Christ Church St Ives

What Christ Church St Ives does

Christ Church St Ives is an Evangelical Anglican parish church located at 1 Cowan Road, St Ives, NSW, operating within the Anglican Diocese of Sydney. Founded in 1909 (per firmographic data) and employing 17 staff, it operates multiple Sunday services (9:15am, 10:45am, 6pm) with Mandarin translation at the early service, a Tuesday mid-week gathering, and online streaming via YouTube. The church's stated vision is to build 3,000 wholehearted disciples of Jesus, with 1,574 people reported attending groups or gatherings in November.

The ministry portfolio is segmented across age groups and engagement levels: Growth Groups (small-group Bible study, 880 adults and 235 youth in 2025), Kids Ministry (Kidspace Fridays, Sunday programs, Playgroup), Youth Ministry (Junior and Senior High), Share Life Mondays (evangelistic dinners), English Classes with a Bible Explorer option, Care Ministry (pastoral support with a free online Care Ministry Training course on Thinkific), and a Ministry Training Program (MTS Apprenticeships, Student Ministers, Honorary Associates). Registration, payments, and event management are handled through ChurchSuite, Westpac PayWay, Google Calendar, and a Squarespace website.

The organisation is funded entirely through voluntary tithes and offerings from congregation members. Budgeted monthly giving is $165,000 (~$1.98M annualised), while actual average giving in early 2025 was approximately $143,500/month (~$1.72M annualised), leaving the church roughly $86,000 behind budget at the time of reporting. There is no commercial revenue, no endowment income disclosed, and no equity ownership structure. Christ Church also directs a portion of giving to mission partners in Australia (Chester Hill, Dubbo), South Africa (George Whitefield College), Vanuatu, Jordan, Ethiopia, and South-East Asia.

Name

Christ Church St Ives

Legal name

Christ Church St Ives

Website

https://christchurch.com.au

Company type

Private

Founded year

2025

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Christ Church St Ives is an Evangelical Anglican parish church in St Ives, NSW, offering Sunday services, children and youth ministry, Growth Groups, and pastoral and theological training to Sydney's Upper North Shore and Mandarin-speaking community, funded entirely by voluntary tithes and offerings.

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Product category

Religious Services

NAICS

Religious Organizations (8131), Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Local Congregations & Worship Communities (Churches, Mosques, Temples, Synagogues) (BPAGAJAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Faith-Based Missions & Evangelism Organizations (Domestic & International) (BPAGAJAE)

Keywords

• Anglican church services
• Christian discipleship programs
• Children and youth ministry
• Bible study groups
• Theological ministry training

Headquarters

HQ city

St Ives

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Tithes and Offerings: The church relies almost entirely on voluntary giving and tithes from congregation members to fund ministry operations. Regular giving budget is $165,000 per month.

Distribution channels7 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Christ Church St Ives is an Evangelical Anglican church that operates Sunday worship services, mid-week gatherings, small-group Bible studies (Growth Groups), children's and youth ministry programs, English language classes, evangelistic dinners (Share Life Mondays), pastoral care services, and formal theological training (MTS Apprenticeships, Student Minister, Honorary Associate). The church serves the St Ives community in Sydney and supports mission partners globally, with all activities funded through voluntary tithes and offerings.

Product overview

Christ Church St Ives is an Evangelical Anglican church offering a portfolio of ministry programs and services centered on building wholehearted disciples of Jesus. The church operates multiple interconnected programs: Growth Groups (small group Bible studies meeting various times weekly), Kids Ministry (Friday and Sunday children's programs including Kidspace and playgroup), Youth Ministry (Junior High and Senior High programs with school leavers trips), English Classes (Monday morning language instruction with Bible Explorer option), Share Life Mondays (evangelistic dinner gatherings with faith conversations), Care Ministry (pastoral support with an online Care Ministry Training course via Thinkific), and Ministry Training (MTS Apprenticeships, Student Minister, and Honorary Associate programs). These programs are coordinated through ChurchSuite for registrations, delivered via the Squarespace website, with the online training course hosted on Thinkific LMS.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Sunday Services

