2025 Emerging Leaders (Year-Round) Network

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. 

• Leading ourselves: If we are to serve God effectively, we need to cultivate a love for God and his people. In order to do this, we need to be growing as Christian leaders ourselves, both in our own walks with the Lord and also in developing the gifting he has graciously given us. We will explore how to grow in this area and how to sustain growth long-term, not growing weary of doing good. 
• Leading others: As we develop as leaders, we need to grasp that much of our leadership is relational. We need to be thinking about how we relate to others and how we develop character and competence that will allow us to be servant-hearted humble leaders in the setting into which we are called. 
• Leading organisations: As leaders, we have to lead groups of people. This can be a key area of stress and failure for many Christian leaders, and our Network will help develop strategies for some of the softer skills necessary for leading groups of people – whether a church as a pastor or a Christian organisation (e.g., a seminary).  

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.