Forum Meal-Time Mentoring
Have you been accepted to attend this year's European Leadership Forum? If so, we invite you to sign up for Meal-Time Mentoring at this year's Forum.
Why?
Paul constantly used the language of the One Anothers to describe how Jesus’ disciples were to relate to one another. Believers were to 'love one another', 'encourage one another', 'pray for one another', and dozens of other One Anothers. But we can’t live the 'one anothers' if we don’t get to know one another. This is why you are coming to the European Leadership Forum – to unite with other Gospel leaders.
One of ELF's main ways to serve you is to give you a chance to meet with, talk with, and be prayed for by faithful and godly Gospel leaders. This is what ELF is all about. If you don't sign up for mentoring, you are missing out.
This important initiative provides you with the chance to meet in-person with an experienced leader (or in some cases two leaders) to:
- Pose difficult questions
- Seek advice on a specific situation
- Learn more about a particular topic of interest
- Receive prayer
- Gain encouragement
Meetings are formatted in one of two ways:
- One-on-one: just you and the mentor(s)
- Network Mentoring - an opportunity to meet one-on-one with an experienced mentor from your ELF Network
- General Mentoring - an opportunity to have mentoring in any area of your interest
- In a cohort: you, a small group of four to eight peers, and the mentor(s)
How to Sign Up for Mentoring
- Register for this year's European Leadership Forum.
- After you've been accepted, review the mentoring options below. As you can see below, we offer a variety of types of mentoring to meet a variety of needs!
- Choose up to two types of mentoring that would be of interest to you. Some types offer both one-on-one and cohort mentoring. If this is the case for one of the types you've chosen, decide whether you'd like to meet with your mentor(s) alone or in a group.
- Sign up for the type(s) you have selected. If you choose two types, you'll have to fill out two forms. Forms can be found below each type.
- Look for an email from Forum staff telling you when you're meeting and which mentor(s) you'll be meeting with. Your meeting will also be added to your personal schedule in the app the week of the Forum.
- At the Forum, show up in the restaurant on the day and time you've been assigned. All mentoring meetings are scheduled for an hour over a meal.
Important note: When scheduling mentoring this year, we will give priority to Network participants who wish to connect with an experienced mentor from their Network. After participants have had a chance to sign up for Network Mentoring, we will open the mentors’ slots to leaders from other Networks for General Mentoring.
We will do our best to connect you to the mentor you choose, but we cannot promise they will have openings for everyone who selects them. If the leader you selected to meet with does not have openings, we will schedule your mentoring meeting with another mentor in the same area.
The earlier you apply, the better your chance of meeting with your preferred mentor(s) at the 2026 ELF.
We hope you'll take advantage of this opportunity! The deadline for signing up is 23 April.
To Sign up, you can use this link.
Have questions? Contact Milena Nikolova at mnikolova@euroleadership.org.
2026 Network Mentoring Opportunities
Network Mealtime Mentoring is an opportunity for Evangelical leaders to connect with an experienced mentor from within their Network in order to receive encouragement, wisdom, and practical insight over a shared meal.
The following ELF Networks offer Network Mealtime Mentoring:
Academic
Mentors
Per Ewert is the director of The Clapham Institute, Sweden’s leading Christian think tank and research institute. His PhD describes the political process which shaped Sweden into the world's arguably most secular-individualistic nation. Per is the author of several books on the Bible, apologetics, relations, and the role of faith in society. He currently works on a post-doc study on internal secularization in free protestant denominations. He lives with his wife and four children in southern Sweden.
David Sandifer was born and raised in France, of American parents. He holds a Ph.D. in history, from the University of Cambridge (2014). He spent 20 years in pastoral ministry in the U.S. and Australia, and also worked for a Christian public advocacy organisation in Australia, where he co-launched an on-going campaign to protect children from online pornography. He currently lectures in the area of practical theology and ethics at Tyndale Theological Seminary in the Netherlands. He has a heart to see the church in Europe renewed in love for God and holiness, and to see Christian families equipped to raise counter-cultural disciples who will 'shine like stars in the universe' (Phil. 2:15).
Junias Venugopal is the Associate Dean at the Litfin School of Ministry and Theological Studies at Wheaton College, where he also co-directs the M.A. in Leadership program. He has a Ph.D. in Education, a Th.M. in Bible Exposition, an M.B.A. in Finance, and a B.E. (Hons.) in Electrical Engineering. Junias is an experienced higher education administrator having served as a dean for the last 23 years in Asia, Columbia International University, SC, Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and now at Wheaton College. Junias, his wife, Beth and his family served for 15 years overseas. Over 8 years in India as a pastor of Delhi Bible Fellowship and another 6 years in the Philippines as a dean at AGST-Philippines. His passion is to be a catalyst in the lives of those with whom he intersects so that they achieve their God-given potential. Junias and Beth have four adult children and five grandchildren.
Apologetics (Advanced)
Mentors
Andrew Fellows was appointed pastor of a church in Bradford, West Yorkshire in 1988 where he served for seven years. In 1995 his family moved to the English branch of L’Abri Fellowship, where they lived and worked for 21 years. From 2011 to 2016 Andrew was the chairman of L’Abri International. Now based in Cambridge, Andrew is the minister of St Thomas' alongside his work of speaking and writing. He has a special interest in reaching sceptics and encouraging followers of Christ to develop the life of the mind so it includes the whole gospel to the whole world with all of its implications. IVP published his book, Smuggling Jesus Back Into the Church: How Not to be Worldly. Andrew is married to Helen. They have four children and seven grandchildren.
David Krohn is a full time apologist from the south of Germany. After finishing his "Staatsexamen" in mathematics and german language at the university of Augsburg, followed by a BA in theology at ICI, he worked as a pastor for several years in his congregation in Memmingen, Germany. Now, he works fulltime in his apologetic ministry "Apologetik projekt e.V.", where he and his colleague produce apologetic online content, hold debates and train people in churches all around Germany to become effective spokespersons for the truth of Christ. He now studies his Master of Philosophy at the university of Hagen.
Dave has a huge passion for truth and purpose - two things he sees lacking in the life of many people. With apologetics, he tries to roll away the big stones on the path of the seeker, so that they can find rest in the truth and beauty of Christ.
Besides his apologetic work, Dave serves as a bible teacher in the south of Germany. He is married to Carline and has six children.
Bruce A. Little has master’s degrees in Apologetics and Religion and a PhD in Philosophy of Religion and a DMin in Apologetics. Presently, he serves as Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and director of the Francis A. Schaeffer Collection at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he served on faculty since 2001 until he retired in 2018. While at Southeastern he served as the second director of the L. Rush Bush Center for Faith and Culture from 2008 to 2013. From 1969 pastored several churches, three of which he helped start, and taught at a Bible college (1965-2000). Since 1995 he has travelled widely to several continents lecturing in universities, teaching in a variety of schools and presenting papers at international conferences. He has published in various professional journals, edited several books, either authored or co-authored six books and contributed chapters in several books the last being Calvinism: A Biblical and Theological Critique, Published by B & H Academic, 2022.
Kristi Mair teaches philosophy, ethics, and apologetics at Oak Hill College in London, UK, where she also provides pastoral support for F students. She holds a degree in philosophy and theology, as well as an MA in philosophy of religion and ethics. She is currently working on her PhD in the area of epistemology in philosophical theology, with a particular focus on Michael Polanyi, Esther Meek, and Augustine. Kristi worked for 8 years with a campus-based ministry in the UK (UCCF), and she continues to speak regularly at mission weeks and events across Europe. Kristi has a heart for engaging people with the message of Jesus, developing a Christian mind, and raising the next generation of apologists to live out our calling as disciples to love God and our neighbour. Kristi is the author of MORE > Truth (IVP, 2019), Co-editor of Healthy Faith (IVP, 2020), a board member and speaker for Chrysolis, and an itinerant SOLAS Associate Speaker.
Mihail Stefanov is the assistant pastor at Crossroad’s Church Sofia (crossroadchurch.bg) and the founder of Culture and People (cultureandpeople.eu) – an international consulting firm helping global business leaders transform the culture of their organizations. He has a deep passion for communicating and defending Christ as the only viable option for the redemption and the thriving of humankind. He uses his education and professional background in communications, anthropology, and theology to discover creative and engaging ways to convey Christian truths to the intellectuals and business leaders he works with. In the past several years, Mihail and his team have developed several experimental formats to reach modern urban people with the Gospel as well as to train and empower Christians to become effective communicators of the faith.
Apologetics (Foundational)
Mentors
Stefan Gustavsson is a member of the European Leadership Forum Steering Committee. He is the director for Apologia – Centre for Christian Apologetics and makes his home in Stockholm. He was the founding general secretary for 16 years of the Swedish Evangelical Alliance. Stefan travels widely with apologetic teaching and training and is often involved in university evangelism and public debates. He is the author of several books on Christian apologetics and the Christian mind. Stefan is married to Ingrid and they have three grown children.
Martin Helgesson serves with the Apologia – Centre for Christian Apologetics and as pastor of Roseniuskyrkan in Stockholm, Sweden. He is part of the leadership of Langham Preaching Sweden, and travels to preach and speak on various issues related to Christian apologetics and expository preaching. He has also authored two books in Swedish. Martin is married to Ulrika and they have three children.
John Kirkpatrick served as a minister in the Presbyterian Church for the past 40 years. He’s recently retired but is still very active across several ministries. He chairs the management board at Union Theological College and has some teaching and mentoring responsibilities there. John also serves as part of the preaching team in First Ballymena Presbyterian Church participating in monthly preaching opportunities. This year will mark the 30th year John has served the Motorcycle racing world in Ireland as Chaplain to the Motorcycle Union of Ireland. He gives help and oversight to the church plant Trinity Church Central London. Additionally, at the European Leadership Forum, John has led the Apologetics (Foundational) Network for many years and is now offering more general help across all Networks.
Kristi Mair teaches philosophy, ethics, and apologetics at Oak Hill College in London, UK, where she also provides pastoral support for F students. She holds a degree in philosophy and theology, as well as an MA in philosophy of religion and ethics. She is currently working on her PhD in the area of epistemology in philosophical theology, with a particular focus on Michael Polanyi, Esther Meek, and Augustine. Kristi worked for 8 years with a campus-based ministry in the UK (UCCF), and she continues to speak regularly at mission weeks and events across Europe. Kristi has a heart for engaging people with the message of Jesus, developing a Christian mind, and raising the next generation of apologists to live out our calling as disciples to love God and our neighbour. Kristi is the author of MORE > Truth (IVP, 2019), Co-editor of Healthy Faith (IVP, 2020), a board member and speaker for Chrysolis, and an itinerant SOLAS Associate Speaker.
Artists
Mentors
Amy Allert was born and raised in Austin, Texas, United States, before God called her and her family to serve abroad in Kenya, Germany, and currently, the UK. She has discipled leaders for over 35 years through local church university ministries, Cru, and, most recently, Via. She helps to lead her London-based team with her husband of 34 years, John, and helps to give oversight to teams in Germany and Georgia. She has four mostly-grown children who live on three continents and two granddaughters who are absolutely head over heels in love with.
Ann Brown is a geographer and taught geography for many years. She also has an advanced diploma in the history of art. She has an interest in the reception history of the Bible, especially in the way that the themes that it generates lend themselves to apologetic and evangelistic engagement. She is author of Apology to Women: Christian images of the female sex. Currently she is working on a book on the environment.
Efrem Buckle, as Deputy CEO and Director of Training and Mentoring at London City Mission, draws on thirty years' experience in urban ministry including twenty years as church-planting pastor of ecclēsia (South London). In the early-90s he formed part of a missional music duo, Ministry of Defence (M.O.D.), who were focused on reaching London’s hip-hop influenced community and subculture. Despite viewing music purely as a missional tool, M.O.D. were the first Christian rap artists to be signed to a US record label (Cross Movement Records). Those early years of prison, schools and street ministry resulted in outreaches such as ‘The God Corner’ (reaching over 1 million Notting Hill Carnival goers), artistic directors for Soul in the City - an outreach at Brixton Academy - and an arts-based missional curriculum in local schools. Efrem was born and raised in South London, has two daughters, a granddaughter and has been married for 30+ years. He enjoys swimming, technology and creating digital arts.
Brian S. Chan is a professor at Dallas Theological Seminary in Media Arts & Worship, teaching creative writing, visual artmaking, and theologies of beauty, creativity, story, and film. Dr. Chan pastored in Hollywood/Los Angeles and taught courses at Biola University on a theology of beauty, art, and film. He is a workshop instructor and conference speaker in Hollywood on story, creativity, and beauty. He discipled entertainment industry professionals and innovated creative outreaches to the community. As an award-winning fine artist, he exhibited around the U.S.A., at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, and in Rome and is a board member of Lantern of the East Los Angeles International Artists. As an accomplished martial artist in kung fu, he is a certified Wing Chun master (sifu) and worked as a fight choreographer, stuntman, and trainer for actors. As a writer, he is the author of “The Purple Curtain: Living Out Beauty in Faith & Culture from a Biblical Perspective, Not Easily Broken” (a novel), “Shadow” in “It Was Good: Performing Arts to the Glory of God,” and “Movies: Celluloid Sanctification” in “Ordinary Saints.” His other interests include the pop culture of comics, hiking in nature, traveling, and bonsai art. He is married to Ellen, and is the proud dad of his 12-year-old son. His mission is to create beauty that causes a love for God and exhibit the beauty of Christ in all of life.
Bible Study Leaders
Mentors
Sherami Hinders works with Revive Europe as their Director of Spiritual Foundations and Leader of Scripture Engagement. She also works with Greater Europe Mission (GEM) in Scripture Engagement Leadership. She teaches students and staff about the centrality of Scripture in the organization by providing teaching, training, strategy, and resources. She is also a volunteer staff member for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA after serving with them for 19 years. Sherami holds a Master of Letters in Biblical Languages & Literature from University of St. Andrews in Scotland and a Master of Arts in Theology from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Boston. Sherami loves meeting new people, being active in nature, and learning to connect to God in authentic ways through good conversation, the Bible, and prayer. She currently lives in St. Andrews, Scotland.
