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Global: 1,200 YWAM Leaders From 90 Nations Meet in Thailand to Refocus on Holiness and the Unreached
More than 1,200 leaders of Youth With A Mission (YWAM) from 90 nations gathered in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in September for the mission movement's Global Leadership Gathering,
Czech Republic: Youth Gatherings Take ‘The Hero Within’ as Their Theme
Four regional gatherings for children and young leaders will take place across the Czech Republic during October, organised by Dorostová unie, the youth union of the Church of the Brethren
Switzerland: Worship Night Takes Praise Outside the Church Walls
A free evangelical congregation on the shores of Lake Geneva is taking its worship out of the church building and into one of the most unlikely venues in Switzerland: the
Sweden: ‘Building Hope’ Conference Asks How the Church Serves Its Neighbourhood
Congregations in southern Sweden gather in Helsingborg this weekend for “Bygga hopp” — Building Hope — a conference organised by Equmeniakyrkan Region Syd around a single question: what can the church actually
Estonia: ‘Friend to Friend’ Charity Marks 35 Years of Church-Run Aid
Sõbralt Sõbrale — “Friend to Friend” — turns 35 this year, marking three and a half decades of charitable work run by Estonia’s Free Church congregations. The story began in 1991,
Nepal: Finnish Mission Partners Pair Flood Relief With Long-Term Work
Floods and landslides that struck Nepal in late August have left many people without homes or a means of living, and the country’s small Christian community has been hit
Czech Republic: A Song About Pigeon Manure, and Goats for Uganda
A group of young people from the Czech town of Nové Město nad Metují have turned an unlikely product — bottled pigeon-manure fertiliser — into a small international charity, and this
Finland: Mission Doctor Who Served From India to Papua Has Died
Taisto Valta, a Finnish missionary doctor who later trained as a Free Church pastor and whose medical service carried him from a tuberculosis hospital in western India to Nepal, Iraq,
Finland: Mission Church Sets Out to Plant New Congregations
The Mission Church of Finland (Missionskyrkan i Finland) has announced that it is entering a deliberate new phase of church planting, with its national board judging that three to four
Survey: Most UK Evangelicals Say People Are ‘Good by Nature’
Nearly two-thirds of evangelicals in the United Kingdom agree with the statement, “Everyone sins a little, but most people are good by nature.” The finding comes from the latest
Retrieving the Christian Past While Keeping Scripture First
Something has shifted in evangelical reading habits. Where the movement’s strengths once lay in biblical exegesis, preaching, spirituality, missions and evangelism, it is now common to find evangelical theologians,
Worship Leaders Are Turning to AI to Weigh a Song’s Theology
Ask a younger worship leader how they decide whether a new song belongs in a Sunday service, and the honest answer is often that they are not sure. That is
Sweden: Evangelist Who Bridges Church and Climate Movement Wins Environmental Prize
The Swedish evangelist Lena Bergström has been awarded the environmental prize of God Jord, a Christian organisation, for her work on the climate crisis and for building bridges between the
Finland: Free Church-Backed Youth Work in Israel Marks Twenty Years
A thanksgiving and praise celebration at Baptist Village near Tel Aviv on 24 September marked twenty years since Netivah, a youth organisation working among Israeli children and young people, was
Canada: How a Winnipeg Living Room Grew Into a Coast-to-Coast Covenant Family
The Evangelical Covenant Church of Canada traces its beginnings to 1874, when two Swedish immigrants, Monsby Peterson and Reader Johnson, stepped off a boat in Winnipeg, Manitoba — then a frontier
Switzerland: Free-Church Slam Poet Sets Out to Find Words ‘Beautiful, Just and True’
A member of Switzerland’s French-speaking free churches has turned to slam poetry as a way of saying the world in language that is both accessible and sensitive. Cédric
Sweden: Church Leader Who Left His Mark ‘Without Raising His Voice’ Dies at 88
Sven Lindström, who led the mission work of the Swedish Baptist Union from 1995 to 2002 and served the country’s free-church movement as a pastor, union secretary and
Estonia: Four Theological Schools Begin Joint Project to Renew Pastoral Training
Teachers from Estonia’s theological schools have begun an unusually broad joint project to strengthen the training of pastors and church workers, meeting for two days at Pühajärve in the