More than 3,300 teenagers and adults from Europe, the United States, and South Korea gathered in Offenburg, Germany, last week for TeenStreet 2026, an annual Christian youth conference organized by Operation Mobilisation.
After a grueling travel journey we can get to our destination and not actually feel welcome. So it can be with arriving at a church. A sign can welcome people to a building but only people can welcome people into a community. Jesus was extraordinary at making people feel welcome.
The controlled use of fire helped develop our humanity. Gathering around fires for warmth and storytelling, singing, teaching, and spiritual rituals became a metaphor for inspiration, spirit, and knowledge. Fire extended human activity into the night with profound implications for learning, productivity and culture. It is worthy of awe.
When we touch earth, we are touching something deeply ancient, deeply alive. It may seem solid and lifeless, but scoop up a handful of dirt and you have a living substance. And without gravity, nothing would stay in place. Let us not lose the wonder of the free gifts God has given to all the Earth.
One of the saddest things about growing older is not the wrinkles on our faces; it’s the wonder we sometimes lose from our hearts. The same is true the longer we follow Jesus. Familiarity is one of faith’s greatest thieves. For the sake of the gospel and the vitality of our own faith, let us hold on to wonder as we walk in the world that is still full of God.
When Josef and Rebekka Schneider left secure careers seven years ago to renovate and operate a former Catholic seminary as a hotel in Austria, they believed the business would simply support their real mission: planting a church. Instead, the hotel became the mission.
Advocating for assisted suicide on the likelihood of a patient dying within six months has been robustly challenged by a leading palliative care expert who says that no diagnostic tools, tests or clinical examinations can reliably predict such a timeframe.
The French evangelical alliance CNEF (Conseil National des Évangéliques de France) has issued a rallying cry to evangelicals to mobilise a “spirit of compassion, prayer and support” to communities suffering after devastating wildfires engulfed large areas of France this summer.
Two of Germany's prominent voices on Islamist radicalization are warning that last week's deadly attack on a Berlin Pride parade reflects a crisis far deeper than the actions of a single attacker — one in which, according to a Christian charity worker, the majority of young Muslim men in Germany's most troubled neighborhoods quietly support those intent on overturning the country's democratic order.
As the Spanish enclave of Ceuta slowly returns to something like normality, an evangelical pastor in the city is urging Christians worldwide to pray — for the migrants who came, for residents caught in the chaos, and for authorities struggling to respond.
The Evangelical Alliance in Germany (Evangelische Allianz in Deutschland - EAD) is celebrating its legacy this year with commemorative events and a public statement emphasising that peacebuilding is more important than ever amid the continuing war in Ukraine and fears it could spill over into other parts of the continent.
Devastating wildfires engulfed southwestern France this summer — one of the most unreached regions for the gospel in the country. However, Arnaud Schrodi, director of church planting and development for Perspectives (Union Perspectives or Églises Perspectives, a network of evangelical Protestant churches and church planters in France) is now home after being forced to evacuate with others from Pessac, a suburb of Bordeaux. In this interview, he recalled how the natural disaster provided an oppor
