PlanetShakers - Planetshakers City Church

The band and ministry moved to Melbourne in 2004 to start the Planetshakers City Church, which currently meets in hired auditoriums throughout Central Melbourne. Pastors include Mike Guglielmucci and Sam and Russell Evans. The church has attendance of 2500, and throughout much of 2005 ran three services per weekend, commonly approaching capacity. 2006 will see the church make use of the Melbourne Town Hall with a single weekend service initially.

The church's youth ministry called "Boom" is led by pastors Mike and Amanda Guglielmucci, and runs Friday nights during school terms at various locations.

"Urban Life" groups (basically cell groups) are run fortnightly in homes spread around all parts of Melbourne. There are also various other ministries serving and reaching out to university students, children and women.

Planetshakers' stated mission is to "empower a generation to win a generation".

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Praise and worship during a Planetshakers conference, 2005 part 1

Planetshakers runs annual conferences in several Australian states. The first conference held in Adelaide in 1997 had 300 delegates, growing to reach 20,000 nation-wide by 2004.

The 2007 conference period saw Perth, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne as venues, and marking the 11th anniversary. Melbourne, being the primary venue, hosted the conference in Vodafone Arena, part of Olympic Park.

The conferences were held in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Perth in January 2008. Melbourne at Vodafone Arena from 2-5 January 2008; Brisbane 7-10 January 2008 at Brisbane Convention Centre; Sydney 9-12 January 2008 at Sydney Olympic Park in the Sports Centre (formally State Sports Centre); and finally Perth on 15-18 January at Challenge Stadium.

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