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OUR VISION

CRC CHURCHES INTERNATIONAL

Our Vision;

...is to help expand the Kingdom of Jesus Christ on earth by creating Bible-based, contemporary local churches and ministries.

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Our Mission;

...is to exalt Jesus Christ in all that we think, say and do, and to extend His influence throughout the world.

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  • Proclaiming Christ’s Gospel with the expectation that supernatural signs will follow as the normal New Testament pattern (Mark 16:15-20);
     

  • Planting Christ-centred churches that are autonomous, interdependent and self-propagating (Acts 14:21-28);
     

  • Promoting Christ-glorifying Christian communities which outwork the miraculous and character transforming ministry of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:42-47);
     

  • Producing Christ-following disciples who seek to obey the Great Commandment and Great Commission (Matthew 22:36-40; 28:18-20).

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"Creating churches, changing worlds"


"It has been my privilege to be a part of the CRC since 1971, when in my late teens, I came to Christ under the ministry of Leo Harris. I was deeply impacted, as were countless thousands, by his inspirational leadership and powerful preaching. Our CRC Charter embodies the ideals and ethics that he stood for and his passion for Jesus’ Church to simply model the New Testament pattern. 

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Our CRC movement today, is a vision driven and values based movement, with a far reaching ministry focus to reach into every nation and touch all the people groups of our world.  May the concepts embodied in this document inform, encourage and challenge you as to what it means to be a dedicated follower of Jesus Christ in this 21st Century world in which we live."

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Pastor Bill Vasilakis
National Chairman

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Some Brief History

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CRC Churches International, previously known as The Christian Revival Crusade, is an established pentecostal denomination that started in Australia, has expanded throughout the Asia Pacific, and now encompasses a global vision.

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The CRC Churches International has been raised up by God as a fellowship of local churches and ministers with a purposeful spiritual vision, mission, ministry and set of shared core values. These succinctly expressed statements reveal our deeply held beliefs and underpin and guide all of our various activities.

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Our movement (previously known as the National Revival Crusade 1945-1952; Commonwealth Revival Crusade 1952- 1963; and Christian Revival Crusade 1963-1998) began during World War II, offering hope to our Nation whose very existence was being threatened. It was birthed with a passion to reach lost people with the gospel of Jesus Christ and to crusade for a national Christian revival with a unique Australian approach to ministry. In this Charter we state those convictions that give this Movement its distinctive and identifying features. The principles expressed in the Charter are the basis for affiliation with, and continuing fellowship in, CRC Churches International.

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In the mid 1980s it was recognized that the CRC, which commenced in Australia and New Zealand in the 1940s, became an inter-connected International Movement with Papua New Guinea being its largest constituent member. In the 1990s CRC Churches International was operating in the Philippines, China, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Vanuatu and Sri Lanka. With the continuing expansion of the CRC into numerous nations throughout the world, it is anticipated that other national CRC Movements will be invited to join this Association of CRC National Churches

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Pastor Leo Harris

(Pastor Leo Harris)

(Pastor Bill Vasilakis)

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Our Core Values

4.1 Word Based

We believe that God will work through His living, authoritative and relevant Bible. We show this value by:

  • Ensuring that all our theology, ministry practices and organisational policies and processes are Biblically based;

  • Continually reforming ourselves, our local churches and our movement by aligning ourselves to God’s Word.

4.2 Multiplying Churches

We believe in the God-inspired multiplication strategy of covering the earth with churches. We show this value by:

  • Ensuring our churches are autonomous and interdependent for the purpose of reproducing new churches;

  • Continually releasing our people to outwork the Great Commission blueprint for New Testament revival as mandated by Jesus.

4.3 Interdependent Ministries

We believe in connected, cooperative and accountable ministers and churches. We show this value by:

  • Ensuring our church leadership teams avoid the extremes of both independence and dependence, through responsible and accountable practices;

  • Continually looking to Jesus as the Head of the church, to call and anoint the right men and women to lead the churches of our movement.

4.4 New Creation Message

We believe in the liberating power of the New Creation Message that secures and strengthens our foundations in Christ. We show this value by:

  • Ensuring that we teach “rest” in the finished work of Christ’s death on the cross and His resurrection on our behalf, and in the reality of Christ in us through the person of the Holy Spirit;

  • Continually enforcing our authority in Christ and appropriating all the privileges we now possess as members of God’s Family.

4.5 Gospel Of Grace

We believe in a Gospel-centred and grace-pervading Christian message that must never be added to or changed. We show this value by:

  • Ensuring that we maintain our abiding conviction that Jesus Christ can save and transform anyone who places their full trust in Him;

  • Continually embracing repentance and obedience as integral aspects of our response to God’s grace.

4.6 Stable Spirituality

We believe in a balance between the ‘Word’ and the ‘Spirit’ as we express our dependence on Jesus Christ. We show this value by:

  • Ensuring that we equally value the Word of God and the Spirit of God as absolutely essential for the growth and stability of all believers, ministers and churches;

  • Continually assessing that works attributed to the Holy Spirit align with the inspired Word of God.

4.7 Contemporary Ministry

We believe that our churches should be creative and culturally relevant while remaining doctrinally pure.

We show this value by:

  • Ensuring that we prayerfully and wisely adapt and change our worship modes, outreach methods and organisational processes;

  • Continually monitoring that we maintain our Biblical beliefs and principles as we effectively relate to our constantly changing society.

4.8 Harmonious Relationships

We believe in pursuing unity and walking in love in our churches and amongst our ministers. We show this value by:

  • Ensuring that integrity and right relationships are paramount, so we can experience the Godly power and spiritual synergy of dedicated teams;

  • Continually working at love and unity, doing all in our power to strengthen and develop the ties that bind us together.

4.9 Dynamic Faith

We believe in a forward-moving and daring faith that undergirds everything we do for Jesus Christ. We show this value by:

  • Ensuring that we move in a faith realm that prays, believes and acts according to the Holy Spirit’s confirmed leading;

  • Continually affirming that faith is the means by which our potential authority in Christ is outworked in real spiritual power.

4.10 Selfless Service

We believe in the call and cost of Christ-appointed ministers who willingly embrace sacrificial servant-hood as a way of life. We show this value by:

  • Ensuring that CRC Ministers know the depth of spiritual passion that comes from an authentic call of God;

  • Continually encouraging people to value the cost of being a servant of Jesus, resisting the temptation to desire a crown without a cross.

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