In 1969 a movement was birthed at a little Baptist chapel in rural Northamptonshire. Powerful new life broke out when the Holy Spirit fell upon the congregation. People were baptised in the Spirit, spoke in tongues, and knew God's power in a dramatic new way.
Others began to flock from all over the Midlands and beyond to experience what God was doing. Bikers and hippies, Oxford students and professionals were added to the melting pot.
Sharing and deep fellowship flowed from this fresh experience of God's reality, and in the early seventies the call became clear: to come together as God's people and have all things in common.
So, being obedient to the Spirit, they did just that: sold cars, houses, pooled their resources and began to live together.
Large properties were purchased (many through faith and prayer) that could accommodate large numbers of people. New Creation Christian Community was born. Later, the vision came to plant new churches and pioneers set out to establish Jesus Fellowship churches throughout the UK.
Yet Northampton has remained the hub of the church, a "mother" church to many "daughters". Now, nearly 40 years after its beginning, the congregation is a strong, vibrant one with some 800 people belonging to it. There are more than 20 community houses in the area in and around Northampton.
These days, God has blessed the congregation with an energetic new generation of young people who are taking up, with new vigour and drive, the vision that inspired so many in 1969.
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