Christ's Church of the Valley (CCV) is a non-denominational

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located in Metropolitan

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. The church has several campuses in Arizona. Weekend

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was 32,000.

History

Christ's Church of the Valley was founded by

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Dr. Donald Wilson in 1982 with services held in a rented movie theater. Christ's Church of the Valley also held services in an elementary school and a strip mall for a short period of time. In 1996, Christ's Church of the Valley found a permanent home, after raising over $1 million in one day to purchase 50 acres of land in the northwest Phoenix. For the first four years on the new property, Christ's Church of the Valley held services in a ‘sprung’ structure with seating for 1,100. In January 2004, Christ's Church of the Valley moved into their current 4,500 seat multi-use structure on a 100-acre campus. In 2006, CCV built two new buildings for its children and youth ministries from over $8 million in funding, raised in one weekend. These buildings opened in fall 2008. As of 2016, it had 6 campuses in Maricopa County. On October 29, 2017, Don Wilson, CCV's founding pastor stepped down as Senior Pastor after 35 years at CCV. His replacement was Ashley Wooldridge, who was an Executive Pastor and a Teaching Pastor at the church for ten years prior. According to a church census released in 2019, it claimed a weekly attendance of 32,107 people and 9

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in different cities. Lifeway research
2019 Largest Churches List
outreachmagazine.com, USA, retrieved January 16, 2021

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External links

CCV Official Website
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