New Wine is a not-for-profit Christian evangelical organization based in the United Kingdom, that assists Christian churches with organizational leadership training and fundraising. The organization also holds its own annual summer conferences, which first took place in

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in 1989.

History

New Wine was set up by the former Bishop of the then-diocese of Chile, Bolivia and Peru,

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, in 1989. Pytches was heavily influenced by the founder of the

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, who had held a number of conferences through the 1980s, leading to increased interest in the

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in the United Kingdom.

Summer conferences

The first New Wine Christian Conference was held in 1989 at the

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and attracted nearly 2,500 people. The event now attracts more than 14,000 people per year, and since 2019 has been held at the East of England Showground in

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. In 1993 a separate conference, called Soul Survivor, aimed at teenagers and young adults was established by the evangelist

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. This ran until 2019. The conference has attracted a number of speakers prominent within the evangelical movement in the United Kingdom and the United States, including

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, J.John,

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, Bill Johnson,

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and

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References

External links

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{{Authority control Christian conferences Christianity in England Christian organizations established in 1989