Fallout at Pentecostal church Arise is continuing with multiple board members barred from recruiting migrant workers. The board was issued with an infringement notice by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) Labour Inspectorate in January relating to a request to supply information of specific employee records. Seven trustees have temporarily been stood down Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Arise Church’
The media and the megachurch
Monday, May 23rd, 2022
It was early May and Pastor Peter Mortlock was preaching to the converted. There had been trials and tribulations, highs and lows, but Mortlock had much to be pleased about. He founded Bays Christian Fellowship on Auckland’s North Shore in July 1982 and watched it grow and grow. In the early 2000s, the church, now Read more
Should motivational speaker who is also a Christian preacher be allowed in schools?
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2016
Tony Kane, the principal of Kapiti College north of Wellington is defending the school’s decision to allow a motivation a speaker, who happens to be Christian preacher, to give a presentation in his school. He was speaking after some parents had expressed concern that an American Christian preacher Reggie Dabbs gave a motivational speech at Kapiti College. Read more
Trump advisor to speak at Wellington church conference
Friday, July 1st, 2016A preacher with links to US presidential hopeful Donald Trump, is going to be speaking at a church conference in Wellington. Jentezen Franklin, was last week announced as a member of Trump’s Evangelical Advisory Board, which is expected to lead a larger Faith and Cultural Advisory Committee to be announced later this month. Trump stated Read more