Workshops & Breakout Sessions

Here are confirmed sessions – more coming soon!

Leveling Up Discipleship in a Screen-Based World

How can we engage digital culture not as a threat, but as fertile ground for spiritual formation? Together we explore creative and practical ways to disciple people in — and through — the digital spaces they already inhabit.

Annika and Philipp Bonin are church planters from Frankfurt, Germany, where they launched NERCH — a church for nerds — in 2024. Married for 10 years and part of the City to City Europe network since 2019, they are passionate about using digital spaces as vital ground for community, discipleship, and mission.

Dealing with Accumulated Grief in Ministry

Church planters often have multiple layers of grief. These can include personal loss, hardships in ministry, and grief they experience by nature of their proximity to the grief of others. Because grief and its effects can be cumulative, healthy processing is a key ingredient to ministering from a place of spiritual and emotional health in the longterm. Come learn about some of the most common effects of grief on your brain, emotions, physical body, and relationships, while interacting with tools for how to care for yourself and others.

Joy is a mental health counselor specializing in trauma, grief and loss and has been working in church, non-profit and private practice settings for over a decade. She and her husband have been assisting church planting efforts in Athens, Greece since 2012 and doing primary church planting in the city since 2020. She and Philip have two adult children and one teenager.

Building a Diverse Church Community

Our cities are populated with people from all kind of ethnicities, ages, people with different levels of education and prosperity. Is it possible to build a strong church community in which all these people are represented and that influences society in a positive way? During this breakout session we’ll find out the features that are needed to be church in that way. We’re longing for kingdom-shaped churches that are present in an holistic way, implementing missionary and deaconal activities as two sides of the same medal.

Jurjen ten Brinke (47) is married to Marijke and father of four children. He is working twenty years in Amsterdam and founded multi-ethnic church Hope for North. In February this year he stepped down as local pastor, becoming a city church catalyst in Amsterdam. The other half of the week he is active in a national broadcast television and radio company.