Alpha International

International Development: - Over the past year, Alpha International has completed two months of prayer globally, where the global organization (i.e., Alpha International and the network of NAOs) has joined together in corporate prayer under the banner of 'fan the flame'. - In 2024, 2,166,715 participants attended an Alpha Course. 81,629 courses were run from 43,117 churches, organizations, and individuals, across 146 countries. - In 2024, we concluded the pilot stage of our long-term initiative to measure the effectiveness of the Alpha course, receiving responses from over 1,500 guests across nearly 20 countries. The results were very encouraging. From our target population - people who have not yet discovered or developed a relationship with Jesus - 86% of guests report growth in their engagement in faith during the Alpha course, and over half of these guests describe themselves as positively engaged with the beliefs, practices, and experiences of the Christian faith by the end of the course.

Strategic Leadership and Enablement: Within the context of our overall vision, we launched Alpha's 2033 vision to our staff team, donors, and churches. Alpha International's vision is for everyone, everywhere to have the opportunity to explore faith through Alpha by 2033. As we look forward to the 2000th anniversary of the resurrection, we hope to make exploring faith in Jesus as accessible as possible, so that millions more might encounter the love of God. The CEF team continue to support and share learnings with regions and national offices, so they are equipped and innovating in their contexts to serve the church well in the context of our 2033 global vision. In 2024, the Global Governance team facilitated the Country Governance Requirements review of National Alpha Offices in which NAO leadership and boards conducted self-assessments of the effectiveness of NAO governance, with support from regional leadership.

Conferences: Alpha International hosted the Leadership Conference 2024 ('LC24') at the Royal Albert Hall, with many joining from around the world and many participating online through LC On Demand. During the week of LC24, we hosted an event called 'The Open Generation' for strategic church leaders and youth leaders from across the world.

UK Development: The team works across the UK to equip and support churches to be able to run Alpha in their local church, parish, youth groups, and prisons. There is also the publishing of the materials used to run Alpha and supporting local churches in the marketing and advertising of Alpha courses. In June, we were invited to have a prominent presence at the DR Catholic Parish Summit. The Summit was designed to catalyze a decade of transformation in the Catholic Church in the UK, bringing together leaders, parishes, movements, and communities to inspire and equip them in parish renewal. Alpha contributed in various ways, including hosting a pre-event entitled Engaging the Emerging Generation: Equipping Young People for Parish Renewal. Alpha testimonies and stories of parishes transformed by Alpha and DR were shared from the main stage throughout the conference, showing the impact of the work of Alpha UK over the last decade and the partnership with DR in the UK.

Alpha Context Development: 2024 was another amazing year for Alpha Youth as it continued to grow all around the world. In 2024, there were over 29,000 Alpha Youth courses, with over 744,000 guests, a 10% growth from 2023. On top of this encouraging growth, we were thrilled to launch the new Alpha Youth Series on 14th November in 8 languages. Together with regional and national teams, we were successfully able to host 37 different launch events all over the world, in places such as Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Stockholm, London, and Amsterdam. This was a monumental achievement that has taken years of work by our global team in collaboration with regional and national teams and has already been received so positively by local churches all over the world. In 2024, over 6,300 churches, schools and organizations and over 325,000 participants explored faith, life and meaning through Alpha in the Catholic Context. This represented a growth of 21% in Churches, organizations and schools and a growth of 15% in guests. Catholic churches represented 19% of engaged churches globally. Catholic context courses run in a Youth or Young Adult context represented 47% of the total number, which is above the global average of 37%, highlighting the opportunity and impact of Alpha Youth in the Catholic Context in engaging the emerging generations.

Other Ministries: The Marriage Course (TMC) and The Pre-Marriage Course (TPMC) have impacted millions of couples positively worldwide. In 2024, our focus was on improving digital accessibility, supporting church leader marriages, exploring evangelistic opportunities for TPMC, and enhancing marketing and content.