Christian City Church International

Christian City Church International (C3I) currently (2003) consists of over 100 churches situated throughout Australasia, New Zealand, North America, and the European community. Dr Phil Pringle is the founder and President of Christian City Church International, and the Senior Minister of the movement's largest congregation - Christian City Church, Oxford Falls, Sydney, Australia.

C3I holds an international conference each year. Other events include conferences for the European, Asian, North American and Australasian arms of the movement.

Christian City Churches are an Evangelical, Pentecostal church movement founded by Pastors Phil and Chris Pringle. The first church was established at Dee Why on the Northern

Pastor Phil Pringle (Dr)

Pastor Phil Pringle is the founder and current leader of the CCC movement, often described as dynamic and inspiring his speaking style has made him a popular preacher on the international circuit. Dr Pringle is also the author of various books, including Keys to Financial Excellence, You The Leader, and Faith.

History of the CCC Movement

Phil and Chris Pringle arrived in Sydney, from New Zealand, in 1980 with a vision to begin a church. Christian Centre, Northside, as it was originally known, began with 12 people on the Northern beaches of Sydney. This church currently has a membership of 6,000+ people and has been responsible for the planting of well over 35 churches.

Christian City Church, Oxford Falls

Each week Christian City Church, Oxford Falls is attended by in excess of 6000 people, making it one of the larger churches in Australia. CCC Oxford Falls is involved in a large number of local and national ministry projects including 3 on site colleges offering ministy training. These colleges include School of Creative Arts (SCA) and

Growth of the CCC Movement

The National Church Life Survey (NCLS) - the nationwide 'census' of Australian church attendance, for the year 2004 found Christian City Churches contradicting an overall downward trend (To the effect of 7%) in church attendance across Australia, finding the CCC churches grew on average by 42% to a total membership of 11400.

2020 Vision

In 2002 in the tri-annual Worldwide Conference in Hawaii, C3I reveled its 2020 Vision. The church plans to have over 1000 churchs worldwide with an average attendence of 500 people throughout the movement. The average attendance is somewhere within the high 300 number. Part of the plan is to expand in other parts of the world, not just Australia, where there is currently approximatley 80 churchs. CCC churches however have a broad range, from Oxford Falls (over 6,000 membership), to the much smaller churchs like CCC Casey (50 person average). Another plan of the 2020 Vision is to have all CCC churches use the same identification. This is to make it easy to identigy a CCC church, because many Australian churches are named 'something' City Church.

Music

Worship is an important part of the life of Christian City Churches, so it is natural that new songs have sprung up out of the experiences and life of the church. The music from CCC Oxford Falls is published under the name CCC Worships .

Christian City Churches in the Media

Christian City Churches, as with any large or rapidly growing religious movement, has often found itself under media scrutiny, both in a positive and a more critical light. Recent examples include mention in the BRW (Australian Edition) article "God's millionaires".

CCCOF Youth

Christian City Church Oxford Falls runs a number of Youth Programs including Switch (Yrs6-12), Jolt (Yrs6-8), Pulse (8-12) and The Altar (6-12). The youth group is attended by upwards of 1000 people weekly and is responsible for a large number of events each year including the well know 'Phenomona' conference.

The recent (Jan '05) Phenomona conference, titled 'Dominion' was the site for the recording of the CCC Youth live album

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