Citipointe Church

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Citipointe Church, formerly Christian Outreach Centre Mansfield, is a Pentecostal Christian church founded in 1974. It is the founding church of the Christian Outreach Centre network, now known as the International Network of Churches. The founding campus is located in the Brisbane suburb of Carindale, Queensland, in Australia. The church has multiple locations in south-east Queensland, as well as in New Zealand, Bulgaria and the US.

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Citipointe Worship, formerly Citipointe Live, is the contemporary Pentecostal praise and worship group of the church, formed in 2004. They have released at least 13 albums, which are streamed on Spotify.

History

Christian Outreach Centre Mansfield was founded under the leadership of pastor Clark Taylor on 23 June 1974, when 25 people met together in his loungeroom in Keperra, Brisbane. The Christian Outreach Centre movement has since grown into an international movement.[ citation needed ]

People

In 1996, then pastor Brian Mulheran gave evidence to a Senate committee at an inquiry into sex discrimination law. [1]

The church's global senior pastors as of January 2022 are Mark and Leigh Ramsey, [2] who have held the position since September 2000. [3]

As of 2022 former pastor Mulheran was principal of Citipointe Christian College and was the subject of a community backlash to a new enrolment contract he sent out to parents which condemned homosexual and bisexual identities. [4] On 6 February, Mark Ramsey apologised to the congregation for any “confusion and pain that people felt this week”, regarding the controversial enrolment contract at the school, and then led a standing ovation for Mulheran, who had taken indefinite leave after being pressured to do so by some of the school's senior teachers. [5]

Locations

The church has multiple locations in south-east Queensland, as well as in New Zealand, Bulgaria and the US.

As of 2022, Citipointe has six church campuses in Queensland: [2] Citipointe Brisbane, Citipointe North (Morayfield), Citipointe West (Durack) and Citipointe Redcliffe (Clontarf), Citipointe Ipswich (located in Yamanto). Citipointe Pine Rivers was added in September 2016. [6]

The "Citipointe Campus" includes: [7]

Citipointe also has four international campuses, two in the United States (Citipointe NOCO (Northern Colorado) USA, [8] and Citipointe Nashville USA, [9] ) as well as Citipointe Auckland (New Zealand) and Citipointe Bulgaria. [2]

Ministries

Citipointe Church initiated the Red Frog Crew who provide drug- and alcohol-free entertainment, medical help and volunteers at schoolies festivals. [10]

Leigh Ramsey started the SHE Rescue Home in Cambodia, [2] a place where trafficked and prostituted girls receive counselling, medical attention, education and vocational training. [11]

Citipointe Worship

Citipointe Worship, formerly Citipointe Live, is the contemporary Pentecostal praise and worship group of Citipointe Church that was founded in Brisbane in 2004.[ citation needed ]

Citipointe Worship was founded in 2004 by Aaron and Becky Lucas in Brisbane, Australia, where they originally began making music at their home church campus. Though originally based in Brisbane, Australia, Citipointe Worship has expanded into a global team of songwriters, producers and musicians. The group was called Citipointe Live until 2019, where they marked their rebrand to Citipointe Worship with the release of a self-titled album. [12]

Since their foundation, Citipointe Worship have travelled internationally to play their music and train at churches and conferences worldwide. They have frequently travelled to the Philippines, New Zealand and USA. [13] In 2008, Citipointe Worship featured at "World Youth Day”, which was the largest music event in the history of Australia with over 800 thousand people attending, including the Pope.

In 2020, Citipointe Worship was signed with major record label Capitol Music Group (CMG) to partner with publishing houses such as Watershed Music Group and Crossroads Publishing. Since then, they have partnered with Worship Together to release a single, ‘Great Things’, in both English and Spanish, as well as Citipointe Worship (Deluxe), featuring reimagined tracks from the original album.[ citation needed ]

Citipointe Worship has released 13 albums, with some of their most notable releases including You Reign (2007), Breathe In, Breathe Out (2019) and Into the Deep (2016), which has over 35 million streams on Spotify. [14] Releases include:

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References

  1. ↑ "Senate Legal and Constitutional References Committee: Reference: Sexuality discrimination inquiry, Brisbane, Tuesday, 1 October 1996" (PDF). Australian Government. 1 October 1996.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "About Citipointe". Citipointe Church. 18 January 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2022. (See bottom of page for locations.)
  3. ↑ Citipointe Senior Pastors Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ Smee, Ben (3 February 2022). "Citipointe Christian College principal lobbied senators for 'right to discriminate' against gay people". The Guardian . Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  5. ↑ Smee, Ben (7 February 2022). "Citipointe churchgoers give standing ovation for under-fire principal". The Guardian . Retrieved 9 February 2022.
  6. ↑ "Pine Rivers". Archived from the original on 23 September 2016. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
  7. ↑ "Campus". Citipointe Christian College. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
  8. ↑ Levy, Max (22 April 2020). "Loveland's Betta Gumbo and Citipointe Church to serve up free meals to all". Loveland Reporter-Herald. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
  9. ↑ Wegner, Rachel (24 September 2020). "'The earth will feel a great void': Danny Chambers, Nashville pastor who founded Oasis Church, dies". Nashville Tennessean. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
  10. ↑ "Citipointe Church". Red Frogs. Retrieved 19 September 2018.
  11. ↑ "Why She Rescue Home Opened" . Retrieved 19 September 2018.
  12. ↑ "Name Change: Australia's worship team Citipointe Live change name to Citipointe Worship".
  13. ↑ "Citipointe live in manila Archives".
  14. ↑ "Into the Deep - Live". Spotify . 31 March 2016.

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