Profundum Symposium
Speakers
Rachel Gilson
Paul Bruderer
Paul Bruderer, born in 1972, grew up in Africa as the child of missionaries. In 1998, he was a founding member of the “Godi” youth revival in Switzerland. Since 2001, he has been pastor of the Vivakirche Church in Frauenfeld. He teaches Systematic Theology at the TSC Seminary in Basel, Ethics at the ISTL in Zürich and blogs at DanielOption.ch. Together with Professor Christoph Raedel (STH) he is the author of ‚Workbook Sexuality‘ which provides campaign material for churches and christian groups on sexuality in our time and age. Paul lives with his family in Frauenfeld, Switzerland.
Matthias Langhans
Matthias Langhans is the national director of Campus Crusade for Christ Austria. His passion is to see movements of Jesus‘ followers among the younger generation in secular Europe. He grew up in Asia (Japan, Singapore) and later lived in Germany and Switzerland. He served 11 years with CfC Switzerland and since eight years he has lived with his wife Barbara and their three teenagers near Salzburg.
Nolan Sharp
Nolan leads LeaderImpact, Agape’s marketplace ministry, in Croatia. He also coordinates the Theology in Culture Network for the 40 plus countries in Agape Europe. Formerly he was an engineer in Silicon Valley. He has engineering degrees from Stanford University and a Masters of Divinity from Bethel Seminary. He serves as an elder at the Zagreb-Malesnica Baptist Church. Nolan and his wife Sandra, who is from Croatia, have two sons.
Kaon Serjani
Kaon Serjani holds degrees in Journalism and in Christian Apologetics. He is the founder and director of the Institute for Faith and Cultural Engagement—an initiative aimed at creating a safe environment for raising questions about faith and receiving credible answers. He has written four books in the Albanian language (one of which has also been published in Macedonian) and is currently writing a Christian critique of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. He is married to Danjela, has two young boys, and lives in Tirana.
Gernot Zeilinger
Gernot leads Profundum, a ministry of Campus für Christus Österreich which is dedicated to serving the church through apologetics and theolical training. He has a „Certificate in Theological Studies“ from the University of Oxford, a Masters in „Systematic and Philosophical Theology“ from the University of Nottingham. Currently he is finishing his Masters degree in Church History at the University of Vienna.
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Schedule
Detailed Schedule will be added soon. The conference will start at 4 pm on wednesday 23.09.2026 and will end on Saturday 26.09.2026 at noon.
Accomodation need to be booked separately, recommendation for them on request.