November 2025

Dear Family and Friends

I hope that your October has been a good one!  I am continuing to hear and see results of outreaches that took place on campuses across Europe.  This year we are definitely seeing a shift!  For some campuses it’s a slow shift but it’s movement!  For others it’s a huge shift with many students responding and returning to connection events and even church!

Luke Smith from Fusion here in the UK, recently wrote “In the run-up to and just after COVID, student numbers had dwindled in most churches. However, those who were left were formidable. There was a holy, faithful and fiery remnant left in the student mission field — a little reminiscent of Gideon’s small band of warriors. This is often who God uses to usher in a wave of His Spirit. We have also seen huge cultural shifts that have left students and young adults asking some big existential questions. In a post-truth culture, people are hungry for something ancient and trustworthy, and they are finding it in the Bible.

In a changing political and financial landscape, students want to know who they can trust, and they are finding the answer to that in the community of the local church.  Most students had no experience of Christianity growing up, which has created a curiosity about what this faith in Jesus is all about. Gen Z consumes much less alcohol than previous generations; they are the ‘health generation’ and they are hungry for something good and purposeful. Finally, almost everyone in today’s universities believes in something spiritual. They can’t necessarily say what that is, but they know there is something out there.

Secularism told a story that sounded great — have everything you want, all of the time.  But young people today have seen how this story ends: depression, brokenness, addiction and destruction. And so, they are searching for something better. They are looking for a deeper story that fills them with purpose and hope. A story that brings meaning to their existence, agency to their actions and peace to their chaos. And there is only one story that can do that. And it's the greatest story ever told!”

I couldn’t have said this better!  This is exactly what we are seeing across Europe.

Our Campus Leadership Team for Europe is in the process of planning our ENC Europe Weekend at the end of February 2026 and we can’t wait to see what this weekend is going to look like with already so much fruit happening at the beginning of this new University term!

A quick update on my mum – she is doing great after getting her pacemaker! Thank you so much for praying for her.  I’m looking forward to seeing her at Thanksgiving and will know more about her overall health once I am there.

Also, thank you so much for praying for my niece Trinity!  She truly is a miracle. She not only sustained a broken back, ribs, collapsed lung, tissue damage to her ankle, and severe gashes in her legs - but once they were able to get her up and moving around, they discovered the ACL & MCL in her knee were also damaged as well as her shoulder.  She is home now recovering and is scheduled to have surgery on her knee in December when she has healed more.

Finally, this past Monday I got to do one of my favourite things – teaching on Discipleship. I had the privilege of teaching the final session of our Follow Two course on "Going to Make Disciples" with these amazing people from our three London congregations.

On Monday, I am heading to Belfast (Northern Ireland) for our annual Evangelism Summit.  We trust this Summit will mark a significant moment of impartation, mobilisation, and revival fire in the 80 delegates from 14 nations who are attending from all across Europe and beyond. 

Thank you again for all your prayers and support! 

Blessings,

Traci