Czech Republic: Church of the Brethren Council Backs New Prague Congregation and Ukrainian Station
The Council of the Church of the Brethren in the Czech Republic met in Prague in October and agreed to put a proposal to the church's conference to
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United States: How the Covenant’s Crescendo Ministry Grew With Older Adults
The Evangelical Covenant Church has traced the growth of Crescendo, its ministry with people aged sixty and older, from a pilot project to a team of twenty-five unpaid coaches
Global: WEA Shares Three Pastors' Voices on the Pressures and Hopes of Ministry
The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) has marked Pastor Appreciation Month with a conversation with three pastors serving in Jordan, Kenya and Brazil on the pressures of ministry and the hope
Global: WEA Chief of Staff Peirong Lin to Step Down at the End of 2026
The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) has announced that Dr Peirong Lin will conclude her service as Chief of Staff on 31 December 2026, after more than eight years in a
Sweden: Most New Equmeniakyrkan Pastors Want Rural Parishes, Recruiter Says
Equmeniakyrkan has begun the process of placing the next group of candidates for its supervised guidance year, and the choices they have registered challenge a common assumption about rural ministry.
Sweden: Equmenia Youth Movement Narrows Renaming Question to ‘Equmenia ung’
Equmenia, the Swedish free-church children's and youth organisation, has narrowed the question of a possible new name to a single option: “Equmenia ung” — Equmenia Young. Delegates will
Sweden: Equmeniakyrkan Reaches Out to Ordained Ministers Who Work Outside the Church
Hundreds of ordained ministers in Equmeniakyrkan, Sweden's largest free church denomination, now earn their living outside paid congregational service at a time when congregations are short of pastors
Germany: Free Evangelical Churches Elect First General Secretary in Structural Overhaul
The Bund Freier evangelischer Gemeinden (FeG), Germany's free evangelical denomination, took the next step in its structural reorganisation at a special federal assembly in Coburg on 17 October,
Sweden: Six Free Church Congregations in Dalsland Pool Resources to Call Shared Staff
Six Equmeniakyrkan congregations in Dalsland, western Sweden, have spent about a year testing whether they can call and employ staff together instead of separately. The initiative, known as Växtpool Dalsland
Global: IFFEC Elects Thomas Schech as General Secretary and Tammy Swanson-Draheim as President
The International Federation of Free Evangelical Churches (IFFEC) has named a new leadership pair. Thomas Schech, 53, who chairs the board of the German Alliance Mission (Allianz-Mission), was elected
Sweden: Free Church Youth Movement Puts Its Volunteer Leaders in the Spotlight
Equmenia, the children's and youth organisation of Sweden's Uniting Church (Equmeniakyrkan), is devoting a week to the volunteers who keep its work running, after its own
Ecuador: Covenant Church Weighs a Decade of Growth as Its Leader Calls for Clearer Goals
The Covenant Church of Ecuador is growing, and its general secretary wants it to set a clearer common direction for the coming decade — including the goal of reaching 20,000
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,
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
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
Finland: Tampere Pastor Steps Aside to Spend the Autumn Visiting His Congregation's Missionaries
A Free Church congregation in Tampere has released its own lead pastor from his normal duties for the rest of the year so that he can travel among the missionaries
Republic of the Congo: Pastors Adopt Landmark Rules Against Abusive Exorcism Practices
An evangelical church in the Republic of the Congo has adopted binding rules on the practice of exorcism, after its leadership was shown film of a session in which a
Czech Republic: Church of the Brethren Opens Church-Wide Debate on Ordaining Women
The Council of the Church of the Brethren (Církev bratrská), one of the Czech Republic's historic free evangelical churches, has opened a church-wide conversation on the ordination