Spring Harvest

Spring Harvest
Founded1979; 45 years ago (1979)
Founders
TypeCharitable organisation, Company limited by guarantee, Nonprofit
HeadquartersUckfield, East Sussex
Location
Area served
United Kingdom
CEO
Phil Loose
Key people
  • Martin Young (Chair) Cris Rogers (Chair of the event planning group)
Revenue
Increase £4,819,854 (2016)[1]
Employees
28 (2022)
Websitespringharvest.org

Spring Harvest is an inter-denominational evangelical conference and gathering in the United Kingdom that started in 1979.[2]: 245 

The festival arose in the late 1970s at a time when evangelicalism was growing in the UK and there was uncertainty as to how that movement would relate with Church of England and evangelicals within it; the event, among few others at the time, welcomed all evangelical Christians,[3]: 292–293  including people within and outside the charismatic movement.[2]: 245  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[2]: 247 

Its stated aims are to "equip the Church for action" through a range of events, conferences, books and resources. The tone is evangelical with modern worship music, workshops and seminars.

  1. ^ "Essential Christian Financial Statements y/e 2016-11-30" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 March 2018. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  2. ^ a b c Bebbington, David (1992). Evangelicalism in modern Britain : a history from the 1730s to the 1980s (Baker Book House ed.). Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Book House. ISBN 978-0801010286.
  3. ^ Hylson-Smith, Kenneth (1989). Evangelicals in the Church of England : 1734-1984. Edinburgh: T.&T. Clark. ISBN 978-0567291615.