Aron, a missionary sent by the Swedish Evangelical Mission (Svenska Alliansmissionen) and now living in a city in a Muslim-majority North African country, says relationship-building over coffee is
After seven years of church planting, Mötesplats Ystad — a free church initiative in the southern Swedish town of Ystad — takes the formal step of becoming a congregation this weekend. The
A Pentecostal congregation in Åredalen, western Sweden, has entered a new chapter this autumn as a “cooperation congregation” jointly affiliated with both the Pingst (Pentecostal) movement and Equmeniakyrkan, the Uniting
More than 1,700 scouts from the Equmenia youth movement took part in Jamboree26 at Norra Åsum in Kristianstad, Sweden, last week — more than doubling the roughly 700 who attended
The Evangelical Free Church of Sweden (Evangeliska Frikyrkan, EFK) has appointed Linnea Åberg as its new mission director, marking a leadership transition for the denomination's global mission strategy.
Around 5,000 people are gathering daily on the island of Hönö off Sweden's west coast for the annual Hönö Conference, one of the largest free church gatherings
When Cornelia Forsberg realized that God's love did not need to be earned, everything changed. She resigned from her church staff position without knowing what her next step
The Hönö Conference, one of Sweden's largest annual free church gatherings, opened its first weekend with a recurring theme from the pulpit: the Christian faith begins not with
At Sweden's Almedalen political week, a seminar organized by Equmeniakyrkan (Uniting Church of Sweden) and Studieförbundet Bilda drew urgent attention to a question often overlooked in the debate
Sweden's free churches have been shrinking for decades, and the newly released Frikyrkoundersökningen 2026 (Free Church Survey 2026) confirms that the trend continues — with one previously bright spot
How far does intercessory prayer reach when people are living in the midst of war and occupation? That question framed a seminar on Israel and Palestine during Sweden's
Sweden is too important for the church to remain in its own bubbles, says André Jakobsson, Regional Church Leader for Equmeniakyrkan Region North and pastor of Hedlundakyrkan in Umeå. Speaking
On a typical weekend, at least three worship services take place in Andreaskyrkan (St Andrew's Church) in Luleå, northern Sweden. By Sunday afternoon the congregation has hosted Swedish-
Half of the Equmeniakyrkan's congregations have 50 members or fewer, and half lack any employed staff. When the denomination's first Vision Conference gathered in Örebro, the
The Equmeniakyrkan (Uniting Church of Sweden) has become skilled at talking about how new congregations are planted, but significantly less attention is given to those congregations that are struggling. In
Democracy is no longer being dismantled through dramatic coups, but step by step — often using democratic decisions as the tools. That warning was repeated throughout a seminar at Almedalen, Sweden&
Speaking at the Vision26 church conference in Örebro, Sweden, three free church leaders offered a vision of a future church built not on institutional strength but on home-based communities,
Seventy children in grades 1–6 gathered this week at Bänkåsviken on Alnö Island outside Sundsvall, Sweden, for the 24th edition of a medieval-themed summer camp rooted in the