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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.
He had also been active in the Keswick Convention, [16] he was made leader of its morning missionary prayer meeting, [17] then Chairman of the Missionary Meeting, and finally Chairman of the Keswick Council. He chaired the conventions from 1936 to 1939, and again from 1946 to 1947.
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 ...
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.
He was chairman of the Keswick Convention from 1984 to 1993; was national chairman of Reform (a conservative evangelical group within the Church of England); was chairman of Word Alive (formerly a part of Spring Harvest) from 1993 to 2000; and for 12 years was chairman of SUM Fellowship (Sudan United Mission), now Pioneers UK. He has led many ...
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.
[5] While attending the 1902 Keswick Convention, Penn-Lewis was approached by an informal group of Welsh ministers. They wanted to establish a similar convention in Wales, and asked for her help. She agreed with their cause, and used her contacts to organize the Llandrindod Wells Convention. The first such convention took place in 1903.