The weekend of March 24-25 afforded us the privilege of going through some great material in a course called “Renewing the Mind”. The title of the course comes from Romans 12:2 that we should be being transformed by the renewing of our mind. Facilitating the course were Franz and Kristie Martens, who are setting up a missionary oasis here near… Read more →
Conferences
AWAKEN VI- “EMPOWERED”
By Ottavio Palombaro, Milan, Italy This past December I was part of the AWAKEN VI conference in Rome (Fiuggi), Italy. It was an amazing opportunity to meet brothers and sisters from every part of Europe, united for one cause: to go into the world and make disciples of all the nations (Matthew 28). It was already the third time I… Read more →
AWAKEN VI – Coming Home- by Sveta Kurinna, Zurich, Switzerland
To understand the permanent impression that AWAKEN VI made on me, I have to mention that my search for a true Christian fellowship led me to a GCE church in Kyiv, Ukraine 15 years ago. I was still in college, and was a “child” Christian. Since then, I’ve lived very far away from my first church family. I came to… Read more →
Awaken VI- in Rome- By Daniel Goering
Our sixth bi-annual Awaken Conference took place near Rome, Italy from Dec. 27-31. Even though the numbers were down from previous times, the spirit and effect of the time was one of the best ever. Our primary speaker was Tom Short, who did a great job of encouraging and challenging us all to live empowered lives through and for… Read more →