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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.〔CIC's founding http://www.cityimpactchurch.com/auckland/profile/tabid/74/Default.aspx 〕 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 .〔Sunday Service in CIC http://www.cityimpactchurch.com/auckland/sundayservices/tabid/87/Default.aspx 〕 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.〔Impact for Life on worldwide channels http://www.cityimpactchurch.com/impactforlife/tabid/68/Default.aspx 〕 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." == 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. Because the church is registered as a charity, all of its profits are tax-free. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「City Impact Church New Zealand」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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