European evangelical network links diaspora and local churches

The European Evangelical Alliance's One People Network is bringing migrant-led and locally rooted European churches into a shared intercultural mission conversation.

The network was formally presented during Hope for Europe 2026 after several years of development. Its stated purpose is to encourage cooperation between diaspora congregations and churches with deeper local roots as migration changes Europe's Christian landscape.

Official program material describes a continent where historic churches are shrinking while migrant-led and Pentecostal congregations are rising. That framing is missiological analysis from evangelical organizers, not a continent-wide statistical finding, but it identifies a concrete institutional response to the changing religious and demographic context.