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===Plans for a "Destiny City"===
On 29 October 2008 it was reported that Destiny Church was planning on building a holy city in South Auckland. The report was based on comments made by Brian Tamaki at the church's 10th birthday celebration, and released on DVD, where he talks about a {{convert|10|acre|m2|adj=on}} site the church had procured, with a budget of $2.4m. He said the community would have its own maraes and medical facilities and that "every child of every member of this church will never go to a state school again".<ref name="3_News_77688">{{cite web |url=http://www.3news.co.nz/News/NationalNews/Brian-Tamaki-announces-plans-for-standalone-community-in-South-Auckland/tabid/423/articleID/77688/cat/64/Default.aspx |title=Brian Tamaki announces plans for standalone community in South Auckland |date=29 October 2008 |work=[[3 News]] |accessdate=28 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004135723/http://www.3news.co.nz/News/NationalNews/Brian-Tamaki-announces-plans-for-standalone-community-in-South-Auckland/tabid/423/articleID/77688/cat/64/Default.aspx |archive-date=4 October 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The church subsequently denied the report, a spokesperson saying they only intended to build a new headquarters and supply "social help" programmes, despite Rotorua's ''Daily Post'' quoting Tamaki as saying Destiny planned to create a "city within a city" in 2006.<ref name="NZ_Herald_10540119">{{cite web |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10540119 |title=Destiny denies Manukau 'kingdom' plan |author=Eriksen, Alanah |date=30 October 2008 |work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |accessdate=28 September 2011 |archive-date=23 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110523035821/http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10540119 |url-status=live }}</ref> At the Church's 2012 annual conference in Rotorua, Tamaki presented plans including a library, bookshop, early childhood centre, three schools and a university and encouraged [[tithing]], saying "I don't care what the media say, I don't care what your relatives say, I don't care what the world says, nobody should be not tithing."<ref name=":5">{{cite news |title='City of God' dream becomes Destiny |first=John |last=Weekes |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10810380 |work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |date=3 June 2012 |accessdate=4 June 2012 |archive-date=3 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120603201257/http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10810380 |url-status=live }}</ref> In December 2012, Destiny Church moved its headquarters to a {{cvt|3|ha}} section in [[Wiri]], [[South Auckland]].<ref name="Ringer2021">{{cite book|title=Naming Manurewa: Place and Street Names in Manurewa, Weymouth and Wiri |first1=Bruce |last1=Ringer |publisher=Manurewa Historical Society |year=2021 |isbn=978-0-473-59363-6 |page=39}}</ref>