Festivals in 2010

Spending time together outside of the normal run of things (weekends, weeks away and so on) is really important to the life of our community of faith. It is something we have seen modelled for us in the Old Testament stories of ancient Jewish festivals and indeed in society at large.

We are less beholden to some of the traditional Christian calendar events but have our own festivals to celebrate. Of course we include Christmas and Easter. Some people have a tradition of using part of their annual holidays to visit one of the national Christian festivals such as Spring Harvest or Greenbelt or a youth conference, worship leaders' conference etc.

At Wharfedale Vineyard we also enjoy our own festivals: special times to encounter God together in a special way. The shortest would perhaps be the Vine, the longest would be Ashburnham.

Some of the 'festivals' we have planned in 2010 are:

25-29 Jan 2010	Vineyard National Leaders Conference, Bognor Regis
15-19 Feb 2010	T4:12 residential, Pensarn Harbour in Wales
5-7 Mar 2010	Wharfedale Leaders weekend away, Hothorpe Hall LE17 6QX
28-30 May 2010	DTI: Dreaming the Impossible (young people)
14-16 May 2010	Women Rock Weekend, Bawtry Hall (women only)
25-27 June 2010	Revive: Vineyard Churches in the North, Long Marsden
TBC	Bob's residential weekend (men only)
TBC	Northern Leaders' Conference, Vineyard Centre

It would be nearly impossible for everyone to attend all of these (at least without a gender change in mid-year :-). But we encourage you choose a few of them, book in, and plan for special time to encounter God in a special way.

If you would like to set up a standing order to help spread the cost of paying for festivals you can download a standing order form here (you will need to be logged into the website).

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David Flowers, 23/02/2009