ARISE Church Christchurch

Your usual bigots trying to get money out of vulnerable people and preaching vitriol

Home away from home...Great to catch up with friends and meet new friends

I love the passion for Jesus and services are done excellently. Looking forward to the next Arise conference. The last one was amazing.

When I think about my time here, it makes me want to curl up into a small ball. Maybe it was traumatic, even though my time with them was comparitively brief, and I don't remember all the details why it makes me feel so small. I was incredibly depressed and discovering my queerness when I got introduced to youth group here back in 2010 - 2011. It was called Elevate back then, and it was often held in the evenings at my high school.I was vulnerable and got sucked into a world of live music and flashy performances, with the promise that if I gave everything to God, that I would be okay. But I experienced homophobia and exclusion. Things were uncomfortably split by gender (definitely unsafe for anyone non-binary if this practice still continues). Their responses to people experiencing mental illness or distress were woefully inadequate. Thinking about them, and the people I met at Elevate, makes me feel sick.

I went in with a open mind, this church is really designed for younger people, (I guess their easier to influence). They also preach the Prosperity gospel, I felt uncomfortable with the lack of scripture in the message, and the amount of time talking about the success of the church.

Great place to be, Awesome family vibes.

Pretty large church held in the Aurora center at Burnside High school. Worship is like being in a concert, very flashy. Probably appeals more to contemporary less traditional church goers. Larger youth presence.

Pay Charlotte chummings and try having integrity for a change

Went to see David strausman venue was good but seating was uncomfortable

As reported widely in nz news after David Farrier's reports: I’ve continued to receive a torrent of new emails with more horrific stories from within Arise Church, as well as some of the other big Pentecostal churches in New Zealand. The stories are mounting at an alarming rate.There’s a word that keeps coming up when people message me, and it’s “trauma”. Because when people are spat out of Arise — that is what they’re left with.Trauma.