#1YearEF: Some of the authors
An artist, a philologist, a former European Comission worker, a peaceamaking expert and a theology teacher. Meet Alain Auderset, Noa Alarcón, Michael Gowen, David Smith and Will Graham.
MADRID | BARCELONA | VALENCIA · 12 JANUARY 2016 · 10:53 CET

Who are some of the authors that have been contributing during this first year of Evangelical Focus?
Meet five of them.
Gowen is passionate about supporting people in positions of responsibility, particularly the upcoming generation and loves to encourage people to apply the message of the Bible in a practical way to their everyday lives. One of the ways he does this is writing his Faithful Under Pressure column at Evangelical Focus. In this first year, he has written a series on the book of Daniel, another on Hosea and a third one on Old Testament characters.
“Evangelical Focus is filling a valuable gap in the market - he thinks -, a topical, interesting, thought-provoking site with an evangelical ethos but no specific denominational slant and a wide range of contributors. It has started small, like all great works of God (think: Jesus coming to earth as a baby), but like the mustard seed, it will grow and become much more significant with the passage of time.”
Some of his articles are among the most read in 2015.
According to Will, “Evangelical Focus has supplied a crucial need for the church of Europe, namely, an analysis of current affairs from an Evangelical perspective. I see it evolving into something like 'Christianity Today' for Europe. How exciting to celebrate the website's first birthday!”
She has been writing in her column Love and Context.
Noa believes "Evangelical Focus is a perfect opportunity to knock down prejudices and barriers between North and South in faith and religious issues. I think it's some kind of proof that it does really exist an universal and organic church that is cross-cultural and still is united."
“One year old already!” he writes. “Congratulations to the Evangelical Focus team, contributors and readers. Together, we’re all contributing to the creation of that rarest of things: a place where the viewpoints of Evangelical Christians come together with current affairs, in a thoughtful, nuanced and unashamed way. A big pat on the back in particular to the team for creating an excellent resource, and blessings for the year ahead.”
He is a member of a rock band, and loves to write his experiences in the Appointment with God blog, where one can read 25 of his stories, so far. Alain is another of the writers who joined Evangelical Focus from the beginning.
“When we speak about mission we often think of countries on the other side of the world and we forget that it is in our own homeland where we need even more missionaries! ...It's a matter of fact that we are accustomed to live in a society where God is less and less present (in our Tvs, newspapers, schools, etc.)...”
“So I would like to congratulate Evangelical Focus to be a major actor in this mission field called the "sixth continent" that s represented by the Word Wide Web.”
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