The student Bible groups of French-speaking Switzerland’s free evangelical churches are showing signs of renewal after several secondary-school groups faded during the Covid-19 pandemic. Jean-René
Czech music teacher and choir director Hanka Fišerová has moved into long-term missionary service in a rural community in western Kenya, where poverty leaves children little access to creative
Finland's Free Church gathered its two national ensembles — the Wind Orchestra and the Sinfonietta — for the annual SopuSointu music camp at the Kiponniemi activity centre over the final
Estonia's Union of Free Evangelical and Baptist Churches (Kogudused) is hosting a series of three theme evenings for parents, supported by the country's Ministry of the
Finland's largest Christian pop-rock music festival, Glow Festival, wrapped up its third edition at Tampere's Nokia Arena with a gospel concert that drew on the
The Church of Brethren congregation in Třinec-Lyžbice, Czech Republic, is preparing a mission project to run day camps in villages around Kabwe, in central Zambia, where high poverty and
The Maata Näkyvissä Northern Dimension gospel music event drew around 2,000 visitors when it was held at the Hannulanmäki ice hall in Tornio on 15 August 2026. The turnout
Twelve young people from Pori Free Church in western Finland spent ten days in Bulgaria in June 2026, serving alongside long-term Finnish Free Church missionaries Hanna and Markus Rokosa
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
A panel discussion at the Fourth Lausanne World Congress has issued a sobering challenge to the global church: 62 percent of young people leave the church before reaching adulthood. The
Nearly 70 children aged 7 to 13 gathered at Raskinranta in Kihniö, Finland, from 2 to 5 July for a summer camp organised by Kihniö Free Church (Vapaaseurakunta) under the
A year-long course at Prague's Evangelical Theological Seminary (ETS) is demonstrating that theological formation and artistic production can go hand in hand. The "Music in the
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
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
Joel Goldberg, director of Netivah Youth Ministries in Israel, reports that attendance at the organisation's conferences has grown tenfold — from around 60 participants in its early years to
Swedish teenagers and young adults score significantly lower on measures of meaning and purpose than both older Swedes and their peers in other countries, according to findings from the Global
Finland now has more than thirty Christian daycare centres, most of them established since the early 2000s. But according to a new vision published in the Finnish free church weekly
In Jyvaskyla — a city where roughly one in three residents is a higher education student — a free church student worker is calling congregations to recognise university campuses as one of