Keswick Convention's international dimension
Attila Kapocs
During
its
long history,
the work of Keswick has
rippled around
the world,
and there are now established ministries in
some 16 countries, with nearly 90 individual
Conventions, large and small. The Hungarian
work, known as BalatonNET, is an example of
a nation catching the vision and making it its
own, shaping a programme that is attracting
young and old, and which is uniting believers
across different denominations. Attila Kapocs
tells the story…
Jozsef Csaplar, a Hungarian pastor and
church planter, walked around the Keswick
tent about 20 years ago with a growing
conviction that a similar event had to be
started
in Hungary. Our Lake District
is
Lake Balaton, so it seemed obvious to team
up with a local church in one of the villages
by the lake, the leadership of the Evangelical
Alliance and like-minded pastors and start
BalatonNET.