We are excited to announce that this year's annual Master's Commission Europe conference will be held in Paris, France. Mark your calendars for March 19th-21st. This year we are also partnering with the host church and Master's in Paris for an outreach to the youth of France. We are excited to invite all Master's Commissions to be a part of this. The outreach will take place on Saturday the 21st. Not only will this be an incredible experience for everyone who participates, but you will also be a part of pioneering Master's Commission in France.

For programs outside of Europe, we would love to invite you to this year's conference. If you would like more details please contact the MCE office.

We are excited to announce that MCE is now a group on Facebook. We already have over 100 people that are connecting in that group. We look forward to networking with people all across the world. If you are an Alumni of Master's Commission, a potential student, or just interested in Master's Commission in Europe, please come and join the MCE group.

Look forward to talking to you on Facebook.

During the Director's retreat in Brussels the MCE board presented a 5 year plan in front of all the directors. One of the most important goals is to establish a mentoring program involving all of the programs. Another goal is to see fifty programs established on the continent with the participation of 750 students. We really want to see a young generation trained and equiped to live as disciples, reaching all of Europe and we really believe that this is a new time for Europe. The discussions in Brussels were inspirational and we look forward to our next Conference in Paris , March 19th-21st, 2009.

The European Masters Commission directors retreat was held in Brussels, October 8th -11th. A highlight was the official opening of the European Masters Commission headquarters.



There are now MC programs in Finland, Denmark, Spain, England, Ireland, Estonia, Austria, France, Norway, Holland and Bosnia-Herzegovina. New programs could soon open in Scotland, Belgium and Sweden.



Assembly of God missionaries Nolan and Hannah Tarantino are heading up the new office and will soon be joined by missionaries Dan and Silvana Place.



"This is God's time for Masters Commission in Europe", says Michael McNamee. "It is one of the tools that He is using to turn the youth of Europe towards Him. Our goals are to have 50 MC programs with 750 students in the next few years."

"As the earth revolves around the sun and spins each day around at a seemingly ever faster pace it is great to arrive at points in time where you can press pause and clearly see what totally amazing things that God is doing. The 2008 Master's Commission Europe Directors retreat in Brussels was one of those points in time where paused was pressed and Master's Directors from all over Europe shared about incredible discipleship ministry impacting lives and the church everywhere."
Simon Cunningham

Nolan and Hannah Tarantino have arrived in Brussels to help open the MC European offices. Nolan went to Copenhagen MC in 2001 as a student, went on staff 2003 and stayed until 2006. He met Hannah there in 2005 when she was a first year student!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rule-breaker!!!!!!!!!! They married in Ft. Myers, Florida U.S.A. in July 29th, 2006.

Afterwards, they itinerated across America to raise support to come back to Europe. Pray for them as they get situated and do all they have to do to get the MCE office started.

To be at the Master's Commission Conference in Iceland last month was just great. To hear great reports across Europe from Helge from Norway, Crystal from Kildare Ireland, Randy & Robin from Austria Vienna, Alicia from Copenhagen Denmark, Raija from Finland and Southport Master's Commission in England was not to be missed. Reports from Scotland, Spain, Estonia, France and Bosnia are showing continued growth in Master's Programs.

Here in Southport MC we have had the priveledge of hosting Kildare MC two weeks ago. What a great team, home church and director in Crystal. They can come and visit/work with us any time and we hope to get to visit Kildare in the next Master's year.

Our students are coming to the end of their Bible course studies for the year and are in final preparations for two mission trips. The first is in Poland working with a national youth conference called 'Radical'. The second with an Assemblies of God church plant in Peterborough which is going to be a productive time of schools work, children's ministry and profile raising for the church plant.

What a great year. It will be sad to see graduation come around so fast in June, but bring on the September 08/09 year.

An American Hurricane called FMMC has hit our Dutch coast on March the 4th. This fresh wind has blessed and reached the Northern part of Amsterdam. A team of 18 students and staff left from sunny Fort Myer’s in Florida to join our small crew of MCAN. Together we have worked for 2 weeks in our neighbourhood through street evangelism, student’s surveys on the free ferry and much more.

Meanwhile we have been blessed working with our local church Agape in multiple ministries; one evening different youth groups gathered together for a great youth event and a week later we all left for a 3 days youth camp in an Island called Ameland in the highest part of The Netherlands. Through fellowship, bible studies, preaching and human videos the Lord has reached the youth of Agape formed by more than 80 young people. Many of these youth have consecrated their lives back to God but even more exiting some of them have given their lives to God and decided to follow His command of the water baptism.

