About Us

C3 Church Carlingford

C3 Church Carlingford is a contemporary, Australian, Pentecostal church committed to worshiping God with passion, reaching people with Jesus and building people in Jesus.

Christian City Church Carlingford began in September 1994. Ps. Richard & Sue Botta, and their children, and a great bunch of people, started the congregation from C3 Lane Cove.

Starting in a small school hall the church began to grow and in eighteen months had outgrown the original hall and moved to where they now meet at Carlingford High School. The church has grown from its initial 70 people to approximately 500 people.

C3 Church Carlingford’s heart is to plant churches, and we’ve been involved in 3 church plants, in 1999 C3 Church Ryde, in 2009 C3 Church Malmo and in 2019 C3 Church Wentworthville.

C3 Church Carlingford is a member of C3 Church Global, the international movement of C3 Churches. Our churches around the world are bright, enthusiastic and relevant to today’s world. Our message is one of faith, hope and love.

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SERVANT HEARTED LEADERS

Meet Our Senior Pastors

Richard and Sue Botta

PS. RICHARD BOTTA
Richard Botta has loved God all his life and first felt the call to full-time ministry when he was 16. He graduated with a Mining Engineering degree with honours from UNSW after finishing high school and worked for a while as a Youth worker with at risk youth on the Central Coast of NSW after University.

He then went to Bible College and on completion worked for 5 years as a Consultant Engineer. He started in full time ministry in January 1990 as an Associate Pastor at Christian City Church Lane Cove.

In September 1994, Richard, and his wife Susan, planted Christian City Church Carlingford. The church originated from a vision Ps. Richard Botta received to start a congregation in the Epping/Carlingford area in the Northwest of Sydney, to reach out to this region and beyond. C3 Church Carlingford started with a group of 70 committed people growing to over approximately 500 people today.

In addition to this, Ps. Richard oversees five Australian C3 churches.

PS. SUE BOTTA
Sue has a passion for winning souls to Christ; seeing them discover faith, hope and love tangibly in their lives, as well as seeing people freed to worship God. With a background in Agriculture and Event Management, Sue delivers the Truth in a practical, humorous, compassionate and unique way. She and her team established ‘Everywoman India’ which aims to see women and pastors released into their calling and gifting.