[4] Formerly gathering in the northern Perth suburb of Joondalup, Riverview is one of the largest churches in Western Australia, with weekly attendance averaging 4,000 members in 2016.

The Bakers were assisted by pastors from Kansas City who returned overseas after helping to establish Faith Christian Academy, which in 1982 began teaching school students from years 1 to 10 within the church's building.

[9] The school, renamed Rhema Christian Academy in 1985, had grown to 200 students by the following year and had moved to premises in Colombo Street, across Albany Highway from the church.

[14][15] In 1997, Philip and Heather Baker established Riverview Church in the same building as the old Rhema fellowship, with a more ecumenical focus than its past incarnation, and a membership which grew in the early 2000s.

[citation needed] Philip Baker was president of the Australian Christian Churches network[16][dubious – discuss] and regularly wrote to newspapers and made media appearances representing the charismatic movement's point of view on a range of issues.