Planetshakers
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Planetshakers is a Christian youth movement in Australia, originally founded by Russell Evans at the Paradise Community Church (AOG/Pentecostal) in Adelaide.
The ministry is now based in Melbourne, part of Planetshakers City Church.
Planetshakers also has had relationships with Australian Youth Alive events, which often promote the conference to tens of thousands of young people.
According to their website, they desire to "win the world for Christ" using evangelism and music. [1][2]
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[edit] Planetshakers Conferences
The Planetshakers movement runs annual conferences in most Australian states. The next conference period will see Perth, Brisbane, and Melbourne as venues. The first conference held in Adelaide in 1997 had 300 delegates, growing to reach 20,000 nation-wide by 2004. Planetshakers Conference 2007 marks the 11th anniversary. Melbourne, being the primary venue will host the conference in Vodafone Arena, part of Olympic Park. Due to a lack of large enough venues in Brisbane, the city will host two 3-day conferences to cater for the large numbers of delegates.
Conference speakers have in the past included Glen Berteau, Jurgen Matthesius, Rich Wilkerson, Mal Fletcher, Pat Schazline, Matthew Barnett, Reggie Dabbs and Chris Hill. The speakers strive to create a sense of passion and expectation in young people in their Christian journeys. The 2006 Conference included Reggie Dabbs, Chris Hill, Sam Evans, Russell Evans, Matt Fielder and Mike Guglielmucci.
In September of each year, Planetshakers also runs the smaller Planet Worship conference. Speakers in 2006 included Glen Berteau, Russell Evans, and Henry Seeley. The conference will be held at the Dallas Brooks Centre in Melbourne.
Growing internationally, Planetshakers now also runs conferences in Malaysia, Singapore and South Africa, with a desire to expand to the United States of America. They went to Singapore's Faith Community Baptist Church in Singapore Expo's max Pavillion in 2006.
[edit] 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 nearing 3000, and throughout most of 2005 ran three services per weekend, commonly approaching capacity. Currently, the church is held at the Dallas Brooks Centre, with two services (3:45 and 6:00pm). The church also makes use of the Arrow building for baptism services.
The church's youth ministry called "Boom" is led by pastors Mike and Amanda Guglielmucci, and runs Friday nights during school terms at Melbourne High School.
"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 (known as planetUNI), children (planetKids) and women (Beautiful Woman).
Planetshakers' stated mission is to "empower a generation to win a generation". [3]
[edit] Planetshakers College Brisbane
The Planetshakers team, under the guidance of Ps Paul Geerling (QLD coordinator for Planetshakers Conference and President of Youth Alive Australia) have set up a bible college, aptly named, Planetshakers College. Based in Brisbane QLD, this college is an extended campus of Southern Cross College and emphasizes on impartation, not just academic learning. They offer a fully accredited course for the Certificate IV in Contemporary Leadership which takes a year to complete. Students can then go on and do a diploma if they do a second year. The aim of the college is the same as the Planetshakers movement, "empowering a generation, to win a generation". Many guest speakers come to lecture throughout the year including Henry Seeley, Russell and Sam Evans, Paul Zaia and Mike Guglielmucci to name a few. Regular lecturers include Ben Naitoko, Sunjay Stevenson, Matt Stevenson and Paul Geerling.
[edit] Planetshakers Music
The Planetshakers band is the central part of their events, bearing a worship-woven modern pop-rock sound attractive to young people. The 2003 Australian Idol winner Guy Sebastian was also a part of the Planetshakers band for several years, taking both lead and backup vocal parts on the 2002 and 2003 albums and conferences. Many of the musicians originated from Youth Alive South Australia, which also released CD's. Some of the songs written by current band members for the Youth Alive albums, such as 'Phenomena' have also featured on Planetshakers earlier albums.
In 2004, their CD Open Up The Gates was nominated for Praise and Worship Album of the Year for the Dove Awards.
- Never Stop (2007) Studio recording
- Worship Him (2006) Compilation.
- Praise Him (2006) Compilation.
- Pick It Up (2006) Recorded live at the 10th anniversary conference.
- Arise (2006) Studio Recording.
- Decade: Lift Up Your Eyes (2005) Special 10th Anniversary Compilation.
- Evermore (2005) Recorded live at conference.
- Always And Forever (2005) Studio recording.
- All That I Want (2004) Recorded live at conference.
- Rain Down (2004) Studio recording.
- My King (2003) Recorded live at conference.
- Open Up The Gates (2003) Studio recording.
- Reflector (2002) Recorded live at conference.
- Phenomena (2002) Compilation. (International release - live recording)
- So Amazing (2001) Recorded live at conference.
- When The Planet Rocked (2000) Recorded live at conference.
[edit] External links
Australian:
- Planetshakers.com - Official Website.
- Planetuni.com.au - Official planetUNI website.
- Planetboom.org - Official Boom (youth ministry) website.
- Planetkids.com.au - Official Planetkids (childrens ministry) website.
Overseas:
- Planetshakers.com.my -Malaysian site.
News Articles:
- Heart Cry of a Generation as Young Christians Jump for Jesus - article in the Sydney Morning Herald (accessed 26/1/2006).
- The Idol Edge - article in The Age (accessed 2/11/2006).
