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City of Grace Press Release

Word of Grace Church and CitiChurch Merge and become City of Grace, One Church, multiple locations. Mesa, AZ – December 5, 2007 –Scottsdale’s CitiChurch and Mesa’s Word of Grace church will merge January 1, 2008 to become City of Grace with multiple locations. “We wanted to come up with a name that honors the history of both congregations” said Terry Crist, founder of CitiChurch and senior pastor of the newly formed City of Grace in the new ...

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Merger of Faith

Merger of Faith , Tribune (ADDED ROLE: Pastor Terry Crist, who founded CitiChurch in Scottsdale 7 1/2 years ago and has seen it grow to 1400 members, has taken on a second assignment: the pastorate of the 5,000 member Word of Grace Church in Mesa.) Megachurches join together to serve E.V. at 2 sites Two prominent area churches - Word of Grace in Mesa and CitiChurch in Scottsdale - have merged in what's being called "two streams coming together to form a ...

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Guest blog: Dr. Bobby Brewer

Cold, Fire, Color, Surprise: my month in South America There's something I'd always wanted to do...take an entire month to travel through South America. In August God provided me and Damon Crim with that opportunity. Here's a brief account of what happened. Cold: In Paraguay, I was cold. It was the kind of cold that gets into your bones where you feel you can't ever get warm. One night I just stayed in the shower with the water as hot as I could take it hoping to get warm. ...

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