European Leadership

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21 May – 26 May, 2011 | Eger, Hungary

Come to gain access to

God’s global resources…
Receive expert teaching and training from
some of the world’s best teachers
Find mentors and build friendships
Be encouraged
Invite key Forum speakers back to your city
Discover best practice resources and semi-
nars in evangelism, Bible study, church life and
leadership development, etc

The Forum was the catalyst for

over 350 seminars, leadership
training events, and evangelistic
initiatives throughout Europe
in the past year.
 21 May – 26 May, 2011

European
Leadership
Forum

Forum Goals
• Promote, unify, and strengthen evangelical Christianity in Europe
• Provide biblical, intellectual, and spiritual resources to feed and encourage Christian leaders
• Strengthen and equip local churches as living, witnessing communities
• Serve as a clearinghouse for evangelical leaders, best practices and strategies

Forum Programme
This invitation-only meeting is divided into five main sections:

Pre-Forum and Plenary Network and Seminar Meetings: Workshops Informal

Post-Forum Sessions Networks will focus on new teaching and train- will be focused Networking will be
Seminars will be will be led by ing for specific groups of evangelical leaders, on specific ideas, a central focus of the
held on 21 and 26 Forum Steering and will provide a high calibre of resources to challenges, best Forum. Meal and break
May on key topics Committee address specific problems and needs. practices and times are designed
and best practices. members and Seminars will feature a specific curriculum that strategies. for ­individuals to meet
taught by will be the same content each year. See Network with others to explore
Forum speakers. and Seminar descriptions below. Prior prepara- specific concerns and
tion will be set for all applicants. strategies.

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Net work Descriptions
European Apologetics Network: God's truth in egaging, relevant, and, above all, biblical ways.
1. European Apologetics
Foundational Seminar: 2. European Bible Teachers and Preachers Advanced
Applicants should be those Seminar:
with evangelistic or apologetic Applicants should be those who have either attended this Network
Andrew Fellows Bjorn Hinderaker
gifts. The purpose of the in previous years, or who have attended Langham Partnership
Network is to train, mentor, equip and resource those evangelists Preaching conferences in their countries. The aim each year is to
and apologists who are seeking to communicate the gospel in consider the challenges and opportunities presented by different
their local communities. This track of the Network will be led by biblical genres, assuming the key skills gained in the foundational
Andrew Fellows, Director of L’Abri Fellowship in England, and Bjorn level.
Hinderaker, a founding director of Damaris Norway.
European Christian Counsellors Network:
2. european Applicants should be involved in Christian
Apologetics counselling, pastoral care in churches and
Advanced personal discipleship ministries. This Network
Stefan Seminar: will examine the biblical framework for Christian
Gustavsson Peter Sanlon Peter S. Williams Pablo Martinez
Applicants counselling and discipleship. Leading this
Richard Winter
should be those who have attended the Apologetics Foundational Network will be Pablo Martinez, psychiatrist, Professor of Pastoral
or Advanced Seminar in the past and who seek to further Psychology at Spanish Theological Seminary and President of the
enhance their skills as gifted evangelists and apologists. This track Spanish Evangelical Alliance.
of the Network will be co-led by Stefan Gustavsson, Steering
Committee member; Peter Sanlon, professor of church history European Church Planters Network:
at Oak Hill College, UK; and Peter S. Williams, Assistant Professor Applicants should be church
of Communication and Worldviews at Gimlekollen School of planting practitioners or leaders in
Journalism and Communication, Norway. organizations involved in church-
planting thinking. Leading this Raphael
Oivind Augland Anzenberger
European Artists Network: Network will be Oivind Augland,
Applicants should be those interested in forming a leader of DAWN Network for Church Planting in Scandinavia and
biblical worldview of art--including both the visual Raphael Anzenberg, General Secretary of France Evangelisation.
and performing arts--and the artist’s vocation.
This year's Network will be led by Alastair Gordon, European Disciple-Making Leaders Network:
Alastair Gordon This Network will be led by Mark Stirling of
professional painter, Co-Director of Interface Arts
Graduates and former National Arts Coordinator for Universities and Navigators UK.
Colleges Christian Fellowship.
1. European Disciple-Making Foundational
Mark Stirling
European Bible Teachers and Preachers Network: Seminar: Applicants should be those involved in
These Network Seminars will Christian leadership (at any level) who desire to develop maturity
be led by Mark Meynell, Senior in the members of the body of Christ and are willing to grapple
Associate Minister at All Souls honestly with their responsibility to make disciples.
Church in London and Gavin
Mark Meynell Gavin McGrath 2. European Disciple-Making Advanced Seminar:
McGrath, pastor, author and
Applicants should be those who attended the European Disciple-
church planter in London.
Making Leaders Network at a previous Forum and are therefore
1. European Bible Teachers and Preachers Foundational applying disciple-making principles as they seek to lead people
Seminar: Applicants should be gifted local church pastors and lay towards maturity. The track will help participants move from
preachers who want to develop their skills in expository preaching. principles to practical application sensitive to each person’s ministry
This foundational seminar seeks to train individuals to communicate context.