Lindsay Olesberg is the Co-Founder / President of Script & Spirit, an organisation that trains, supports and resources Manuscript Bible Study leaders. Lindsay studied at Pomona College (B.A. in Asian Studies) and Fuller Theological Seminary (M.A. in Theology). She served as InterVarsity/USA’s National Director of Scripture Engagement and provided Scripture Engagement leadership for numerous Urbana Missions Conferences and Lausanne. Lindsay is the author of The Bible Study Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to an Essential Practice (IVP) and Ephesians: Studying with the Global Church (Hendrickson). She and her husband Jon, a physicist working in the biotech industry, live in Austin. They have two adult children.
Tamás Schauermann is a graphic designer, organisation developer, coach, and trainer in Hungary. His main interest is helping people find their calling and work and live in healthy communities that are making use of their talents but also provide a meaningful framework for their everyday lives. His focuses are individual career facilitation, leadership development, team building, and helping in creating or mending organisational issues. His constant interest is to understand how methodologies can be applied to church revitalisation and also how Biblical reality can inform professional choices. He is heavily involved with Inductive Bible study and expository bible preaching. He is married with Monika and has two grownup boys and a granddaughter.
Bible Teachers and Preachers (Advanced)
Mentors
Andy Hamilton is originally from Northern Ireland but has lived in Italy for most of his life. Andy obtained a Master of Theology from Queen’s University Belfast through Belfast Bible College and a Doctor of Ministry degree in preaching at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He lives in the outskirts of Rome where he serves as Old Testament and Preaching Lecturer at the Italian Evangelical Bible Institute (www.ibei.it) as well as being involved in church leadership. Andy is the author of How to Preach the Prophets for All Their Worth (Wipf & Stock). He is married to Ruth, and they have three children: Isaiah, Hollie, and Joshua.
Philip Miller is the 17th Senior Pastor of The Moody Church. He and his wife Krista are graduates of Cedarville University (’04) and both hold Th.M. degrees from Dallas Theological Seminary ('10). They live in Chicago with their four children: Claire, Violet, Cora, and Jude. Pastor Philip is passionate about proclaiming God’s Word, cultivating healthy ministry, and investing in future leaders. He can be heard on the weekly Moody Church Hour radio broadcast on over 700 stations nationwide. Philip enjoys cycling on the Chicago lakefront, deep-dish pizza, caramel popcorn, and craft root beer.
Andy Oatridge is currently a pastor at their church and in leadership at their new church plants just outside of Budapest. He has recently been appointed as the European director for Langham Preaching, responsible for Europe and the Caribbean, and has been involved in the Langham leadership in Hungary for some years. He is also the leader of a small charitable organisation that they started over 20 years ago, which trained up youth leaders and youth pastors to teach the Bible effectively.
Bible Teachers and Preachers (Foundational)
Mentors
Mike Chalmers is a mentor with Cor Deo, a ministry training programme, and co-host of The Biblical Preaching Podcast. He is also UFM Worldwide’s Short-term Mission Coordinator. Previously, he was a Staff Worker in Wales with UCCF. He enjoys preaching and discipling, and continues to support and encourage believers by speaking at events around Europe. Mike is an uncle to four nephews and a niece, a brother to one sister, and is married to Susana.
Philip Miller is the 17th Senior Pastor of The Moody Church. He and his wife Krista are graduates of Cedarville University (’04) and both hold Th.M. degrees from Dallas Theological Seminary ('10). They live in Chicago with their four children: Claire, Violet, Cora, and Jude. Pastor Philip is passionate about proclaiming God’s Word, cultivating healthy ministry, and investing in future leaders. He can be heard on the weekly Moody Church Hour radio broadcast on over 700 stations nationwide. Philip enjoys cycling on the Chicago lakefront, deep-dish pizza, caramel popcorn, and craft root beer.
Steve Mitchell is part of the leadership team at Cornerstone Church in Swindon, a small church plant in the rapidly expanding north of the town. Steve is passionate about seeing God’s people equipped to share God’s Word no matter what context they are in. Previously, he worked in the IT industry and spent 4 months in Uganda with Mission Aviation Fellowship. Steve is married to Jackie and they have three adult children.
Church Revitalisation
Mentors
Jonathan Bond was brought up near Bakewell in Derbyshire. Jonathan was a management accountant before his call to full-time Christian ministry. He undertook 2 ½ years on the job training at the church he attended in Leeds before, on his 40th birthday, becoming pastor of Jennyfield Evangelical Church, a smaller church in Harrogate. After nearly 18 years, he left to become FIEC’s Director for Smaller Churches. This role involves supporting, encouraging and seeking to be a blessing to some 300 churches within the FIEC (35 members or less) through offering advice, being the conduit for partnerships and supporting churches through revitalisation programs. Jonathan is still keen on sport, he is married to Sarah - they have 4 grown-up daughters and 5 grandchildren (2 girls and 3 boys).
David Brown planted three churches before revitalising a church in central Paris. For many years, he was involved with GBU (Groupes Bibliques Universitaires), the French student movement affiliated with IFES, and he was also chair of the Evangelism Commission of the French “National Council of Evangelicals”. More recently, he has been promoting church revitalisation through his teaching and mentoring at the Bible Institutes in Geneva and Paris and by leading a range of seminars and workshops in France and across Europe.
Daniel Fodorean currently serves as Dean of the School of Theology and Associate Professor of Applied Theology at the Baptist Theological Institute of Bucharest. In addition to these roles, he fulfills the duties of Director of Leader Formation Institute and Antioch Church Network, Pastor of Bucharest Alpha Omega Baptist Church, and associate member of The Academy of Romanian Scientists. Dr. Fodorean holds a PhD in Theology and is currently pursuing a PhD in Constitutional Law with a focus on religious freedom. He has accumulated over 30 years of pastoral experience and expertise in church transformation, organisational and church leadership, church law and administration, mission and church planting, and sixteen years in teaching at the pre-university and university levels. Daniel is the author (or co-author) of five books and numerous articles and studies.
Disciple-Making Leaders (Advanced)
Mentors
Andrew Dickson lives by the sea on Northern Ireland’s world-famous Antrim Coast with his wife, Katherine, and their two young children. After spending over 13 years in local church and para-church ministry, Andrew now serves as the Congregational Life Development Officer for the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, where he holds the brief for the development of discipleship, leadership, and pastoral care across the denomination. Regularly speaking on and writing about these things, Andrew is passionate about equipping and empowering PCI congregations across Ireland today to follow Jesus closely, care biblically well for one another, and invest in raising up transformed, Spirit-filled leaders who play their part within the life Christ’s church. Andrew is a graduate of Union Theological College, Belfast, and has a Master’s degree in Theology from the University of Cumbria. In life’s quieter moments, he loves to eat mint choc chip ice cream, build Lego with his kids, and take long, slow walks by the sea.
Hannah Donato is the wife of Giovanni and mother of three children: Isabella, Luca and Giorgia. Originally from England, Hannah has been serving the Lord in Italy for the past 21 years amongst university students with the Italian IFES movement, GBU. In the past, Hannah has been overseeing the development of the young staff's theological and ministerial training programme and has recently become part of the Leadership Development team for IFES Europe. Hannah loves the local church she is a part of in Siena and serves in music, children’s, and women’s ministry there. Hannah loves cooking, music, walks in the Tuscan hills, Italy, discipling and witnessing to those around her.
Rick Hill is a speaker, author and leader based in Belfast. Rick serves as Executive Secretary of the Council for Mission in Ireland within the Presbyterian Church. He is the author of Deep Roots of Resilient Disciples and serves as an elder in his local church. Rick is married to Sarah, they have three young children, and in his spare time, he enjoys running.
Leah and her husband raise their 6 children (4 biological, 2 adopted) in Hungary. Leah serves in her local international church (where her husband is the pastor) and is passionate about making disciples to send into all the nations. She runs an ongoing discipleship training group that prepares women to go into the nations to make disciples. She also serves with SHARE Education Services as an educational consultant for global workers serving across the globe. When not serving in her local church and with SHARE, she can be found with a cup of Yorkshire tea and a good book, gardening, hiking, or paddleboarding with her family.
Disciple-Making Leaders (Foundational)
Mentors
Amy Allert was born and raised in Austin, Texas, United States, before God called her and her family to serve abroad in Kenya, Germany, and currently, the UK. She has discipled leaders for over 35 years through local church university ministries, Cru, and, most recently, Via. She helps to lead her London-based team with her husband of 34 years, John, and helps to give oversight to teams in Germany and Georgia. She has four mostly-grown children who live on three continents and two granddaughters who are absolutely head over heels in love with.
Terry English is a leadership and organisational development coach who seeks to help leaders to “love growing their organisations”. He currently lives in the Czech Republic and has equipped ministries and leaders across Central and Eastern Europe for the past 27 years. In his free time he conducts a large Gospel choir and other outreach activities in the city where he lives.
Stephen McQuoid grew up in Ethiopia where his parents were missionaries. He then lived in Ireland where he qualified as a nurse before going on to study theology, gaining a variety of degrees including an MTh and PhD in theology. He is the author of 20 books on subjects such as discipleship, evangelism, apologetics, and church discipline. Stephen is the General Director of Gospel Literature Outreach, a missionary organisation based in Europe. He is married to Debbie and they have three grown up children and a grandaughter. Stephen and Debbie attend Clyde Valley Community Church in Motherwell. His interests include motorbikes, football, boxing, MMA, and Politics.
I'm a theologian and pastoral mental health professional for individuals, couples and families. I've been in the ministry for the past 30+ years beside my husband who started and pastores churches. Besides serving in the church in women, discipleship, children/youth and worship ministry in the past and some of it in the present too, I'm involved in two organizations. Joni and Friends /Hana's Hope - working with families with disabilities and Tirzah International - mentoring and supporting women in leadership. I have a special heart for supporting/counseling pastors and other ministry leaders.
Emanuel Tundrea completed his PhD in software engineering at Polytechnic University of Timisoara, Romania, in conjunction with the University of Nice, France, and then he earned his MA in Pastoral Theology in Oradea. In 2001, he joined the staff at Emanuel University of Oradea where he is serving now as an Associate Professor. He is also a Fulbright Visiting Scholar Alumni since 2021, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Ethics in Entrepreneurship and Technology, and is leading the Romanian Christian Academic Network. Both his involvement in academics and in the church aim to evangelise and mature disciples for Christ. Emanuel regularly leads seminars on discipleship and parenting in the digital age. He is married to Nadia and together they are discipling their three sons.
Evangelism
Mentors
Kay Carter is Global CEO of Christianity Explored Ministries, where she is primarily responsible for producing video-based courses which introduce people to Jesus through the pages of Scripture. She previously worked at Tyndale House, a biblical research institute, heading up strategy and communications. Kay has a background in journalism, including as a staff member of “The Sunday Times” in London and as founding editor of “The Difference” magazine, which examined political issues through the lens of Christian ethics. She has a long-term interest in religious freedom and has worked as a lobbyist for organisations which represent persecuted Christians in the Middle East. She also ran the secretariat for the British All Party Parliamentary Group on International Freedom of Religion or Belief.
Jubi da Silva is an evangelist, writer, and speaker, passionate about equipping the local church in evangelism. Jubi pastored in Brazil before gaining a Master's in Theology at Regent College, Vancouver. Now serving as International Director of Training for Christianity Explored Ministries, Jubi travels the world delivering training that is interactive, Word-centred, and story-rich. Jubi lives with his wife and two daughters in Wargrave, Berkshire.
Ján Máhrik is a church planter pastoring Za Kostolom church in Žilina, Slovakia. He is passionate about bringing the Gospel and truths of the Bible to the unchurched - sceptic, secular, and post-Christian. He is a host of the award-winning podcast Zabudnute Cesty and author of books including the popular apologetical book "Why I (Don't) Want to Be a Christian".
Jerry Root is a Professor of Evangelism and Leadership at Wheaton College and serves as the Director of the Evangelism Initiative. Jerry is a graduate of Whittier College and Talbot Graduate School of Theology at Biola University; he received his PhD from the Open University. Jerry is the author or co-author of numerous books on C.S. Lewis, including The Surprising Imagination of C.S. Lewis: An Introduction, with Mark Neal, C.S. Lewis and a Problem of Evil: An Investigation of a Pervasive Theme, and The Soul of C.S. Lewis: A Meditative Journey through Twenty-six of His Best Loved Writings. Jerry is the co-author of The Sacrament of Evangelism and co-editor, with Wayne Martindale, of The Quotable C.S. Lewis. He also teaches graduate courses (MA in Evangelism and Leadership Program) and undergraduate courses (Christian Formation and Ministry Department) at Wheaton College. In addition, Jerry has been a visiting professor at Talbot Graduate School of Theology and Biola University from 1990 to the present. He and his wife, Claudia, have four grown children - all of whom are married - and thirteen grandchildren.
Leaders in Christian Organisations
Mentors
Jen Charteris, originally from South Africa, is the executive director of Crosslands, which provides in-context theological training from Foundation to PhD level across the UK, Europe, and beyond. Previously she spent over 25 years working in strategic change, organisational consulting, and board and leadership development. She has been a senior advisor on major change programmes in government, defence, infrastructure, and financial services, taught on various MBA programmes and at the UK Military’s Defence Academy, worked internationally with the leaders of Christian ministry organisations, and has many years of board experience. She is married to Hugo, a church pastor and planter in the north of England, and they have two adult children.
Bianca was born in Romania and trained in France in the field of paediatric oncology. She now lives in Belgium, where she leads a national research project focused on life after cancer.
She serves as president of the Belgian Christian Medical and Dental Association, where she mentors students and junior doctors, provides discipleship, and collaborates with national and international Christian organizations. In addition, she is a Regional Leader Representative for the International Christian Medical and Dental Association (ICMDA).
Deeply committed to both her medical vocation and her faith, Bianca seeks to reflect Christ in healthcare through compassion, love, and genuine care for others. She is also an active member of Nouvel Impact Church in Liège, where she was trained to become a home group spiritual leader.
