City Impact Church New Zealand
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City Impact Church is a Pentecostal church located 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. 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 7 pm .
The church also runs the television program
me 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
.
The church also holds regular community days to assist with a variety of social organisations, as they seek to put biblical principles into practice.
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 6pm on Saturdays and 10am and 7pm on Sundays. CIC also has a network of churches in the South Island
of New Zealand
. These are located in Queenstown
, Invercargill
, Balclutha, as well as an overseas church in Fredericton, Canada
and one in Tonga (that was recently rebuilt and developed in 2010 by teams formed by the Church (voluntary).
East Coast Bays
East Coast Bays is the collective name for a series of small suburbs of North Shore City, in the Auckland metropolitan area of New Zealand, which line the northeast coast of the city along the shore of the Hauraki Gulf and Rangitoto Channel...
, New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
.
Formerly known as Bays Christian Fellowship, it was founded in 1982 by current senior pastors Peter Mortlock and his wife Bev Mortlock. 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 7 pm .
The church also runs the television program
Television program
A television program , also called television show, is a segment of content which is intended to be broadcast on television. It may be a one-time production or part of a periodically recurring series...
me 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
Shine TV
Shine TV is a New Zealand Christian television channel operated by Rhema Broadcasting Group and broadcast on Sky TV channel 111, Christchurch UHF 56, Nelson UHF 44, Telstra Clear Digital TV and Freeview Channel 25 . It includes a mixture of locally made and overseas programming.Shine TV is...
. Internationally, the Impact for Life programme has been screened regularly on the Australian Christian Channel
Australian Christian Channel
The Australian Christian Channel is a Christian channel featured on subscription-based television in Australia. The Australian Christian Channel is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on Foxtel, Austar, Optus, TransACT, and Neighbourhood Cable....
, United Christian Broadcast in UK, Power Vision in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, Cook Islands TV in Rarotonga
Rarotonga
Rarotonga is the most populous island of the Cook Islands, with a population of 14,153 , out of the country's total population of 19,569.The Cook Islands' Parliament buildings and international airport are on Rarotonga...
, World Harvest Broadcasting network in Fiji
Fiji
Fiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island...
and Daavo Christian Bible Channel in the Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
.
The church also holds regular community days to assist with a variety of social organisations, as they seek to put biblical principles into practice.
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 6pm on Saturdays and 10am and 7pm on Sundays. CIC also has a network of churches in the South Island
South Island
The South Island is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand, the other being the more populous North Island. It is bordered to the north by Cook Strait, to the west by the Tasman Sea, to the south and east by the Pacific Ocean...
of New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
. These are located in Queenstown
Queenstown, New Zealand
Queenstown is a resort town in Otago in the south-west of New Zealand's South Island. It is built around an inlet called Queenstown Bay on Lake Wakatipu, a long thin Z-shaped lake formed by glacial processes, and has spectacular views of nearby mountains....
, Invercargill
Invercargill
Invercargill is the southernmost and westernmost city in New Zealand, and one of the southernmost cities in the world. It is the commercial centre of the Southland region. It lies in the heart of the wide expanse of the Southland Plains on the Oreti or New River some 18 km north of Bluff,...
, Balclutha, as well as an overseas church in Fredericton, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
and one in Tonga (that was recently rebuilt and developed in 2010 by teams formed by the Church (voluntary).