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An Interview with Dirk Jongkind on His Book ‘Growing in Understanding: Devotions for Christian Acade

20 May 2026 | Dirk Jongkind

In Ephesians 5, Paul invites every follower of Jesus to 'live wisely'. This call and challenge is particularly pertinent for those dedicated and called to lives of study and scholarship through service in the academy. In this session, Per Ewert interviews Dirk Jongkind on his book, Growing in Understanding: Devotions for Christian Academics.

How Do You Engage Young People with the Gospel?

17 May 2026 | Ania Greenwood

This workshop teaches you principles and models for relevantly sharing Jesus and making disciples among young people who would not usually walk into the church. How can we communicate the Gospel to them when they have such a negative view of God? When you have the boldness to step outside the Church and share your faith, people are open and ready to hear the Gospel. This workshop equips, inspires, and challenges you to reach a lost generation.

Biblical Images of Discipleship

17 May 2026 | Rick Hill

This session explores some biblical images and metaphors for discipleship that help to provide us with a strong framework for spiritual formation. Through unpacking these together, we consider what they have to teach us about our own approaches to discipleship.

How to Address Current News Events from a Christian Perspective

17 May 2026 | Evert van Vlastuin

The news cycle moves quickly, often marked by troubling events and shaped by bias intended to influence readers and viewers. This session explores how Christians can respond with wisdom and faithfulness. Drawing on the experience of two Christian journalists, it introduces biblical principles for discerning the news, engaging in thoughtful conversation, and living faithfully in response.

Encouraging Marriage, Honouring Singleness: Responding to the European Marriage Recession

19 May 2026 | David Sandifer

How should Evangelicals respond to ever-declining rates of both marriage and fertility in Europe? How do we encourage Christian young people to marry, while also honouring and valuing single Christians? In what ways is responding to the decline in marriage a missional opportunity for the church? This session leans on both a theological framing of marriage and family and on recent sociological research underlining the centrality of marriage for society.

How to Lead Partnerships

19 May 2026 | Jen Charteris

As members of Christ’s body, Christians are called to collaborate, yet working in partnership with other churches or ministries can be difficult and painful. This practical workshop takes you through a simple framework for thinking through some of the most important questions when setting up a partnership between two or more ministries. It will also help you figure out how to move things forward when a partnership arrangement is struggling.

Walking Through Loss and Bereavement

19 May 2026 | Pablo Martinez

Helping the bereaved live through grief with comfort and cry with tears full of hope is the purpose of this session. We examine the steps of normal grief, what is going on inside, as well as how to help in each of these steps and some mistakes to avoid. We also consider how the view of mourning as a posthumous expression of love is a balm that mitigates grief, sheds light on the darkness of sorrow, and can help us grow.

Talking About God in a Sceptical World: How to Persuasively Communicate and Defend the Gospel

20 May 2026 | Pasi Turunen

In order to persuasively communicate the Gospel, we need to identify and expose the worldview assumptions behind the arguments and evidence presented against Christianity. Drawing from Acts of the Apostles and the Epistle to the Romans, this workshop explores how Christians can speak about God based on what He has made known and how He reveals Himself. We consider how this shapes effective apologetic engagement without drifting into either cold rationalism or blind faith, equipping participants to respond to challenges to the Gospel with clarity and confidence.

God & Drugs: Understanding and Stemming the Drug Tide

17 May 2026 | Peter Imming

Drug abuse floods the world. Opioids are claimed to have lowered the average life expectancy of the white US population, a line of cocaine has become almost as cheap as a beer in Germany, and amphetamines are reported to be a major source of income for some governments. What do people try to compensate for or attain through using drugs? This talk categorises drugs according to the "paradise" they suggest and will contrast these artificial paradises with this life and transcendent paradises.

Leader-to-Leader Interview: Building a Culture of Care

20 May 2026 | Helen Thorne-Allenson

Church is designed to be a beautiful community of Christ-centred love where those inside the church are helped to persevere and grow, and those outside are shown the goodness of God. But how do we help our churches become those communities of transformational love? Through praying, teaching, role-modelling, and serving, we each have a role to play. In this interview, Jay Mosser talks with Helen Thorne-Allenson about how we can encourage each other to intentionally care for one another well.

 

Discipling Youth Through Seasons of Doubt

17 May 2026 | Zala Cempre

Is it possible to question faith without losing it? How can we faithfully disciple and love young people who wrestle with hard questions about God, the Church, and their faith? Deconstruction of faith and addressing doubts one has, especially in the church, can feel like walking through a desert alone. Yet doubt is not the enemy of faith. In this session, we explore what deconstruction of faith is and is not, and why it is increasingly common among young people.

Building a Culture of Care

17 May 2026 | Helen Thorne-Allenson

Church is designed to be a beautiful community of Christ-centred love where those inside the church are helped to persevere and grow, and those outside are shown the goodness of God. But how do we help our churches become those communities of transformational love? Through praying, teaching, role-modelling, and serving, we each have a role to play. In this session, we encourage each other to be intentional about caring for one another well.

The Dream and the Pit: Nurturing the Artist’s Soul

18 May 2026 | Heather Holdsworth

As artists, we know the tension of living between vision and reality — the dream that stirs our heart and the pit that tests it. In this session, we explore the creative life through the lens of a biblical dreamer whose imagination was both a gift and a burden. Together, we uncover what it means to stay spiritually alive when circumstances and waiting stretch us thin.

Intentional Organisations: How to Reap the Benefits of Strategic Planning While Avoiding the Pitfall

17 May 2026 | Kay Carter

Having a clear, big-picture framework helps organisations to be more effective and increase job satisfaction across the team. This talk focuses on shaping a planning process that produces clarity and unity while remaining flexible to respond to a changing context.