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This is a leadership training resource with gap year locations in Canada and New Zealand and has run since 2007/08ish. I am going to use this platform and the influence I have to share our churches journey to understand and deal with this problem. New Ground 2012: New Ground, led by David Holden (a Sphere Leader and New Frontiers Together leader) also hosted Pilavachi in 2012 for their “Empowered” summer festival. As mentioned in THIS post, Mark Bailey was removed both from New Wine leadership and ordained ministry in the Church of England due to his behaviour being dishonouring of God.

While the statement acknowledgement the pain Mike PIlavachi has caused, their statement sought to minimise the relationship New Wine had with Soul Survivor and Mike Pilavachi. As people become senior leaders in their organisations, they are rarely surrounded by people who robustly challenge them. Pete Greig resigned from the Anaheim Vineyard Board over the situation, stating that Alan Scott (and his wife Kathryn) “have served faithfully and fruitfully within Vineyard for decades and are truly people who listen diligently to the Lord and simply seek to obey.

xxviii] Until 2018, both Mike Pilavachi and Andy Hawthorne were Directors of Hope (alongside Rachel Jordan and Laurence Singlehurst), with Roy Crowne as Executive Director. He sought to work with them both in collaboration, rather than competition, to enable more young people across the UK to come to know Jesus.

I cannot comment further at this point because of ongoing processes but will at some point, I hope, be able to make a much fuller statement. I have been amazed and so saddened to see this regarded online as “evil”, “despicable”, “a disgrace”. July – Telegraph journalist Gabriella Swerling reports HERE that Soul Survivor have responded to Matt Redman’s statement by saying “We are grateful to Matt and Beth Redman for their openness and honesty. July – Causeway Cost Vineyard church posted THIS update on the Alan Scott investigation, mentioned earlier in this timeline and in THIS post.By the following year, this one off event had become a mission to take the Message to Schools, with a group of Christians setting up a band, the World Wide Message Tribe to do this work. It was concluded that he used his spiritual authority to control people and that his coercive and controlling behaviour led to inappropriate relationships, the physical wrestling of youths and massaging of young male interns. Artists represented by them included: Matt Redman, Tim Hughes, Vicky Beeching, Brenton Brown, Beth Croft, Phatfish, LZ7, YFriday and others. We’ve seen some of the videos, like THIS one, coming out of Soul Survivor where Mike Pilavachi behaved unkindly. We can all read the stories of those hurting people, many who have personally experienced the pain described in the allegations.

August – James Heywood has published THIS blog about Pete Grieg in the context of Mike Pilavachi and Soul Survivor. In addition to this, Mike was repeatedly booked by New Frontiers Spheres and Churches for the last 10 years or more. When John Wimber visited the UK back in the eighties, these people were young and idealistic, still relatively powerless in the grand scheme of things. Christian news outlets have covered the situation and surely as Christians we should all seek to be well-informed about situations we comment on, particularly in how they are reported in “secular” media, given that affects our ability to be a good witness to those who are not Christian.Within a couple of years of New Wine, the vision for a separate youth festival had emerged, with Barry Kissell telling Mike Pilavachi that he had “outgrown” the youth ministry at St Andrews. It doesn’t understand how its theology supports and creates environments where abuse can happen, where abusers can thrive and even be defended for their behaviour as ‘the Lord’s anointed’. August – Premier report HERE that UCCF have apologised for how long their investigation into two of their male senior leaders is taking.