In her free time, Bianca enjoys playing the guitar, swimming, and exploring new places around the world.
Katerina Kocyan was born in Prague, Czech Republic. She earned her degree in Business Management & Languages from a university in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, and later completed biblical training in Glasgow, UK.
After working as an HR Manager in the corporate world, she sensed a clear calling to step into nonprofit ministry. Before moving to Ukraine, she served as a Director in a smaller foundation and then spent over five years as a Grantmaking Manager with a Christian foundation (3W Fund / 3W Foundation), where she led due diligence processes and evaluated ministry projects.
In 2024, Katerina and her family relocated to central Ukraine to help during the ongoing war where she currently lives. She now leads the Bridge Ukraine project under Operation Mobilization. Katerina provides consulting to Christian organizations, with a heart to see them thrive in a healthy, effective, and Christ-centered way. She also specializes in due diligence, project evaluation, and grant facilitation, and leads a team of four.
Katerina is married to Daniel, and together they are raising their two sons, Jošua and Natan.
Leaders of Christian Organisations (Senior Leaders)
Mentors
John Allert is the Eurasia Director for Via. He has been working for 25 years with emerging leaders. During that time, he has lived on support, working with Cru, Campus Ministry Today, and the Center for Mission Mobilization. John also holds a Masters in Christian Education from Dallas Seminary. He has served in Kenya and Germany training mobilizers, developing strategic partnerships with churches, and consulting with other ministries to train mobilisers and fuel mission movements. He resides in the UK with his wife, Amy, and daughter. He also has three grown children.
Barbara Herrmann leads her consulting business for organisation, leadership, and strategy development. She guides marketplace, non-profit, and church leaders on how to develop their organisations. She has delivered numerous development programs and, in the last 17 years, has worked on large-scale change and transformation programs (70,000 colleagues), several mid-size organisations in different industries, and one-on-one with various leaders. With different churches and church leaders, she has been working on church revitalisation initiatives for 5 years. She uses different frameworks for leadership and organisation development for healthy churches. At the European Leadership Forum, she co-leads a Year-Round Mentoring for Marketplace Leaders.
John Kirkpatrick served as a minister in the Presbyterian Church for the past 40 years. He’s recently retired but is still very active across several ministries. He chairs the management board at Union Theological College and has some teaching and mentoring responsibilities there. John also serves as part of the preaching team in First Ballymena Presbyterian Church participating in monthly preaching opportunities. This year will mark the 30th year John has served the Motorcycle racing world in Ireland as Chaplain to the Motorcycle Union of Ireland. He gives help and oversight to the church plant Trinity Church Central London. Additionally, at the European Leadership Forum, John has led the Apologetics (Foundational) Network for many years and is now offering more general help across all Networks.
Henryk Król is president & CEO of DEOrecordings Association (CCM Media), an umbrella organisation owning three limited companies: Studio DR, Ltd (he is its President and CEO), Radio CCM Ltd. and MCC Group, Ltd. It forms an innovative media ministry based in Poland that combines traditional media (6 FM Radio stations), art (professional recording studio and publishing), and new tools (Software development with a flagship – Gele/CODEX e-learning platform tailored to spiritual follow-up, Service Center to Jesus.net global evangelistic movement, multiple own portals, multimedia productions, etc). Having a holistic vision of a “full path,” all the communications and technology are backed by an army of hundreds of volunteers who implement it daily with interested seekers, both online as e-coaches and offline as small group leaders. His heart is in building cooperation and partnership across denominations and countries, networking for better effectiveness in spreading the Gospel. Henryk holds a PhD in engineering. His present research focuses on how to best use the Internet without forgetting to "stand firm" on the biblical truth as the final authority. He is married to Boguslawa, with whom he has three adult children: Filip, Paulina, and Szczepan.
Nola Leach is a co-leader of the European Politics and Society Network and served as the Chief Executive of CARE (Christian Action Research & Education), one of Europe’s leading Christian charities, which provides resources and helps bring Christian insight and experience to matters of public policy and practical caring initiatives. CARE undertakes a variety of social caring and educational programmes and research and is represented in the UK Parliaments and Assemblies. As Head of the Public Affairs team, Nola led campaigns on topics such as human trafficking, Internet pornography, and the value of human life from its beginning to natural end. She oversaw the publication of Living Free, a sequel to the CARE book Searching for Intimacy – a resource designed to help those trapped in the net of Internet pornography. She has a passion for developing Christian leaders and headed up CARE’s unique Leadership Programme. She is increasingly in demand as both a writer and a public speaker, has penned numerous articles, and regularly appears in the media. She now spends her time mentoring leaders, speaking, and writing.
John Stevens is the National Director of the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches, a family of over 500 Bible-centred churches in the UK, a position that he has held since 2010. Prior to this he was one of the founding pastors of City Evangelical Church Birmingham, which was planted in the centre of the UK’s 2nd largest city in 1999. He was instrumental in starting the Midlands Gospel Partnership, was the course Director of the Midlands Ministry Training Course and is a visiting lecturer at Oak Hill Theological College. John is also one of the pastors of Christchurch Market Harborough, a church he helped to plant when he took up his current role. He was converted whilst studying law at Cambridge University, and after taking a post-graduate degree at the University of Oxford worked for 16 years as a University Lecturer, ending his career as Deputy Head of the Law School at the University of Birmingham. John is married to Ursula and they have four children aged between 12 and 7. He blogs at www.john-stevens.com on theology, church life and ministry, culture and politics.
Jeremy Taylor spent much of his professional life in Christian publishing, working as an editor at Tyndale House Publishers for nearly twenty years, assisting many of the industry’s top authors in making their messages clear and compelling. Currently, he serves as president of Tyndale House Foundation, an international organization with partnerships throughout the world, many related to publishing and literature. He has a BA in Communications from Wheaton College and an MA in Intercultural Studies from Fuller Theological Seminary. He and his wife, Nancy, have five children and live in Wheaton, Illinois.
Leadership Foundations
Mentors
Ann Pritchard Blaser has led women through Bible Study Fellowship International for thirty years, teaching Scripture classes for women and training leadership groups. Her work now consists of mentoring and advising other women who are teaching and training leaders in Bible Study Fellowship. She is responsible for visiting classes and observing the training and teaching taking place and for giving encouragement and shepherding to the teachers. She is involved in her church through discipling, teaching, and writing training materials. Ann is married to Bill, and they have two children and two grandsons.
Stephen Giere has served in Christian ministry in America and Europe for more than forty years. He taught and led a Bible Study Fellowship (BSF) class of 500 men in Chicago for seventeen years. Steve is a board member with the Forum of Christian Leaders serving in Europe with the European Leadership Forum. Key to his role is shepherding and mentoring young leaders. He serves as a lecturer/mentor at the Cambridge Leaders Network in Cambridge, UK. Steve and his wife, Connie, are residents of Geneva, IL and members of The Moody Church in Chicago, a diverse, urban congregation with seventy countries of birth and fifty mother languages represented in its membership. There he teaches, mentors, and serves as an elder. They have two grown children and ten grandchildren. Steve retired in 2019 after 45 years engaged in finance with experience in corporate management as CEO of a commercial bank, and as a business owner establishing an investment management practice. Steve earned his B.A. in psychology at North Central College in Naperville, IL, and M.M. from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.
Zefjan Nikolla is the General Secretary of BSKSH (IFES Albania) and pastor of Emanuel Evangelical Church in Tirana. He is involved in various national and international leadership and evangelistic initiatives ranging from youth ministries to attempts to reach government leaders. He is also the director of the Albanian Leadership Forum. His passions include sports, reading, and above all, seeing his nation turn to Christ. Zefjan is married to Edita and they have two daughters, Greis and Emili.
Bob Pourcho was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. He and Karen met at First Baptist Church of Ferguson, Missouri and have been married for 37-years. Bob is an ordained Southern Baptist minister who was trained at Covenant Theological Seminary and has a BS from Taylor University and an MBA from Washington University. He has served as Pastor at Emmanuel Baptist Church and Youth Minister at Parkway Baptist Church in St. Louis, MO. Bob has a business background as a vice president at Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield and United Healthcare and is currently self-employed as an executive consultant. He plays guitar and loves to hike and play with his grandkids and dogs. Bob has been a member at College Park Church since 2009 and is serving as Bible study and CPCi Equip teacher, small group leader, and elder.
Karen Pourcho is a passionate leader and visionary, currently serving as the Director of Women’s Ministry at College Park Church in Indianapolis, IN. In this role, she oversees a range of initiatives, including women’s Bible studies, discipleship programs, and community-building groups and events. As a member of the Directional Team, Karen contributes to the church’s strategic vision, ensuring that its mission resonates deeply with the community. Before her current position, Karen served as a Teaching Director with Community Bible Study, a role that allowed her to nurture a deep love for helping women grow in their understanding of Scripture and their ability to engage with it meaningfully. Her heart is dedicated to empowering others with the tools to explore, interpret, and live out the Word. Married to Bob for 40 years, they enjoy travelling, hiking, and creating memories with their children and six grandchildren.
Marriage and Family Ministry
Mentors
Krista Miller (D.Min, Wheaton College, Th.M., Dallas Theological Seminary) and her husband, Philip, serve at The Moody Church. Krista is invested in children's ministry, Bible study, and in developing thriving ministry spouses and families. The Millers live and serve in Chicago with their four children: Claire, Violet, Cora, and Jude.
Jay Mosser has served in pastoral roles for 43 years – about 20 years in various assistant pastor capacities and the rest as senior pastor. Through those years he has served in three churches ranging from smaller (less than 50) to larger (about 1,000). Along the way he has worked with children, teens, worship ministry, pastoral care, preaching, and leadership. Jay has an M.Div. from Western (Conservative Baptist) Seminary and a D.Min. from Corban University in Oregon, where his doctoral thesis was titled How a Pastor’s Theology of Shepherding Affects the Health & Growth of a Church. He is married to Kathy and has three daughters and five grandchildren. In his spare time, he loves to read, hike, travel, watch sports, and spend time with his family.
Media Communicators
Mentors
Lars Dahle is a theologian, educator, preacher, and apologist. Having a long previous experience in various academic leadership roles, he now works as Professor in Systematic Theology (with a speciality in Christian Apologetics) at NLA University College, Kristiansand, Norway, where he has lectured in worldviews, ethics, and apologetics since 1991. Lars is also CEO of Damaris Norway, a resource development ministry for worldview analysis, cultural apologetics, and media engagement. He wrote his PhD on Acts 17:16-34. It is entitled An Apologetic Model Then and Now? (Open University, UK, 2001).
Since 2013, Lars is also Lausanne Catalyst for Media Engagement. Lars has written several academic and popular articles and was the lead editor of The Lausanne Movement: A Range of Perspectives (Oxford: Regnum, 2014). He is also the Founding Editor of the peer-reviewed Nordic apologetic journal Theofilos. In addition, Lars co-leads the European Leadership Forum Media Communicators Network with his wife, Margunn Serigstad Dahle, and his NLA and Damaris colleague Bjørn Hinderaker.
Follow Lars on his blog Media Messages Matter or on his Twitter account @LarsDahle.
Margunn Serigstad Dahle, the co-leader of the European Media Communicators Network, is Professor at NLA University College, Kristiansand, Norway, where she has taught in the fields of communication, media, and worldviews since 1991. She was for many years Programme Director for the Communication and Worldviews Bachelor Program, which is designed to equip evangelical communicators and apologists in various fields for the contemporary Western cultural context. Especially connected to her Damaris involvement, she is a regular lecturer, speaker, and writer in various contexts in Norway and beyond. She was a co-editor of "The Lausanne Movement: A Range of Perspectives" (Oxford: Regnum, 2014). Margunn formerly served as Chairman of Lunde Publishing House and was for many years a board member of IKO – Institute for Christian Education Publishing.
Simon Diercks is both a pastor and a nerd and is passionate about empowering digital missionaries worldwide and developing digital ways of mission. He has worked for 20 years in IT and was a pastor of a local church for eight years. For eight years now, he has been working with the German mission agency Allianz-Mission, leading the Unit Relations and kickstarting the Regional Unit Digital since 2023. There, he is responsible for digital evangelists, digital church planting and mission, and AI. He is leading the Outpost Europe for two global networks, “The Church Digital” and “Indigitous”, and is on the board of the Lausanne Movement in Germany. In 2024, he hosted the “European Digital Missionary Summit” by The Church Digital and is leading "Equipping Digital Missionaries" cohorts with participants from across Europe. Simon is married to Kerstin, and they have two children aged 9 and 14 years.
Joel Forster is a journalist in Spain and leads EvangelicalFocus.com, a daily news and opinion website for Europe, started in 2015. He also serves as an elder in his local church in the city of Valencia. Joel has a degree in journalism (Autonomous University of Barcelona, 2008) and did his internship with the Catalan Public Television (TV3). After going through the Relay Programme of UCCF in England, he worked as a staff worker for GBU España (IFES in Spain), serving both on the field and as a communication manager. He is co-author of the books “Esencia y Resistencia” (2012) and “Evangélicos en la nueva era de la comunicación” (2019). Joel has been a member of the editorial team of the Spanish daily news website Protestante Digital since 2008. He has served on the board of the Spanish Evangelical Alliance for five years. With his wife Ruth, they are raising two children.
Music and Worship Leaders
Mentors
Derek Brandt is a dedicated worship pastor with a passion for raising up the next generation of church leaders. With years of experience in multisite church environments, Derek currently oversees the Worship, Communications, Production, Campus Environments, and Film teams at Scottsdale Bible Church, guiding both staff and volunteers. Alongside his leadership role, he is in the process of completing his seminary studies. When not working, you’ll likely find him with an iced coffee in hand, immersed in a good book, or quoting from his favorite shows, “Seinfeld” and “The West Wing.” Derek lives in Phoenix with his wife, Sarah, and their four children.
