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Hope City Church

Hope City Church^[1] is a large multisite, contemporary church with roots in both Pentecostal and Charismatic traditions. The church holds services and weekday connections in 10 locations and describes itself as ‘One Church, Ten Locations’. The current membership across all 10 locations is over 2200 people with 1500 people attending over the weekend meetings. Around half of this number is based in Sheffield and the remaining half spread out across the other locations. It is a part of C3 Church Global originating from Sydney, Australia. There are 350 C3 churches worldwide.

History of Hope City Church

Hope City Church was pioneered in Sheffield in 1991 by Dave and Jenny Gilpin. Dave and Jenny Gilpin were a part of an Assembles of God (AoG) church in Brisbane, Australia. The AoG in Australia had seen a numerical growth of around 1300% between 1977 and 1997 and had pioneered around 700 churches.

After seeing the Hillsborough disaster in 1989 on television in Australia, Dave and Jenny Gilpin were released by their church to investigate the possibilities of pioneering in the UK. After a 3 week speaking tour of the small churches across England in December 1990, they returned at Easter 1991 to pioneer The Hope of Sheffield Christian Church on the outskirts of Sheffield. The church changed it's name in 1998 to Hope City Church.

The Hope of Sheffield Christian Church, as it was originally known, began at Easter 1991, and met in five different venues over 2 years - including Ponds Forge International Sports Centre - before settling in a more permanent location in 1998.

In 1994, the Hope of Sheffield Christian Church was pioneered and released to become an independent church. In 2002 Hope City Church pioneered in Manchester, and released the congregation in 2007 to become !Audacious Church under the leadership of Glynn and Sophie Barrett who were Associate Pastors in Sheffield for 11 years.

In 1998, the church bought a derelict tool factory in the heart of the city which they called The Megacentre and changed its name to the simpler Hope City Church.^[2]

From 2004 to 2009, Hope City Church pioneered over in Liverpool^[3], Leeds^[4] Newcastle^[5] and Birmingham.

In 2010 a group of five young adults with the pastor of the Liverpool congregation were sent to Accra in Ghana to pioneer Hope City Church in Africa.^[6] In 2011, The Community Church in Chorley, Lancashire under the leadership of Dave and Lisa Stonor merged into Hope City Church to become Hope City Lancashire. In 2012 a Sunday night service in Preston was launched from Chorley.

In 2012, a group six young adults along with two members of the senior leadership team were sent to Frankfurt, Germany to establish their first mainland European congregation outside of the UK.^[7]

At Easter 2013, Hope City London was launched at the Charing Cross Hotel in the Strand.

Facilities

In 1998, the church bought a former warehouse and factory owned by Spear and Johnson as its base of operation. Comprising of three stories and over 54,000 square feet, the building has been converted in a 700 seater auditorium, an indoor children’s play centre, a nursery, a conferencing facility as well as the base for City Hearts^[8].

In 2007, Hope City Church leased The Elaine Norris Centre in Liverpool providing sports and recreational facilities for the Kirkdale area of Liverpool. It is also used as the place of worship. In September of 2013, the Sunday service will move to the Einstein Theatre in the centre of Liverpool.

In 2009, Hope City Church bought the former Archives building of Leeds Central Library on York Road. The 45,000 square feet building has been partially converted into a 400 seater auditorium and is being converted into a community and conferencing centre for Leeds.

In 2011, Hope City adopted a building owned by the community Church in Chorley, Lancashire.

Leadership

The Church is led by a senior leadership team comprising of the Senior Pastors Dave and Jenny Gilpin along side Colin and Beth Blois who are the Lead Pastors in Sheffield, Chris and Gosia Denham who are the Leeds Lead Pastors, Dave and Lisa Stoner who are the Liverpool and Lancashire Lead Pastors as well as Louise Davies who is the City Pastor in Sheffield.

The directors of Hope City Church who ratify the discussions affecting the financial integrity and prudence of Hope City Church include Paul Benger from Christian Life Church in Chesterfield, Roger Davies (former Hope City Liverpool Pastor), Dave Gilpin (Senior Pastor) as well as members from both the Leeds and Sheffield congregations.

