The CRC Churches International is a Pentecostal Protestant Christian denomination located primarily in Australasia. The Pentecostal movement within Protestant Christianity places special emphasis on the gifts of the Holy Spirit. ... Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ... Jump to: navigation, search As a noun, Christian is an appellation and moniker deriving from the appellation Christ, which many people associate exclusively with Jesus of Nazareth. ...

The CRC Churches International was founded (as the National Revival Crusade) in 1945 at Adelaide, South Australia by Pastor Leo Cecil Harris (1920-1977). In 1952, it became known as the Commonwealth Revival Crusade, until 1963 when it became the Christian Revival Crusade. The name CRC Churches International was adopted in 1998 in light of its international growth, especially in Papua New Guinea. Jump to: navigation, search 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... For other uses, see Adelaide (disambiguation). ...

As of 2005, they have approximately 100,000 members worldwide, with 129 churches in Australia and around 400 churches worldwide. Its biggest international branch is Papua New Guinea with around 200 churches. 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

They hold to a conservative Protestant theology, as well as to the core Pentecostal doctrines such as the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues, and faith healing. Conservatism or political conservatism is any of several historically related political philosophies or political ideologies. ... Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ... The Pentecostal movement within Protestant Christianity places special emphasis on the gifts of the Holy Spirit. ... Jump to: navigation, search In various religions, most notably Christianity, the Holy Spirit (also called the Holy Ghost in Trinitarian Christianity, in Hebrew רוח הקודש Ruah haqodesh)) is the third Person of the Holy Trinity. ... Jump to: navigation, search Glossolalia (from the Greek, γλώσσα (glossa), tongue and λαλώ (lalô), to speak) comprises the utterance of what appears (to the casual listener) either as an unknown foreign language (xenoglossia), simply nonsense syllables, or utterance of a unknown mystical language; the utterances sometimes occur as part of religious worship... Jump to: navigation, search Faith healing is the use of solely spiritual means in treating disease, sometimes accompanied with the refusal of modern medical techniques. ...

External links

• Charter of CRC Churches International
• History of the CRC Churches International as part of Monash University's Australia's Religious Communities