Author: ICP Europe

According to Nicky Gumbel, the church needs a big front door, which might be an Alpha course, but also a big back door: church planting!

Daniela joined an Alpha team in Rotterdam, organised by Navigators and intercultural church plant LIVE! Erasmus. We asked Daniela about her experiences.

Is there anything more exciting than seeing that a friend comes to Jesus? It is an incredible experience and something marking.

In discipling new believers and reading with them through the New Testament, it is crucial to point out the Jewish roots of our faith.

We should stir ourselves to pray, that we would pray like the early church. Praying with intensity, persistently and praying together.

Philip Kirkland shares nine lessons he had learned in Southern Europe during planting a new intercultural church.

“Renewer of hearts and insights, Lord of day and night, Former of times and circumstances, Form our inner being to the best state of mind.”

As church leaders, we decided that everybody would receive a Christmas gift. A card with a personal wish from our pastor, a few small bags of sweets, a candle, and a large amaryllis flower bulb.

During a television program about mediator Frank Visser, I recently heard a Dutch word that was new to me; it can be translated as: ‘migration stain’. I had never heard of it before.

When the Afghan Nasira is admitted to the emergency room of the hospital, I am really not surprised. Considering her past, we knew this was inevitable.

Abufazel is one of my students at the training my husband and I made for newcomers in the Netherlands, so they get some insight into the why of Dutch values and thought patterns.