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New Wine originated as a Christian festival, established in 1989 by Anglican clergy: Bishop David Pytches and the Rev. Barry Kissell. This was in response to the teaching of John Wimber and others that brought in a new wave of charismatic movement to the established church in the UK. It is now the largest network of Christians open to the charismatic movement in the UK, running a number of week long festivals in England, Scotland and Wales and currently attracting around 30,000 delegates per year.
New Wine is currently led by John Coles and has headquarters at two Anglican churches: St Barnabas', Finchley and St Paul's, Ealing.[1]
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Early history
In the 1980s, David Pytches (then vicar of St. Andrew's, Chorleywood) had a longing to see 'the spontaneous expansion' of the church in this country as he had seen it happening in Chile, while Bishop there. Through a growing friendship with John Wimber, the founder of the Vineyard Church in the USA, he realised one of the keys was the equipping of ordinary Christians for ministry through the gifts and power of the Holy Spirit. John visited David's church, and held various public conferences which stirred up great hunger and interest from churches across the nation. David began a series of one day conferences in St Andrew's for church leaders, and, in 1987/8, held residential mid-week conferences at Swanwick. They looked to David for leadership, and to St Andrew's as an example of a local church joyfully transformed by the Holy Spirit and engaging in effective mission in a contemporary way.[1]
Summer conferences
The first conference, held in 1989 at the Royal Bath and West Showground, Somerset, attracted nearly 2,500 people. Since then, it has steadily grown, and by 1993 the youth section had grown so much that Mike Pilavachi had the vision of a separate conference for teenagers, and hence Soul Survivor was born. Numbers grew such that two separate weeks had to be later added.[1]
There are now a number of conferences held around the UK and abroad each year.[2]
Over the years, New Wine has attracted many well-known speakers, including: David Carr, J John and Mike Pilavachi. The same can be applied to worship leaders; the past 17 years have seen Matt Redman, Tim Hughes, Brian Doerksen and Kathryn Scott lead worship in New Wine's primary venue.[3]
New Wine North and East
The first New Wine North and East conference was held at the Great Yorkshire Showground in Harrogate, in 2005, with 3,500 delegates attending. In subsequent years, the event was moved to Newark Showground in Newark. The event accommodated 6,500 people in 2006.
New Wine Ordinands
In 2003, four ordinands – Dave Wheatley, Malcom MacDonald, Andy Sachs and Helen Azer – contacted the leaders of New Wine to look into ways of enabling emerging church leaders within the New Wine network to learn from those already leading churches. They set up 3 annual conferences.[4]
This vision was handed on to succeeding generations as these ordinands continued to ordination, with the vision that every person training for ministry in the Church of England would have access to practical training in healing, prayer ministry, prophecy, evangelism and visionary leadership that is explained in a way that is accessible to their tradition and geographical limitations. This is done by identifying and supporting Area Co-ordinators in each college/course in the UK and providing them with a network of support from other ordinands on the steering group and from local New Wine church leaders as they work with their course staff. New Wine Ordinands currently works with almost all the training institutions in the C of E and holds two national conferences per year.[5]
Other events
The New Wine organisation also runs many other events during the year, including leadership, ministry, "kids work" and worship training days, and also short-duration retreats. All these events include spirit-led worship, ministry and teaching.
Discography
New Wine has released a number of 'live worship' music CDs recorded at its summer conferences:
- Kingdom Come (2008)
- Cry Freedom (2007)
- Heavenbound (2006)
- Hope (2005)
- Echoes in Eternity (2004)
- In Pursuit of God (2003)
- Journey in Faith (2002)
- Grace (2001)
There was a break with 'tradition' in 2009, with the release of a studio-recorded CD of similar new music:
- Saving Grace (2009)
World-wide scope
The summer conferences at Shepton Mallet have spawned a number of related conferences around the world. In addition to New Wine North there are separate events in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and the US. Further afield, the independent Summer Wine Conference, in New Zealand, is based upon the original New Wine conferences.
References
See also
Soul Survivor - a similar event, aimed at youth, which also originated from St. Andrews, Chorleywood.
Trinity Cheltenham - Hosts for New Wine, Central and South West
External links
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