New Creation Church is a megachurch in Singapore. It was founded in 1984 and currently has a 24,000 strong local congregation at the Rock Auditorium in the Suntec City Mall today.^[1] Joseph Prince is the Senior Pastor of the church. While it is charismatic in practice, it is non-denominational and is not affiliated to any church overseas. It is a member of the National Council of Churches of Singapore.^[2]

History[link]

The church was founded by a small group of young pioneer leaders including Joseph Prince, Henry Yeo, David Yeow and Jack Ho in 1983. It was later officially registered with the Registrar of Societies on October 1984. It began its Sunday service with an average attendance of 25 people. Gradually, it grew to about 150 members in 1990 when Pastor Prince was appointed as the senior pastor of the church.^[1]

During the period between 1984 and 1999, the church moved through different worshipping venues such as a hall in Young Women's Christian Association and the ballrooms in local hotels to accommodate its growing congregation.^[1]

In 1999, the church moved to the Rock Auditorium in the Suntec City Mall where its church-goers currently attend services.^[1]

The church grew from 150 members in 1990 to more than 10,000 members in 2004.^[1][3]

Since 2009, Pastor Prince has not been on the church payroll, and currently serves as a volunteer pastor at the church.^[4]

Outreach[link]

The church is actively involved in missions throughout the Asian region, and sends its pastors, leaders and volunteers to several Asian countries annually.^[5]

10% of the church's annual budget which was about US$4 million (as of Year 2007) was set aside for missionary work.^[6] Currently, the church is still committed to work towards missionaries. Besides, the church also made donations to local charities annually.^[7] Specifically, the church has given SGD581,500 to community groups and charities during the period between April 2007 to March 2008.^{[8][dated info][dead link]}

Media and publications[link]

Broadcasting programmes[link]

The church's English-language broadcast program called Destined to Reign, which takes place in the weekly church service, reaching out to more than 150 countries on cable television and satellite networks.^[9] Besides, the church's television ministry establishes the media technology like the Internet and podcasts to allow viewers to watch the church's broadcast program online.^[10]

Magazine publication[link]

The church's Publication ministry which is run by church volunteers (reporters, photographers and designers) currently publishes its own magazine named Solid Rock. ^[11]

Ministries[link]

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• Royal Service This ministry works with the church, providing essential services to everyone who attends to church. It has several departments involving medical, security and safety, logistics, transport and ushers.^[13]
• Visual Arts This ministry focuses on the media technology and arts performance to develop artistic works and the drama productions for the church.^[14]
• Foreign Mission The foreign ministry is a part of the church's services and its purpose is to reach out to the foreign, non-English speaking community in Singapore.^[15] Languages offered include Indonesian and Korean.
• Outreach This is a ministry outreach which focuses on missionary in Singapore and overseas.^[16]
• Rock Kidz Rock Kidz is a ministry focusing on the preaching of Christianity to children aged 1 – 12.^[17] The ministry encompasses the various age divisions and a ministry dedicated to children aged 7–13 with Autism Spectrum Disorder.^[18]
• The Zone This ministry oversees the preaching of Christianity to youth aged 13–29.^[19] The Zone encompasses three sub-divisions, dealing with Secondary, Tertiary and Young Adult churchgoers.^[19]

Affiliates[link]

The official affiliates are specifically mentioned on the church's authorized correspondence with them.^[20] These affiliates are:

• Rock Productions

Rock Productions, which is a business arm of New Creation Church, was founded in 1998 at Suntec City Mall. It acts as a venue provider and New Creation Church's anchor tenant for both Rock Auditorium at Suntec City Mall and The Star Performing Arts Centre at One-North, in Buona Vista. The shares of Rock Productions are held in trust for the church by four of its registered shareholders. Rock Productions also manages business.^[20]

• Rock Gifts & Book Centre

Rock Gifts & Book Centre, which is managed by Rock Productions, is a Christian bookshop.^[21] It was set up at Suntec City Mall in 1998 for selling Christian books, music, sermon resources and gifts.^[20]

• Daystar Child Development Centre

Daystar Child Development Centre (also known as Daystar) is listed as a Voluntary Welfare Organisation (VWO) under the church. It has two branches - which were established at Holland in 1994 and at Jurong West in 2004. This centre is run by management committees under the church.^[20]

• Omega Tours

Omega Tours (also known as Omega Tours & Travel Pte Ltd), which was set up as a travel agency in 2004, is managed by Rock Productions. Through Omega Tours, New Creation Church organizes tours for its members to travel to Israel and other Biblical land.^[20][22]

New worship facility[link]

The church will move to a new 5,000 seat auditorium as its future worship facility in the new building named The Star Performing Arts Centre (also called The Star) in Buona Vista when The Star is completed. The Star will be opened in 2nd half 2012.^[23] The Star is planned by Rock Productions, the business arm of the church,^[23][24] together with CapitaLand.

