Eurofest '75
Eurofest '75 was an International Youth Conference and Evangelistic Campaign organised by the Billy Graham Organisation in Brussels, Belgium. It followed on from Spree '73 held in London. The General Secretary for both was Harvey Thomas.
Graham preached from Phillipians teaching on the connections between joy and prayer - two of the book's major themes. He insisted: "Young people should learn to pray."
The festival took place from 24 July - 2 August 1975, in the Centenary Palace Exhibition Halls whilst the public Campaigns were in the near-by Heysel Stadium, Brussels.
Personnel
Many well-known evangelical figures first came to prominence at the festival, such as Luis Palau, Bishop Festo Kivengere, Annie Vallotton the French-Swiss Good News Bible illustrator and Manfred Siebald the German singer-songwriter. Vallatton gave a talk each morning before the Bible expositions, that she illustrated on an overhead projector, fitted with an acetate scroll.Committees
Executive Committee
Chairman: Werner BürklinVice-Chairman: Brian Kingsmore
Secretary: Elon Svanell
Richard Bewes
Ingulf Diesen
Juan Gili
Gien Karssen
Elio Milazzo
Richard Møller Petersen
Herbert Müller
Jean-Jacques Weiler
Programme Committee
Chairman: Richard BewesVice-Chairman/Training: Arnold van Heusden
Vice-Chairman/Music: Svante Widen
Maisie Adamson
Ruth Büchli
Hermogenes Fernandez
Herbert Müller
Yves Perrier
Paul Vandenbroeck
Prayer Committee
Chairlady: Eliana VuffrayMoises Gomes
Sheila Stone
Veli-Pekka Toiviainen
Dora Winston
Administration
General Director: John CortsGeneral Secretary: Harvey Thomas
Full-time co-odinators
German-speaking Europe: Hans-Jürgen BeulshausenIberia: Hermogenes Fernandez
Denmark and Norway: Peter Hofman-Bang
Finland and Sweden: Peo Lannerö
Greece and Italy: Salvatore Loria
Ireland: Cassells Morrell
Netherlands: Bouke Ottow
Great Britain: Tony Stone
French-speaking Europe: Jean-Jacques Weiler
The Co-ordinators were also supported by more than 3,000 district and local voluntary representatives.
Developers
The morning programmes and materials were developed by:-| George Brucks | "Developing a Lifestyle" |
| Tom Houston | "Building the Relationship with God" |
| Anton Schulte | "Going Home" |
| Ralph Shallis | "Understanding the Fellowship" |
| Gilbert Kirby | "Knowing Salvation" |
| Alfred Kuen | "Evangelism" |
| Don Stephens | "Spiritual Warfare" |
Expositors
Anglican Bishop Festo Kivengere and evangelist Luis Palau led the Bible expositions. The handbook labelled Palau "Mexico" as he recently had been a Missionary there.Seminar teams
Apostolos Bliates ; George Brucks ; Alain Burnand ; Alain Choiquier ; Gert Doornenbal ; Knut Magne Ellingsen ; Bill Freel ; Juan Gili ; Charles Guillot ; Martin Homann ; Tom Houston ; Brian Kingsmore ; Alfred Kuen ; Kalevi Lehtinen ; Johannes Lukasse ; Elio Milazzo ; Yves Perrier ; Bernhard Rebsch ; Dagfinn Saether ; Anton Schulte ; Hugh Silvester ; Emmanouel Smpraos ; Theo Sorg ; Don Stephens ; Billy Strachan ; Don Summers ; Paul Vandenbroeck ; Virgilio Vangioni ; Jim Wilson.| Artist | Annie Vallotton | Switzerland |
| Children's programme | Ursel Nawak | Federal Germany |
| Counsellors co-ordinators | Ingulf Diesen | Norway |
| Counsellors co-ordinators | Gien Karssen | Netherlands |
| Euroshop manager | Jean Wilson | U.K. |
| Lonely hearts patrol | Vijay Menon | U.K. |
| Masters of ceremonies | Werner Burklin | Federal Germany |
| Masters of ceremonies | Arnold van Heusden | Netherlands |
| Masters of ceremonies | David Pope | U.K. |
| Masters of ceremonies | Bernd Schlottoff | Federal Germany |
| Prayer co-ordinator | Eliane Vuffray | Switzerland |
| Production manager | Harvey Thomas | U.K. |
| Witnessing co-ordinator | Claude Lefebvre | Belgium |
Music
The Finish group Treklangen sang the theme song: "I don't know what you came to do, but I came to praise the Lord" by Dallas Holm. They recorded on the Pilot label in English and Swedish as well as their own language.One of the special guests was Cliff Richard. He was secured for the conference too late to be mentioned in the hand book. Choralerna, who had featured at Spree '73, performed their gospel oratorio Living Water. The Dutch gospel band 'The Lighters' also gave several performances.
