Soul Survivor

Soul Survivor is a Christian charity based in Watford, England. It oversees several Christian summer festivals aimed at young people, in addition to a youth church based in Watford.

A wide variety of other Soul Survivor events take place around the world every year, not all aimed at young people. These, however, are organised by charitable bodies in each country and are not centrally administered from the UK.

Soul Survivor festivals

At present, three separate Soul Survivor festivals run every year within the United Kingdom:

"Soul Survivor A" - A week long festival based in Staffordshire aimed at teenagers.
"Soul Survivor B & C" - Two week long festivals based in Somerset aimed at teenagers.
"Momentum" - A short festival based in Somerset aimed at students and those in their twenties.

In the past, other festivals have taken place:

"Soul In The City" - A one off festival based in the centre of London, which took place in 2004.
"Passion For Your Name" - A short festival based in Somerset, focussing on worship. It only ran for only two summers (2005 and 2006), replaced by worshipcentral after Tim Hughes moved on to join Holy Trinity Brompton.

The events are currently hosted by founder of Soul Survivor Mike Pilavachi and friends Ali McInnes (nee Martin) and Andrew Croft. Worship is currently lead by Tim Hughes, Ben Cantelon, Andreana Arganda and Sam Parker. As of 2008, the worship band also includes Delirious? drummer Paul Evans, and ex member of The Tribe, Quintin Delport. In the past, worship leaders Matt Redman and Lex Buckley have played at the event.

History

Soul Survivor conferences began in 1993 and grew out of the New Wine family conferences. Like New Wine, the Soul Survivor conferences were originally overseen by a church called St Andrews, based in Chorleywood, Hertfordshire (the vicar at the time was David Pytches). The New Wine conferences inspired Mike Pilavachi (then youthworker of St Andrews church) and one of the members of his church youth club Matt Redman, to have thousands of young people praising God together at their own festival.

The first conference happened in 1993 when 1,896 young people attended the first Soul Survivor festival. The event split across two weeks in 1995 (Soul Survivor A and Soul Survivor B) and by 2006, attendance at the events was around 25,000 over the two separate weeks. [cite news |title=Soul Survivor Announces New Event for 2007 |url=http://www.christiantoday.com/article/soul.survivor.announces.new.event.for.2007/9030.htm |publisher=Christianity Today |date=2007-01-05 |accessdate=2007-11-21 ]

The Momentum festival was founded in 2005. Momentum 2006 saw just under 5000 people attend between the 19th and 24th of August. Momentum 2007 took place from 20th - 24th July, preceding the main Soul Survivor weeks A and B by two weeks, and was attended by just over 2500 delegates. Fact|date=September 2007

oul Survivor Worldwide

Soul Survivor has spread across the globe and now holds festivals in the following locations:

ee also

* World Wide Message Tribe
* New Wine - a similar event aimed at families, which also originated from St. Andrews.
* Survivor Records - a record label affiliated with Soul Survivor, distributed by Kingsway Communications.

References

External links

* [http://www.soulsurvivor.com/ The Soul Survivor website]
* [http://www.soulaction.org/ The Soul Action website]
* [http://www.soulsurvivor.com/momentum/ The Momentum website]
* [http://www.worshipcentral.org/ The Worship Central website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/soulsurvivorgb/ Soul Survivor Myspace]
* [http://www.petermakosch.com/ Soul Survivor Picture Gallery]