Updated October 2025
EUROPE
Acts 29 Europe exists to facilitate and catalyse church-planting efforts across our continent. We are currently 74 churches with around 30 in our church-planting-pipeline. This is a healthy number for a continent which is, in many regions, less than 1% evangelical.
About
Many regions are now operating with their own assessment, coaching, training and support in-context and in-language, with growing teams of people working on the ground. This development goes hand in hand with a growing sense of solidarity between our regions, as well as between our regions and other regions outside Europe and between our Network and other Networks.
Acts 29 Europe finds itself highly impacted by the priorities that our collaboratives have highlighted. Europe is dealing with rapid urbanisation at one level and also problems and opportunities related to its rural zones. Each country is confronted with its own version of church in hard places.
We are delighted to benefit from the expertise and input from our Rural and Church in Hard Places teams. At the same time, Islam is making rapid progress in some European countries – and in other countries of our Network Islam is dominant. Nearly all European countries are dealing with mass immigration from troubled zones in North Africa, the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa which necessarily entails welcoming and interacting with Muslims.
In our highly complex, challenging times, we are grateful to be part of the Acts 29 family and together contribute to the advancement of the gospel in our beautiful and broken continent.
PHILIP MOORE | Network Director
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Who am I? What is my true identity? What defines me? Basic questions that need an answer. A precise one.
Together, in Lignano Sabbiadoro, in a beautiful location on the Adriatic Sea, perfect for an event like this, we will enjoy a wonderful opportunity to come together and explore answers to these questions.
Together we will together drill-down into the wonder of solid theology which defines the best identity – union with Christ, and redefines all of life. As church leaders and churches we will think through what it means to be healthy churches which are passionately missional and live out and bring the gospel of Jesus to this generation. We will explore how identity is so crucial in the planting and growing of such churches. Both in the plenaries, led by Sam, and in the seminars and breakouts, led by experienced men and women, this will be a unique opportunity to grow and mature. Firmly rooted in Christ!
THE EVENT
The event, organised by Impatto Italia (A29 in Italy), is primarily planned for the church in Italy but is also carefully thought through for participants coming from other countries.
SPEAKER
Our keynote speaker is Sam Allberry: pastor, preacher, teacher and author. Here you can find further information about him:
WORKSHOPS
In addition to the plenary sessions, there will be time to interact together in workshop-seminars on different topics that are essential for healthy multiplying churches. In these sessions the main focus will be on working through how union with Christ defines and redefines all areas of personal and corporal identity. (More details to follow soon…)
There will also be time to get to know each other more in a joyful and meaningful context. We will praise together, pray, ask questions, interact, fellowship and expectantly wait for the Lord to speak to our hearts.
The Areopagus in Athens is a cultural landmark that combines historical, geographical, and theological significance like few others. There, the Apostle Paul gave one of the best-known sermons in Christian history, recorded in the book of Acts. Here is what we read in Acts 17:22-23:
So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.
Paul’s context was unique, but it shares with ours the widespread spiritual ignorance and spiritual thirst that we encounter all around us. What are the ‘unknown gods’ that our Western cultures are worshipping? How can our proclamation of the Known God— the God who has made himself known in Jesus Christ— be as culturally incisive and contextually pertinent as possible? It is time to return to Athens, theologically and metaphorically.
And what if we all actually went to Athens and reflected on these things together?
That’s what Acts 29 Europe is proposing.
From 28 to 31 October 2026* in the Wyndham Grand Hotel, we will be gathering with church-planters from all across Europe, from the US, from Africa… to pray, to connect, and to reflect together on the challenges of our day in the proclamation of the one true God.
We believe that the greatest need of our continent is evangelistic church-planting that is theologically robust, culturally engaged, and missionally imaginative. We believe that our coming together in Athens will accelerate and amplify our church-planting endeavours. We would love to gather as many people as possible for this conference. Come and get connected. Come and be equipped. Come and find resourcing and encouragement. Come and meet fellow planters from across the world. Come because you want to proclaim the God who makes himself known in Christ to a culture that is worshipping it knows not what, for its temporal and eternal ruin.
