(GERMANY) There was a Joyful German Leaders Conference in Lachen, Neustadt
- by Daniel P.
- Feb 17, 2025
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Chapter: UBF Chapters across Germany and Austria
Date: February 13-15, 2025
Location: Lachen, Neustadt
Total Participants: 30
On the first evening, S. Reiner delivered a graceful opening message on Acts 11:19-30. He encouraged us, even though we are scattered in the mission field, to be united and be a giving community like the Antioch church. Chapter leaders shared God's work in 2024 and Prayer Topics and Vison for 2025 from Thursday until Saturday.
On the second day, we had group Bible study on 1 Peter 1:1-9, and S. Eberhard G. delivered a very powerful and graceful message, proclaiming the living hope in our eternal inheritance that God has given each of us with our new birth through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Germany is undergoing a time of economic, social and political crisis. But most of all, Germany is suffering from a spiritual crisis. Most of the young people have no hope for their lives and future. They need the living hope in God and his eternal kingdom. S. Eberhard admonished us to hold on to the living hope, live by it in all circumstances, and share it with young people. In the afternoon, we all wrote our personal testimonies and shared them in groups.
In the evening, S. Reiner presented the survey results about the ESBC 2024 and reminded us of God’s great work through that conference among the young people, which gave us a vision for his further ministry in Europe. S. Reiner announced that there would be a workshop on discipleship led by J*ames Woo*d, in which he encouraged us to think about our discipleship and how we can help young people grow as disciples of Jesus from a new perspective.
On Saturday, we saw presentations about the new European Disciple Fellowship and about the preparation of the Encounter Conference 2025 through Sarah H. (Austria), joining via Zoom. We will announce about Encounter 2025 separately. We also saw the video about LAIBC 2025 on April 17-20 in Mexico City, encouraged coworkers to attend it, and prayed for the conference wholeheartedly. We closed with a chapter leaders’ meeting. We thank God for blessing the Conference with his words and spirit. May God help us live with hope and serve his disciple-making ministry in 2025, every day faithfully!
