City Impact Church New Zealand
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. 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 . 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.
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."
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