Saturday, November 21, 2009

europe: publicly communicating the gospel in universities

Earlier this month, 80 grouping from 30 countries concentrated to attend the IFES aggregation Evangelists Conference in Austria. They were mostly from aggregation but a few grouping came from as far as Central Asia, South Pacific and North America to observe. This is the ordinal conference of its kind and aims to develop open evangelism in the assorted countries. Immediately mass the conference, teams were partnering with assorted IFES movements in publicly act the gospel in universities in six cities of Europe: Budapest University in Hungary, Prague University in the Czech Republic, Ljubljana University in Slovenia, Vienna University in Austria, Beograd University in Serbia, and Uskub University in Macedonia. Some friends from Slovenia wrote after the event: 'A particular of the activate was the lecture at the ideologic department for 30 students and three professors at the university. The theme was "The New Atheism" and the salutation was rattling positive - the professors actually asked if we could embellish back! A team member prayed with digit girl who became a Christian. Praise the Lord! 'The ordinal particular was the open speaking at the Lincoln in Ljubljana. It was held in a small room, with most 50 chairs, but became crowded with 80 students. The speaking went well; the faith students were encouraged and a sort of non-Christians challenged.' Over the last pair of years, a amount of 130 grouping hit attended the Evangelists Conferences. Pray that 50 of them module embellish open evangelists for universities in Europe, invigorating the ministry of the 25 grouping who are already employed in that area. Pray likewise for God's content and blessings on the plans to develop kindred programs for Eurasia, and mayhap for the South Pacific and Canada too.
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