5:17 church

5:17 church: our story

Hopefully you’ve seen from our homepage and the FAQ page what we’re on about as a church.  But here’s a bit about where we’ve come from.

5:17 church is like an outpost or franchise of the Chinese Christian Church Brisbane’s (CCCB) St Lucia English-speaking congregation.

To continue with the franchise metaphor, in 2008 we decided we wanted to find a new way to market or package our product.  The product is the good news about Jesus’ life, death, resurrection, and rule, and the new package is a new night church.  We believe wholeheartedly in the product and there’s nothing we want to or should change about it (especially since it’s been around for more than 2000 years!).  And it’s because we believe in it so much that we wanted to find new ways to bring it to new people.

CCCB has been bringing the product to Chinese people in Brisbane for over 30 years and it’s true that St Lucia has its fair share of Chinese residents.  But St Lucia and the surrounding suburbs are also full of people from many other nationalities – not least Aussies – and we wanted to see if we could adopt a marketing approach that would cater for them too.  Hence, a completely new name and new time slot which we hope will appeal to all kinds of people.

5:17 church launched on Sunday, February 8 2009 with a mix of aussies and asians – different people unified by a common belief in a common Saviour.  If you’d like to find out more about him or us, you could read more here or just come along any Sunday night.