So much has happened in just 2 weeks and as you can see this hurricane has brought much more than a simple wind; a total renewing.

We can’t wait till September comes; we trust that new doors will open for people and students who are willing to get to know God and make Him known in The Netherlands.

February 27th - March 2nd, SMC had the opportunity to do a schools and youth outreach mission to Leek, UK. Over the course of two days the students went into 2 different schools in the community doing over 12 Religious Education classes and assemblies. Every evening SMC went into various youth clubs and youth groups reaching out to the youth of the community through dramas, games, and sharing Christ. On the Saturday, the team was able to do an open air outreach in the Leek marketplace. It was very encouraging to come alongside the already very active outreach team at Leek Pentecostal Church and to see crowds gather as SMC students did different sketches and our 2nd year, Holly Gell, shared about her own experience in coming to know God. Sunday was a great day spent serving Leek Pentecostal church through testimonies, human videos, dramas, and the word, brought by our assistant director, Dawn Zmuda.

The mission to Leek was not only a great chance for us to be a blessing to another church and community in the UK, but our students were given the opportunity to grow and be stretched in their ministry capabilities. SMC as a programme has also benefited though one of the Leek Pentecostal youth deciding to apply to SMC for next year. Over all the trip was an amazing opportunity and experience.

We are looking forward to the MCE conference in Iceland and now preparing for two short term missions trips. Our first is to Poland at the end of April where we will do youth outreach and support one of the nation’s largest youth conferences. The second is at the end of May in Brighton, UK where we will help a church plant run a holiday club for the kids in their community. The next two months leading up to graduation are going to be a very active and exciting time with many opportunities to continually getting to know God and making Him known.

On Monday the 17th of March, which just so happens to be St. Patrick's Day, we had the opportunity to be part of an outreach here in Newbridge. There was a huge parade happening in the town that we were a part of. We passed out about 1500 fliers to the 20,000 people watching the parade.

Not only did our own students pass out fliers and leaflets, but we had kids from the church, and young people from the youth club also helping to get the word out about Open Arms Community Church. It was great to see the response of the people in the community. It’s very rare to see a church that is lively, passionate, and fun. It was obvious that we were a light in the community, representing Christ in a way they had not seen before.

There was a lot of preparation that went into the floats and vehicles involved in the parade, but it was well worth it. We had a blast putting it all together and being a part of such a huge outreach.

This year we have made a change in CIMC that allows each student to choose a department in our church to intern with. By choosing an internship with a specific department, the student is able to focus on an area of ministry that they have a passion for and are gifted in. This opportunity has proven to be extremely beneficial for CIMC, the student, and the department leaders. The students are able to really get submersed in church leadership on both a practical and spiritual level. Here is what some of student and department leasers have to say about internships this year:



- 1st year, Estonia

"My internship is with Klippen, an outreach to drug addicts and prostitutes in the Red Light District of Copenhagen. Klippen is great! It allows me to see people`s lives changing and to be a part of it and that`s really exciting. It also challenges me to talk to total strangers and people who I`m actually afraid of which is sometimes really hard. This internship has really given me a desire in my heart to do something more for God."


- Worship Pastor

"As a leader of worship and production in the church I have an intern from CIMC connected to my department. So far it has been a great privilege for me to be able work with an intern.
It is a good practical help in the everyday life and work, but it is also a good challenge for us to think of projects and educational activities for our intern to be involved with. I am receiving some really good feedback from our intern. She finds it very interesting to work behind the scenes, getting an idea of what it takes to work with worship and production.

It definitely takes an effort from both the department and the intern to make the internship successful, but the outcome is great and absolutely worth it."

- 2nd year, USA


"Being a CIMC Intern has been pretty cool, and has given me the opportunity to step into a leadership role that is unique and exciting. As a Masters Intern I've been a part of the CIMC staff meetings and the vision process. I love having the opportunity to be creative and use my gifts to try to impact the program. As an intern we are always challenged by the need to live authentically. We live in a very close community and as a leader you learn quickly the importance of being real and dealing with things properly. I have been stretched and challenged daily in my walk with Christ and in my
role as a leader. Being a CIMC intern is definitely not the easiest thing I cold have done but I believe it was by far the most beneficial."