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European Leaders of Christian Organisations European Scientific Network:
Network: Applicants should be involved in
Applicants should be leading or helping to lead full-time scientific work or have a
Christian organisations or churches. The Network strong interest and background
identifies key problem areas of the leader’s role with in the integration of Science and
John Lenton Alexander Fink Peter Imming
the aim of supplying practical tools and biblically- Christianity. Leading this Network
based solutions. The Network will be led by John will be Alexander Fink, Director of SMD (Studenten Mission
Lenton, founding dean of a Christian business school at Emmanuel Deutschland) Graduates' Ministry, and Peter Imming, Professor of
University in Romania and a former senior executive with American Pharmaceutical Chemistry in the Martin-Luther-Universitaet Halle.
Express in Europe.
European Theologians Network:
European Media Communicators Network: Applicants should be involved
Applicants should be current in full-time theological education
or potential leaders who are --such as teachers, professors
gifted in the media (in such fields and theology PhD students.
Peter J. Williams Dirk Jongkind
as journalism, film, TV Leading this Network will be Peter
Margunn Dahle Lars Dahle
or the Internet) who want to J. Williams, Warden of Tyndale House in Cambridge, and Dirk
relate biblical Christian faith to contemporary popular culture in a Jongkind, Fellow at St. Edmund’s College at Cambridge.
way that is both authentic and relevant. This Network will be led
by Margunn and Lars Dahle. Both serve at the Gimlekollen School European University Evangelists Network:
of Journalism and Communication in Norway, where Margunn is Applicants should be current
Programme Director and Lars is Principal. or potential university
evangelists who desire to
European ministry to muslims network: develop their speaking gifts Richard
Lindsay Brown Cunningham
Applicants should be individuals who wish to for the advancement of God's
Richard Winter
discern the influence of Islam in their respective kingdom amongst university students. Leading this Network will
countries and to receive training in apologetics be Lindsay Brown, Director of the Lausanne Committe for World
and cultural understanding so that they can better Keith Small Evangelisation and Richard Cunningham, Director of UCCF: The
communicate the gospel to Muslims. This Network Christian Unions.
will be led by Keith Small, a missionary apologist and evangelist to
Muslims in the UK with Avant Ministries since 1989.

European Politics and Society Network:

Applicants should
be those who are
working in the
David areas of politics,
Nola Leach Fieldsend Charles Hoare
campaigning
or community action. Both seasoned campaigners and aspiring
politicians will benefit from the input of leading thinkers and
practitioners. The Network will be led by Nola Leach, Chief
Executive of CARE (Christian Action, Research & Education), David
Fieldsend, Manager of CARE for Europe, and Charles Hoare, Deputy
Director of CARE's Institute for Faith and Culture.

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Seminar Descriptions
The following Seminars offer a one or two-year curriculum (as noted). Individuals who attend these Seminars will receive expert teaching
designed to help them be more effective, fully equipped leaders. Seminar meetings will take place at the same time as
the Network meetings. Those who wish to attend one of these Seminars will have to step out of their regular Networks for the year
to do so. The content of the Seminars will be the same each year.

European Evangelism Seminar: European Organisational Development and

Applicants should be evangelists, Fundraising Seminar:
pastors and lay evangelists Applicants should be those interested in
who want to be equipped developing the visions and strategies of their
to be more effective. The organisations and/or their donor bases. This
Michael Ramsden Reykjavik
Amy Orr-Ewing curriculum aims to help Seminar’s annual curriculum focuses on helping Jerry Twombly
ICELAND
participants share the gospel message in ways that are relevant, leaders learn how to do development and
biblical and credible. The Seminar aims to be academic and fundraising through a variety of biblically-based principles. The
serious but at the same time inspirational and life-transforming. Seminar will be taught by Jerry Twombly, Senior Partner of BGW
This Seminar will be led and taught by Michael Ramsden, Director Development Group.
of the Zacharias Trust and Lecturer in Apologetics at Wycliffe Hall,
Oxford University, and Amy Orr-Ewing, Apologist Oulu
and Director of Training at the Zacharias Trust.
FINLAND

