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New City Church is a multi-site church in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. [1] The church is a member of the Evangelical Free Church of America [ 2 ] denomination. New City has two campuses, one in the SouthPark area of Charlotte [ 3 ] and one on Monroe Road in the nearby suburb of Matthews . [ 4 ]
Construction of the church began on St. Patrick's Day, 1938. A Catholic grade school was built on the property in 1930. A rectory and convent were completed in 1941, and in 1943, the school was expanded to include high school grades. [4] What was once the O'Donoghue School in Charlotte, NC is the oldest privately conducted school in Charlotte.
On September 21, 1986, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlotte announced the plan for a new church. The congregation, then made up of 237 families, originally met for Mass in the Tower Theater. [1] [2] In 2017 St. Matthew's had 35,599 registered members, making up 13.7 percent of the entire population of the Diocese of Charlotte. [2]
St. Peter’s Catholic Church is a Catholic parish church at 507 South Tryon Street in Charlotte, North Carolina.Established in 1851, it is the oldest Catholic church in Charlotte, and until 1940 was the only Catholic church in the city. St. Peter's was originally at the extreme southern limits of the city, but today it stands in the heart of uptown, across from the Mint Museum and Bechtler ...
The church was founded in 1939 as Bible Presbyterian Church at Central High School. [1] The first pastor was the Rev. Edgar Archer Dillard, and one of the founding elders was Billy Graham's father Frank, whose participation was in part a response to Billy's conversion. The first building was completed in 1941 on Fourth Street and held 750.
James G. Merritt is the senior pastor of Cross Pointe Church.He was born and raised in Oakwood, Georgia and surrendered his life to Christ as a 9-year-old boy. At age 21, he committed to full-time Christian ministry, and went on to pastor five churches.
Started in 1954 by Rev. Jack Hudson, the church grew from "29 members in a tar-paper building on Old Concord Road" [2] to 4800 members, the first church that large in the city, [3] and at its peak, 6400 members. The current building is a domed facility that includes a 3400-seat sanctuary.
In 2021, the diocese celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. At the end of the year, Jugis formally requested that the Vatican place the Diocese of Charlotte under the patronage of Mary, the Mother of God. [29] Jugis in 2023 submitted his resignation as bishop of Charlotte due to a chronic kidney condition that made it impossible to continue working.