Dunedin

An official City Impact Church Gathering is the first phase of planting a new City Impact Church Campus.

Here’s some of the backstory.  When we started our online campus during COVID we realized fairly quickly that there were people connecting to City Impact Church online from different parts of NZ and even around the world – and we noticed often there would be people connecting individually but they actually lived nearby! And we thought: Connecting to an online service is cool – but even better is worshipping together and gathering together because we are BETTER TOGETHER.  That’s the heart of Gatherings. It’s bringing people together to worship God and hear the word and connect and do life together.

This idea has developed really into planting new churches, which is a huge part of the mission we feel God is calling us to right now. 

Great question.  Our Gatherings have amazing local leaders on the ground who organise and host the service, and are available to pray for people.  These leaders and the Gatherings themselves are overseen by our Online Campus Pastors, Josh and Liv, who are the leadership and pastoral oversight and who attend the Gathering once a month. 

We also have National City Impact Church Elders who oversee all our Campuses and Gatherings.

In time as the Gathering grows, we will appoint Campus Pastors who will then responsible for shepherding the church.

We offer:

• a wonderful Sunday morning service where you will experience the presence of God in Holy Spirit led worship and a wonderful message that brings powerful truth from the Word of God – sometimes this will be via a live video, sometimes this will be from an in-person preacher.
• a great Kids Church where your kids can have fun and learn about God in an interactive way.
• Hubs – which is our way of saying small groups – for life connection and relationship.
• Community Outreach opportunities, because we believe a church family should be large enough to make a difference in its community as well as being small enough to care about every person.

As mentioned, Gatherings are a group of people joining together to watch the online service lead by a Gathering Host, with a live preacher once a month.  Once a Gathering becomes a Campus there are appointed Campus Pastors who then work to grow the church so that it can offer things like youth, live worship, live preaching and other great aspects of church community.

Pop along to our Gathering – or message us and we’ll be in touch. Another great way to find out more is to join our Facebook Group.