| Europe is a continent
where it is estimated that at least 85 percent of all
people live in urban areas. Europe is a continent where
millions of students learn in renowned universities,
like the universities of Prague, Paris, Berlin, Madrid,
Milan, or Athens. Europe is a continent that has thousands
of children and immigrant children playing in urban
areas and looking for something to do. For these reasons,
the Europe Region of the Assemblies of God has a focus.
The focus is Cities, Campuses,
Children, and Culturally-Diverse Communities .
We believe that to effectively preach the gospel and
disciple people into heaven, we need to reach the cities'
pluralistic people groups with their religions; we need
to reach the campuses where ideology and philosophy-but
not God-consciousness-is taught; and we need to reach
the children who are growing up in a society where less
than one-third of those surveyed in a recent Europe
values survey believed in God.
Cities, Campuses, Children and Culturally-Diverse Communities
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it's a focus
Current Article:
ALL NIGHT PRAYER
July 14, 2008
AGWM personnel in Vienna, Austria, Kerri Brammeier, relates how the children of Vienna Christian Center participated in a quarterly all night prayer service. This begins at 10 PM and concludes around 4 AM. For this first-ever children's prayer service, Kerri set up different prayer stations that the kids could go to throughout the evening.
 Four children showed up for the evening. It began with an explanation of the evening and a challenge that their prayers could be even more effective than that of the 70 plus adults praying upstairs. Kerri led the children in different areas of prayer, encouraging them to pray aloud. After an hour, Kerri suggested a break, but the children didn't want it, wishing to continue praying.
As children continued to pray and praise the Lord, it was evident that the Holy Spirit was facilitating the prayer service, not Kerri. The children were fervently praying for other children, the country, officials, their family, the lost and unsaved! They prayed until their parents came down to get them, and then they did not want to leave!
Kerri comments that "that evening was one of the most powerful prayer meetings I have been in. The kids prayers were so sincere, honest, and real. I have no doubt that they touched the very heart of God that night. Just last month we had our second Kids All Night Prayer and there were 17 kids that showed up. There were powerful discussions on the power of prayer among the small groups. Once again as leaders prayed for each individual child, the Spirit's presence came in and touched the lives of the children Many of them were struggling in different areas."
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