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The Keswick Convention is an annual gathering of conservative evangelical Christians in Keswick, in the English county of Cumbria. [3]The Christian theological tradition of Keswickianism, also known as the Higher Life movement, became popularised through the Keswick Conventions, the first of which was a tent revival in 1875 at St John's Church in Keswick.
Its name comes from the Higher Christian Life, a book by William Boardman published in 1858, as well as from the town in which the movement was first promoted—Keswick Conventions in Keswick, England, the first of which was a tent revival in 1875 and continues to this day, albeit with a more mainstream reformed evangelical theology.
The first First Century Christian Fellowship "House Party" was held in China in 1918. In the summer of 1930 the first International House Party was held at Oxford, followed by another the next year attended by 700 people. In the summer of 1933, 5,000 guests turned up for some part of an event which filled six colleges and lasted seventeen days.
The first Word Alive event took place as part of Spring Harvest in 1993 and was a partnership between UCCF, Keswick Ministries, Spring Harvest and initially the Proclamation Trust. In 2007, it was announced that Word Alive would no longer be a part of Spring Harvest, and from 2008 would run independently (as New Word Alive ) in Pwllheli ...
[3] From 1947 he was a well-known speaker at the annual Keswick Convention; and also spoke regularly at the Filey Christian Holiday Crusade, organized by the Movement for World Evangelisation, of which he was the Chairman and President He died on 4 April 1997 at his daughter's home on the Isle of Wight.
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[1] In 1897, Penn-Lewis reportedly first visited Keswick, Cumbria, where she "prayed publicly". She returned there as a public speaker in 1898. In 1901, she served as a speaker at the Scottish Bridge of the Allan Keswick Convention. There was controversy at the time, because she addressed a mixed audience of men and women.
W. H. Aldis was born in 1871 to Henry S. Aldis, a confidential clerk to a business firm in Reading, and Sarah Kitchen. [1] His grandfather John Aldis was a Baptist pastor of King's Road Chapel in Reading (now renamed Abbey Baptist Church).