‘To be honest, some people see EMF (European Mission Fellowship) as a bit fuddy-duddy’, a pastor recently confessed to mission director Andrew Birch.
Well, if the next conference is anything like this year’s, it will be fresh, joyful, challenging, and totally encouraging. ‘Fuddy-duddy?’ Not so much!
Everyone wants ‘the next one’ to be soon. Thirty years since the last conference was t-o-o long. This one, in the picturesque ‘Betania’ Christian conference centre in in Ciudad Real, Spain, buzzed from the start, and friendships made in the lively table-talk were strengthened during a (slightly zany!) outing to a historic village.