The topic of diaspora people groups is on many people’s minds today as thousands of people per day are being displaced from their homes due to war and violence or forced displacement. Europe became home to over 1.3 million displaced people in 2015 alone. This creates a unique opportunity in Europe and Eurasia to share the gospel with people who… Read more →
Monthly Archives: April 2016
Annual Missionary Retreat- by Daniel Goering, Western Europe Director
Our Europe based missionaries take the better part of a week each year around Easter to connect with each other and be refreshed in the Lord. This year’s retreat was held for the first time in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Everyone was super encouraged by the time. Our guest speaker this year was Tim Haring of Chestnut Ridge Community Church in Morgantown,… Read more →
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 →
From Amsterdam to Kenya
by Linda Kitchen, A50, Amsterdam, the Netherlands In late December 2015, Amsterdam50 (A50) once again sent a team on a mission trip to Kenya. This was our church’s seventh mission trip, continuing to build the relationship with these precious 31 orphan kids and staff. I was blessed to have Imelda (Dutch woman) and Rony (from Kenya) as a part of… 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 →
TO SEEK AND SAVE THE LOST – By Timmy Powers, Eastern Europe Church Planting
One of the truths that I speak about a lot in my training and coaching in Europe is the importance of focusing on incarnational ministry (going to people on their territory instead of waiting for them to come to us). John 1:14 in The Message translation has a good way of expressing how Jesus modeled this: The Word became flesh… Read more →