Hungary is the latest European nation to experience the wave of ‘revival’ sweeping the continent. Following the huge turnout at evangelical rallies in the Netherlands and France, around 15,000 worshippers have packed a football stadium in the northern city of Miskolc near the Slovakian border.
More than 1,300 of them made decisions to follow Christ at the event which featured Chris Tomlin as worship leader. “The crowning moment of the evening was a joint worship session, where we sang How Great is Our God by Chris Tomlin with all the servants, in one voice. It was a wonderful experience and collective worship,” wrote event organiser This Is the Day!
It’s an inter-denominational movement that has been hosting praise and worship events since 2000. “It is extremely important to us to have a day each year when we gather in Jesus’ name with thanksgiving and pray for our nation’s repentance and for the church. It is our goal to be more thoroughly committed to God and thereby impacting the world around us. We want to strengthen our fellow believers so their lives would be testimonies to God’s love,” says its mission statement.
Swiss-based evangelist Jean-Luc Trachsel led the event. He posted on social media that the: “Fire of revival is spreading everywhere in Europe to hungry and thirsty people. Stop to watch and dare why it’s not coming to your place. Go to your knees and cry out to The Lord of the harvest to save your region.”
The evangelist is the founder of Jean-Luc Trachsel Ministries which works to “bring unity among Christians and to proclaim the Gospel to this generation with mercy and compassion,” according to its website.
CBN News reports he also shared a message on the power of the Holy Spirit at the Apostolic Conference 2024 hosted in Rome by the Apostolic Church in Italy — an international missionary movement “born out of the Pentecostal revivals of the first half of the twentieth century.” It brought together a network of Italian churches with 11,000 members in a massive Protestant gathering that’s rarely seen in the seat of Roman Catholicism.
Jean-Luc Trachsel reported that “miracles and healings” took place at the conference including the restoration of the hearing of a deaf person and helping an almost blind person see.
Last month, the evangelist delivered a message in Paris for the March For Jesus event across France. 25,000 people praised Jesus in front of the Eiffel Tower while thousands more worshippers gathered in four other major French cities. At the same time, 63,000 Dutch people attended the Opwekking Pentecost Conference in the Netherlands with 700,000 joining them online. Opwekking translates as Revival.
These signs of revival are emerging after many Europeans abandoned the Christian faith and embraced secularism. A Pew Research survey forecast the number of European Christians has been on track to drop by about 100 million — from 553 million in 2010 to 454 million in 2050.
Jean-Luc Trachsel told CBN News that in Switzerland only 3-5% of its seven million people are born-again Christians. “I feel the time is coming where here in Europe, maybe the real Christians will have to be underground,” he lamented. But the evangelical leader urges Europeans to continue to believe for God to move mightily in their countries.
Photo: Facebook – Jean-Luc Trachsel Ministries (The banner held by the woman translates as Faith Hope Love)