Mandy has been married to her husband, Jason, for 22 years and is mother to Rob (18) and Wes (15). She is the Teaching Leader for Bible Study Fellowship International in Indianapolis, Indiana and has served in BSF for 14 years in various roles including leading a small group, training leaders, and teaching the Bible. At her church, Mandy leads worship and is involved in songwriting. Her interests include, reading, helping with her sons’ activities, encouraging parents with children on the autism spectrum, and anything related to music.
Angela MacKenzie, a dynamic broadcaster, Gospel pianist, and worship leader, inspires worldwide through concerts, conferences, and weekly “Praise Around the Piano” events. She is the founder of Worship Now! Teaching Praise and Worship seminars for both the worship leader and the team. In 2024, she founded the 50-voice Amazing Life Gospel Choir, sharing the Gospel at the Edinburgh Festival and church and community outreaches. With a B.A. in Music and M.A. in Apologetics, Angela blends artistry and theology, worship and passion for Christ to empower church musicians and leaders.
Organisational Development and Fundraising
Mentors
Gregory Long is an author, speaker, consultant, and elder in his church. His 40+ years of ministry leadership and fundraising experience steep every conversation and presentation. Including mistakes! He has taught non-profit leadership and management at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Since 2018, he has presented at many ELF conferences and mid-winter ELF conferences. Greg serves as a Network Leader for the ELF Organisational Development and Fundraising Network. He currently serves as CEO of The NonProfit Authority, specializing in strategic planning, development, and full-service consulting for ministries around the world. Greg’s leadership book, based on the story of Nehemiah, God’s Powerful Vision for Your Life: The BIG Idea, is available at Amazon. He has been married to Elaine for 43 years, and together they walk with Jesus, hike, camp, and canoe.
Keith Ogorek, president of the Author Learning Center, brings a unique perspective to communications, having worked simultaneously in ministry and the marketplace for virtually his whole career. Using his experience as a marketing and communications professional for banks, as an ad agency creative director, and at the world’s leading self-publishing company, he has worked with a number of ministries to vastly improve their communication and development efforts by crafting a message that is compelling, differentiating, and true. In addition, he has cultivated unique opportunities for independent authors to have their work pitched to Hollywood. Along with pursuing excellence in the marketplace, Keith is passionate about discipleship and has led multiple men’s groups through a two-year discipleship process at his local church. His book, A Clear View, which addresses how a person’s worldview is formed, is now used in select high schools and at a Biblical Institute in Italy. When his schedule allows, Keith speaks at conferences on the topic of marketing communications for ministries, as well as at men’s retreats and family camps.
Pastoral Counsellors
Mentors
Eric L. Johnson is professor of Christian Psychology at Houston Baptist University, serving in the Gideon Institute of Christian Psychology & Counseling. He taught psychology for 10 years at University of Northwestern and counseling for 17 years at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. In addition to writing more than 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals, he edited Psychology and Christianity: Five Views, and was a co-editor of Marriage: Its Foundation, Theology, and Mission in a Changing World. He has written Foundations for Soul Care: A Christian Psychology Proposal and God and Soul Care: The Therapeutic Resources of the Christian Faith. He was the first director of the Society for Christian Psychology and has been doing pastoral counseling for 20 years. He’s married to Rebekah, and they have two children, Laura and Iain, and a son-in-law, Rich. They have two grandchildren, Cash and Jedi.
Dr. Sunil Raheja is a psychiatrist, executive coach, and author of the book "Dancing with Wisdom: A sacred quest to restore meaning, purpose and fun to your life and work". He helps leaders move from success to significance by integrating biblical wisdom with practical psychology. Host of the "Dancing with Wisdom Podcast", Sunil speaks and coaches on wisdom, leadership, and living in the light of eternity—equipping others to lead with clarity, courage, and joy. His website is drsunil.com.
Helen Thorne-Allenson is the Director of Training and Resources at Biblical Counselling UK. She is an experienced speaker and author whose recent books include "Mental Health and Your Church," "Hope in an Anxious World," and "5 Things to Pray for a Suffering Friend." She is married to Nick, lives in Hampshire and, in her spare time, she enjoys gardening and eating Korean food.
Politics and Society
Mentors
Ross Hendry serves as CEO of CARE since his appointment in November 2021. Prior to joining CARE, he was the CEO of Spurgeons', one of the UK’s largest children’s charities. He has also served as Deputy CEO at the office for the Children’s Commissioner in England and as Head of Public Policy at Action for Children. In 2005, he stood as a Parliamentary candidate for the Labour Party and has worked in a number of other roles in think tanks, the public sector, and the trade union movement.
Nola Leach is a co-leader of the European Politics and Society Network and served as the Chief Executive of CARE (Christian Action Research & Education), one of Europe’s leading Christian charities, which provides resources and helps bring Christian insight and experience to matters of public policy and practical caring initiatives. CARE undertakes a variety of social caring and educational programmes and research and is represented in the UK Parliaments and Assemblies. As Head of the Public Affairs team, Nola led campaigns on topics such as human trafficking, Internet pornography, and the value of human life from its beginning to natural end. She oversaw the publication of Living Free, a sequel to the CARE book Searching for Intimacy – a resource designed to help those trapped in the net of Internet pornography. She has a passion for developing Christian leaders and headed up CARE’s unique Leadership Programme. She is increasingly in demand as both a writer and a public speaker, has penned numerous articles, and regularly appears in the media. She now spends her time mentoring leaders, speaking, and writing.
David McIlroy is a practising barrister in the UK and Ireland. He is a Global Distinguished Professor at the University of Notre Dame (USA) in England. He is convinced that justice matters enormously to God, and He wants Christians to work hard to see justice done more and more in situations around the world. Through his books (A Biblical View of Law and Justice, A Trinitarian Theology of Law, The End of Law, Ransomed, Redeemed, and Forgiven: Money and the Atonement), his website www.theologyoflaw.org, and many articles, David seeks to deepen people’s reflections on justice and to inspire others to take up the challenge of acting justly, loving mercy, and walking humbly with God (Micah 6:8).
Professional Counsellors
Mentors
Eric L. Johnson is professor of Christian Psychology at Houston Baptist University, serving in the Gideon Institute of Christian Psychology & Counseling. He taught psychology for 10 years at University of Northwestern and counseling for 17 years at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. In addition to writing more than 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals, he edited Psychology and Christianity: Five Views, and was a co-editor of Marriage: Its Foundation, Theology, and Mission in a Changing World. He has written Foundations for Soul Care: A Christian Psychology Proposal and God and Soul Care: The Therapeutic Resources of the Christian Faith. He was the first director of the Society for Christian Psychology and has been doing pastoral counseling for 20 years. He’s married to Rebekah, and they have two children, Laura and Iain, and a son-in-law, Rich. They have two grandchildren, Cash and Jedi.
Lori Pritchard is a therapist in individual, marital, and family counselling in the Chicago area. She works with clients who have little spiritual interest as well as those who pursue Christian counselling. She is also involved in prayer ministry and mentoring in areas of education, discipleship, and ministry. She has a Masters in Theology and a Masters in Clinical Psychology from Wheaton Graduate School in the USA, and has been in practice for 21 years.
Dr. Sunil Raheja is a psychiatrist, executive coach, and author of the book "Dancing with Wisdom: A sacred quest to restore meaning, purpose and fun to your life and work". He helps leaders move from success to significance by integrating biblical wisdom with practical psychology. Host of the "Dancing with Wisdom Podcast", Sunil speaks and coaches on wisdom, leadership, and living in the light of eternity—equipping others to lead with clarity, courage, and joy. His website is drsunil.com.
Scientists
Mentors
Zachary Ardern is a research fellow in microbial evolutionary genomics - investigating the origins and evolution of proteins and gene regulation. He completed BA|BSc conjoint degrees and a PhD in experimental evolution at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and has subsequently conducted research in Munich, Karlsruhe, and Cambridge. Zachary regularly speaks and writes for diverse audiences on science and Christian faith (sometimes with his wife Anke, an astronomer) and is a fellow of the International Society of Science and Religion (ISSR).
Alexander Fink is Director of the Institute for Faith and Science (Institut für Glaube und Wissenschaft) in Marburg, Germany (www.iguw.de). He studied physics at Bayreuth and St. Andrews (UK) universities and received his PhD at the Institute for Biophysics at the University of Regensburg. After working as an industrial product manager, he became the director of the SMD graduates' ministry (Akademiker-SMD, the German branch of IFES) until 2014. Since 2008, he has been a member of the ELF Steering Committee and has co-led the Scientists Network. He is the editor of the "Begründet-glauben-Podcast" (www.begruendet-glauben.org) and has produced three documentary movies, "Fascinating Universe", "More than My Brain", and “Is there meaning in suffering?” which were officially recommended for use in secular public schools. Together with his wife, Alexander enjoys raising his two children, preaching and leading a house group in his local church, and being a youth soccer trainer in his local sports club.
Sverre Holm is a professor emeritus of physics at the University of Oslo, where he has been a professor since 1995. He has mainly worked with medical ultrasound imaging and wave propagation and is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technical Sciences (NTVA). He is on the panel for the popular science program Abel's Tower on national radio NRK P2, where he has appeared about once a semester for many years. He has written the book "The Imagined Conflict. On Science and God" (2025) which is a translation of the original published in Norway in 2021, and coauthored "Science with Overtones. 21 Scientists and Their Faith in God" (2025) in Norwegian.
Peter Korevaar studied physics and astronomy at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands. In 1989, he acquired his PhD in astronomy on the topic of "Time-dependent models of stellar coronae". After two years at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, in 1991 Peter accepted a position at IBM. Since then he has worked as consultant in the areas of logistics, optimization, and analytics, mainly for automotive companies. For many years Peter was the leader of the Physics and Astronomy Group of the German Creationist Society "Wort und Wissen". Currently he is a member of the board of this society. Peter and his wife Heleen live in Germany near Heidelberg. They have five children and are members of a free evangelical church.
Andy McIntosh holds an Emeritus chair in Thermodynamics at the University of Leeds and is also an adjunct professor of Engineering at Liberty University in Virginia. He has had a long scientific research career concerning mathematics, combustion and aeronautics, both in academia and in a government establishment, and is author of over 200 academic papers. Andy has long worked on combustion and its interaction with acoustics and larger pressure waves. He has also worked on the mathematical modelling of ignition, and he is the inventor of the 𝜇Mist novel spray technology which mimics the Bombardier beetle spray and has led to this spray technology being applied to fuel injectors, pharmaceutical sprays, aerosols and more recently fire sprinkler systems. This was awarded the 2010 Times Higher Educational award for the Outstanding Contribution to Innovation and Technology. His work has also included investigations into the fundamental link between thermodynamics and information. This strikes at the heart of the issue concerning abiogenesis – the information in living systems is neither matter nor energy but is absolutely essential for life.
Andy now lectures widely on origins, and has authored the books “Genesis for Today” (Day One, 6th Edition, 2017), and “A verse by verse examination of Genesis 1-11” (Day One, 2016) and has contributed to a number of other books including “Wonders of Creation – Design in a fallen world”(co-authored with Stuart Burgess and Brian Edwards, Day One, 2017), “Origins – examining the evidence” (Truth in Science, 2011), “In six days” (Master Books, 2009) and “Should Christians embrace Evolution?” (IVP, 2009). He has also written the booklet “Are you really an Atheist?” (2018) and co-authored the booklets “Is it True – Evidence for Creation” (2018) and “A wonder of Creation – the Kingfisher” (2024) and is co-director of the UK education think tank Truth in Science. He is married with 4 children (one of whom died in infancy), and 7 grandchildren.
Soul Care
Mentors
Terry English is a leadership and organisational development coach who seeks to help leaders to “love growing their organisations”. He currently lives in the Czech Republic and has equipped ministries and leaders across Central and Eastern Europe for the past 27 years. In his free time he conducts a large Gospel choir and other outreach activities in the city where he lives.
Melinda Hendry leads ministry development for women in ministry with Living Leadership. She is also a Formation Tutor at St. Mellitus College. Previously, she served on the senior ministry team at All Souls Langham Place where she ran the ministry training scheme.
Dafydd Job served as a pastor for over 40 years in Wales, including 37 years in the Bangor Welsh Evangelical Church. He has been active in a number of organisations, including UCCF and The Evangelical Movement of Wales, and is the coordinator of the Barnabas Project for UFM Worldwide - a project for encouraging churches, pastors and Christian leaders. He visits Eastern Europe regularly to speak, and to mentor pastors. He has recently been appointed as an associate of Living Leadership, which means he is available to mentor and advise pastors, Christian leaders, and help churches through difficult times.
Scott Poling serves as Senior Pastor of Harvest New Beginnings Church located in the southwest suburbs of Chicago. He has served in ministry for 31 years at Harvest, seeing first-hand God’s work in the renewal of a dying church. He’s gained a unique perspective, understanding the pressures and trials of ministry while navigating the many heartaches and challenges that come with leadership. He has a heart to see the souls of pastors and ministry leaders encouraged and renewed. He received his B.S. degree from Cedarville University and his ThM from Dallas Theological Seminary, has 5 children with his wife of 35 years, Carla, and three (soon to be 4) grandchildren. His interests include trail running and visiting national parks.
Theologians
Mentors
Darrell L. Bock is Senior Research Professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary in Dallas, Texas, as well as Executive Director of Cultural Engagement for the Hendricks Center for Christian Leadership there. An author or editor of about fifty books, his special fields of study involve hermeneutics, the use of the Old Testament in the New, Luke-Acts, the historical Jesus, Gospel studies, and the integration of theology and culture. It is this latter area that is the focus of his work at the Hendricks Center, where he is responsible for producing a web-based, weekly podcast on issues of God and culture called The Table and author of the recent book, Cultural Intelligence: Living for God in a Diverse, Pluralistic World. He is a graduate of the University of Texas (B.A.), Dallas Theological Seminary (Th.M.), and the University of Aberdeen (Ph.D.). He has had four annual stints of post doctoral study at the University of Tübingen, the second through fourth as an Alexander von Humboldt scholar at Tübingen University through a scholarship offered by the Federal Republic of Germany (1989-90, 1995-96, 2004-05, 2010-2011). He was editor at large for Christianity Today for several years and served as President of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) for the year 2000-2001. He currently serves on the boards of Wheaton College, Chosen People Ministries, Christians in Public Service (CIPS), and the Institute for Global Engagement (IGE). He also serves as elder emeritus at Trinity Fellowship Church in Richardson, Texas and as advisor to staff at Bent Tree Fellowship. Married to Sally for almost fifty years, he is the father of two married daughters and a married son, and is also a proud grandfather of five.