SWEDEN

Schedule: 21 May – 26 May, 2011 NORWAY

Bergen Helsinki

Oslo
SAT SUN MON TUES WED THUR Tallinn
21 MAy 22 MAy 23 MAy 24 MAy 25 MAy 26 MAy Stockholm
ESTONIA
SCOTLAND
7:00–8:15
Glasgow
BREAKFAST
Edinburgh Göteborg
Location
8:45–10:00 NORTHERN
Plenary
IRELAND
Plenary Plenary Plenary Post- The European Leadership Forum will LATVIA
ARRIVAL Session Session Session Session Forum
IN  Belfast Seminars
Aarhus
be held in beautiful and historic Riga
Eger,
10:15–13:15 Eger 8:45 to Hungary (90 minutes from Budapest,
Network
IRELAND Network Leeds Network Network 12:30
Seminars Seminars Seminars Seminars DENMARK
Dublin Copenhagen Hungary) at the Hotel Eger Park LITHUANIA
Manchester convention centre and hotel complex.Vilnius
Pre-Forum Cork
Seminars UNITED KINGDOM DEPART  Although participants RUSSIA
will be busy
13:15–16:00 12:30 to Birmingham FROM and focused during the Forum, there
Gdansk
17:30 WALES
Cardiff LUNCH AND BREAK OR Eger
Hamburg will be three hours each afternoon
ENGLAND
LUNCHEON WORKSHOP
London
Amsterdam for individuals to relax and prepare BELA
The Hague
for thePoznan
rest of the meeting.
16:00–17:30 Workshops Workshops NETHERLANDSWorkshops
Workshops Berlin

BELGIUM Dortmun Warsaw

Brussels d
17:45–19:00 Leipzig P O L A N D
DINNER Le Havre GERMANY
Frankfurt
19:30–21:00 Plenary Plenary Plenary Plenary
Paris Plenary
LUXEMBOURG Prague
Session Session Session Session Session Krakow L’vov

St. Nazaire Strasbourg

Nantes
SLOVAK
Munich Vienna
REPUBLIC
FRANCE Bratislava
Eger
Zurich AUSTRIA
LIECHTENSTEIN Sopron Budapest
SWITZERLAND Graz
Bordeaux HUNGARY
Lyon
SLOVENIA
Milan
Bilbao Ljubljana Zagreb R O M A N I A
Porto Toulouse CROATIA Buch
Speakers
The European Leadership Forum seeks to identify and bring the best
speakers in the world to train and equip European evangelical leaders.

Raphael Anzenberger margunn dahle pablo martineZ

General Secretary of Programme Coordinator of the President of the Spanish
France Evangelisation Gimlekollen School of Journalism Evangelical Alliance
and Communication, Norway

Oivind Augland ruth naomi floyd Nick Nedelchev

Leader of DAWN Network for Jazz and Gospel Vocalist Former President of the
Church Planting in Scandinavia European Evangelical Alliance

Bobb Biehl michael green Jeremy Peckham

Executive Mentor and Founder, Evangelist, Author and Lecturer Director of the WEL Forum and
Masterplanning Group at the Oxford Centre for Christian Chairman of Africa Rural Trainers
lnternational Apologetics

Ann blaser os guinness rebecca pippert

Teaching Leader of Bible Study Author and Cultural Critic Director of Salt Shaker Ministries
Fellowship International and Author

eric bobbitt Glynn Harrison Ellis potter

Pastor of Pastoral Care and Professor Emeritus of Mental Director of Eastern European
Counselling at Zionsville Health at the University of Bristol Renewal
Fellowship Church

darrell bock Craig hazen Jamie Rasmussen

Research Professor of New Professor of Comparative Religion Senior Pastor, Scottsdale Bible
Testament at Dallas Theological and Apologetics at Biola University Church, Arizona
Seminary

lindsay brown tim kimmel david robertson

International Director of the Author and Director of Family Author and Pastor of St. Peter's
Lausanne Committee for World Matters in Scottsdale, Arizona Free Church of Scotland, Dundee
Evangelisation

james cecy kurt igler jerry root

Founder and President of JARON Director of Renovatio in Vienna, Associate Director, Institue of
Ministries International Austria Strategic Evangelism, Wheaton
College

richard cunningham ranald macaulay iwan russell-jones

Director of Universities and Coordinator for Christian Heritage Film-maker and BBC Producer/
Colleges Christian Fellowship at The Round Chuch in Cambridge, Director
UK
 Peter sanlon peteris sprogis tony watkins
Inner-city Pastor, Professor of Bishop in the Baptist Union of Author and Managing Editor of
Church History and Doctrine at Oak Latvia and Founder, Baltic Pastoral Culturewatch.org
Hill College, UK Institute

