Are you passionate about the church learning lessons from its recent history? 

Do you have memories to share about your experience of renewal, in the period 1960-2000? 

Would you like to be involved? 

The period 1960 – 2000 was an exciting and formative time as charismatic renewal began to impact and change the church. Faith grew as we saw God move powerfully among us. Lessons were learnt and mistakes made. The scriptures remind us that remembering the past is important for the present. The Project seeks to record the history of charismatic renewal in this period in a way that informs and encourages the church of today and tomorrow.  

We are seeking to do this in several ways and the attached Leaflet goes into greater detail including details of our Steering Group chaired by Bishop John Finney and Advisory Group chaired by Dr John Maiden of the Open University

In particular we are beginning by gathering together people’s memories and reflections through a series of Witness Seminars and Questionnaires. Later there will be Conferences and Publications.

We began monthly Witness Seminars in the autumn of 2023 and these are available on the ReSource YouTube Channel. They were chaired by Dr John Maiden.  Please click below if you would like to catch up or revisit any of these.

Michael Harper and the Fountain Trust

Anglican Renewal Ministries

John Wimber

The Toronto Blessing

David Pytches and New Wine

HTB and Alpha

We have also piloted a Questionnaire which is now being distributed more widely. If you have memories of this period we would be delighted if you would fill one out by following this link:

As part of developing an Archive, we are fortunate to have been given many Fountain Trust tapes, formerly in the library of St John’s College Nottingham. These are in the process of being digitised and a list of available tapes can be downloaded here.  If you would like access to a particular recording, please email office@resourcingrenewal.org and we will email you a download link.  Please note that this process is still ongoing, so the link will be emailed to you as soon as it is available. 

Do you have old magazines, programmes from conferences, personal correspondence relating to charismatic renewal….? We would love to be able to include these in our growing Archive. Please be in touch with office@resourcingrenewal.org with the details of what you have.