Citipointe Church

Citipointe Church (formerly Christian Outreach Centre Mansfield) is a Pentecostal Christian church founded in 1974. It is the founding church of the Christian Outreach Centre movement. The founding campus is located in the Brisbane suburb of Carindale, Queensland, in Australia.

History

Christian Outreach Centre Mansfield was founded under the leadership of pastor Clark Taylor on 23 June 1974, when 25 people met together in his loungeroom in Keperra, Brisbane. The Christian Outreach Centre movement has since grown into an international movement.

The church's senior pastors are Mark and Leigh Ramsey, who have held the position since September 2000.[1]

Locations

Citipointe has six Campuses in Queensland: Citipointe Brisbane (Carindale), Citipointe North (Morayfield), Citipointe West (Durack) and Citipointe Redcliffe (Clontarf), Citipointe Ipswich (located in Yamanto). The most recent campus, Citipointe Pine Rivers, was added in September 2016.[2]

Citipointe also has Four international campuses, two in the United States (Citipointe NOCO (Northern Colorado) USA,[3] and Citipointe Nashville USA,[4]) as well as Citipointe Auckland (New Zealand) and Citipointe Bulgaria. Over 11000 people call Citipointe their home Church. The Citipointe Church Brisbane site contains a Day Care Centre, a Primary and Secondary School, a Bible College and a College of Higher Education. There are also sporting facilities, including a skatebowl (the "Godbowl") and a basketball court.[5]

Citipointe Church initiated the Red Frog Crew who provide drug and alcohol free entertainment, medical help and volunteers at schoolies festivals.[6]

In 2006, Citipointe started the She Rescue Home in Cambodia, a place where trafficked and prostituted girls receive counselling, medical attention, education and vocational training.[7]

Citipointe Worship

Citipointe Worship, formerly Citipointe Live, is the contemporary Pentecostal praise and worship group of Citipointe Church that was founded in Brisbane, Australia in 2004. The band features members such as Aaron and Becky Lucas, Beau Lamshed, Jess Steer and Chardon Lewis.

Background Citipointe Worship was founded in 2004 by Aaron and Becky Lucas in Brisbane, Australia, where they originally began making music at their home church campus. Though originally based in Brisbane, Australia, Citipointe Worship has expanded into a global team of songwriters, producers and musicians. The group was called Citipointe Live until 2019, where they marked their rebrand to Citipointe Worship with the release of a self-titled album.[8]

History Since their foundation, Citipointe Worship have travelled internationally to play their music and train at churches and conferences worldwide. They have frequently travelled to the Philippines, New Zealand and USA.[9] In 2008, Citipointe Worship featured at "World Youth Day”, which was the largest music event in the history of Australia with over 800 thousand people attending, including the Pope.

In 2020, Citipointe Worship was signed with major record label Capitol Music Group (CMG) to partner with publishing houses such as Watershed Music Group and Crossroads Publishing. Since then, they have partnered with Worship Together to release a single, ‘Great Things’, in both English and Spanish, as well as Citipointe Worship (Deluxe), featuring ‘reimagined’ tracks from the original album.

Music Citipointe Worship has released 13 albums, with some of their most notable releases including You Reign (2007), Breathe In, Breathe Out (2019) and Into the Deep (2016), which has over 35 million streams on Spotify.[10] Releases include:

  • King of Me (2004)
  • Heaven (2005)
  • Anthem of Our Heart (2006)
  • You Reign (2007)
  • Devoted (2008)
  • Commission My Soul (2009)
  • Hope Is Erupting (2011)
  • Higher Wider Deeper: Raw Moments (2012)
  • Holy Ground (2013)
  • Wildfire (2014)
  • Into the Deep (2016)
  • Mover of Mountains (2018)
  • Citipointe Worship (2019)

References
  1. Citipointe Senior Pastors Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 23 September 2016. Retrieved 22 September 2016.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. Levy, Max (22 April 2020). "Loveland's Betta Gumbo and Citipointe Church to serve up free meals to all". Loveland Reporter-Herald. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
  4. Wegner, Rachel (24 September 2020). "'The earth will feel a great void': Danny Chambers, Nashville pastor who founded Oasis Church, dies". Nashville Tennessean. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
  5. Brisbane Facilities Page Archived 2011-08-12 at the Wayback Machine
  6. "Citipointe Church". Red Frogs. Retrieved 19 September 2018.
  7. "Why She Rescue Home Opened". Retrieved 19 September 2018.
  8. https://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/articles/news/Name_Change/66096/p1/
  9. https://www.philippineconcerts.com/tag/citipointe-live-in-manila/
  10. https://open.spotify.com/track/5wkUfhKdCzHRGK7XwpMksC?si=3gAeFGNuS1ibgjgESlK-4w

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