A worldwide Christian event made possible by recent technology has announced its first tranche of contributors, unveiling an inventory of multinational and multidenominational Christian teachers, storytellers and prayer guides from six continents.
Running over a 25-hour period, Gather25 will use television broadcasts, radio, and live streams with the intention to enable Christians anywhere on the earth to participate from their homes, theatres, and native churches, or attend one among the live broadcast sites in person.
The guests announced thus far include pastors and church leaders like Jennie Allen, the founder and visionary behind Gather25 and a bible teacher and writer, Cristian Barbosu, the senior pastor of Harvest Church in Arad, Romania, Sarah Breuel, founder and executive director of Revive Europe and church planter in Italy, and Louie Giglio, pastor of Passion City Church and writer of over a dozen best-selling books.
The list also includes notable authors akin to Christine Caine, a speaker, writer, and activist with over 30 years’ experience in serving the local church, and Francis Chan, church planter and the best-selling writer of Crazy Love, Forgotten God, and You and Me Forever. It also features world-renowned writer, Rick Warren, who wrote The Purpose Driven Life, and whose books have been translated into 200 languages.
They will likely be joined by Nicky and Pippa Gumbel, who pioneered the Alpha teaching system, an introduction to the Christian faith which now runs in churches of all denominations across 147 countries.
There can even be powerful worship led by Matt Redman and Sinach, who has written a number of the hottest songs in contemporary worship, including “Way Maker”, “I Know Who I Am”. “The Name of Jesus”, and plenty of more.
Gather25 will kick off within the United States at 01:00 UTC on Saturday 1 March 2025, before moving around the globe and coming to an end in Peru at 02:00 UTC, Sunday 2 March 2025. The full list of contributors announced thus far could be found on the Gather25 website.
Over the course of its continuous broadcast, it’ll seek to interact its audience using stories and testimonies of God’s hand at work around the globe, inspiring believers to succeed in out to the 5.5 billion individuals who have yet to find what having a relationship with Jesus truly means.
Each of the host countries will deliver their very own session, offering stories, teaching, and worship from multiple locations, in addition to sharing recent stories from the continued work of the underground church.
“It’s really easy to underestimate just how beautiful, powerful, and vast the Church really is. But the more we glance around the globe, the more we see that Jesus’ Church may be very much alive and well – and we recognize that day by day amazing stories are being written,” said Redman.
“What I like concerning the vision of Gather25 is it’ll help get us more in contact with that glorious reality. As we join our voices together across the globe on March 1st, the Word, worship, witness, and prayer will likely be so powerful.
“But perhaps what will likely be most stunning of all will likely be our unity – with so many streams and expressions joining together as ‘one’ – just the way in which Christ all the time wanted it. Please join us!”
