New Wine
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| Founded | 1989 |
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| Founder | The Rt Rev David Pytches |
| Type | New Wine Trust is a registered charity no. 1084415 and a company limited by guarantee, governed by a memorandum and articles of association. |
| Location | |
| Origins | St Andrew's Church, Chorleywood, Hertfordshire |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
| Method | Summer conferences, Leadership and Network events, and Overseas activities |
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Members
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A large number of churches world wide |
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Key people
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Rev John Coles (Chairman & Director) Rev Paul Harcourt (Director designate) Rev Mark & Lindsay Melluish Ian & Nadine Parkinson Phil George (Operations Director) |
| Subsidiaries | New Wine Resources Limited |
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Revenue
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 £ 4,009,112 (2014) |
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Employees
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29 |
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Volunteers
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5000 (during the summer conference) |
| Website | new-wine |
New Wine is a family of churches which operates in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1989 as a Christian festival run by Anglican clergy David Pytches and Barry Kissell, who were influenced by the teaching of charismatic pastor John Wimber.
David Pytches was consecrated Bishop of the then diocese of Chile, Bolivia, and Peru in 1972. While in South America, he witnessed what he termed a 'spontaneous expansion' of the church. Pytches was keen to see this replicated in the UK and while vicar of St. Andrew's, Chorleywood in the 1980s, he invited John Wimber to his church. Wimber was founder of the Vineyard Church in the United States. Inspired by Wimber and by what he had witnessed in South America, Pytches came to believe that ordinary Christians can minister to others using the scriptural Gifts of the Spirit.
While in the UK, Wimber held a number of conferences resulting in considerable interest in the charismatic movement from churches nationwide. Soon afterwards, Pytches became the leader of New Wine. Unlike John and Eleanor Mumford, who planted the first Vineyard Church in the UK, Pytches chose to establish the values of the Vineyard Church in other church settings.
The name 'New Wine' was chosen as an appropriate biblical description of the ‘new life’ offered to people who were open to the 'Gifts of the Spirit'.
The first New Wine Christian Conference was held in 1989 at the Royal Bath and West Showground, Somerset and attracted nearly 2,500 people. In 1993 a separate conference for teenagers was launched under the leadership of Mike Pilavachi, then a youth worker at St Andrew's. The youth conference was named Soul Survivor. New Wine now attracts around 24,000 delegates over two weeks and Soul Survivor attracts over 35,000 young people over three weeks.
There are also a number of New Wine conferences held around the UK and abroad each year.
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