Takapuna Assembly of God

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Takapuna Assembly of God, located in Auckland, is one of New Zealand's largest churches, with an average weekly attendance of about 1500. Its 1800-seat auditorium was built in 1985.

The church is Pentecostal in theology and holds to a fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible. The church believes in salvation by personal faith and commitment to Jesus Christ, and that Biblical miracles are true, and are able to be duplicated in the present day.

Founded in the 1950s, the congregation had 20-25 members for most of its early history. In 1975 Wayne Hughes was appointed Pastor. A dynamic preacher, Hughes began attracting larger crowds. Within five years, the congregation had grown to 400, and by the mid-1980s, to 700. On 31 December 1999, Hughes announced his vision of growing the congregation to ten thousand members, which would make it the largest congregation in New Zealand. Over the last five years the church has been restructuring to facilitate outreach and growth.

The church has forged a close relationship with the Brownsville Assembly of God in Pensacola, Florida, a dynamic church in the Pentecostal world, which has attracted pilgrims from all over the world since 1995. The church also has a relationship with Korea's Yoido Full Gospel Church, whose Senior Pastor, Dr David Yonggi Cho, conducted a major conference hosted by Takapuna Assembly of God in 1996.

Wayne Hughes pastored the church for 30 years, before retiring in April 2005. He announced that he was stepping down after allegations of sexual impropriety surfaced in the media. Hughes denied the allegations, but said he was stepping down to protect the church from negative publicity. In May, Martin Steel, a missionary and evangelist, was named to succeed him.

A well-known figure of this church is Luis Cabral, an evangelist of Portuguese origin. Cabral divides his time between Takapuna Assembly of God, where he serves as an Associate Pastor, and his crusade ministry, both in New Zealand and internationally.


 This Christianity-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../t/a/k/Takapuna_Assembly_of_God_628c.html"
Advanced Search
Included Web Search Engines


Safe Search

close

Top Matching Results

Occasionally Search.com will highlight specialized results that are based on the context of your query. Examples of specialized results include specific links to news, images, or video.

Top Matching Results may highlight information from other Search.com pages, content from the CNET Network of sites, or third party content. The listings are based purely on relevance. Search.com does not receive payment for listings in this section but our partners that provide this data may get paid for listing these products.

Sponsored Links

This section contains paid listings which have been purchased by companies that want to have their sites appear for specific search terms and related content. These listings are administered, sorted and maintained by a third party and are not endorsed by Search.com.

Search Results

Search.com sends your search query to several search engines at one time and integrates the results into one list which has been sorted by relevance using Search.com's proprietary algorithm. You can customize the list of search engines included in your metasearch from the preferences.

The search engines that are used in your metasearch may allow companies to pay to have their Web sites included within the results. To view the Paid Inclusion policy for a specific search engine, please visit their Web site. Search.com does not accept payment or share revenue with any search engine partner for listings in this section.