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Hope City Church is a multisite church based in the United Kingdom launched in Sheffield in 1991 by Dave and Jenny Gilpin, after emigrating from Australia.〔Bob Jackson, ''Everybody Welcome'' (Church House Publishing, 2009) 26〕〔http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/news/local/church-s-got-talent-and-an-orchestra-as-it-hits-20-1-3514147〕 The Church holds services and weekday connections in 12 locations and describes itself as 'One Church all over the place.'〔http://www.hopecitychurch.tv/who-we-are/about-hope-city〕 It is a part of the C3 group of churches originating from Sydney, Australia.〔http://www.hopecitychurch.tv/who-we-are/about-hope-city〕 There are 350 C3 churches world wide.〔http://c3churchglobal.com/#about-section〕 == History == Hope City Church was pioneered in Sheffield in 1991 by Dave and Jenny Gilpin, who had been a part of an Assemblies of God church in Brisbane, Australia. After seeing the Hillsborough disaster in 1989 on television in Australia Dave and Jenny were released by their church to investigate the possibilities of pioneering in the UK. After a three week speaking tour of small churches across England in December 1990, they returned at Easter 1991 to pioneer the church, which was first called The Hope of Sheffield Christian Church.〔http://www.hopecitychurch.tv/who-we-are/about-hope-city/history〕 It was then renamed to Hope City Church.〔(BBC - South Yorkshire - Faith - Church advertising with a difference )〕 Hope City has also planted churches in Liverpool, Leeds,〔Assemblies of God, ''Expansion Issue 6''(Assemblies of God) 2〕 Newcastle, Sunderland, Birmingham, Lancashire〔http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/church-marks-its-milestone-1-3552566〕 and in Accra, Ghana, Frankfurt, Germany, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.〔(Black-E back in use as church for first time in over 40 years - Liverpool Echo )〕〔(Here's hoping superstar is born - Top Stories - Yorkshire Evening Post )〕〔(Tiger Tiger is venue for church services - Chronicle Live )〕 In 2010 a team went to Accra to start Hope City Church in Africa.〔(Church members flock to Africa for training course - Education - The Star )〕 Two years later, in 2012, six students and two senior leadership members went to Frankfurt, Germany to establish the first Hope City Church in mainland Europe.〔(Christmas won’t ever be the same again - Features - The Star )〕 On Easter Sunday in 2013 the first Hope City London service was held in the Charing Cross Hotel. These continued monthly and started weekly in September 2013 at The Cumberland Hotel before the services moved in September 2014 to the Courtyard Theatre in Shoreditch.〔http://www.hopecitychurch.tv/who-we-are/about-hope-city/history〕 In January 2015, the Hope City London services moved to Rich Mix in Shoreditch alongside the #FINDYOURSELFIE campaign.〔http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/advertising/jesus-christ-has-become-an-unlikely-pinup-for-hipster-marketing-companies-9934582.html〕 In September 2014, Hope City Church sent out a team to Kuala Lumpur to start the first Hope City Church in Asia which launched in April 2015.〔http://www.hopecitychurch.tv/locations/kuala-lumpur〕 In October 2015 a team from the Leeds location of Hope City will start travelling to put on an evening service and launching Hope City York. 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「Hope City Church」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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