20 Participants from the UK, Czech Republic, Germany, Latvia, the Netherlands, France and Canada met on the 20th April 2012 at Tyndale Theological Seminary, the Netherlands to discuss Christian generosity and giving in Europe. Participants included Christian business leaders and representatives of Evangleical Alliances, generosity ministries, church networks, ministry networks and mission networks.
Participant Testimony
‘Thank you so much for hosting such a wonderful gathering! We were blessed, informed and encouraged and left buzzing with new ideas. Thank you also for the resources you gave us. I read The Treasure Principle on the flight home – wow, what a profound book and essential reading for all Christians! We are so grateful to have been a part of this gathering and look forward to seeing what doors are opened and where future conversations lead us. As mentioned, we will have a gathering of all of our European Alpha Leaders this June and we look forward to presenting them with some of the excellent material you provided’.
Resources such as Stewardship Study Bibles, Generosity Resources CDs and Randy Alcorn’s book ‘The Treasure Principle’ were distributed for use by participants.
Outcomes
- A European Generosity Network to encourage generous living, mission focused financial giving and wise stewardship amongst European Christians
- Agreement to work together to encourage European Christians to engage in existing European generosity initiatives such as the Stewardship 40Acts campaign
- A database with European orientated generosity resources
- Distribution of generosity resources to churches, Christian networks, etc
- The teaching of generosity and stewardship in Christian institutions, work places, churches, etc will be encouraged.
- A possible European Generosity Day
- Generosity discussions/workshops/teaching in church and Christian network events and conferences.
Dr Sas Conradie is the Global Generosity Network Coordinator