The Star is envisioned as a "futuristic complex with restaurants, shops and a 5,000-seat theatre", and costs nearly SGD1 billion.^[24] The church has raised approximately half its SGD500 million share of the new building's cost.^[25]

As the anchor of The Star Performing Arts Centre, both the church and its business arm, Rock Productions, are to manage the civic and cultural zone of The Star. The church owns the 5,000 seat theatre, multi-purpose hall, outdoor amphitheatre, special function rooms and other facilities to serve the church's congregation. The Star's retail and entertainment zone is not under the management of the church and Rock Productions as CapitaMalls Asia will manage this zone.^[23][26]

The church will rent space owned by its subsidiary, Rock Productions, in the complex for Sunday services.^[25]

See also[link]

• Christianity in Singapore
• Evangelism
• Pentecostalism
• Religion in Singapore

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Rock Productions
• The Star Performing Arts Centre

New Creation may refer to:

• New Creation Church, a non-denominational megachurch
• The New Creation, a Christian magazine
• New creation (theology), the Christian doctrine of the New Creation, see salvation

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Joseph Prince (born May 15, 1963, Singapore) is the senior pastor of New Creation Church in Singapore, one of Asia's biggest churches.^[1] He was one of the young pioneers who founded the church in 1983.^[2]

Background[link]

Joseph Prince, the son of a Sikh priest of Indian origin and a Chinese mother, ^[3]spent his primary school years in Perak, Malaysia.^[3]

Prince changed his birth name to Joseph Prince during his previous occupation as an IT consultant. ^[3]

Prince has been invited to preach at churches in Australia, London, USA, Canada, Norway, Netherlands, South Africa and Indonesia.^[4] Notably, he was invited to preach at the Grace & Favour Seminar at Hillsong Church^{[1][dead link]} Sydney and Hillsong London^[5] in 2006. In 2007 and 2008, he was invited to speak at the Hillsong Conferences in Sydney and London. In 2009, he was invited to speak, alongside Joel Osteen from Lakewood Church, at the 2 Days of Hope Conference held in Johannesburg, South Africa.^[6]

Prince's TV program "Destined to Reign" is broadcast in more than 150 countries. ^[7] His broadcast program is also streamed online through Internet and podcasts for viewers.^[8]

Prince publishes books, CDs and DVDs.^[9] In 2007, his book Destined to Reign: The Secret to Effortless Success, Wholeness and Victorious Living, which contains teachings from his ten years of preaching from 1997 to 2007, was published in Singapore ^[10] and the US. Six months after the book's US release, it was listed as one of Christian Retailing's Top 100 Books.^[11] In 2010, Prince's latest book "Unmerited Favor" was published worldwide by Charisma House.^[12]

Prince was featured in the cover story of the June 2010 issue of the Charisma (magazine), which covered his preaching and teaching ministry.^[13]

On October 29th 2011, Prince ministered in the US for the first time at Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. He also preached at two more services the day after.

Questions about his church salary[link]

In 2004, Prince asked New Creation Church to stop paying him a salary. The church's council members,however, refused his request.^[14][15]

On 5 October 2008, in an interview with The Sunday Times, Prince, the executive chairman of the church council, while acknowledging that he was "well-paid", added that "money doesn't have a hold on me". He dismissed allegations that his salary was $50,000 a month, saying "It could have been $50,000 if I had not voluntarily taken all the pay cuts through the years. There was a system of payment that would actually enrich me greatly but as the church grew, I refused to accept that system of payment."^[3]

On 30 March 2009, The Straits Times reported that a check revealed that New Creation Church paid one employee between $500,001 and $550,000 in its last financial year of 2008. Singapore's Code of Governance for charities ^[16] requires all charities and non-profit organizations in Singapore to disclose top executives' salaries to the Commissioner of Charities. While the church would not confirm that the amount in question had been paid to Prince, church officials told The Straits Times that the church's policy is to "recognise and reward key contributors to the church and Senior Pastor Prince is the main pillar of our church's growth and revenue."The New Creation Church's income was reported to be $55.4 million for the financial year ending March 2008.^[17]

On 7 June 2010, The Straits Times and Channel News Asia reported that Joseph Prince has not been on the church payroll since 2009.^[14][15]

Personal life[link]

Joseph Prince is married to Wendy Prince.^[3] They have a daughter, Jessica Shayna Prince, and a son Justin David Prince^[18]

References[link]

External links[link]

• New Creation Church
• Joseph Prince Ministries
• Practice Grace