Profundum Symposium

23–26 September 2026

CfC Hub Wien | Gerhard-Bronner-Str. 1/1A | 1100 Vienna

Speakers

Rachel Gilson

Rachel serves on the leadership team of Theological Development and Culture for Cru in the United States, where she has particularly provided leadership on equipping missionary staff to navigate LGBT+ questions in ministry. She is the author of two books related to these questions, Born Again This Way and Parenting Without Panic in an LGBT+ Affirming World. Rachel joined staff in 2011, and lives in Boston with her husband and daughter.“ 

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.