The third edition of the Revive Europe Conference took place from 28 December, 2024, to 1 January, 2025, marking the strongest gathering yet of students and young adults hungry for spiritual revival across the continent.

Hosted for the first time in Krakow (Poland) the event followed the inaugural conference held in Karlsruhe, Germany (2019-2020) and the second edition also held in Karlsruhe (2022-2023).

This year’s conference brought together nearly 2,000 participants from 75 nations.

Drawing inspiration from the lives of John the Baptist and Elijah, united under the theme “Prepare the Way,” attendees immersed themselves in Scripture, Bible teachings, seminars and small groups to explore how God calls His people to prepare through repentance, consecration, and prayer. 

Participant’s travel impacted by weather, increasing anticipation

The conference faced an extraordinary start with a thick fog grounding all flights and closing the Krakow airport on 28 December. Despite this, participants displayed persistence, landing in Katowice, Warsaw, and even neighbouring countries before undertaking long journeys by bus and car to make it to the Tauron Arena. Many arrived in Krakow between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. the following morning.

The organising team saw the fog as a moment of spiritual warfare, putting out a call to their global network for prayer and fasting. Despite the delays, the sense of expectancy only grew, and by the afternoon of December 29, the fog lifted, speakers arrived, and God’s presence became undeniably tangible.

Hearts, universities, Europe

Evening sessions focused on “Reviving our Hearts, Our Universities & Europe”. Each night, hundreds responded to calls for repentance, consecration, and forgiveness, kneeling in surrender to Jesus and experiencing profound personal encounters with Him.

Revive Our Hearts (29 December). Christine Caine, Founder of A21, preached about every generation needing its own consecration. View sermon here. She said: “Before you possess the promise, before you taste the revival, there are certain things you need to do. Every generation has to have its own circumcision. You can’t get into your promised land by the price I paid for mine. Revive Europe, there is a cutting away that is happening - a marking, a separation, a consecration.”

Revive Our Universities (30 December). Julia Garschagen shared the message “Good News, Bad News” as a speaker at universities and in business contexts across Europe. “The good news is that happiness is not the ultimate goal of our life, Jesus himself is the ultimate goal,” she said, encouraging students to boldly take the best message in the world back to their universities and peers.

Testimonies from students who have experienced glimpses of revival on their own campuses were shared after joining for prayer and intercession in small groups, and then sharing the gospel with classmates, leading to radical encounters, baptisms and students coming to Christ and joining bible studies at unprecedented rates even at schools with reputations for their party scene. 

Revive Europe (31 December). Participants gathered with others from their country to connect and pray for repentance and revival, many ending up joining forces to praise and pray with and for neighbouring countries as well. They came hungry and ready to hear Pete Grieg preach just before midnight, founder of 24/7 Prayer about how it’s “time to climb.” 

A quote from Pete Greig’s sermon you can see here: “I want to suggest that the fire is falling again, and that the seasons are changing, and that what happened to Notre Dame could, as the Pope suggested, be a sign of rebirth, not just in France but in Europe. For some of you here, God is saying to you, whatever else you do in 2025, I want you to prioritize prayer. I want you to prioritize my presence. I don’t want you just to just rush into the city. I want you to seek my face in 2025. And so I believe I’ve been sent here to say to you – it’s time to climb.”

Other inspiring speakers at the conference included Professor John Lennox (Oxford University), Luke Greenwood (European Director of Steiger), Professor David Thomas (known for his leadership role in the Asbury Outpouring), Steve Osei-Mensah (Consultant, Pilot & Pastor), Zefjan Nikolla (General Secretary of IFES Albania), Sam Couper (Field Director for Revive Europe), and Sarah Breuel (Founder and Executive Director of Revive Europe).

Over 450 evangelise on Krakow’s streets

On December 29th and 30th, led by Steiger Europe, over 450 participants took to Krakow’s streets to boldly share the gospel, with 83 individuals from the streets attending that evening’s session.

Luke Greenwood preached an evangelistic message titled “imagine” that night and several gave their lives to Christ, reflecting the transformative power of the conference’s mission.

800 commitments to pursuing revival beyond the event

On January 1, participants were challenged to make concrete New Year commitments, resulting in over 800 recorded responses. These included commitments to consecration by surrendering idols and forgiving others, to pray and fast for university revival, to be bold in evangelism on their campuses through leading Seekers Bible studies or organizing mission weeks, to engage in cross-cultural missions, and to be revivalists, praying and preparing to steward a move of God in their cities and nations.

The picture painted by Revive Europe Movement

The organisers said: “We believe that Revive 24 is one of the many ways God is moving across our continent right now, raising up a generation affirming that Europe is not post-Christian, but pre-revival”. 

Founded in 2019, Revive Europe Movement exists “to prepare the way for a move of God among students and young adults in Europe, sharing a call to repentance, consecration and prayer”. 

Revive Europe’s next key revival leadership gathering for students and young adults across Europe will be in partnership with local churches and Asbury University’s Outpouring team, at the Awakening Project in London May 1-3, 2025.

For more information about Revive Europe or future events, visit Revive Europe’s website. 

You can also follow the movement on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.