Grace_Presbyterian_Church_of_New

''' Grace Presbyterian Church of New Zealand ''' (GPCNZ) is a Presbyterian denomination in New_Zealand which was formed in 2002. It currently consists of 9 churches and 4 mission churches, which are congregations in the process of becoming fully established churches. Many members of the GPCNZ are former members who left the largely liberal Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand (PCANZ) seeking a more theologically conservative alternative. In practice this means that the GPCNZ holds different views to the PCANZ on Homosexuality and the Ordination_of_women. The Grace Presbyterian Church describes itself as "Presbyterian in government, Reformed in theology, and Evangelical in spirit." http://www.gracepresbyterianchurch.org.nz/html/About_the_GPCNZ.8.0.html GPCNZ is in the process of forming formal links with the Reformed_Churches_of_New_Zealand http://www.rcnz.org.nz, Presbyterian_Church_of_Australia, and the Presbyterian_Church_in_America. GPCNZ does not own its own theological college, but approved the Grace Theological College http://www.gtc.ac.nz/grace.php?page=home as the churches' official training institution in New Zealand. == Constituent churches ==

''Church''	''Location''	''Year Formed''	''Current Pastor''
'''Northern Presbytery'''
Sovereign_Presbyterian_Community_Church	Papatoetoe		Pita Uo
Redeemer_Grace_Presbyterian_Church http://www.redeemergpc.com/	Flat Bush	2005
Covenant Presbyterian Church	Manurewa		Peter Boyd
Trinity_Presbyterian_Church	Takanini		Andrew Macpherson
'''Central Presbytery'''
Grace @ Wellington http://gracewellington.org.nz/	Wellington		Ian D Bayne
Evangelical_Presbyterian_Church_of_Christchurch http://www.journey.org.nz/	Christchurch	1974	Geoff Macpherson
Evangelical_Presbyterian_Church_of_Ashburton	Ashburton
Evangelical_Presbyterian_Church_of_Fairlie	Fairlie
'''Southern Presbytery'''
Grace_Bible_Church,_Dunedin	Dunedin		Mark Smith
Tokomairiro_Grace_Bible_Church	Milton
Catlins_Evangelical_Church	Owaka		Steve Panapa
Grace_Presbyterian_Church,_Gore	Gore		Azriel Gray
Wyndham_Evangelical_Church	Wyndham		Peter van den Brink
Grace_Presbyterian_Church,_Invercargill	Invercargill		Barry Swann
Grace_Presbyterian_Church,_Tuatapere	Tuatapere