1949  At age 15, John plays first professional music gig at the Dixie Castle in Orange, CA.

1953  John wins Lighthouse International Jazz Festival.

1955  John marries Carol.

1962  John puts Righteous Brothers music group together.

November 1962  Dick Heying (the drummer in John's band) and his wife Lynn become Christians. Dick & Lynn visit John & Carol often.

April 1963  John and Carol begin attending Gunner Payne's Bible study at Heying's.

May 1963  John and Carol accept Christ.

1964  John baptized in Holy Spirit.

1964-1970  Period of intense personal evangelism. John estimates that he and Carol led hundreds to Christ.

1970  John leads 11 Bible studies a week with over 500 people in attendance at Yorba Linda Friends Church.

1971  John becomes co-pastor of Yorba Linda Friends (Quaker) Church. Carol is an elder.

1974  John leaves staff at Yorba Linda Friends Church, invited by C. Peter Wagner to become Founding Director of the Department of Church Growth at the Fuller Institute of Evangelism & Church Growth. Directs Institute until 1978.

1974   Kenn and Joanie Gulliksen move to Los Angeles from Calvary Chapel, Costa Mesa, to plant a church that they will eventually name the Vineyard.

1976   John flies into Detroit, hears from God..."I've seen your ministry, now I'm going to show you mine." A Lutheran pastor in New York City gets a word from God for John..."Go home!"

September, 1976   John given additional words of encouragement from God at Friends Leadership Retreat..."God's crying over you" & "When are you going to use your authority?"

October 1976    Carol and some of the leaders of the Quaker church start a home meeting. Bob Fulton facilitates and Carl Tuttle leads worship because he's the only person who can play guitar. The meeting grows from 12 to 50 in a few weeks.

1977   The Vineyard, started by the Gulliksens, had gone through several different locations, produced two additional church plants and was in Westwood being attended by a budding young musician/songwriter named Keith Green, who received Christ at Kenn's Bible Study.

April 1977  The Quaker Bible study has now grown to 100 and John has become the leader.

Mother's Day, May 8, 1977   The Wimbers and 40 members of the home Bible study were asked to leave Yorba Linda Friends Church. The group becomes the Calvary Chapel of Yorba Linda with 150 in attendance. John is designated pastor and continues his work with Fuller Evangelistic Association.

March 1978 After ten months of preaching and praying without anyone healed, John and team see their first healing.

1979 John Wimber and Kenn Gulliksen meet at Calvary Chapel Leadership Meetings.

Fall 1979   Todd and Debbie Hunter are the first church planters sent out from Wimber's church. They plant a church in Wheeling, West Virginia.

Mother's Day, 1980  Lonnie Frisbee was speaking at Calvary Chapel Yorba Linda and says, "Come Holy Spirit". The Spirit breaks out in great power.

January 1982   The first MC510 course held at Fuller Seminary called "Signs, Wonders and Church Growth" taught by John Wimber.

April 1982   Calvary Chapel of Yorba Linda is asked to leave Calvary Chapel affiliations and joins with Kenn Gulliksen's group of Vineyard churches.

Mother's Day, 1982  VCF Anaheim first public meeting. Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Anaheim incorporated.

May 1982   John Wimber becomes pastoral head of Vineyard movement.

May 1983  Vineyard Ministries International (VMI) is born.

May 1984  First Fruits Magazine (the first Vineyard Magazine) begins.

June 1984   MC510, a class on the supernatural started at Fuller Seminary in January 1982, goes public. It soon goes out worldwide.

October/November 1984   John and team go to England. Hundreds of churches are touched by their ministry.

1985 Mercy Records was formed along with Mercy Media.

1985 The Association of Vineyard Churches (AVC) was incorporated.

1986  The Vineyard grows to 200 churches. John Wimber writes "Power Evangelism".

1986  John suffers heart attack.

1987 Equipping the Saints replaces First Fruits magazine.

1991  VCF Anaheim moves into new facility on La Palma.

1993-5  John diagnosed with cancer, has a stroke.

January 1995 John Wimber installs Carl Tuttle as Senior Pastor of VCF Anaheim.

Spring 1997 Voice of the Vineyard (VOV) magazine replaces Equipping the Saints.

July 1997 John Wimber installs Todd Hunter as National Director of AVC (USA).

November 17, 1997  John suffers a massive brain hemorrhage, goes home to be with Jesus!