European Young People Conference
From the Field, Nairobi, Kenya Week 3 of 8 (March 19, 2026)

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August 12, 2026

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About the conference 🌍
The European Young People Conference takes place every year in the summer in a ski village in southern Poland called Male Ciche. This year close to 1800 were in attendance from 44 countries, with 733 in the family camp and 1032 attending the conferences for the young people in a separate part of the village. It is encouraging, recalibrating, and so delightful to be in another country with so many saints from churches around the world and to be able to fellowship, overflow, and learn from one another as we take care of each other and our children and young people for the Lord's interest on earth. There were 10 that attended from the state of Florida including 7 from Orlando.
The group of 10 that attended from Florida.
Some Highlights
“My greatest enjoyment was the fact that the entire week I was surrounded by sisters and people who truly loved the Lord and everywhere I looked there was someone who loved Him as much as I did. Every moment of each day was spent in enjoying the Lord and it was a privilege to be in that environment. All the sharing was very good and it was so easy to stay in spirit after the meeting and all day long.” - Abby Pafford


“I really enjoyed the serving one’s fellowships! They shared with us that we need to love the young people with the genuine love of the Lord, we need to visit them/text them, we need to love them without expectation and not believe what we see. They shared a lot about loving them genuinely and without expectation or judgement, we need to be interested in what they are interested in. We don’t need to care so much for their spiritual growth but just love them. They also need to visit them with this same kind of attitude, and throughout all these interactions we need to be inwardly contacting the Lord so we can love them in a genuine way.

We need to look at the young people with the Lord’s view. If we believe what we see, we will be stumbled or discouraged. We just need to love them genuinely and visit them. We can only genuinely love them through/with the Lord.” - Kaylee Castanon
“A big highlight for me was spending time with the saints. Getting to spend a whole week living among and with the saints, and enjoying the hymns and rich speaking with them was so precious and sweet. It was truly an awesome time!!!” - Ty Taylor
The highlight for me was that having 1800 saints living in one small village creates a unique and wonderful glimpse of what the new heaven and the new earth will be. Everywhere you go, there are saints, calling, singing and praising the Lord! Scarcely a moment goes by that you cannot hear the singing of a hymn. Every meal is eaten together and this too becomes a time of fellowship. Additionally, over 40 nations and 20 languages were represented at the camp. What a joy to realize we have so many dear brothers and sisters shining as luminaries all over the world, calling on the name of the Lord as one Body! To me, this is a most encouraging sight. Especially during the singing of the hymns, it is easy to realize that this is the army of the Lord’s overcomers, being built up with one another and with Him, before our very eyes. - Konrad Kuzdra

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Blending with some of the families from other countries.


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