Vineyard Movement
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The Vineyard Movement is a combination renewal and church planting movement which can also be considered a Christian denomination. While often considered charismatic, they prefer the term empowered evangelicals to reflect their roots in traditional Evangelicalism, as opposed to historic Pentecostalism (though they sometimes describe themselves as the radical middle between the two). Vineyard philosophy has also played a key role in the development of transformationalism.
John Wimber was the leading founder of the movement, who split with Calvary Chapel in 1982. The movement suffered through some hard times after Wimber's death in 1997, but has been growing steadily since appointing Bert Waggoner as president of the Association in 2000. As of 2005, The Association of Vineyard Churches includes over 850 churches across the world. It also runs a publishing house and a music production company.
Trent Vineyard, Nottingham, UK is a large (approx 1000 strong) church in the UK. It was planted from the first British Vineyard in SW London led by John Mumford.
See also
External links
- Vineyard International Consortium (http://www.vineyard.org)
- Vineyard Music (http://www.vineyardmusic.com)
- Vineyard Churches Canada (http://www.vineyard.ca)
- The Association of Vineyard Churches - South Africa (http://www.avc.org.za)
- Vineyard Churches UK (http://www.vineyardchurchesuk.com)
- Vineyard USA (http://www.vineyardusa.org)
- Vineyard Benelux (http://www.vineyard.nl)
- Vineyard Nordic (http://www.vineyard.se)
