Lausanne Europe

This month’s Conversation includes a short podcast interview with Vimal Vimalasakaran who works with refugees in South West Germany. With the prospect of many more refugees arriving in Europe from Afghanistan in the coming months, we need to reflect on this issue again. In the podcast, we will hear something of Vimal’s story as a refugee from Sri Lanka, and how God is working in the chaos of the refugee crisis to bring about His purposes in Europe. Make sure you listen to the podcast and consider the questions before you meet in your Impact Group.

Our principal resource for this month’s Conversation is a podcast with Øivind Augland. Øivind is the founder of M4, a church planting training process which began in Norway but which is now present in 15 European countries. M4 works across denominational and theological boundaries to see new communities of faith formed that will display the goodness of God to the people around them. The interview is 35 mins long but is full of wisdom and insight so make sure you listen to the end!

Jay Eastman and Kristian Lande talk with Slovenian youth leader Zala Cempre about the challenges of making disciples during a pandemic but also how the church has pulled together in new ways too.

This month we have a fantastic interview for you to listen to. Nay Dawson works with IFES Europe as their Regional Training Coordinator. Yet over the last year she has set up an initiative called Community in a Crisis to help churches build relational churches online. In the podcast, amongst other things she talks about loneliness, friendships, building community online, zoom fatigue, worship, online church with children, and how to share the hope of the gospel in the midst of Covid.

This is an interview with Brenda Amondi, a young Kenyan woman who came to Europe four years ago as a missionary.

Missiologist Jim Memory talks to Kåre Melhus about reconciliation in the divided continent European continent and what represent the biggest threats to peace in our age.

Last month we began the mobilisation thread of the LE2020 Conversation.  We used a Podcast to think about communities around us that might be unreached by the gospel unless someone moves in. This month we are thinking about how we might be mobilised for mission right where we are. We will meet Ulvis Kravalis from Latvia, a former international wrestler.

In this episode Kåre Melhus interview associate professor at the NLA University College and multiplex speaker at the Gathering, Margunn Serigstad Dahle about the challenges the corona pandemic imposes on Christian communication in the media.

Meet Katerina and Daniel Kocyan from the Czech Republic. They have responded to one of the many urgent needs for mission in today’s Europe by moving house to live among the unreached urban poor.

In this episode Kåre Melhus talks to professor Evert Van De Poll about the European phenomenon of nominalism and secularism. Van de Polls quote theories stating that this may be the result of the church's own teaching.

In this episode Kåre Melhus talks to Olof Edsinger, the General Secretary of the Swedish Evangelical Alliance about which gods secular Europeans actually worship.

In this episode Kåre interviews Usha Reifsnider who is as a missionary born in the UK to Indian migrant workers. Her impression as a Hindu child going to Christian Sunday School was that you had to become British to be a Christian.