Word Alive

Word Alive was a large student Christian held each year at the Skegness, UK Butlins site, during the Easter holiday period. The conference was organised by Spring Harvest, UCCF and Keswick Convention as part of the Spring Harvest bible conference. The conference attracted around 2000 people, largely students. Regular speakers at the conference include Vaughan Roberts and Andrew Sach.

New Word Alive

In 2007 it was announced that Word Alive would be relaunched, to be held in April 2008 in Pwllheli, rather than Skegness, and would no longer be part of Spring Harvest.

Press releases explaining the split were released by UCCF, [cite web
url=http://www.uccf.org.uk/about-us/news/press-release/response-from-uccf-to-the-spring-harvest-decision-to-end-the-word-alive-bible-teaching-week-after-14-years.htm
title=Response from UCCF to the SPRING HARVEST decision to end the Word Alive Bible teaching week after 14 years
accessdate=2008-05-09] Keswick Ministries and Bishop Pete Broadbent of the Spring Harvest leadership team. [cite web
url=http://www.adrian.warnock.info/2007/04/pete-broadbent-of-spring-harvest-makes.htm
title=Pete Broadbent of Spring Harvest Makes a Statement About Word Alive
accessdate=2008-05-09] The statements emphasise different factors leading up to the decision to cease working together. Following a subsequent statement by Pete Broadbent all sides accept that disagreements over Spring Harvest leadership team member Steve Chalke's view of the atonement played at least some part in the split. [cite web
url=http://www.adrian.warnock.info/2007/04/broadbent-accepts-atonement-was-factor.htm
title= Peter Broadbent States Atonement Was a Factor in Spring Harvest Split
accessdate=2008-05-09]

References

External links

* [http://www.newwordalive.org/ New Word Alive]
* [http://www.uccf.org.uk/word-alive/ UCCF page on Word Alive]
* [http://www.christiantoday.com/article/uccf.keswick.end.spring.harvest.word.alive.partnership/10506.htm "Christian Today" article on separation from Spring Harvest]
* [http://adrianwarnock.com/2007/04/word-alive-and-spring-harvest-to.htm Article and statements on the reasons for the separation between Word Alive and Spring Harvest]