Netherlands – Participating Member
Description
Verenigde Pinkster-en Evangeliegemeenten (VPE) is a fellowship of 180 Assemblies of God churches, with 26,000 members and 260 pastors and preachers. Beginning in 1907, Pentecost came to the Netherlands. In 1967, the U. S. Assemblies of God helped to start the Dutch Central Bible College.
The VPE includes a variety of ministries, such as ministry groups for our pastors and other ministers, Youth Alive, Teen Challenge, Europe Advance (Church Planting), Passion4Worship, Missions, Convoy of Hope, Azusa Pentecostal Theological Seminary, and Masters Commission. The churches are sending out missionaries all over the world, including Bangladesh, South Africa, Malawi, Spain, Brazil, Aruba, and other nations.
Peter Sleebos was born in Indonesia and became a migrant to the Netherlands in 1950. Upon graduation from Dutch Central Bible College, he served as the outreach director for the college. He has also served as a missionary to Indonesia and as pastor in Alkmaar, the Netherlands. In 1997 he was elected as General Superintendent, where he currently serves.
Sixty thousand Christians from all denominations come to a yearly Pentecostal festival to meet God and receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit. The AG (VPE) of the Netherlands expects and prays for a new Spirit-led Christianity in their nation. With God’s help they desire to play their role in it.
Executive Leadership
Rev. Peter B. Sleebos, General Superintendent
Verenigde Pinkster-en Evangeliegemeenten
Rotholm 20
8321 DK URK
THE NETHERLANDS
Tel. +31 (0)527 687005 (O)
Fax. +31 (0)527 686987 (O)
Email: info@vpe.nl
Visit the Netherlands at www.vpe.nl.
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