The story of the Eastgate Op Shop is one of foresight and faith. It was an idea planted in the heart of Eastgate’s senior pastor Allan Taylor, through casual conversation one evening in 1987.

As Allan sat in his new office at 5 Ben Lomond Crescent in 2001, some 14 years later, the vision for this shop continued to stir in his heart. To any onlooker, he would seem to be daydreaming, but as Allan looked out his study window toward the warehouse next door, he saw second hand furniture being carried in and out of the large roller-doors of the dilapidated warehouse. When the building came up for sale the church purchased it and opened it as a second hand shop to the East Auckland community for the first time in 2002.