2025 Emerging Leaders (Year-Round) Network
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Emerging Gospel leaders often don't have access to mentoring and resources to help them do what the Lord has called them to do. The Emerging Leaders Year-Round Network has been created to address this need. Eight to ten strategically selected emerging leaders (Pastors and Leaders in Christian Organizations) will be invited to participate in an annual cohort. At the European Leadership Forum annual meeting, these leaders will receive focused, interactive training in the area of leadership, and this training will continue year-round through monthly contact in the form of webinars, required readings and assignments, a retreat during the year, and informal prayer times. The goal is to develop ongoing cross-border self-supporting cohorts that continue to encourage, equip, and resource one another at the annual meeting and beyond.
The 2025 Network at the European Leadership Forum is only one component of the Emerging Leaders Year-Round Network. Across the year, our Network will focus on making progress in three key areas: leading ourselves, leading others (individuals), and leading churches or organisations.
The full 2025-2026 programme will include:
- A four-day private Network at the 2025 European Leadership Forum, 17-22 May 2025, held in Wisła, Poland.
- An in-person 48-hour retreat, provisionally to be held in early December 2025 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Monthly online connections with Adrian and the Network participants:
- Five of these will be online workshops, working through issues together and reflecting on lessons for leadership as we progress.
- Two of these will be online prayer times as we support one another in our God-given callings.
- Two of these will be one-to-one online Zoom sessions with Adrian
In God’s goodness, we trust that the friendships and cross-European connections made through this Network will have a lasting impact on us as we serve our risen and ascended Saviour in the areas where he has called us.
We aim to do this together. As we learn and grow, we are doing so as a band of brothers, using our complementary gifts and character to build one another up and create a cross-border network where we are able to encourage and speak into one another’s lives and circumstances.
Participation in this Network is by invitation only. Participants should be men who are in the first 15 years of ministry and who are willing to commit to being part of a learning community as part of their growth and development. Interested applicants need to first apply and be accepted to the Forum before filling out an application specific to the Emerging Leaders Year-Round Mentoring Network. If you wish to apply for the 2025-2026 Year-Round Mentoring for Emerging Leaders, please review the Network curriculum and complete the online application.
Once you have completed this application, if your experience and responsibilities match this Network’s aims, you will be asked to have online interviews with Emanuel Tundrea and Adrian Reynolds.
Applicants must be pastors or leaders of Christian organisations (e.g., a seminary) who are in their first 15 years of ministry and who commit to a year-round curriculum of webinars and in-person mentoring meetings.
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Network Programme
Sunday, 18 May
In order to be able to work across the year, we need to get to know one another and understand the contexts in which we operate and the work God has called us to. Each delegate will get an opportunity to present to the group, including outlining the joys and challenges they are currently experiencing and how they feel they need to grow as a leader to be sustained in ministry.
In order to be able to work across the year, we need to get to know one another and understand the contexts in which we operate and the work God has called us to. Each delegate will get an opportunity to present to the group, including outlining the joys and challenges they are currently experiencing and how they feel they need to grow as a leader to be sustained in ministry.
Monday, 19 May
We cannot hope to lead others well if we are not invested in making progress ourselves. In the first of this two-part session, we will explore this topic biblically and apply the foundations to our own discipleship. We will explore how leaders grow, what holds them back, and how to deal with disappointment. We will explore how to process criticism and how to avoid being people-pleasers.
We cannot hope to lead others well if we are not invested in making progress ourselves. In the second of this two-part session, we will continue exploring this topic biblically and applying the foundations to our own discipleship. We will explore how leaders grow, what holds them back, and how to deal with disappointment. We will explore how to process criticism and how to avoid being people-pleasers.
Tuesday, 20 May
The work of leading is first of all relational. We need to think through the challenges of leading others and developing biblical tools and strategies to help us do so. We will be drawing heavily on the book of Proverbs which is first and foremost instructions given from one king to another – i.e. it is a book about exercising godly wisdom in leadership. As we reflect on Jesus’ kingship, we will learn to apply these truths to our own settings.
The work of leading is first of all relational. We need to think through the challenges of leading others and developing biblical tools and strategies to help us do so. We will be drawing heavily on the book of Proverbs which is first and foremost instructions given from one king to another – i.e. it is a book about exercising godly wisdom in leadership. As we reflect on Jesus’ kingship, we will learn to apply these truths to our own settings.
Wednesday, 21 May
A Christian organisation or church consists of believers, so although leadership is primarily relational, it is not exclusively so. We need to understand some of the pressures when it comes to leading God’s gathered people. What principles help us and hold us accountable, and how do we make the most of these?
We will spend some time reflecting and drafting some development ideas and plans which we can begin to put in place over the course of the year. We will understand the importance of honest self-reflection and what other sources are open to us as we seek to grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ and the work he has called us to.