F7 Conference

After two days of meeting as a European leadership team, the time has arrived for our all-Europe KKI conference to begin. People have already begun arriving from all over Europe: from Finland and Latvia in the north, and from Spain and Portugal in the south; from France and Germany in the west, and from Romania and Albania in the east. In fact, they're coming from around 22 countries in total.

We've been calling this the F7 conference. Barcelona and Spain are well known internationally for Football, Fiesta and Food. When praying and preparing the conference, we felt that God drew our attention to other "F words" for this time: words like Family, Friends, Fellowship and Future. The conference will mark a leadership transition within the KKI ministry across the continent. The regional directors for Western/Northern Europe and the regional directors for Central/Eastern Europe are both stepping down from their roles and being replaced by new leadership teams in those regions. The conference will be a time of transitioning from what was past and looking forward to what God has for us in the future.

We'll also be focusing our attention on three "passion points" that God has given us for the continent:

1. that every child and young person in Europe should have an opportunity to hear the gospel message about Jesus
2. that Christian young people from Europe should be mobilised afresh to take the love of God into the whole world
3. that families should be strengthened to love and serve God together.

The conference will include times of worship and celebration with all ages together, times of workshops for the adults, an outing for the teenagers, and also a special programme for the thirty children who will be with us. Thanks for your prayers.