Leonardo De Chirico is the pastor of Breccia di Roma, a church that he helped plant in Rome in 2009, and Chair of the Theological Commission of the Italian Evangelical Alliance. Previously, Leonardo planted and pastored an evangelical church in Ferrara, Italy from 1997 to 2009. He earned degrees in history (University of Bologna), theology (ETCW, Bridgend, Wales) and bioethics (University of Padova). His PhD is from King's College (London); it was published as Evangelical Theological Perspectives on Post-Vatican II Roman Catholicism. His recent books are A Christian Pocket Guide to Papacy (Christian Focus, 2015); A Christian Pocket Guide to Mary (Christian Focus, 2017), Same Words, Different Worlds. Do Roman Catholics and evangelicals believe the same gospel? (IVP, 2021), Engaging with Thomas Aquinas. An evangelical approach (IVP, 2024), and Tell Your Catholic Friend. How to have Gospel conversations with love (B&H, 2025). He is a lecturer of historical theology at Istituto di Formazione Evangelica e Documentazione in Padova, Italy. Additionally, Leonardo is the director of the Reformanda Initiative, which aims to equip evangelical leaders to understand better and engage with Roman Catholicism, and the leader of the Rome Scholars and Leaders Network (RSLN).
Steffen G. Jenkins is half German, half Welsh, was born in Spain but again in England. He serves as Senior Lecturer in Greek and Biblical Studies at Union School of Theology in the United Kingdom. He has served at various seminaries in Cuba, as tutor in Biblical Languages at Tyndale House (Cambridge, England), and as pastor in an evangelical Presbyterian church. He is the author of Imprecations in the Psalms: Love for Enemies in Hard Places (Pickwick); a Greek textbook for pastors who have forgotten their Greek or who want to start from scratch (Cambridge University Press); Scripture is Inspired (Union Publishing); and the forthcoming Hearing God’s Voice in Leviticus (IVP) and Enjoy the Psalms (Union). He is no good at sports (whether playing, watching or discussing).
Dirk Jongkind is the Academic Vice Principal of Tyndale House, Cambridge, and an Affiliated Lecturer at Cambridge University. His main scholarly interest is the text and language of the Greek New Testament. He is also the editor of the Tyndale House Greek New Testament.
Ádám Szabados is a Hungarian theologian and the leader of the Hungarian Evangelical Forum. Until 2017 he had been a pastor for 20 years. He is married to Dóra and has two adult sons. He studied English literature and linguistics at the University of Veszprém (MA equivalent, with honours), and theology at Schloss Mittersill Study Center (Diploma in Biblical Studies and Culture) and at Covenant Theological Seminary (ThM in Exegetical Theology). He received his PhD (summa cum laude) in the area of New Testament at Károli Reformed University. His study on the Reformational understanding of sin has been published by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He wrote three other books: Erosz nyomában (Traces of Eros) (Harmat Publishing House, 2008), Az apostolok hagyománya (The Tradition of the Apostles) (KRE-L'Harmattan 2020; 2nd edition 2021), and Teológus a sakktáblán (Theologian on the Chessboard) (Luther-Harmat - 2021). Ádám also has a popular theological-apologetic website (divinity.szabadosadam.hu).
2026 General Mentoring Opportunities
General Mealtime Mentoring is a key feature of the Forum Annual Meeting in May, offering Evangelical leaders the opportunity to engage in meaningful, one-to-one mentoring conversations over a shared meal. Unlike Network Mentoring, these sessions are open for Forum participants to meet with a mentor one-on-one in any area they are interested in. This year, we offer General Mentoring in:
Apologetics and Evangelism
Apologetics
Apologetics Mentoring focuses specifically on how to think strategically about apologetics, how to identify and connect with important points of contact in a culture, and how to remove roadblocks to the Gospel.
This mentoring type is available for one-on-one and/or cohort mentoring.
Mentors
Lars Dahle is a theologian, educator, preacher, and apologist. Having a long previous experience in various academic leadership roles, he now works as Professor in Systematic Theology (with a speciality in Christian Apologetics) at NLA University College, Kristiansand, Norway, where he has lectured in worldviews, ethics, and apologetics since 1991. Lars is also CEO of Damaris Norway, a resource development ministry for worldview analysis, cultural apologetics, and media engagement. He wrote his PhD on Acts 17:16-34. It is entitled An Apologetic Model Then and Now? (Open University, UK, 2001).
Since 2013, Lars is also Lausanne Catalyst for Media Engagement. Lars has written several academic and popular articles and was the lead editor of The Lausanne Movement: A Range of Perspectives (Oxford: Regnum, 2014). He is also the Founding Editor of the peer-reviewed Nordic apologetic journal Theofilos. In addition, Lars co-leads the European Leadership Forum Media Communicators Network with his wife, Margunn Serigstad Dahle, and his NLA and Damaris colleague Bjørn Hinderaker.
Follow Lars on his blog Media Messages Matter or on his Twitter account @LarsDahle.
Jym Gregory is Lead Pastor of LifePoint Church Indy in Indianapolis, Indiana. He also serves as adjunct professor of Christian Apologetics and Christian Leadership at The Indianapolis Theological Seminary. He has served in local church ministry for 25 years. Along with his wife and children, he served as an international missionary in Costa Rica and Spain. Additional missionary work has taken him to a dozen countries. He holds degrees from Eastern Illinois University (B.S., M.S.), and The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (M.Div., D.Min). He has pursued additional studies in history and higher education at The University of Florida and missions studies at The Instituto de Lenqua Espanola in San Jose, Costa Rica. Married for 36 years to his wife Dedra, they share two grown daughters and six grandchildren.
Martin Helgesson serves with the Apologia – Centre for Christian Apologetics and as pastor of Roseniuskyrkan in Stockholm, Sweden. He is part of the leadership of Langham Preaching Sweden, and travels to preach and speak on various issues related to Christian apologetics and expository preaching. He has also authored two books in Swedish. Martin is married to Ulrika and they have three children.
Peter Imming received degrees in pharmacy and chemistry and a PhD and venia legendi in pharmaceutical chemistry from a German university. He has been involved in drug chemistry teaching and research in Germany, the UK, China, and other countries. Currently, he is professor in the faculty of biosciences of a German university. His research focuses on the design and synthesis of new drug substances and on molecular mechanisms of drug action. He has a strong interest in the relation of science and Christian faith, frequently lecturing on related topics by invitation of e.g. universities, churches, and schools.
David Krohn is a full time apologist from the south of Germany. After finishing his "Staatsexamen" in mathematics and german language at the university of Augsburg, followed by a BA in theology at ICI, he worked as a pastor for several years in his congregation in Memmingen, Germany. Now, he works fulltime in his apologetic ministry "Apologetik projekt e.V.", where he and his colleague produce apologetic online content, hold debates and train people in churches all around Germany to become effective spokespersons for the truth of Christ. He now studies his Master of Philosophy at the university of Hagen.
Dave has a huge passion for truth and purpose - two things he sees lacking in the life of many people. With apologetics, he tries to roll away the big stones on the path of the seeker, so that they can find rest in the truth and beauty of Christ.
Besides his apologetic work, Dave serves as a bible teacher in the south of Germany. He is married to Carline and has six children.
Dr. Andrew Loke is an elected Fellow of the prestigious International Society for Science and Religion and Associate Professor in the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Hong Kong Baptist University. He has published 8 monographs with world-leading academic publishers in the fields of theology, philosophy, and science and religion. He has been invited as a Visiting Scholar to Cambridge University, and to speak at leading universities such as Harvard and Oxford, at the PBS program 'Closer to Truth: the greatest thinkers, the deepest questions', and at seminaries and churches around the world.
To read more on this topic by Dr. Andrew Loke, see his books 'The Biggest Questions of Existence'; The Origin of Humanity and Evolution: Science and Scripture in Conversation (London: Bloomsbury, 2022), and https://www.academia.edu/92656662/Reply_to_reviews_of_The_Origin_of_Humanity_Science_and_Scripture_in_Conversation
Kristi Mair teaches philosophy, ethics, and apologetics at Oak Hill College in London, UK, where she also provides pastoral support for F students. She holds a degree in philosophy and theology, as well as an MA in philosophy of religion and ethics. She is currently working on her PhD in the area of epistemology in philosophical theology, with a particular focus on Michael Polanyi, Esther Meek, and Augustine. Kristi worked for 8 years with a campus-based ministry in the UK (UCCF), and she continues to speak regularly at mission weeks and events across Europe. Kristi has a heart for engaging people with the message of Jesus, developing a Christian mind, and raising the next generation of apologists to live out our calling as disciples to love God and our neighbour. Kristi is the author of MORE > Truth (IVP, 2019), Co-editor of Healthy Faith (IVP, 2020), a board member and speaker for Chrysolis, and an itinerant SOLAS Associate Speaker.
Andy McIntosh holds an Emeritus chair in Thermodynamics at the University of Leeds and is also an adjunct professor of Engineering at Liberty University in Virginia. He has had a long scientific research career concerning mathematics, combustion and aeronautics, both in academia and in a government establishment, and is author of over 200 academic papers. Andy has long worked on combustion and its interaction with acoustics and larger pressure waves. He has also worked on the mathematical modelling of ignition, and he is the inventor of the 𝜇Mist novel spray technology which mimics the Bombardier beetle spray and has led to this spray technology being applied to fuel injectors, pharmaceutical sprays, aerosols and more recently fire sprinkler systems. This was awarded the 2010 Times Higher Educational award for the Outstanding Contribution to Innovation and Technology. His work has also included investigations into the fundamental link between thermodynamics and information. This strikes at the heart of the issue concerning abiogenesis – the information in living systems is neither matter nor energy but is absolutely essential for life.
Andy now lectures widely on origins, and has authored the books “Genesis for Today” (Day One, 6th Edition, 2017), and “A verse by verse examination of Genesis 1-11” (Day One, 2016) and has contributed to a number of other books including “Wonders of Creation – Design in a fallen world”(co-authored with Stuart Burgess and Brian Edwards, Day One, 2017), “Origins – examining the evidence” (Truth in Science, 2011), “In six days” (Master Books, 2009) and “Should Christians embrace Evolution?” (IVP, 2009). He has also written the booklet “Are you really an Atheist?” (2018) and co-authored the booklets “Is it True – Evidence for Creation” (2018) and “A wonder of Creation – the Kingfisher” (2024) and is co-director of the UK education think tank Truth in Science. He is married with 4 children (one of whom died in infancy), and 7 grandchildren.
Mihail Stefanov is the assistant pastor at Crossroad’s Church Sofia (crossroadchurch.bg) and the founder of Culture and People (cultureandpeople.eu) – an international consulting firm helping global business leaders transform the culture of their organizations. He has a deep passion for communicating and defending Christ as the only viable option for the redemption and the thriving of humankind. He uses his education and professional background in communications, anthropology, and theology to discover creative and engaging ways to convey Christian truths to the intellectuals and business leaders he works with. In the past several years, Mihail and his team have developed several experimental formats to reach modern urban people with the Gospel as well as to train and empower Christians to become effective communicators of the faith.
Pasi Turunen, theologian (M.Th), author, blogger, and apologist, has been working as a Christian radio broadcaster for over 30 years. He studied theology at Helsinki University, where his master’s thesis dealt with Jewish views on resurrection in the intertestamental Jewish literature. Turunen is a well-known Bible teacher and is often invited to speak at various apologetic seminars in Finland. He has written a number of books dealing with subjects such as cult evangelism, same-sex marriage, the inerrancy of the Bible, and apologetics. He has experience with Christian television and currently hosts a weekly radio program that analyzes current events and changing culture in light of the Christian worldview and the Scriptures. Turunen has also appeared on secular national television and radio programs in Finland defending his Christian faith and views on contemporary issues. He is the current president of the Patmos Foundation for World Missions, an evangelical missions and relief organization bringing humanitarian aid and the Gospel of Christ to over 20 nations across the world. The Patmos Foundation has an extensive media ministry in Finland and was the first Finnish Christian organization to start broadcasting Christian programs on commercial radio stations in 1985. Pasi is married to Parvin, who was born in the Middle East and in 1984 was supernaturally led to Finland to find Jesus and be saved.
Evangelism
Evangelism Mentoring is designed for evangelists, pastors, and lay people who want to be equipped to be more effective in communicating the Gospel relevantly, biblically, and credibly.
This mentoring type is available for one-on-one mentoring.
Mentors
Jubi da Silva is an evangelist, writer, and speaker, passionate about equipping the local church in evangelism. Jubi pastored in Brazil before gaining a Master's in Theology at Regent College, Vancouver. Now serving as International Director of Training for Christianity Explored Ministries, Jubi travels the world delivering training that is interactive, Word-centred, and story-rich. Jubi lives with his wife and two daughters in Wargrave, Berkshire.
Stephen McQuoid grew up in Ethiopia where his parents were missionaries. He then lived in Ireland where he qualified as a nurse before going on to study theology, gaining a variety of degrees including an MTh and PhD in theology. He is the author of 20 books on subjects such as discipleship, evangelism, apologetics, and church discipline. Stephen is the General Director of Gospel Literature Outreach, a missionary organisation based in Europe. He is married to Debbie and they have three grown up children and a grandaughter. Stephen and Debbie attend Clyde Valley Community Church in Motherwell. His interests include motorbikes, football, boxing, MMA, and Politics.
