Kensington Temple London City Church - London and the World for Christ

Kensington Temple is a large, international, multi-cultural community of Charismatic Christians. We have many thousands of people drawn from over 119 different nationalities who come together to worship as one body. It is one of the most ethnically diverse and racially integrated churches that you can come across anywhere in the world.

One in Christ
Our openness to the cultures of others is also matched by our desire to reach out to all who are seeking peace and harmony in our troubled world. We believe that Jesus Christ is the Lord of the nations and that our unity is in Him. He is the Prince of Peace. We believe that He is the answer to the deepest needs and longings of the human heart. And, in particular, we believe that Jesus Christ is the one and only Saviour from sin and the condemnation it brings to our lives.

Our Mission
Our mission statement is London and the world for Christ. Because of our multicultural make up and the influence that gives us all over the world our desire to influence the nations for Christ is also a realistic expectation. We have an international ministry of planting churches, equipping local churches and encouraging ministries.

City Church
Our vision in the last decade of the 20th Century was to become a fully functioning city church. That is a church large enough and with enough centres all over London that could enable us to influence the whole of London for Christ. And from 1985 we concentrated on planting churches from our base at KT and the London City Church (LCC) network is grew steadily. By the year 2000 we had over 130 churches in London, networking together as one body. We believe God’s plan is for these churches to continue to stand together, linked in strong relationship to fulfil the mandate of Christ. Touch London and you touch the heart of the British Nation. Reach London and you reach the World.

G12 Cell Church
Since the year 2000 we have changed our focus from planting churches and are now concentrating on growing them into effective communities for Christ. This move coincided with the launch of the G12 Vision from Bogota which we have enthusiastically embraced. We acknowledged that that we were missing something vital in connection with our vision. We always placed an emphasis on cells, but they were only one part of our programme. Now cells are the central thrust of everything we do. Pastoral care, evangelism, training and discipleship all happen through the cells.

This transition into a cell church began in September 2000 and in the first year our cells grew from 400 to 900 across the network. The central church cells grew from 40 to 200. Our goal is to have 10,000 cells within in the next few years.

This means our focus is on discipleship – making, maturing and mobilising disciples of Jesus Christ. We have a godly goal of becoming the most effective discipling centre in London. The G12 vision is proving to be a dynamic strategy by which we are fulfilling our dreams.

The Elim Pentecostal Church http://www.elim.org.uk
Kensington Temple is part of the Elim Pentecostal denomination (Registered Charity No 251549) which has 600 churches.

Its History
Founded in the County of Monaghan, Ireland, in 1915, the Elim Pentecostal Church, the legal name of which is “Elim Foursquare Gospel Alliance”, grew with amazing rapidity as a result of the great evangelistic crusades of George Jeffreys, its Founder. The Elim Pentecostal Church is part of that unique world-wide Pentecostal Movement which at the beginning of the century numbered a few thousands but now has, including the charismatic movement some 500,000,000 adherents (Annual Statistical Table on Global Missions 1997). Pentecostal Christians believe that, because of its spontaneous uprising in every country in the world, the Pentecostal Movement is in fulfilment of the Bible prophecies that God would pour out in the last days His Holy Spirit on all mankind.

The name “Elim” is taken from the book of Exodus, where we read that the Israelites “came to Elim, where there were twelve wells of water, and three score and ten palm trees; and they encamped there by the waters” (Exodus 15:27). This oasis in the wilderness is a fitting symbol for a church which preaches a message of rest and refreshing, salvation and healing for body, soul and spirit in the wilderness of this world.

“The objects of the Alliance are to spread the full Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and the fundamental truths herein set forth” are the formal words from the Constitution which set out the reason for the existence of the Elim Pentecostal Church. The upholding of Bible standards of conduct and worship are ensured by our representative form of government by ministers and laymen.

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