I had the privilege leading worship at The Bridge in Paris October 23. It’s always wonderful to be back and see how the church continues to grow and reach internationals and Parisians. The Bridge recently celebrated its fifth anniversary and…
Each year, pastors and leaders from all over Europe gather at the annual Summit of Fellowship of European International Churches to share strategies and ideas, new projects and build relationships. I’ve had the honor of serving on the admin team…
For many years, we held worship training events at Christian Center, our home church in Brussels. While these were helpful to many churches in the Brussels area, we knew we weren’t reaching churches in the southern and northern parts of…
This year we named our new church planting ministry project, ‘Elevate Europe’. But we’ve grown to like the name so much that we think it should occupy a larger place. As we’ve thought about our ministry in Europe, we’ve come…
The European Worship Institute was represented at iYouth Camp in July of 2016 where Jeff Slaughter taught worship piano and vocals. What a joy it was to see teens excited about worship ministry. We’re looking forward to returning in July,…
Although we’ve been doing ConVerge events in some form or other since 2001, apart from our work in Brussels, ‘ConVerge Paris’ has been the most consistent training event we’ve done. We partner with a local French church in Paris and…
Our second ConVerge in Turkey was held March 12 in the Eurasian gateway city of Istanbul. Hosted by All Nations Church, this event was small but mighty with 11 worship leaders, vocalists, musicians and sound technicians from 3 churches attending…
We held our third ConVerge Spain on March 5 in the southwestern city of Cordoba. Some 60 worship leaders, vocalists, musicians and sound technicians from seven churches attended the training event including from nearby cities such as El Puerto de…
About 30 folks from Lighthouse Fellowship and Vineyard Antwerp participated at a Focus Session in Antwerp March 2. Joining Jeff on the teaching team was Zach Lowrie, worship pastor of Christian Center; and professional sound engineer and Christian Center volunteer…
Our third ConVerge Morocco, held February 27 in Casablanca, was hosted by Casablanca International Protestant Church. More than 60 leaders and team members from churches in Casablanca, Tangiers and Marrekesh attended the event which culminated in a Saturday evening of…