Bible Weeks

With an increasing hunger amongst Christians in the UK, Bible Weeks had started to become an annual phenomenon.  The first Downs Bible Week was started in 1979 with 2900 people.

1991 saw the first Stoneleigh Bible Week, which grew to around 26,000 people by 2001, the last of its kind in the UK. Stoneleigh's influence went way beyond the small village that gave it its name. It became a key fixture in the Christian calendar in the UK and drew well-known speakers from across the world.

Over the ten years hundreds had become Christians and were baptised in the Holy Spirit. There were also hundreds of people miraculously healed, not to mention the millions of pounds raised for new initiatives and the poor of the world. These events have helped expose churches in the Newfrontiers family and beyond to a big prophetic vision of God's purposes. The Stoneleigh Worship album regularly became the best selling album of it's kind around the world.

Stoneleigh Bible week closed with the theme 'Let's Go'. Let's go to plant many more churches and impact local communities. A key encouragement for this came from Ecclesiastes 3v5: a time to scatter as well as gather stones. We had gathered, with the purpose of encouraging, teaching, and mobilising our churches. Now was the time to scatter in order to gather many more to the same vision. As a direct result of this other nations have started their own Bible Weeks in order to gather and then scatter as well.

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