The organisers wanted to cater to all tastes, so they invited a selection of groups and singers from all over Europe.
| Les Ambassadeurs | France |
| The Advocates | U.K. |
| Lois Buckley | U.K. |
| Choralerna | Sweden |
| Croix de Camargue | Switzerland |
| Garth Hewitt | U.K. |
| Pelle Karlsson | Sweden |
| The Lighters | Netherlands |
| Manfred Siebald | Federal Germany |
| Evie Tornquist | Norway |
| Treklangen | Finland |
| Trio Emmanuel | France |
| Voces de Nueva Vida | Spain |
| Emanuel Wieser | Austria |
The resident staff musician was Peter Bye who, with his band and vocal group, led the morning music spots and accompanied the other sessions.
The handbook included the words for 28 songs including one in each of the other six Eurofest languages.
6. GUD JEG VIL VÆRE KRISTEN
16. MIJN VADER, DANK U WEL
17. OH, JOVENES VENID
20. QUAND LES MONTAGNES
22. SIGNOR T'ADORIAMO
26. VERGISS NICHT ZU DANKEN
Languages
Delegates registered in one of seven official languages. On sign-in they were given a handbook in that language and a colour coded wristband for access to the site. The languages were: English - pink; French - blue; German - yellow; Italian - green; Dutch - white; Spanish - orange and Norwegian - violet.There were seminars in each of the seven Eurofest languages, as well as in Finnish and Greek. Most seminars had a "Teach Team" of two people that shared the teaching.
The meetings were held in the main hall that was divided into eight language areas with wide walkways in between. They were simultaneously translated from English into the other six official languages delivered by overhead speakers in the language areas. English speakers were told to sit anywhere so that their area could be used for on-the-ground simultaneous translation into the additional seminar languages of Finnish and Greek as well as Swedish and other languages.
Minigroups
All participants were assigned a "minigroup" of 8 - 10 people with a leader to work through each day's Worksheet based on the seminar and pray together. "Minigroup" was the organisers' term for cell group. Some worksheet questions required further subdivision to achieve the best group dynamic for the task.Daily Timetable
+Optional programme
Options offered for the 14.00 - 18.00 slot included:- Joining a witnessing team traveling into the city centre
- Joining prayer groups for the witnessing teams
- Special interest seminars
Special interest seminars
| Personnel | Title | Time |
| Apostolos Bliates | "Leading a Youth Group" | first Saturday 14.00 |
| Pieter Boomsma | "The Young Christian in the Local Church" | Wednesday 16.00 |
| Stuart Briscoe | "Sex and Marriage" | Monday 16.00 |
| Karl Erik Freed | "Helping New Christians" | first Friday 14.15 |
| Gilbert Kirby | "The Occult" | Monday 14.15 |
| Bill Latham | "The Christian Viewpoint on Social Problems" | Tuesday 14.30 |
| Hans Rookmaaker | "Reaching Thinking People" | Wednesday 14.15 |
| Hugh Silvester | "Giving a Talk" | second Friday 16.00 |
| John Stott | "The Calling and Qualifications of a Minister" | Thursday 16.00 |
| Svante Widen | "The Christian and Music" | first Friday 16.00 |
| A panel including bishop Festo Kivengere and Luis Palau | Question and answer plenary session | second Friday 14.15 |
Stott's seminar on leadership was originally intended for "pastors or those interested in full-time service". Graham believed that Stott deserved a wider audience, so he up-graded it to a plenary session that he chaired so that "everyone could be present".