A hundred years of saying come home.

A small group of people who had been attending Smith Wigglesworth’s crusades in the Adelaide Town Hall decide to keep meeting after the crusade ends. Among them is a young Adelaide woman called Stella Wheaton, baptised in the Holy Spirit when Aimee Semple McPherson visited from Los Angeles. They gather in a home in Magill. They keep showing up. The church begins.

There is no founder of this church but Jesus. We love that fact.

Tommy and Stella Evans return from thirty years on the mission field in India to be with two of their older children, back in Adelaide for schooling. Tommy pastors the home church for six years before heading to Papua New Guinea.

Missionaries sent from the Adelaide church arrive in Papua New Guinea. A small revival begins among a handful of national leaders. It grows. It keeps growing. Tens of thousands of people are saved and baptised in the Holy Spirit across PNG.

Today, one in twelve people in Papua New Guinea attend a church denomination that came out of that revival.

Andrew and Lorraine Evans head to Papua New Guinea as missionaries in 1963. Their two sons — Ashley and Russell — are both born there. In late 1969 they leave PNG quickly when Lorraine falls deathly ill.

Andrew and Lorraine had been planning to take a church in Queensland. God said: take Klemzig on. They take a church of two hundred people on Adelaide’s east side.

Over the next thirty years, more than thirty thousand people walk the aisles of that church to say yes to Jesus.

After a long, arduous qualification process, the board of directors and the elders committee both vote unanimously by secret ballot to recommend Ashley and Jane Evans to the church as Senior Pastors. The church votes on a Sunday morning, also by secret ballot. The result: 99.98% approval. It shocks everyone.

In 2012 the church takes the name Influencers Church — a decade of sending people out to influence culture, work, family, and city. Across the same decade, five Indonesian campuses are planted: Cemani, Solo, Samarinda, Langowan, and Bali.

In 2023 the church takes the name Futures Church — a promise that the best days are still ahead, not behind. Futuros opens for the Spanish-speaking family in the United States. Four Venezuelan campuses are planted at once. Selah moves from napkin sketch to launching app.

Twenty-one active campuses across four nations, with four more launching in Venezuela this year. Ashley and Jane lead the global family from Gwinnett, Georgia. Josh and Sjhana lead the Australian campuses from Paradise.

Fifty-three thousand people have met Christ through this church family — over thirty thousand at Klemzig under Andrew, and the rest across the campuses in the twenty-six years since Ashley and Jane took the seat. The vision: two hundred campuses, ten thousand leaders, two hundred thousand souls. And it’s just the beginning.