Chinese Presbyterian Church

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.
Please help introduce links in articles on related topics. After links have been created, remove this message.
This article has been tagged since September 2006.

Chinese Presbyterian Church, also commonly known as CPC, is the oldest surviving Chinese church in Australia. The first Chinese churches arose out of the gold rush of the 1860s in Victoria, to where numbers of migrants travelled to make their fortune. The Chinese Presbyterian Church came into being as Sydney became an increasingly important centre for Chinese immigrants. As of 2006 the church has a congregation of several hundred people meeting in worship services catering to languages of English, Cantonese and Mandarin and primarily seeks to reach out to the Chinese community of Sydney.

1 Location
2 Other Related Churches and Initiatives
3 Source
4 External links

[edit] Location

The Chinese Presbyterian Church officially began in 1893, opening its first church building on Foster Street in Surry Hills. The church moved to Campbell Street in 1910, then moved to its current location at the Fullerton Memorial Church in 1957, located at the corner of Crown and Albion Streets. Today the church continues to worship at the Fullerton Memorial Church building and owns and uses various adjoining properties for ministry.

[edit] Other Related Churches and Initiatives

In 1964 four elders of the church left to form the Chinese Christian Church (or CCC) at Milsons Point. CCC has been responsible for several church plants, including the West Sydney Chinese Christian Church or WSCCC, which in turn has also been responsible for numerous other Chinese church plants. Today there is an amicable relationship between members of these three major Chinese churches.

Notable church plants of CPC include Cornerstone Presbyterian Church and the Burwood Presbyterian Church.

R.I.C.E. or Rice Inter-Church Evangelism (More commonly referred to as just 'RICE') is an annual Chinese church event aimed at reaching out to friends of youth who attend various Chinese churches in Sydney.

[edit] Source

Mar, W.L. (1993). So great a cloud of witnesses: A history of the Chinese Presbyterian Church Sydney 1893-1993. Surry Hills: The Chinese Presbyterian Church.