Jerry Root is a Professor of Evangelism and Leadership at Wheaton College and serves as the Director of the Evangelism Initiative. Jerry is a graduate of Whittier College and Talbot Graduate School of Theology at Biola University; he received his PhD from the Open University. Jerry is the author or co-author of numerous books on C.S. Lewis, including The Surprising Imagination of C.S. Lewis: An Introduction, with Mark Neal, C.S. Lewis and a Problem of Evil: An Investigation of a Pervasive Theme, and The Soul of C.S. Lewis: A Meditative Journey through Twenty-six of His Best Loved Writings. Jerry is the co-author of The Sacrament of Evangelism and co-editor, with Wayne Martindale, of The Quotable C.S. Lewis. He also teaches graduate courses (MA in Evangelism and Leadership Program) and undergraduate courses (Christian Formation and Ministry Department) at Wheaton College. In addition, Jerry has been a visiting professor at Talbot Graduate School of Theology and Biola University from 1990 to the present. He and his wife, Claudia, have four grown children - all of whom are married - and thirteen grandchildren.
Pasi Turunen, theologian (M.Th), author, blogger, and apologist, has been working as a Christian radio broadcaster for over 30 years. He studied theology at Helsinki University, where his master’s thesis dealt with Jewish views on resurrection in the intertestamental Jewish literature. Turunen is a well-known Bible teacher and is often invited to speak at various apologetic seminars in Finland. He has written a number of books dealing with subjects such as cult evangelism, same-sex marriage, the inerrancy of the Bible, and apologetics. He has experience with Christian television and currently hosts a weekly radio program that analyzes current events and changing culture in light of the Christian worldview and the Scriptures. Turunen has also appeared on secular national television and radio programs in Finland defending his Christian faith and views on contemporary issues. He is the current president of the Patmos Foundation for World Missions, an evangelical missions and relief organization bringing humanitarian aid and the Gospel of Christ to over 20 nations across the world. The Patmos Foundation has an extensive media ministry in Finland and was the first Finnish Christian organization to start broadcasting Christian programs on commercial radio stations in 1985. Pasi is married to Parvin, who was born in the Middle East and in 1984 was supernaturally led to Finland to find Jesus and be saved.
Internet Discipleship and Evangelism
Internet Discipleship and Evangelism Mentoring provides an opportunity to discuss how to start a ministry in internet discipleship and evangelism, the best approaches, and ways to measure impact with an experienced practitioner.
Mentors
Daniel Fodorean currently serves as Dean of the School of Theology and Associate Professor of Applied Theology at the Baptist Theological Institute of Bucharest. In addition to these roles, he fulfills the duties of Director of Leader Formation Institute and Antioch Church Network, Pastor of Bucharest Alpha Omega Baptist Church, and associate member of The Academy of Romanian Scientists. Dr. Fodorean holds a PhD in Theology and is currently pursuing a PhD in Constitutional Law with a focus on religious freedom. He has accumulated over 30 years of pastoral experience and expertise in church transformation, organisational and church leadership, church law and administration, mission and church planting, and sixteen years in teaching at the pre-university and university levels. Daniel is the author (or co-author) of five books and numerous articles and studies.
Henryk Król is president & CEO of DEOrecordings Association (CCM Media), an umbrella organisation owning three limited companies: Studio DR, Ltd (he is its President and CEO), Radio CCM Ltd. and MCC Group, Ltd. It forms an innovative media ministry based in Poland that combines traditional media (6 FM Radio stations), art (professional recording studio and publishing), and new tools (Software development with a flagship – Gele/CODEX e-learning platform tailored to spiritual follow-up, Service Center to Jesus.net global evangelistic movement, multiple own portals, multimedia productions, etc). Having a holistic vision of a “full path,” all the communications and technology are backed by an army of hundreds of volunteers who implement it daily with interested seekers, both online as e-coaches and offline as small group leaders. His heart is in building cooperation and partnership across denominations and countries, networking for better effectiveness in spreading the Gospel. Henryk holds a PhD in engineering. His present research focuses on how to best use the Internet without forgetting to "stand firm" on the biblical truth as the final authority. He is married to Boguslawa, with whom he has three adult children: Filip, Paulina, and Szczepan.
LGBT and Church Politics
LGBT and Church Politics Mentoring focuses on equipping church leaders on how to respond to LGBT questions and arguments against traditional marriage in a pastorally sensitive way and on how to contend for biblical orthodoxy on issues of marriage, sex, and gender in our churches and denominations.
This mentoring type is available for one-on-one mentoring.
Mentors
Christopher Townsend chairs the editorial group of Cambridge Papers, a quarterly publication with the strapline ‘Towards a Biblical Mind’, which aims to help Christians engage with a complex and changing world (www.cambridgepapers.org). He wrote ‘Gender: Where Next? Personal journeys, radical agendas and perplexing dilemmas’ (Cambridge Paper: December 2016) and since then has engaged with this topic, in conversation with medical professionals, and has spoken at churches and conferences on the ‘gender revolution'. Following his retirement as a lawyer, he completed an MPhil in New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of Cambridge, and he is a trustee of The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion.
Missions
Missions Mentoring offers the opportunity for leaders of missions agencies or those considering missions as a calling to talk to an experienced leader who can relate to their struggles or to dialogue and analyse a specific missions problem and think through resources for dealing with that issue.
This mentoring type is available for one-on-one mentoring.
Mentors
Jym Gregory is Lead Pastor of LifePoint Church Indy in Indianapolis, Indiana. He also serves as adjunct professor of Christian Apologetics and Christian Leadership at The Indianapolis Theological Seminary. He has served in local church ministry for 25 years. Along with his wife and children, he served as an international missionary in Costa Rica and Spain. Additional missionary work has taken him to a dozen countries. He holds degrees from Eastern Illinois University (B.S., M.S.), and The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (M.Div., D.Min). He has pursued additional studies in history and higher education at The University of Florida and missions studies at The Instituto de Lenqua Espanola in San Jose, Costa Rica. Married for 36 years to his wife Dedra, they share two grown daughters and six grandchildren.
Dawn Patterson has worked with para-church ministries for about 45 years — in the US, Germany and Russia. She is married (40 years) and has 4 adult children and 6 grandchildren. Her ministry focus is leading and mentoring women of various ages and cultures through encouragement and study of the Scriptures. Currently, she lives in Minnesota.
I'm 74 years old, came to really know the LORD 54 years ago, married Dawn 40+ years ago. We have four adult children, and six grandchildren.
Dawn and I met while serving the LORD with Campus Crusade for Christ (Cru), with whom we were staff members for 35+ years, first in California, then Germany and then Russia. We now happily serve with a small mission group called GLINTS. For the most part I have served in the administrative realm, but my real love and work has been helping people to study, learn and believe the Scriptures. Check out my Bible study website at B-study.expertlearning.net.
I do not consider myself as an "expert" in anything, really, but as one who has been blessed by God with a number of wonderful opportunities I could not even have imagined before. I am still on the life-long process of sanctification, and He has ever been faithful. One of my life verses is, "Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass.” (1Th 5:24)
I would be happy to hear about your life and ministry, and share mine with you. God willing, we will encourage one another.
Junias Venugopal is the Associate Dean at the Litfin School of Ministry and Theological Studies at Wheaton College, where he also co-directs the M.A. in Leadership program. He has a Ph.D. in Education, a Th.M. in Bible Exposition, an M.B.A. in Finance, and a B.E. (Hons.) in Electrical Engineering. Junias is an experienced higher education administrator having served as a dean for the last 23 years in Asia, Columbia International University, SC, Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and now at Wheaton College. Junias, his wife, Beth and his family served for 15 years overseas. Over 8 years in India as a pastor of Delhi Bible Fellowship and another 6 years in the Philippines as a dean at AGST-Philippines. His passion is to be a catalyst in the lives of those with whom he intersects so that they achieve their God-given potential. Junias and Beth have four adult children and five grandchildren.
Muslim Ministry
This mentoring type is available for one-on-one mentoring.
Mentors
Nate Irwin was born and raised in Pakistan as the son of missionary parents. After studying anthropology at Wheaton College (B.A.), and missions and Old Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (M. Div., Th.M.), he and his wife served with TEAM for 14 years in Pakistan at Zarephath Bible Seminary. They returned to the U.S. in 2000 due to health issues, and Nate has served as the Pastor of Global Outreach at College Park Church in Indianapolis since 2001. He and his wife, Marty, have three adult children and four grandchildren. He is the co-author, with Dr. Tim Meadowcraft, of a commentary on Daniel in the Asia Bible Commentary Series (Asia Theological Association, Singapore, 2004).
Roman Catholicism
Roman Catholicism Mentoring provides guidance to pastors and leaders who are asking questions about how we as evangelicals should interact with Roman Catholics.
This mentoring type is available for one-on-one and/or cohort mentoring.
Mentors
Leonardo De Chirico is the pastor of Breccia di Roma, a church that he helped plant in Rome in 2009, and Chair of the Theological Commission of the Italian Evangelical Alliance. Previously, Leonardo planted and pastored an evangelical church in Ferrara, Italy from 1997 to 2009. He earned degrees in history (University of Bologna), theology (ETCW, Bridgend, Wales) and bioethics (University of Padova). His PhD is from King's College (London); it was published as Evangelical Theological Perspectives on Post-Vatican II Roman Catholicism. His recent books are A Christian Pocket Guide to Papacy (Christian Focus, 2015); A Christian Pocket Guide to Mary (Christian Focus, 2017), Same Words, Different Worlds. Do Roman Catholics and evangelicals believe the same gospel? (IVP, 2021), Engaging with Thomas Aquinas. An evangelical approach (IVP, 2024), and Tell Your Catholic Friend. How to have Gospel conversations with love (B&H, 2025). He is a lecturer of historical theology at Istituto di Formazione Evangelica e Documentazione in Padova, Italy. Additionally, Leonardo is the director of the Reformanda Initiative, which aims to equip evangelical leaders to understand better and engage with Roman Catholicism, and the leader of the Rome Scholars and Leaders Network (RSLN).
Clay Kannard serves as a co-pastor at Breccia di Roma, where he partners in ministry with Leonardo De Chirico. He is involved in the Reformanda Initiative, supporting its mission as communications director and cohosting the Reformanda Initiative podcast. Clay also serves on the board of the Istituto di Cultura Evangelica e Documentazione in Rome, Italy. In addition to these roles, he works with Redeemer City to City Europe (trainer), mentors students through the Union School of Theology’s Rome Learning Community, and teaches biblical theology for an American study-abroad program in Rome. Clay has spent over 11 years in Italy with his wife and their four children, partnering with local leaders to equip emerging leaders, strengthen existing churches, and plant new churches.
Scientific Apologetics
Scientific Apologetics Mentoring helps those who want to be involved in scientific apologetics to think strategically about questions of how to respond to the challenges posed by scientific naturalism to the Gospel.
This mentoring type is available for one-on-one mentoring.
Mentors
Zachary Ardern is a research fellow in microbial evolutionary genomics - investigating the origins and evolution of proteins and gene regulation. He completed BA|BSc conjoint degrees and a PhD in experimental evolution at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and has subsequently conducted research in Munich, Karlsruhe, and Cambridge. Zachary regularly speaks and writes for diverse audiences on science and Christian faith (sometimes with his wife Anke, an astronomer) and is a fellow of the International Society of Science and Religion (ISSR).
Alexander Fink is Director of the Institute for Faith and Science (Institut für Glaube und Wissenschaft) in Marburg, Germany (www.iguw.de). He studied physics at Bayreuth and St. Andrews (UK) universities and received his PhD at the Institute for Biophysics at the University of Regensburg. After working as an industrial product manager, he became the director of the SMD graduates' ministry (Akademiker-SMD, the German branch of IFES) until 2014. Since 2008, he has been a member of the ELF Steering Committee and has co-led the Scientists Network. He is the editor of the "Begründet-glauben-Podcast" (www.begruendet-glauben.org) and has produced three documentary movies, "Fascinating Universe", "More than My Brain", and “Is there meaning in suffering?” which were officially recommended for use in secular public schools. Together with his wife, Alexander enjoys raising his two children, preaching and leading a house group in his local church, and being a youth soccer trainer in his local sports club.
Sverre Holm is a professor emeritus of physics at the University of Oslo, where he has been a professor since 1995. He has mainly worked with medical ultrasound imaging and wave propagation and is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technical Sciences (NTVA). He is on the panel for the popular science program Abel's Tower on national radio NRK P2, where he has appeared about once a semester for many years. He has written the book "The Imagined Conflict. On Science and God" (2025) which is a translation of the original published in Norway in 2021, and coauthored "Science with Overtones. 21 Scientists and Their Faith in God" (2025) in Norwegian.
Peter Imming received degrees in pharmacy and chemistry and a PhD and venia legendi in pharmaceutical chemistry from a German university. He has been involved in drug chemistry teaching and research in Germany, the UK, China, and other countries. Currently, he is professor in the faculty of biosciences of a German university. His research focuses on the design and synthesis of new drug substances and on molecular mechanisms of drug action. He has a strong interest in the relation of science and Christian faith, frequently lecturing on related topics by invitation of e.g. universities, churches, and schools.
Peter Korevaar studied physics and astronomy at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands. In 1989, he acquired his PhD in astronomy on the topic of "Time-dependent models of stellar coronae". After two years at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, in 1991 Peter accepted a position at IBM. Since then he has worked as consultant in the areas of logistics, optimization, and analytics, mainly for automotive companies. For many years Peter was the leader of the Physics and Astronomy Group of the German Creationist Society "Wort und Wissen". Currently he is a member of the board of this society. Peter and his wife Heleen live in Germany near Heidelberg. They have five children and are members of a free evangelical church.
Dr. Andrew Loke is an elected Fellow of the prestigious International Society for Science and Religion and Associate Professor in the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Hong Kong Baptist University. He has published 8 monographs with world-leading academic publishers in the fields of theology, philosophy, and science and religion. He has been invited as a Visiting Scholar to Cambridge University, and to speak at leading universities such as Harvard and Oxford, at the PBS program 'Closer to Truth: the greatest thinkers, the deepest questions', and at seminaries and churches around the world.