Philip Moore
Network Director | Acts 29 Europe
- *Conference begins at 7pm on Oct 28 and ends with breakfast on Oct 31. We recommend you fly in on the 28th and depart on the 31st (3 nights total).
- Hotel rooms can be booked now at the Wyndham Grand using this special link. Other hotels in the area can be found here.
Church To Church Partnership Opportunities
Benjamin & Emelie Clark
Gothenburg, Sweden
Jonathan & Lorena Templeton
Ponferrada, Spain
Javier & Silvia Pérez
Sabadell, Spain
Vlad & Oana Oara
Timisoara, Romania
Charlie & Barbara Tatera
Wroclaw, Poland
Franco & Priscille Tartari
Azzano Decimo, Italy
Robbie & Lizzie Bellis
Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium
Alexander and Anna Reindl
Steinach am Brenner, Austria
Colin & Tanya Creighton
Carrickmacross, Republic of Ireland
Find a Church
As a family of church-planting churches we are about one thing: church planting. We exist to encourage, resource, facilitate, support and equip churches to plant churches that will plant church-planting churches!
Europe Regional Leadership Team (RLT)
Philip Moore is married to Rachel and they have five children. In 2006, Phillip moved to France to pastor a church in the eastern suburbs of Paris. The church has since planted three daughter churches and trained and sent a couple to plant a church in the centre of Paris. He is now starting a new church in the 5th Arrondissement of Paris. Philip is the Director for Acts 29 Europe.
Gary is married to Claudia and based in her home country of Germany. They have 2 grown up boys. He pastored for 6 years in N. Ireland followed by 8 years in leadership development with an international missions agency. He enjoys trail running and serves his community as a volunteer firefighter.
Jonathan, born into a missionary family, grew up in Italy and was touched by grace as a teenager. Passionate for the spread of the gospel in Italy, with his wife Annette, they have been involved in church planting (and growing), most recently in Palermo (Sicily). He now coordinates Impatto (A29 in Italy).
Kerem is married to Buse and has two children. He planted Antalya Protestant Church in Turkey, back in 2010. A year after that Via Christus Ministries came to life to provide resources for Turkish believers. He has a heart for the Turkish people since many have never heard the gospel.
Tomáš is married to Silvia and they have 3 children. He is a bi-vocational church planter in Slovakia. After replanting in Nitra, their family is planting out to Bratislava since the Summer of 2018. Tomáš leads a small network of planters in Slovakia longing to see Christ's glory imaged in many new churches in the region.
Francisco is married to Rebekah, and together they have four children. Since 2012, they have lived in the region of Andalusia, Spain, where Francisco has been dedicated to church planting and pastoring. Originally from Madrid, he moved to the United States with his family before returning to Seville to establish Iglesia Bautista Fe.
Christoph is married to Kristina and they have five children. Christoph has been the planter and pastor of „erlebt - Kirche für Potsdam“ since 2014 when he and a small team started the church. Christoph and his family are „Ossis“** by choice. They moved from West Germany to Potsdam, in order to plant a church that preaches and lives the Gospel and reaches out to the people in one of the most atheistic regions of the world.
**people of East Germany
**people of East Germany
Originally from Seattle, USA, Aaron moved with his family to Slovakia in 2019 to support church planting across Europe. He serves as Assistant Area Director for Central and Eastern Europe and provides operational support to the Acts 29 Europe Lead Team. Aaron, his wife Megan, and their three sons are part of Paradox Church in Bratislava.
Collaboration Partners
Keo Kognon, the Acts 29 Regional Leader for French-speaking West Africa, is a devoted pastor, husband to Lydie, and father of four. As the pastor of Eglise AEBECI de Téguéré in Korhogo, Côte d’Ivoire, Keo leads a pastoral training program and actively engages in training and mobilizing church planters in Abidjan. Additionally, he serves as the director of Acts 29 for Côte d’Ivoire and French-speaking West Africa. Raised in an animist family, Keo's life changed at 14 when he encountered the gospel through the "Jesus Film." Now, his ministry focuses on overcoming obstacles like Islam and animism, spreading love, and seeing lives transformed by the gospel.
Contact Us
Acts 29 Europe
Seilerweg 6
79589 Binzen
Germany
