Posts Tagged ‘Equippers Church’

Parents behaving badly at Good Friday Easter egg scramble

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2014

The Equippers church, the organisers of a public Easter egg drop, have apologised after children were injured during the event – by parents desperate to get their share of the chocolate treats. The Egg Day Out was held across three locations in Auckland on Good Friday. It was organised by the Equippers church and sponsored Read more

Jesus heals cancer billboard complaint upheld

Friday, May 4th, 2012

Complaints about a controversial Napier church billboard claiming Jesus heals cancer have been upheld by advertising officials. The Equippers Church sign, which also displayed a tally of six to signify the number of people the church claimed had been healed of cancer caused outrage among many people, and sparked an investigation with the Advertising Standards Read more

Church modifies healing billboard

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

The words ‘Jesus heals cancer’ have been removed from a billboard erected by a New Zealand church.

The church removed the words from the billboard on Wednesday, replacing them with a quote from the Bible: ‘Jesus heals every sickness and every disease – Matthew 4:23’.

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Family upset by Church’s claim that Jesus heals cancer

Friday, March 2nd, 2012

A billboard put up by a Napier church which claims that Jesus heals cancer has upset a local family whose three year old  son is undergoing treatment for leukemia. The sign was erected last week at the Equippers Church in Tamatea. The billboard claims that Jesus heals cancer. The Church claims six of its members Read more