To read more on this topic by Dr. Andrew Loke, see his books 'The Biggest Questions of Existence'; The Origin of Humanity and Evolution: Science and Scripture in Conversation (London: Bloomsbury, 2022), and https://www.academia.edu/92656662/Reply_to_reviews_of_The_Origin_of_Humanity_Science_and_Scripture_in_Conversation
Andy McIntosh holds an Emeritus chair in Thermodynamics at the University of Leeds and is also an adjunct professor of Engineering at Liberty University in Virginia. He has had a long scientific research career concerning mathematics, combustion and aeronautics, both in academia and in a government establishment, and is author of over 200 academic papers. Andy has long worked on combustion and its interaction with acoustics and larger pressure waves. He has also worked on the mathematical modelling of ignition, and he is the inventor of the 𝜇Mist novel spray technology which mimics the Bombardier beetle spray and has led to this spray technology being applied to fuel injectors, pharmaceutical sprays, aerosols and more recently fire sprinkler systems. This was awarded the 2010 Times Higher Educational award for the Outstanding Contribution to Innovation and Technology. His work has also included investigations into the fundamental link between thermodynamics and information. This strikes at the heart of the issue concerning abiogenesis – the information in living systems is neither matter nor energy but is absolutely essential for life.
Andy now lectures widely on origins, and has authored the books “Genesis for Today” (Day One, 6th Edition, 2017), and “A verse by verse examination of Genesis 1-11” (Day One, 2016) and has contributed to a number of other books including “Wonders of Creation – Design in a fallen world”(co-authored with Stuart Burgess and Brian Edwards, Day One, 2017), “Origins – examining the evidence” (Truth in Science, 2011), “In six days” (Master Books, 2009) and “Should Christians embrace Evolution?” (IVP, 2009). He has also written the booklet “Are you really an Atheist?” (2018) and co-authored the booklets “Is it True – Evidence for Creation” (2018) and “A wonder of Creation – the Kingfisher” (2024) and is co-director of the UK education think tank Truth in Science. He is married with 4 children (one of whom died in infancy), and 7 grandchildren.
Church Leadership and Ministry
Bible Teaching and Preaching
Bible Teaching and Preaching Mentoring gives leaders an opportunity to learn key principles, ask questions, and receive feedback on their Bible Teaching and Preaching from a senior and experienced mentor.
This mentoring type is available for one-on-one mentoring.
Mentors
Mike Chalmers is a mentor with Cor Deo, a ministry training programme, and co-host of The Biblical Preaching Podcast. He is also UFM Worldwide’s Short-term Mission Coordinator. Previously, he was a Staff Worker in Wales with UCCF. He enjoys preaching and discipling, and continues to support and encourage believers by speaking at events around Europe. Mike is an uncle to four nephews and a niece, a brother to one sister, and is married to Susana.
Mandy has been married to her husband, Jason, for 22 years and is mother to Rob (18) and Wes (15). She is the Teaching Leader for Bible Study Fellowship International in Indianapolis, Indiana and has served in BSF for 14 years in various roles including leading a small group, training leaders, and teaching the Bible. At her church, Mandy leads worship and is involved in songwriting. Her interests include, reading, helping with her sons’ activities, encouraging parents with children on the autism spectrum, and anything related to music.
Andy Hamilton is originally from Northern Ireland but has lived in Italy for most of his life. Andy obtained a Master of Theology from Queen’s University Belfast through Belfast Bible College and a Doctor of Ministry degree in preaching at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He lives in the outskirts of Rome where he serves as Old Testament and Preaching Lecturer at the Italian Evangelical Bible Institute (www.ibei.it) as well as being involved in church leadership. Andy is the author of How to Preach the Prophets for All Their Worth (Wipf & Stock). He is married to Ruth, and they have three children: Isaiah, Hollie, and Joshua.
Philip Miller is the 17th Senior Pastor of The Moody Church. He and his wife Krista are graduates of Cedarville University (’04) and both hold Th.M. degrees from Dallas Theological Seminary ('10). They live in Chicago with their four children: Claire, Violet, Cora, and Jude. Pastor Philip is passionate about proclaiming God’s Word, cultivating healthy ministry, and investing in future leaders. He can be heard on the weekly Moody Church Hour radio broadcast on over 700 stations nationwide. Philip enjoys cycling on the Chicago lakefront, deep-dish pizza, caramel popcorn, and craft root beer.
Steve Mitchell is part of the leadership team at Cornerstone Church in Swindon, a small church plant in the rapidly expanding north of the town. Steve is passionate about seeing God’s people equipped to share God’s Word no matter what context they are in. Previously, he worked in the IT industry and spent 4 months in Uganda with Mission Aviation Fellowship. Steve is married to Jackie and they have three adult children.
Andy Oatridge is currently a pastor at their church and in leadership at their new church plants just outside of Budapest. He has recently been appointed as the European director for Langham Preaching, responsible for Europe and the Caribbean, and has been involved in the Langham leadership in Hungary for some years. He is also the leader of a small charitable organisation that they started over 20 years ago, which trained up youth leaders and youth pastors to teach the Bible effectively.
Church Leadership
Church Leadership Mentoring aims to support, equip, and mentor the leaders and aspiring leaders of churches, networks, denominations, and Christian organizations to face the complexity of leading growing ministries.
This mentoring type is available for one-on-one mentoring.
Mentors
Jym Gregory is Lead Pastor of LifePoint Church Indy in Indianapolis, Indiana. He also serves as adjunct professor of Christian Apologetics and Christian Leadership at The Indianapolis Theological Seminary. He has served in local church ministry for 25 years. Along with his wife and children, he served as an international missionary in Costa Rica and Spain. Additional missionary work has taken him to a dozen countries. He holds degrees from Eastern Illinois University (B.S., M.S.), and The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (M.Div., D.Min). He has pursued additional studies in history and higher education at The University of Florida and missions studies at The Instituto de Lenqua Espanola in San Jose, Costa Rica. Married for 36 years to his wife Dedra, they share two grown daughters and six grandchildren.
Church Revitalisation
Church Revitalisation Mentoring provides an opportunity for participants to discuss the common obstacles and available tools to bring revitalization to an existing church.
This mentoring type is available for one-on-one mentoring.
Mentors
Jonathan Bond was brought up near Bakewell in Derbyshire. Jonathan was a management accountant before his call to full-time Christian ministry. He undertook 2 ½ years on the job training at the church he attended in Leeds before, on his 40th birthday, becoming pastor of Jennyfield Evangelical Church, a smaller church in Harrogate. After nearly 18 years, he left to become FIEC’s Director for Smaller Churches. This role involves supporting, encouraging and seeking to be a blessing to some 300 churches within the FIEC (35 members or less) through offering advice, being the conduit for partnerships and supporting churches through revitalisation programs. Jonathan is still keen on sport, he is married to Sarah - they have 4 grown-up daughters and 5 grandchildren (2 girls and 3 boys).
David Brown planted three churches before revitalising a church in central Paris. For many years, he was involved with GBU (Groupes Bibliques Universitaires), the French student movement affiliated with IFES, and he was also chair of the Evangelism Commission of the French “National Council of Evangelicals”. More recently, he has been promoting church revitalisation through his teaching and mentoring at the Bible Institutes in Geneva and Paris and by leading a range of seminars and workshops in France and across Europe.
Andrew Dickson lives by the sea on Northern Ireland’s world-famous Antrim Coast with his wife, Katherine, and their two young children. After spending over 13 years in local church and para-church ministry, Andrew now serves as the Congregational Life Development Officer for the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, where he holds the brief for the development of discipleship, leadership, and pastoral care across the denomination. Regularly speaking on and writing about these things, Andrew is passionate about equipping and empowering PCI congregations across Ireland today to follow Jesus closely, care biblically well for one another, and invest in raising up transformed, Spirit-filled leaders who play their part within the life Christ’s church. Andrew is a graduate of Union Theological College, Belfast, and has a Master’s degree in Theology from the University of Cumbria. In life’s quieter moments, he loves to eat mint choc chip ice cream, build Lego with his kids, and take long, slow walks by the sea.
Daniel Fodorean currently serves as Dean of the School of Theology and Associate Professor of Applied Theology at the Baptist Theological Institute of Bucharest. In addition to these roles, he fulfills the duties of Director of Leader Formation Institute and Antioch Church Network, Pastor of Bucharest Alpha Omega Baptist Church, and associate member of The Academy of Romanian Scientists. Dr. Fodorean holds a PhD in Theology and is currently pursuing a PhD in Constitutional Law with a focus on religious freedom. He has accumulated over 30 years of pastoral experience and expertise in church transformation, organisational and church leadership, church law and administration, mission and church planting, and sixteen years in teaching at the pre-university and university levels. Daniel is the author (or co-author) of five books and numerous articles and studies.
Scott Poling serves as Senior Pastor of Harvest New Beginnings Church located in the southwest suburbs of Chicago. He has served in ministry for 31 years at Harvest, seeing first-hand God’s work in the renewal of a dying church. He’s gained a unique perspective, understanding the pressures and trials of ministry while navigating the many heartaches and challenges that come with leadership. He has a heart to see the souls of pastors and ministry leaders encouraged and renewed. He received his B.S. degree from Cedarville University and his ThM from Dallas Theological Seminary, has 5 children with his wife of 35 years, Carla, and three (soon to be 4) grandchildren. His interests include trail running and visiting national parks.
Disciple-Making Leadership
Disciple-Making Leadership Mentoring helps participants consider how to nurture God's people toward biblical maturity through a recovery of the biblical foundation for leadership, spiritual formation, pastoral care, and personal discipleship.
This mentoring type is available for one-on-one and/or cohort mentoring.
Mentors
Andrew Dickson lives by the sea on Northern Ireland’s world-famous Antrim Coast with his wife, Katherine, and their two young children. After spending over 13 years in local church and para-church ministry, Andrew now serves as the Congregational Life Development Officer for the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, where he holds the brief for the development of discipleship, leadership, and pastoral care across the denomination. Regularly speaking on and writing about these things, Andrew is passionate about equipping and empowering PCI congregations across Ireland today to follow Jesus closely, care biblically well for one another, and invest in raising up transformed, Spirit-filled leaders who play their part within the life Christ’s church. Andrew is a graduate of Union Theological College, Belfast, and has a Master’s degree in Theology from the University of Cumbria. In life’s quieter moments, he loves to eat mint choc chip ice cream, build Lego with his kids, and take long, slow walks by the sea.
Tom Drake recently retired from the business world as the chief financial officer of a credit union. He worked in the financial services industry for most of his professional career. He is married and has 3 sons and 5 grandchildren. Tom has been involved in small group leadership development and discipleship with his local church for over 30 years and has seen the number of small groups grow from 10 to over 350. For the last 12 years he has focused on Ministry to Men in his church and has helped develop a Core Men’s Leadership Team and Discipleship for Life small groups to help committed men grow in their maturity to become multiplying disciple-makers.
Daniel Fodorean currently serves as Dean of the School of Theology and Associate Professor of Applied Theology at the Baptist Theological Institute of Bucharest. In addition to these roles, he fulfills the duties of Director of Leader Formation Institute and Antioch Church Network, Pastor of Bucharest Alpha Omega Baptist Church, and associate member of The Academy of Romanian Scientists. Dr. Fodorean holds a PhD in Theology and is currently pursuing a PhD in Constitutional Law with a focus on religious freedom. He has accumulated over 30 years of pastoral experience and expertise in church transformation, organisational and church leadership, church law and administration, mission and church planting, and sixteen years in teaching at the pre-university and university levels. Daniel is the author (or co-author) of five books and numerous articles and studies.
Dafydd Job served as a pastor for over 40 years in Wales, including 37 years in the Bangor Welsh Evangelical Church. He has been active in a number of organisations, including UCCF and The Evangelical Movement of Wales, and is the coordinator of the Barnabas Project for UFM Worldwide - a project for encouraging churches, pastors and Christian leaders. He visits Eastern Europe regularly to speak, and to mentor pastors. He has recently been appointed as an associate of Living Leadership, which means he is available to mentor and advise pastors, Christian leaders, and help churches through difficult times.
Stephen McQuoid grew up in Ethiopia where his parents were missionaries. He then lived in Ireland where he qualified as a nurse before going on to study theology, gaining a variety of degrees including an MTh and PhD in theology. He is the author of 20 books on subjects such as discipleship, evangelism, apologetics, and church discipline. Stephen is the General Director of Gospel Literature Outreach, a missionary organisation based in Europe. He is married to Debbie and they have three grown up children and a grandaughter. Stephen and Debbie attend Clyde Valley Community Church in Motherwell. His interests include motorbikes, football, boxing, MMA, and Politics.
Steve Mitchell is part of the leadership team at Cornerstone Church in Swindon, a small church plant in the rapidly expanding north of the town. Steve is passionate about seeing God’s people equipped to share God’s Word no matter what context they are in. Previously, he worked in the IT industry and spent 4 months in Uganda with Mission Aviation Fellowship. Steve is married to Jackie and they have three adult children.
I'm a theologian and pastoral mental health professional for individuals, couples and families. I've been in the ministry for the past 30+ years beside my husband who started and pastores churches. Besides serving in the church in women, discipleship, children/youth and worship ministry in the past and some of it in the present too, I'm involved in two organizations. Joni and Friends /Hana's Hope - working with families with disabilities and Tirzah International - mentoring and supporting women in leadership. I have a special heart for supporting/counseling pastors and other ministry leaders.
Jerry Root is a Professor of Evangelism and Leadership at Wheaton College and serves as the Director of the Evangelism Initiative. Jerry is a graduate of Whittier College and Talbot Graduate School of Theology at Biola University; he received his PhD from the Open University. Jerry is the author or co-author of numerous books on C.S. Lewis, including The Surprising Imagination of C.S. Lewis: An Introduction, with Mark Neal, C.S. Lewis and a Problem of Evil: An Investigation of a Pervasive Theme, and The Soul of C.S. Lewis: A Meditative Journey through Twenty-six of His Best Loved Writings. Jerry is the co-author of The Sacrament of Evangelism and co-editor, with Wayne Martindale, of The Quotable C.S. Lewis. He also teaches graduate courses (MA in Evangelism and Leadership Program) and undergraduate courses (Christian Formation and Ministry Department) at Wheaton College. In addition, Jerry has been a visiting professor at Talbot Graduate School of Theology and Biola University from 1990 to the present. He and his wife, Claudia, have four grown children - all of whom are married - and thirteen grandchildren.