Avi Snyder harvey thomas peter s. williams

European Director, Jews for Jesus International Public Relations Philosopher and Professor of
Consultant and BBC Correspondent Communication and Worldviews
at Gimlekollen School of
Journalism and Communication

jurgen spiess chris watkin john wyatt

Historian and Director of the Institute Professor of French at Murray Neo-natalogist and Professor
of Science and Faith in Marburg, Edwards College, Cambridge of Ethics & Perinatology at
Germany University, UK University College, London

Comments about the forum from christian leaders

Tom price
"The European Leadership Forum has helped me
connect with students for the Oxford Centre for
Christian Apologetics, friends who are involved
in similar work, mentors who are training me,
Academic thinkers who have challenged me, Bible teachers
Tutor, Oxford who have taught me faithfully, and over 50 evan-
Centre for gelists that we have trained and sent out through
Christian the Evangelism Network. This is why I love the
Apologetics European Leadership Forum. I think we will look
back in the future and say, 'God actually used the
Forum to stir the European church up to believe,
for the first time since Francis Schaeffer, that we
have something meaningful to say and that God
can break through to people in Europe.'"
Christian barbosu
"The European Leadership Forum is unique. I
consider it to be the largest annual gathering of
European evangelical leaders, and this is impor-
tant to me because on a spiritually dying conti-
Radio Pastor nent, those who still want to defend the true faith
and Senior must be united. What is great about the Forum
Pastor, is that it is not a defensive gathering, where you
Biserica learn how to survive, but it is a dynamic, pro-
Metanoia, active and intentional gathering which equips,
Arad, Romania motivates and challenges the evangelical leaders
to be on the offense and engage the culture, and
win back Europe to Christ. It is the best initiative
of gathering the most diverse group of European
leaders together."

Steering Commit tee

Richard Cunningham, Director of Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship, U.K.
Lars Dahle, Principal of Mediehøgskolen Gimlekollen School of Journalism and Communication, Norway
Alexander Fink, Director of SMD (Studenten Mission Deutschland) Graduates' Ministry
Stefan Gustavsson, Director of the Credo Academy in Stockholm and Chairman of the Swedish Evangelical Alliance, Sweden
Pablo Martinez, President of the Spanish Evangelical Alliance, Spain
Greg Pritchard, Director of Communication Institute, United States
Michael Ramsden, Director of Zacharias Trust, U.K.
Jiri Unger, President of European Evangelical Alliance, Czech Republic

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 How can i participatE?
The European Leadership Forum is an invitation-only event. We welcome
applications and recommendations. Each person recommended should be
a spiritually mature evangelical, seeking to grow in one of the Networks'
areas of specialisation. High-level English proficiency is required. To apply
or recommend someone else:
1. Go to www.EuroLeadership.org and fill out an Application Form and / or
a Recommendation Form for the European Leadership Forum.
2. Send an email to application@EuroLeadership.org and request that an
Application or Recommendation Form be emailed back to you.
For any additional questions, go to www.EuroLeadership.org or email
us at contact@EuroLeadership.org.
A limited number of scholarships (bursaries) are available on a first come, first served
basis.

“The European Leadership Forum represents not only “The European Leadership Forum is unique
an excellent resource event but has the potential and invaluable for the contemporary
to stir the intellectual momentum of European church in Europe because:
evangelicals and to inspire a new generation of
leaders both from Eastern and Western Europe.
European evangelicals urgently need to transform from a teaching 1. It provides a meeting place or oasis for many hard
community to a learning community that would be able not only pressed believers serving Christ in different fields.
to face but to challenge ideas and ideologies ruling in today’s 2. It provides a means of equipping or training in at least
Europe. The European Leadership Forum is one of the places 10 areas or fields through consistently high quality input.
where this can happen.”
3. This is followed up by the provision of resources through
Jiri Unger President, European Evangelical Alliance written materials, Web information, tapes, etc.
4. It has proved to be a spawning ground for scores
of other European-based initiatives.
“The European Leadership Forum has been a
wonderful success. The European Evangelical Alliance For all these reasons, I believe that the Forum is the
supports the European Leadership Forum and stands best initiative I have seen in Europe in the last 20 years."
behind it. The Forum is creating a bridge for Europe’s
Lindsay Brown International Director, Lausanne Committee
evangelical leaders to gain access to God’s global for World Evangelisation
resources. As a direct result of the Forum, over 350 leadership
training seminars, events, and speaking engagements will happen
across Europe this year. We encourage evangelical leaders to take
advantage of the unique opportunity of the Forum and to gain
access to many of the world's leading evangelical thinkers,
speakers, and best practice training resources.”
For more information about the
Nick Nedelchev Former President, European Evangelical Alliance
European Leadership Forum and costs go to:

www.EuroLeadership.org