Our Story
What began as two couples meeting for communion in mid-2018, soon turned into a group of people too large for a residential living room. It became clear that God was birthing something new.
We already had a long-running TV programme, ‘Word for You TV,’ as well as international church planting and pastor training ministries in Papua New Guinea, Tanzania, China, and India, among others. Now God was calling us to form a congregation in Auckland, New Zealand.
We met on 5 August 2018 at the Jubilee Hall, Parnell and soon had mid-week groups in Epsom, Otahuhu, Mangere Bridge and Remuera. On 1 December 2024 we completed work on our current premises in Greenlane, an intentional facility designed to reach the community with greater effectiveness. We are a growing, multi-generational, and multi-ethnic community.
Our DNA is explicitly missional; our purpose is to help unchurched people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ. We believe that church services can help people on their journey, but of more importance is the task of facilitating relationship with God and others, to see more people hearing to the life-changing good news of Jesus.
We have enjoyed seeing a number of people make first-time decisions for Jesus and be baptised. Others have made recommitments to God and to church community. Every month we have a guest speaker at one of our evening services speaking on apologetics (explaining how science and faith fit together). Our inaugural Evangelism Conference is taking place this October.
We have also run Alpha and CAP Money (budgeting), Apologetics and SHAPES (gifts and calling) Courses, Pre-marital (and pre-engagement) Counselling, and more. We love seeing God move both here and overseas, where dozens of new church communities are established every year, particularly in Papua New Guinea.
We met on 5 August 2018 at the Jubilee Hall, Parnell and soon had mid-week groups in Epsom, Otahuhu, Mangere Bridge and Remuera. On 1 December 2024 we completed work on our current premises in Greenlane, an intentional facility designed to reach the community with greater effectiveness. We are a growing, multi-generational, and multi-ethnic community.
Our DNA is explicitly missional; our purpose is to help unchurched people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ. We believe that church services can help people on their journey, but of more importance is the task of facilitating relationship with God and others, to see more people hearing to the life-changing good news of Jesus.
We have enjoyed seeing a number of people make first-time decisions for Jesus and be baptised. Others have made recommitments to God and to church community. Every month we have a guest speaker at one of our evening services speaking on apologetics (explaining how science and faith fit together). Our inaugural Evangelism Conference is taking place this October.
We have also run Alpha and CAP Money (budgeting), Apologetics and SHAPES (gifts and calling) Courses, Pre-marital (and pre-engagement) Counselling, and more. We love seeing God move both here and overseas, where dozens of new church communities are established every year, particularly in Papua New Guinea.