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To establish a large network of growing and vibrant Christian Churches impacting Sydney and beyond.
The Apostolic Church is a worldwide fellowship raised up by God out of the Welsh Revival in 1904-1906.
Around that time a great spiritual awakening touched various parts of the world and gave rise to many wonderful spiritual phenomena. Holy Spirit energised revivals broke out in North America and on the Continent, as well as in Great Britain, and many of God's people were filled with a new zeal and power to become disciples of the living Christ.
All of the mainline Pentecostal churches had their beginnings in these outpourings of the Spirit.
The Apostolic Church in its present form did not come into being until 1916 when "The Apostolic Church in Wales", together with the officially so called "other assemblies in co-operation fellowship with the above" in England, Ireland and Scotland, adopted the name "The Apostolic Church".
The basis of unity of all these assemblies was a commitment to tenets of belief acceptable to all (see Statement of Belief) and embracing not only the basic trinitarian doctrines of reformed Protestantism, but also the truths of Pentecostal blessing incorporating apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers.
In 1922 the Apostolic Church commenced a forceful integrated missionary program which has led to the situation today of having churches in every continent. The largest national church is in Nigeria where there are over 2,000 separate fellowships.
In 1930 as a result of requests from Perth, a missionary was sent to Australia, not only to spread the specific doctrinal teachings of the Apostolic Church, but also to direct a very strong evangelistic program.
The extension of the Church began to embrace the rest of Australia progressively from that time and has resulted in fellowships in every State throughout the nation, with a growth rate that is increasing.
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