Spring Harvest

Spring Harvest


Spring Harvest is part of the Memralife Group
Founded 1979 (Spring Harvest) / 2009 (Memralife)
Founder Clive Calver, Peter Meadows
Type The Memralife Group is registered as a British charity and a private company, limited by guarantee with no share capital
Focus To serve and enable the Church and to equip and inspire individuals in the Christian faith to live as disciples of Jesus Christ
Location
Area served
UK and the World
Method Conferences, events, resources, financial grants
Key people
 Rt Rev Pete Broadbent (Chair)
Rev Dr Ian White (Vice Chair)
Peter Martin (CEO)
Malcolm Duncan (Chair of the event planning group)
Revenue
Decrease£ 5,866,729 (Memralife group, 2011)
Employees
63 (2011)
Slogan Equipping the Church for Action
Website www.springharvest.org

Spring Harvest is an inter-denominational Christian conference and gathering in the United Kingdom. Its "Main Event" takes place annually at the Butlins resorts in Minehead and Skegness over the Easter school holiday period.

First held in 1979 as a one-week one-site event at Prestatyn, Spring Harvest rapidly evolved and is now held at Butlins resorts in Minehead and Skegness every year.

The format for 2010 changed to five 'event-weeks' each consisting of 6 days (5 nights) – three event-weeks at Minehead and two at Skegness - one week fewer than in 2009. This pattern remained for 2011, with approximately 28,000 people attending over these five event-weeks, including day visitors.[1] Then in 2012 and 2013 whilst the three Minehead weeks were retained there was only one Skegness week. In 2014 three of the four weeks available were reduced by one day.

The tone is generally evangelical with modern worship music, workshops and Bible study groups. The programme offers different streams for age groups such as children, young people, families, adults, etc. The organization also runs a number of events, conferences and courses and produces a range of resources. Spring Harvest exists to 'equip the Church for action'. Through a range of events, conferences, books and resources, Spring Harvest seeks to enable Christians to make an impact in their local communities and the wider world.[2]

History

Location and attendance

Social campaigns and fund raising for causes

Linked initiatives

Governance

Main event annual themes

Each year’s main event has a teaching theme.

Media coverage

Impact on Churches

Hylson-Smith comments that non-denominational activities such as Spring Harvest did much to encourage pan-evangelicalism which tended to minimise historical differences between denominations[6] and Bebbington sees it as bringing together keen charismatics and non-charismatics at a time when tensions were still high between the two groups.[7]

Discography

References

  1. ↑ "Memralife Group Financial Statements (to 30 November 2011)".
  2. ↑ Spring Harvest Web Site
  3. ↑ ICC Media Group and Spring Harvest merge at the Wayback Machine (archived March 29, 2009)
  4. ↑ Pilgrim Hall Christian Conference Centre at the Wayback Machine (archived May 20, 2010)
  5. ↑ "More hit by holiday camp virus". BBC News. 17 April 2003.
  6. ↑ Hylson-Smith, Kenneth. Evangelicals in the Church of England 1734-1984 Edinburgh:T & T Clark (1988) p.292
  7. ↑ Bebbington, David. Evangelicalism in Modern Britain Routledge (1989) p.247
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