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About us

We are a young Christian church in Leipzig – and by now we have a daughter church, Generations Church International. We love God, we love people, and we want to bring the two together.

The congregation standing and sitting during worship in a bright hall

Our vision

How it all began

Generations Church is an evangelical church plant that Elina and Tyler Charvat started in July 2016 as a service in their living room. Since June 2017 we have been meeting on Sundays at the old trade fair grounds in the Pavillon der Hoffnung to worship together.

We are a young church, excited to share our faith with others and to discover what God has in store for Leipzig.

People from many nations sitting together at tables in a sunny garden

How Generations Church International came to be

From the very beginning we had it on our hearts to plant not just one church but several. In spring 2019 – we had been in Leipzig for three years – a preacher at a conference of our missions organisation challenged us: What would you do in the next three years if you knew that God was in it with you? Tyler wrote on his card: “Plant GCI – Generations Church International”. Elina wrote: “Church plant number two”. That is how the journey with GCI began in our hearts.

Then Covid hit. At the beginning of 2021 we came back from the US to a full lockdown, and our dream started to look unrealistic. The church needed time to rebuild after being online for so long. Tyler prayed for direction and felt God ask: “Do you trust me? Then this will happen naturally. You don’t have to make it happen.”

Around June/July 2021 we were carrying a large, heavy box into the building where we meet – and suddenly a man appeared beside us and helped. His name was Michael; he was from Egypt and spoke English better than German. He and his family are missionaries who felt called to Leipzig, and soon they came to our services regularly. When they moved into an apartment, Michael said: “I really think this apartment would be great to start something in.” Michael and Sara had exactly what we had on our hearts: a church where we invite more and more people to come and grow.

In February 2022 we started meeting every Sunday night in that lovely home – and God has been blessing it. Today Generations Church International meets every Sunday at 4 pm at the Ring Café on Roßplatz. It took almost exactly three years – which just shows God’s faithfulness and his timing, not ours.

Michael and Sara Biskales
“And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others.”
2 Timothy 2:2

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Pastors

  • Elina and Tyler Charvat

    Tyler & Elina Charvat

    Pastors and founders of Generations Church

    We are Tyler and Elina Charvat. We grew up in Kansas (USA) and met through Elina’s brother-in-law, who worked with Tyler at a car dealership. Together we founded a youth group in our home church, got married after three years of dating and eventually became youth pastors there.

    As a little girl, Elina already felt a call to share her faith with other people. Tyler invited Jesus into his life when he was 23 and has followed him faithfully ever since. Through “Assemblies of God World Missions” we came to Germany as missionaries – first to Rostock, where we supported a church’s youth work from 2012 to 2014, and then to Leipzig to plant a church.

    We have been amazed by the faithfulness of God, and it has been a privilege to know him so intimately through the process.

    tyler@generationschurch.de

Affiliation

We are an independent registered association and a member of the Bund Freikirchlicher Pfingstgemeinden K.d.ö.R. (BFP, Federation of Free Pentecostal Churches) and of the German Evangelical Alliance.