Behold Europe 2022Seventy of us, representing eleven European nations, gathered in Hintersee in the south of Bavaria, Germany, for the second 'Behold Europe' gathering for young European evangelists. Surrounded by the stunning beauty of God's creation, we worshipped together, prayed together, and were encouraged from the scriptures by our guest speakers: Roger Carswell, Roland Werner, Hélder Favarin, and Paulina Król. We looked at what it means to faithfully proclaim the Gospel in today's European context, being faithful to Biblical proclamation, and growing in confidence in the Gospel. One highlight (for the victorious UK team) was the Eurovision Quiz and Performance hosted by the Spanish team! We look forward to greater collaboration between the EYE Network teams in the days ahead as we seek to see a fulfilment of the vision - "Europe ablaze with the Gospel!"
We want to say a BIG 'Thank You' to the Philippus Netzwerk team for hosting the conference. It was truly 'Fantastisch'! |
We are planning to gather together again in 2 years' time - host nation and venue TBC. Watch this space!
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Speakers
We are thankful to God for the following speakers who invested their time and wisdom during our Behold Europe gathering in November 2022.
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Roger Carswell
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Roger is a travelling evangelist and author. He leads evangelistic church and university missions as well as speaking at Christian conferences. He has written a number of books including And some evangelists and Where is God in a messed up world?, and publishes numerous gospel tracts and booklets. He is married to Dot, has four children and lives in North Yorkshire.
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Roland Werner
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Roland Werner is a German linguist, author, church planter and professor of theology. He is married to Elke, who is a speaker, writer and evangelist and was for many years on the board of the International Lausanne movement. Together they founded Christus-Treff, a small church community movement with centers in Marburg, Berlin and Jerusalem. They spend part of the year in the Near East. Roland is a mentor to many younger pastors and evangelists and has spoken evangelistically across Europe.
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Dr Hélder Favarin
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Evangelist, missionary and cofounder/lead pastor of C29 Granada, Spain. Hélder speaks internationally in Spanish, Portuguese and English. He holds degrees in business and theology, has a master's degree from the London School of Theology and a doctorate in preaching from the Talbot School of Theology, Biola University. He's part of the founding teams of RedTimoteo (young evangelists in Spain) and EYE (European Young Evangelists) Network. Hélder is also part of OC Global Alliance / SEPAL (mission agency), the Lausanne Europe program team and the leadership team of the Spanish Evangelical Alliance's youth department. Hélder has written a number of evangelistic/apologetic articles and a booklet; his book "Expand: Preaching to Both Christians and Non-Christians From the Same Sermon in Spain" will be published at the end of this year. He was born in Brazil and also holds Italian nationality. He's lived in Brazil, Mexico, England, Scotland and Spain (for the last 11 years). Hélder is married to Ana and they have four children.
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Paulina Król
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Paulina has been walking with God for over 20 years and has been intentional about trying to find ways to put God’s gifts into meaningful, fruit-bringing initiatives. She enjoys inspiring action, empowering others and keeping quality standards high.
Since April 2021 she’s been involved with an IT company, No Fluff Jobs, heading the people & operations department. Earlier, for almost 10 years she worked as a financial risk management advisor and manager at Chatham Financial, as well as volunteered with numerous organisations, like the International Leadership Institute (leading History Makers in Poland), DEOrecordings Association (managing translation projects, co-organising events), IFES Europe (mentoring young business & management professionals), Every Nation church in Krakow, PL (co-leading small groups on faith & work, teaching teenagers, translating). She is also a fan of snowboarding, singing and recently – birdwatching. |
The next Behold Europe central gathering will be from 21-24 June 2024