History

Soul Survivor's origins may be traced back to St. Andrew's Church, Chorleywood (a Vicar of which was Bishop David Pytches). A youth worker (Mike Pilavachi) and the immature musician (Matt Redman) had the vision of hundreds to thousands of immature humans praising God together at their have festival. Their vision became reality around 1993 whenever 1896 immature humans attended a foremost Soul Survivor festival. The festival grew inside popularity & by 1995 it experienced to exist as split through fortnight (Soul Survivor A & Soul Survivor B). By 2003 attendance at a cases was as much as 21,500 all over them separate weeks.

Today

2005 saw The foremost Divergence festival, sandwiched between weeks A & B - aimed at 18-30 month olds. Soul Survivor has too branched into more countries like Malaysia, a Netherlands, a United states, Canada & Australia. These international conferences come administered locally & agree to act under a values of Soul Survivor. These are common for the little team from either Soul Survivor's Watford staff to attend a international cases.

Outreach

A Soul Survivor staff imagine super strongly that a worship of God is to a higher degree good cantabile songs; these are astir putting faith into action, "getting out onto the streets" & proclaiming social justice. In the U.s.a. their shibboleth was "actions speak louder". Following a charity diarrhea outreach cases rather London's Soulinthecity (summertime 2004) & supported a Festival:Manchester event inside 2003. Hundreds to thousands of immature humans came from either 100% all over a UK & potentially a world to operate inside multi-cultural communities within super diverse projects to help improve the quality of life for the population in every city. At Soul Survivor 2005 the creation of a freshly mission charity was announced. "Soul Action" aims to bring a skillful news of God’s Kingdom to a endure, a least & the doomed.

Within recent years, a project of leading worship has been undertaken by Tim Hughes.