The international Christian youth conference German Union announced in 2022, was held successfully near the city of Krakow, Poland, from December 26, 2022, to January 1, 2023, Pastor Jose Vicente Giner, Leader of Youth Department at the General Conference of IMS, confirmed. More than ten nationalities – participants from Canada, Ukraine, Germany, Spain, South Korea, Estonia, Norway, Sweden, Italy and France, took part in the event, Pastor Giner added.

According to the program of the youth conference, seven lectures were given, five by Pastor  Jose Vicente Giner and two by brethren from Estonia and Germany respectively, about subjects like “Why One Must Not Have Sexual Relations before the Marriage?”, as well as about the sense of the purity, the holiness, the friendships, the prayer, the forgiveness and other key experiences of Christian life. Furthermore, the participants in the youth conference dedicated one day of the event to the visit in the Nazi concentration camp Ausschwitz, in order to understand better the importance of the Christian pacifism.

 The participants in the youth conference near Krakow; a photo from the personal archive of Pastor  Jose Vicente Giner.

Written by Margarit Zhekov