About

Our Mission:

Our mission is to reach into the community with assistance, ministering to our community, and proclaiming the Gospel message of salvation to our community.

Background:

The Churchill assembly of CRC Churches International (then known as Christian Revival Crusade) was commenced as an outreach from Moe in 1983 under the leadership of Steve & Remey Gunsser. In 1994, after several years of meeting in school halls and the local leisure centre, the assembly leased the old childcare centre in Maple Crescent. During this time, many international students from Monash University were part of the fellowship.

In 2016 the church ceased Sunday services in the Maple Crescent venue. After some years meeting only as a weeknight fellowship, we resumed Sunday services at the beginning of 2020, initially meeting in Studio 1 and later in the Churchill Public Hall. Pandemic restrictions in 2020-2021 meant that there were times when we were only able to do online meetings, and a period when we were meeting on Sundays in a private home.

Our church is a member of a group of like-minded churches which have placed themselves under the common banner of “CRC Churches International.” Our style of service is a mix of both traditional and contemporary. Our basic beliefs and styles are known as Pentecostal.

Pentecostal churches in general do not consist of a hierarchy of men governing the church, but instead trust in the living God who they believe governs the church through the power of the Holy Spirit working equally through and in both men and women of the church. This empowerment, commonly referred to as spiritual gifts, is given to different people in a variety of different ways.

A group of specially selected people is called upon to be the Elders of our church along with the Pastor and it is their responsibility to ensure that the church body as a whole remains as obedient as is humanly possible to this empowerment.

We believe that the Christian Bible is the Word of God, written by the hand of men who were empowered by the Holy Spirit. We believe that God is the centre of everything that is good and only through Him can we live life as it was meant to be. In Him, we find true love, acceptance and fulfilment.

We believe that our ability to relate to and please God depends upon our personal acceptance and verbal confession of Jesus Christ as being the Son of God whom God raised from the dead after His crucifixion.

We also believe in water baptism as being a symbolic act of this acceptance, and we believe that the sharing of the broken bread and wine which Christian Churches refer to as “Holy Communion” should be undertaken every Sunday.

We like to think of our church as being a church for families and individuals of every age and walk of life. We desire to make it a place where people can connect, relate, make new friends, find support and encouragement. We believe that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the truth which brings new life, hope, and freedom to those who would otherwise have remained in darkness and broken relationships.

We seek the ability to pass on God’s love and compassion to our fellow men in all their needs, which includes not only physical relief but also spiritual renewal.

We believe that as Christians we are called by God and gifted to serve the church and care for each other. We desire to help every person within the church to identify their gifting or calling and our aim is to encourage them to use those gifts for the work of the church.

We seek to have open, honest and transparent relationships with each other that in turn will build a community based on love, integrity and trust. Our doors are wide open to people from all backgrounds regardless of where they’re at on their spiritual journey.

We uphold the value of the traditional family unit and the strength that healthy relationships bring, not only to the church but to our society as a whole.

We consciously adopt the lifestyle of worshippers. As worshippers, we are aware of God’s presence in our lives. We regularly engage in private and corporate prayer and worship as an expression of our relationship with Him. This provides an opportunity and environment for our spirit to be receptive and attentive to hear from God. As a people we have an expectation for seasons of God’s blessing allowing us to be continually enlivened with the power and life of the Holy Spirit.