The CJEM Youth Convention is a project of our long-time Brussels friend and ministry colleague David Vandeput. Held every year in southern Belgium during fall break, the multi-day conference attracts between 500-800 Belgian young people. This year, David invited me…
Some 86 participants from 21 churches in 12 countries attended the 2019 European International Summit in Malaga, Spain October 14-17. I’ve served on the admin team for this conference for more than 10 years (I’ve lost count!). My primary role…
We were invited to bring ConVerge to Kaiserslautern, Germany October 11. Hosted by Paul and Lori Travers of True Life International Church, the seminar included members of worship teams from three area churches. While we were there, we ministered at ‘Rhema Cafe’,…
We’ve just published our Fall, 2019 Elevate Europe newsletter which features our summer missions projects as well as our upcoming projects for 2019-2020. If you’d like to catch up with us you can read the newsletter fall2019_pages.
Immerse Worship Camp 2020 will be held July 2-4 at Continental Theological Seminary in Saint Pieters-Lieuw, just west of Brussels. The camp will begin with the evening meal on Thursday, July 2 and conclude after the evening service on Saturday,…
Forty students and a volunteer staff of 20 teachers attended Immerse 2019, our third worship training camp. Held at Continental Theological Seminary west of Brussels, students enjoyed 12-hour days of teaching, worship, fellowship, breakouts and workshops. Our teaching team came…
Some 100 youth from Belgium, Germany and Italy attended the 19th annual iYouth Camp in Pracht, Germany. We love this camp for many reasons, one of the most personal is that all three of our children attended the camp during…
One of the fun things I (Jeff) got to do this summer was teach a Vacation Bible School class at Brussels Christian Center. Antonella Costanza, the children’s pastor, asked me to teach the kids something about chocolate. After some thinking…
Our first ConVerge in the country of Germany is set of October 12, 2019 in the town of Kaiserslautern. Our good friends Paul and Lori Travers are hosting the worship training event at the church they pastor: ‘True Life Church’.…
We had two incredible ‘Go With Me: On Tour & On Mission’ trips in 2019 and are organizing three trips in 2020. Each Go With Me is a little different depending on where I’m going and what I’m doing but all…