The Lead Pastors of each location are as follows:

Sheffield – Colin and Beth Blois

Leeds – Chris and Gosia Denham

Liverpool – Dave and Lisa Stoner with Clive and Sarah McMullen

Lancashire – Dave and Lisa Stoner

Newcastle – Simon and Rachael Taylor

Birmingham – Simon and Olivia Bolton

Accra – Andy and Karen Gorman

Frankfurt – Steve and Siobhan Bullock

London – Dave and Jenny Gilpin

Community

From 1999, the Megacentre in Sheffield has been providing services for children through its facilities, school assistance and general pastoral care.

From 2002 Hope City Church created the ‘Good Works’ charity Hope City Enterprise which included special Night of Honour in Sheffield; Leeds and Liverpool which celebrate the unsung heroes of each city such as the Champion Child award and the Best Community Service award. ^[9]^[10]^[11]

In 2007, City Hearts was pioneered by Jenny Gilpin to help women affected by life controlling issues as well as victims of human trafficking. Today, City Hearts oversees four homes dedicated to its catch phrase of ‘loving people to life’.^[12]

Creative

A strong thread of creativity runs through all that the Church does. They have created four series called Hope City TV for Christian media which has been aired since 2009 by UCB TV in the UK and Europe, on Shine TV in New Zealand. Their websites including hopecitychurch.tv and davegilpin.com have been recognised by the Premier Media Awards in 2009 and 2010 for content and layout.^[13]

Music

So far Hope City has released two albums. The first, written and directed by Ryan Gilpin, 'Devoted', was released in 2009 by Integrity Media. The second, 'We Are Ready', was recorded at Steel Works Studios in Sheffield and produced by Grammy Award Winner, Eliot Kennedy in 2010.

Other live recordings of Hope City include the 20th Anniversary celebrations of Hope City Church held at Sheffield City Hall in June 2011 with 2000 guests in attendance. Harrogate Synphony Orchestra played orchestrated versions of songs written by members of the Creative Arts team and orchestrated by Ryan Gilpin.

Services

References

External links

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[1] Bob Jackson, Everybody Welcome (Church House Publishing, 2009) 26

[2] ttp://www.bbc.co.uk/southyorkshire/content/articles/2007/10/09/hope_city_church_feature.shtml

[3] ttp://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/black-e-back-use-church-first-3395642

[4] ttp://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/latest-news/top-stories/here-s-hoping-superstar-is-born-1-2146800

[5] ttp://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/tiger-tiger-venue-church-services-1421083

[6] ttp://www.thestar.co.uk/news/council/education/church-members-flock-to-africa-for-training-course-1-4377822

[7] ttp://www.thestar.co.uk/features/christmas-won-t-ever-be-the-same-again-1-4081652

[8] ttp://www.city-hearts.co.uk/

[9] ttp://www.thestar.co.uk/headlines/Nominate-unsung-heroes.6569407.jp

[10] ttp://www.jct600.co.uk/about-jct600/group-news/mega_support_from_mercedes-benz_south_yorkshire_helps_drive_awards-113049/

[11] ttp://www.thestar.co.uk/news/sheffield-church-volunteers-give-community-a-spring-clean-1-4571008

[12] ttp://www.thestar.co.uk/features/how-charity-gave-me-my-life-back-1-857562

[13] ttp://www.christianblogawards.com/winners09.html

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 '''Hope City Church'''
-Hope City Church<ref>Bob Jackson, ''Everybody Welcome'' (Church House Publishing, 2009) 26</ref> is a large multisite, contemporary church with roots in both [[Pentecostal]] and [[Charismatic]] traditions. The church holds services and weekday connections in 10 locations and describes itself as ‘One Church, Ten Locations’. The current membership across all 10 locations is over 2200 people with 1500 people attending over the weekend meetings. Around half of  this number is based in Sheffield and the remaining half spread out across the other locations. It is a part of the [http://www.c3churchglobal.com/ C3 group of churches] originating from Sydney, Australia. There are 350 C3 churches worldwide.
+Hope City Church<ref>Bob Jackson, ''Everybody Welcome'' (Church House Publishing, 2009) 26</ref> is a large multisite, contemporary church with roots in both [[Pentecostal]] and [[Charismatic]] traditions. The church holds services and weekday connections in 10 locations and describes itself as ‘One Church, Ten Locations’. The current membership across all 10 locations is over 2200 people with 1500 people attending over the weekend meetings. Around half of  this number is based in Sheffield and the remaining half spread out across the other locations. It is a part of [[C3 Church Global]] originating from Sydney, Australia. There are 350 C3 churches worldwide.
 == History of Hope City Church ==