Grace Presbyterian Church of New Zealand

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Grace Presbyterian Church of New Zealand (GPCNZ) is a Presbyterian denomination in New Zealand which was formed in 2002. It currently consists of 9 churches and 4 mission churches, which are congregations in the process of becoming fully established churches.

Many members of the GPCNZ are former members who left the largely liberal Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand (PCANZ) seeking a more theologically conservative alternative. In practice this means that the GPCNZ holds different views to the PCANZ on homosexuality and the ordination of women.

The Grace Presbyterian Church describes itself as "Presbyterian in government, Reformed in theology, and Evangelical in spirit." [1]

GPCNZ is in the process of forming formal links with the Reformed Churches of New Zealand [2], Presbyterian Church of Australia, and the Presbyterian Church in America.

GPCNZ does not own its own theological college, but approved the Grace Theological College [3] as the churches' official training institution in New Zealand.

[edit] Constituent churches

Church	Location	Year Formed	Current Pastor
Northern Presbytery
Sovereign Presbyterian Community Church	Papatoetoe		Pita Uo
Redeemer Grace Presbyterian Church [4]	Flat Bush	2005
Covenant Presbyterian Church, Manurewa	Manurewa		Peter Boyd
Trinity Presbyterian Church	Takanini		Andrew Macpherson
Central Presbytery
Grace @ Wellington [5]	Wellington		Ian D Bayne
Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Christchurch [6]	Christchurch	1974	Geoff Macpherson
Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Ashburton	Ashburton
Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Fairlie	Fairlie
Southern Presbytery
Grace Bible Church, Dunedin	Dunedin		Mark Smith
Tokomairiro Grace Bible Church	Milton
Catlins Evangelical Church	Owaka		Steve Panapa
Grace Presbyterian Church, Gore	Gore		Azriel Gray
Wyndham Evangelical Church	Wyndham		Peter van den Brink
Grace Presbyterian Church, Invercargill	Invercargill		Barry Swann
Grace Presbyterian Church, Tuatapere	Tuatapere