FEELS LIKE HOME
Our passion is for one thing and that is Jesus Christ.
Our focus is to reach every person with His love and His message of hope.
Thank you so much for taking the time to visit us and find out more about Ascende Global Church.
At Ascende Global, we believe church is about discovering and learning how to establish an authentic relationship with God and with one another.
We believe in church being a movement of people that impacts our region and influences people of all nations towards Jesus Christ.
M E E T O U R P A S T O R S
D A V E & K A T E C O N N E L L
We believe church is more than a service but a community of families from a variety of different cultures and backgrounds.
Each with a unique story, uniting together to bring hope to the world around us.
Nā tō rourou, nā taku rourou ka ora ai te iwi.
With your food basket and my food basket.
The people will thrive.
We have a heart to carry the presence of God, through the grace and power of the Holy Spirit, to people around us and beyond.
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me
To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty those who are oppressed”
LUKE 4:18
OUR CULTURAL PILLARS
FAITH to grow
SPIRIT to include
COURAGE to question
DISCIPLINE to listen
WILLING to serve
PASSION to learn
that the bible is God’s word. It is accurate, authoritative and applicable to our everyday lives.
in one eternal God who is the Creator of all things. He exists in three persons: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. He is totally loving and completely Holy.
that sin has separated each of us from God and His purpose for our lives.
that the Lord Jesus Christ as both God and man is the only one who can reconcile us to God.
He was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born by the Virgin Mary, lived a sinless and exemplary life, died on the cross in our place, and rose again to prove His victory and empower us for life.
that in order to receive forgiveness and the ‘new birth’ we must repent of our sins, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and submit to His will for our lives.
that in order to live the holy and fruitful lives that God intends for us, we need to be baptised by water and be filled with the power of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit enables us to use spiritual gifts, including speaking in tongues which are the initial evidence of baptism in the Holy Spirit.
that God has individually equipped us so that we can successfully achieve His purpose for our lives which is to worship God, fulfil our role in the church and serve the community in which we live.
that God wants to heal and transform us so that we can live healthy and prosperous lives in order to help others more effectively.
that our eternal destination of either Heaven or Hell is determined by our response to the Lord Jesus Christ.
in the one true universal Church made up of all born-again believers of all nations and denominations under the headship of the Lord Jesus Christ.