Christian Life Centre

Christian Life Centre (commonly abbreviated to CLC) is generally a name given to churches that are affiliated with the Australian Christian Churches, a Pentecostal denomination in Australia. Late in 1970, Clark Taylor joined with Pastor Trevor Chandler to Pastor the Windsor Full Gospel Church. Later they both left to begin Christian Outreach Centre. At the end of 1972, Taylor resigned from Christian Outreach Centre to spend eighteen months in travelling ministry.

Sydney Christian Life Centre

Sydney Christian Life Centre was a Pentecostal Christian church that ran from 1977 to 1999 and is now the "City Campus" of Hillsong Church.

History

Sydney Christian Life Centre was poineered in July 1977 by Pastor Frank Houston after he moved to Australia from New Zealand. Initially a home group, the church started in the home of Chris and Beverley Aiton. From there it grew large enough to rent "Sherbooke Hall" in Double Bay on Sundays. From there it moved to renting a function hall in the Koala Motor Inn in Darlinghurst, and from there to leased premises next door - the ground floor and part of the second floor of the building at the corner of Goulburn and Riley streets. Eventually, it moved to premises in Waterloo.

The church grew steadily and saw many other churches planted using the "Christian Life Centre" name. In its first decade it was independent and not associated with any denomination. Houston's son Brian joined the team in 1978 and in 1980 left to plant a few churches (including Hills Christian Life Centre in 1983). By 1981 the church had grown to 1,000 people.

Frank Houston announced on 14 February 1999 that the church would come under the leadership of his son Brian Houston after he confessed to sexually abusing a teenage boy 30 years earlier. This same person he admitted to abusing also believed there to be other victims, and was repeatedly ignored by those in the Australian Christian Churches leadership (formerly Australian Assemblies of God). [1][2] Sydney Christian Life Centre then merged with Hills Christian Life Centre to form Hillsong Church. Sydney Christian Life Centre is now known as the "City Location" of Hillsong Church.

Music

Sydney Christian Life Centre released an album titled "Rain" in the early 1990s.

References

  1. ↑ "Peter Fowler writes to Philip Powell". Christian Witness Ministries. Vanguard Magazine.
  2. ↑ "Hillsong farewells a lost sheep pioneer". Newspaper (Sydney Morning Herald). 13 November 2004.

Christian Life Centres

Christian Life Centre can mean the following churches;

Other churches

Christian Life Centre in other denominations;