impact Church New Zealand

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The main building of City Impact Church since 2007

City Impact Church is a nondenominational church of faith with pentecostal beliefs based in East Coast Bays, New Zealand.

Formerly known as Bays Christian Fellowship, it was founded in 1982 by current senior pastors Peter Mortlock and his wife Bev Mortlock.[1] It has now grown to around 3000 extended members (as of mid-2008). It runs two Sunday services, one at 10 am and another at 6:30 pm .[2] The church also holds regular Community Impact days to assist with a variety of social organisations, as they seek to put biblical principles into practice.

The church also runs the television programme Impact For Life on TV channel Prime every Sunday morning at 9 am and TV3 on Tuesday mornings at 5:30 am, as well as on Shine TV. Internationally, the Impact for Life programme has been screened regularly on the Australian Christian Channel, United Christian Broadcast in UK, Power Vision in India, Cook Islands TV in Rarotonga, World Harvest Broadcasting network in Fiji and Daavo Christian Bible Channel in the Philippines.[3]

Peter Lineham, a Christian academic at Massey University states "City Impact is fundamentalist in doctrine which shows in its views of women and homosexuality, and is closer to Destiny Church than any other church."[4]

Expansion of the Church

In addition to the Auckland branch, CIC also built a new 1,800 seat campus in Mt. Wellington in 2010 (where there are now plans to expand the 1,800, to about 2,500 (add 500 additional seating due to the rapid growth of the church community), which CIC now has two Auckland campuses. Mt Wellington campus hosts services at 10am and 6.30pm on Sundays. City Impact Church also has a network of churches in the South Island of New Zealand. These are located in Queenstown, Invercargill, Balclutha, as well as overseas churches, City Impact Church Canada, in Moncton, Bathurst and Fredericton, and one in Tonga (that was recently rebuilt and developed in 2010 by teams formed by the Church.

City Impact Church Canada is based in Moncton and has two other locations in New Brunswick, Canada. The church's senior pastor Donny Legere has confirmed, that further locations in Canada are planned, but hasn't given any information to any date. The main church in Moncton has an 300-seat auditorium with attached auditorium for the youth and Sunday school services, and also a private Christian school (Rhema Academy). CIC Canada also offers different ministries like, Bridgehouse Ministries and the Gateway project. Executive pastor is Dave Maclean, youth pastor is Pat Steeves and woman's ministry director and member of the pastoral leadership team is Dr. Tiffany Legere (TH.D).

In 2011, City Impact Church earned a revenue of $10,000,000 – roughly $6.9 million of that coming directly from tithes.[5] Because the church is registered as a charity, all of its profits are tax-free.

City Impact Church School

CIC founded City Impact Church School in 2004, where subjects include History, Geography and Doctrine, Language, Mathematics, Science, Art, Music, Drama, PE, and Kingdom Building, and teaches Years 0 through to 13 (Primary, Intermediate and Secondary school).[6] The school was temporarily closed in 2005 by the Ministry of Education because it was not a registered educational institution.[7][8][9]

Opposition to same-sex marriage

Enough Is Enough rally

City Impact Church regularly works alongside Brian Tamaki's Destiny Church. In 2004 they jointly organised the first of the Enough Is Enough rallies protesting against the legalisation of civil unions in New Zealand and promoting "traditional family values."[10] The protesters' all-black clothing drew unfavourable comparisons with the all-black uniforms of the Nazi Schutzstaffel and the rise of fascism in pre-World War II Europe.[11][12][13] Wellington newspaper The Dominion Post reported the protest under the headline "Black shirts take to the Streets" while The Christchurch Press and other newspapers used "March arouses Nazi fears."[14] A subsequent editorial in The New Zealand Herald pointed out that "for all the fear and loathing [the march] aroused in liberal discussion" the church had done nothing to suggest "that its intentions are other than law-abiding and democratic."[14][15]

Poll controversy

In January 2013 The New Zealand Herald reported that pastor Peter Mortlock had attempted to manipulate a same-sex marriage poll.[16][17] The poll was set up on the website of MP Murray McCully, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, in reference to Louisa Wall's Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Act 2013, and asked "Do you support or oppose the proposed legislation that would make it possible for same sex couples to marry?" Mortlock emailed his congregation stating "Since we are able to vote as many times as we like, I'd encourage you to place your votes and keep checking back." The multiple votes were spotted by the McCully staff and were removed.[18]

See also

References

  1. ↑ CIC's founding http://www.cityimpactchurch.com/auckland/profile/tabid/74/Default.aspx[dead link]
  2. ↑ Sunday Service in CIC http://www.cityimpactchurch.com/auckland/sundayservices/tabid/87/Default.aspx[dead link]
  3. ↑ Impact for Life on worldwide channels http://www.cityimpactchurch.com/impactforlife/tabid/68/Default.aspx[dead link]
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