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

No

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Matt and Ellen Tyler (Vanuatu)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Serving on the island of Ambrym in Vanuatu working on Bible translation into the Daakaka language. They disciple and train locals in faithfully understanding and applying the Bible, partnering with SIL and Vanuatu Bible Translators. Christ Church has partnered with them from the beginning of their overseas missionary journey.
• Gavin and Megan Rosser (Jordan)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Serving at the International Anglican Church of Amman (IACA) where Gavin is full-time ordained minister supporting local Christian workers and the expat community. CMS has had a presence in Jordan since the 1800s. IACA has existed since 1836. The Rossers commenced ministry in January 2024.
• Dubbo Anglican ChurchcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Regional church in Dubbo NSW (population 40,000) under Anglican Diocese of Bathurst. Christ Church financially supports a second staff member (Justin Baker) who focuses on young families, Kids Church, Playgroup, and SRE while studying part-time at SMBC. Rev'd Andrew Thornhill was welcomed as Rector in February 2024.
• Rebekah (South-East Asia)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2022Serving at a local Bible College in South-East Asia teaching and discipling students. After learning the local language, she supports ministry especially in systematic Christian thought in the Reformed tradition. The location is ranked amongst the top 50 most challenging worldwide for persecution. Rebekah has transitioned into a faculty role developing learning materials and equipping local leaders.
• Chester Hill Anglican ChurchcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2016Multicultural, multi-generational church plant in South-West Sydney. Christ Church provides financial support through regular giving, ongoing prayer, and committed members who serve. Partnership began in 2016 when Paul and Beth Webb launched as Senior Ministers to reach the diverse 25,000 population of Chester Hill region.
• George Whitefield College (GWC)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2011Theological college in Cape Town, South Africa training church leaders across Africa. Christ Church supports bursary students, has seconded lecturers (Steven Rockwell 2014-2020), and continues to fund lecturers, student bursaries and general operations. The college's Explore Course trains over 3,000 students annually across multiple African countries.
• Anthony and Trudi Elyard (Ethiopia)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerServing at Dila Bible College in southern Ethiopia, the first established theological college in the region of 22 million people (Southern Nations). Trudi supports leaders in learning English and contextual engagement. Due to civil unrest in northern Ethiopia, they have relocated to Addis Ababa continuing language learning while evaluating other Bible teaching options.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Others

• George Whitefield College: Cape Town-based theological college that Christ Church St Ives has supported since 2011 through bursaries and seconded lecturers. Adjacent rather than competing organization, but a key mission partner and ecosystem participant.

Direct peers

• Turramurra Anglican Church: Another North Shore Sydney Anglican parish with similar suburban demographics, comparable congregation size, and Anglican Diocese of Sydney affiliation. Closely comparable in ministry model and scale.
• Chester Hill Anglican Church: The South-West Sydney multicultural church plant that Christ Church St Ives has financially supported since 2016. Comparable Anglican evangelical identity, multicultural focus, and franchise-style church planting relationship.
• St John's Anglican Church Gordon: A nearby Anglican parish on Sydney's Upper North Shore, comparable to Christ Church St Ives in suburban Sydney geography, congregational scale, and evangelical-leaning Anglican tradition. Most direct geographic peer.
• St Peter's Anglican Burwood: An Anglican parish in greater Sydney with similar evangelical-leaning tradition and parish scale. Direct peer for comparing congregational programs and diocesan engagement.
• Wahroonga Anglican Church: Adjoining North Shore parish sharing the same demographic profile, Anglican Diocese of Sydney affiliation, and evangelical worship style. Direct peer for congregational benchmarking.
• Dubbo Anglican Church: Regional Anglican parish in Western NSW that Christ Church has partnership-supported. Comparable denominational structure but serving a regional rather than metropolitan population.

Emerging players

• Citipointe Church (Brisbane): An Australian evangelical Pentecostal church with comparable emphasis on training programs, youth ministry, and multi-site expansion. Useful comparable for evangelical ministry models and benchmarking youth engagement strategies.

Broad incumbents

• Hillsong Church (Sydney): A major Sydney-based evangelical multi-site church with shared evangelical theology but vastly larger scale, multi-site operations, and media production. Comparable theology and target audience, but operates at a different league in growth model.
• St Andrew's Anglican Church Cathedral: The mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, the same diocese Christ Church St Ives belongs to. Significantly larger but same denominational structure, providing a broader institutional framework for comparison.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@ccsi
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/christ-church-st.-ives

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Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

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