Leah and her husband raise their 6 children (4 biological, 2 adopted) in Hungary. Leah serves in her local international church (where her husband is the pastor) and is passionate about making disciples to send into all the nations. She runs an ongoing discipleship training group that prepares women to go into the nations to make disciples. She also serves with SHARE Education Services as an educational consultant for global workers serving across the globe. When not serving in her local church and with SHARE, she can be found with a cup of Yorkshire tea and a good book, gardening, hiking, or paddleboarding with her family.
Financial Stewardship
Financial Stewardship Mentoring provides guidance to leaders in learning, applying, and multiplying God's financial principles in their personal life, ministry, or church.
This mentoring type is available for one-on-one mentoring.
Mentors
Pavel Pavlov is the CEO of Compass Europe, a financial discipleship movement. He previously worked with the Forum of Christian Leaders (FOCL), organizing and developing year-round training and mentoring initiatives for Christian leaders across Europe. Before that, he served as an administrator for a church actively engaged in community outreach and organized several Forum National Conferences. Pavel also gained managerial experience working for international corporations. He serves on the board of trustees for European Christian Mission International (ECMI) and is the chair of its finance and audit committee. His passion lies in life and executive coaching. Pavel is married, has three children, and lives in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria.
Zsolt Szalai, following his studies on Hungarian and English universities and completion of a university doctor’s degree in finance, has spent the last three decades in mid and upper management roles in banking, private equity, not-for-profit organizations, and Christian churches. Currently, he is self-employed as a business consultant. Besides that, he is Head of the Board of Elders of Szentendre Reformed Church, Chairman of Christian Businessmen Association, Board Member of Compass Europe, and leader of the Leadership Workshop of the Hungarian Evangelical Forum. During his career, Zsolt gained a wide range of experience in corporate finance, capital markets, project finance, innovation management, and business development areas. Zsolt is also an adjunct professor at Károli Gáspár Reformed University, Pentecostal Theological College, and Bakke Graduate University. He is also an active speaker and lecturer on conferences and leadership courses and workshops.
Pastors
Pastors Mentoring provides pastors with the chance to discuss questions and concerns about their ministry with a more experienced mentor and to receive encouragement, prayer, and refreshment.
This mentoring type is available for one-on-one mentoring.
Mentors
Jym Gregory is Lead Pastor of LifePoint Church Indy in Indianapolis, Indiana. He also serves as adjunct professor of Christian Apologetics and Christian Leadership at The Indianapolis Theological Seminary. He has served in local church ministry for 25 years. Along with his wife and children, he served as an international missionary in Costa Rica and Spain. Additional missionary work has taken him to a dozen countries. He holds degrees from Eastern Illinois University (B.S., M.S.), and The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (M.Div., D.Min). He has pursued additional studies in history and higher education at The University of Florida and missions studies at The Instituto de Lenqua Espanola in San Jose, Costa Rica. Married for 36 years to his wife Dedra, they share two grown daughters and six grandchildren.
Dafydd Job served as a pastor for over 40 years in Wales, including 37 years in the Bangor Welsh Evangelical Church. He has been active in a number of organisations, including UCCF and The Evangelical Movement of Wales, and is the coordinator of the Barnabas Project for UFM Worldwide - a project for encouraging churches, pastors and Christian leaders. He visits Eastern Europe regularly to speak, and to mentor pastors. He has recently been appointed as an associate of Living Leadership, which means he is available to mentor and advise pastors, Christian leaders, and help churches through difficult times.
Philip Miller is the 17th Senior Pastor of The Moody Church. He and his wife Krista are graduates of Cedarville University (’04) and both hold Th.M. degrees from Dallas Theological Seminary ('10). They live in Chicago with their four children: Claire, Violet, Cora, and Jude. Pastor Philip is passionate about proclaiming God’s Word, cultivating healthy ministry, and investing in future leaders. He can be heard on the weekly Moody Church Hour radio broadcast on over 700 stations nationwide. Philip enjoys cycling on the Chicago lakefront, deep-dish pizza, caramel popcorn, and craft root beer.
Scott Poling serves as Senior Pastor of Harvest New Beginnings Church located in the southwest suburbs of Chicago. He has served in ministry for 31 years at Harvest, seeing first-hand God’s work in the renewal of a dying church. He’s gained a unique perspective, understanding the pressures and trials of ministry while navigating the many heartaches and challenges that come with leadership. He has a heart to see the souls of pastors and ministry leaders encouraged and renewed. He received his B.S. degree from Cedarville University and his ThM from Dallas Theological Seminary, has 5 children with his wife of 35 years, Carla, and three (soon to be 4) grandchildren. His interests include trail running and visiting national parks.
Small Group Leadership
Small Group Leadership Mentoring participants will learn about the biblical role of a leader and discuss the essentials for a healthy small group that helps others to grow to maturity in Christ.
This mentoring type is available for one-on-one mentoring.
Mentors
Tom Drake recently retired from the business world as the chief financial officer of a credit union. He worked in the financial services industry for most of his professional career. He is married and has 3 sons and 5 grandchildren. Tom has been involved in small group leadership development and discipleship with his local church for over 30 years and has seen the number of small groups grow from 10 to over 350. For the last 12 years he has focused on Ministry to Men in his church and has helped develop a Core Men’s Leadership Team and Discipleship for Life small groups to help committed men grow in their maturity to become multiplying disciple-makers.
Youth Ministry
Youth Ministry Mentoring is designed to encourage youth ministers, while offering them an opportunity to talk through difficult issues and to give them some of the tools they need to impact the church of tomorrow.
This mentoring type is available for one-on-one mentoring.
Mentors
Mark Abrman has been a full-time missionary in Slovakia for the past 8 years. His primary focus is youth ministry and the development of leaders. He grew up in a missionary family where he was able to do ministry alongside of his parents from a young age. After high school, he attended Word of Life Bible School and ForMission college (under Birmingham Newman University) for his BA (Hons) in Theology, Missions, and ministry. Currently, most of his time is dedicated to training new leaders, mentoring young men, and teaching and preaching in Slovakia and abroad.
Sarah lives in Harrogate North Yorkshire and is a member of Jennyfield Evangelical Church. She is involved in Safeguarding, Children’s work, and pastoral support. She works for FIEC, an organisation that supports local independent churches both spiritually and practically. Before this, Sarah worked in education as a primary school teacher and then as a pastoral worker supporting vulnerable children and their families. She is married to Jonathan they have four daughters and six grandchildren. She loves walking and swimming in warm seas.
Paul Bowman has 30 years of experience in full-time youth ministry in the local church. He now serves as the national director for Josiah Venture UK. He is committed to training and equipping the next generation of youth leaders, and mobilizing people, prayer and resources for ministry to youth in Central and Eastern Europe. He lives with his wife Val and their three children in Saintfield, Northern Ireland. He holds a BSc Hons in Community Youth Work and a Master’s in Transformational Leadership.
Zala Cempre was born and raised in Slovenia. She lives in the capital, Ljubljana, where she serves in her local church. Her focus is discipling kids, youth, and young adults. She is also part of a Christian youth organization called Josiah Venture, where she serves as a youth ministry trainer and is on the Slovene leadership board. Zala holds a master’s degree in international business and is currently pursuing a master's in biblical and theological studies at Western Seminary.
Lelde Keice has been involved in youth work and discipling young people since she has been 16 years of age. A couple of years after graduating from high school in Latvia, she moved to England. While there, she completed a BA degree in Applied Theology and Youth & Community Work at Moorlands College, while also serving in the youth ministry at a local church. God called her back to Latvia in 2015, and she worked at a translation company and also continued to volunteer at a local church in Riga, Latvia, where she continues to serve now. Lelde joined Josiah Venture in 2019 as a full-time missionary and is involved with equipping local church youth ministries in organizing evangelistic summer camps. She is passionate about reaching young people with the gospel and training and equipping young leaders to be disciples who make disciples.
John Stevens is the National Director of the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches, a family of over 500 Bible-centred churches in the UK, a position that he has held since 2010. Prior to this he was one of the founding pastors of City Evangelical Church Birmingham, which was planted in the centre of the UK’s 2nd largest city in 1999. He was instrumental in starting the Midlands Gospel Partnership, was the course Director of the Midlands Ministry Training Course and is a visiting lecturer at Oak Hill Theological College. John is also one of the pastors of Christchurch Market Harborough, a church he helped to plant when he took up his current role. He was converted whilst studying law at Cambridge University, and after taking a post-graduate degree at the University of Oxford worked for 16 years as a University Lecturer, ending his career as Deputy Head of the Law School at the University of Birmingham. John is married to Ursula and they have four children aged between 12 and 7. He blogs at www.john-stevens.com on theology, church life and ministry, culture and politics.
Kristy Williams has 19 years of experience as a full-time missionary in the context of youth ministry and leadership training. She serves primarily in Ukraine, though her love for training leaders takes her to different places across Europe with her missionary organization, Josiah Venture. Kristy is passionate about disciple-making and investing in the next generation. Kristy and her husband, Ben, together lead the team in Ukraine. They grew up in Wheaton, IL, and live with their two kids in Lviv, Ukraine. There Kristy volunteers in schools with the Department of Education, teaches in several seminaries, and frequently visits eastern Ukraine to encourage and train pastors and youth workers. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance, a Master’s of Business Administration, an MA in Global Leadership from Fuller Theological Seminary, and finished a PhD in Organisational Leadership in 2023.
Organisational Leadership
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Mentoring provides guidance and support for leaders seeking to learn more on how to effectively use the benefits of artificial intelligence in their churches, ministries, and Christian organisations.
This mentoring type is available for one-on-one mentoring.
Mentors
Charlie Catlett is a senior computer scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and The University of Chicago who has focused his research for 40 years in the development of the Internet and WorldWideWeb, computer security, and high-performance computing, holding scientific leadership positions at multiple universities and national laboratories. During the past decade his research has focused on the use of computational modeling and artificial intelligence (AI) embedded with sensors to create new classes of environmental measurements and urban planning capabilities. Recently he has also used AI-based data analysis to assess community vulnerability to factors ranging from communicable disease to impacts of climate change, such as flooding and extreme temperatures. He has received numerous awards for his research and leadership, including being named to Crain’s “Tech 50” leaders in Chicago in 2014, GovTech magazine’s national “25 Doers, Dreamers & Drivers” of 2016, as a Distinguished Performer in 2019 by the Board of Trustees of Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago, and was named one of the "High Performance Computing People to Watch in 2025" by HPCWire magazine. Charlie is a Computer Engineering graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Entrepreneurial Leadership
Starting a new organisation and moving it through the early stages of growth can be a daunting task for anyone, even those with leadership experience. Some have great ideas but lack the confidence to move them beyond the vision. What key issues should be considered before getting started in order to avoid failure? What skill sets are needed to get a new organisation off the ground? Are you the right person to lead the organisation? What aspects of business best practice can be used in a Christian organisation, and how do you ensure that the organisation is run by Christian principles? Forum Entrepreneurial Leadership Mentoring provides an opportunity to discuss these issues and other personal concerns that you may have with an experienced entrepreneur.
This mentoring type is available for one-on-one mentoring.
Mentors
Nick Davis is a retired Managing Director of a group of international medical products companies and is a member of a large diverse church in South Wales. Nick is a qualified accountant who now sits on the boards of several charities and non-profit companies (covering areas such as the Christian response to poverty alleviation in the UK and Africa, human trafficking and slavery), advising particularly on strategic planning, business development, financial, and regulatory issues. Nick and his wife Ruth have spent much of the last year living in Uganda working with Christian businesses and NGOs.
Leadership and Management
Leadership and Management Mentoring provides organisation leaders an opportunity to talk over a specific management problem(s) with an experienced leader who is willing to listen, ask relevant questions, and offer opinions about the problem, based on their experience.
This mentoring type is available for one-on-one mentoring.
Mentors
Stephen Giere has served in Christian ministry in America and Europe for more than forty years. He taught and led a Bible Study Fellowship (BSF) class of 500 men in Chicago for seventeen years. Steve is a board member with the Forum of Christian Leaders serving in Europe with the European Leadership Forum. Key to his role is shepherding and mentoring young leaders. He serves as a lecturer/mentor at the Cambridge Leaders Network in Cambridge, UK. Steve and his wife, Connie, are residents of Geneva, IL and members of The Moody Church in Chicago, a diverse, urban congregation with seventy countries of birth and fifty mother languages represented in its membership. There he teaches, mentors, and serves as an elder. They have two grown children and ten grandchildren. Steve retired in 2019 after 45 years engaged in finance with experience in corporate management as CEO of a commercial bank, and as a business owner establishing an investment management practice. Steve earned his B.A. in psychology at North Central College in Naperville, IL, and M.M. from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.
Henryk Król is president & CEO of DEOrecordings Association (CCM Media), an umbrella organisation owning three limited companies: Studio DR, Ltd (he is its President and CEO), Radio CCM Ltd. and MCC Group, Ltd. It forms an innovative media ministry based in Poland that combines traditional media (6 FM Radio stations), art (professional recording studio and publishing), and new tools (Software development with a flagship – Gele/CODEX e-learning platform tailored to spiritual follow-up, Service Center to Jesus.net global evangelistic movement, multiple own portals, multimedia productions, etc). Having a holistic vision of a “full path,” all the communications and technology are backed by an army of hundreds of volunteers who implement it daily with interested seekers, both online as e-coaches and offline as small group leaders. His heart is in building cooperation and partnership across denominations and countries, networking for better effectiveness in spreading the Gospel. Henryk holds a PhD in engineering. His present research focuses on how to best use the Internet without forgetting to "stand firm" on the biblical truth as the final authority. He is married to Boguslawa, with whom he has three adult children: Filip, Paulina, and Szczepan.
Nola Leach is a co-leader of the European Politics and Society Network and served as the Chief Executive of CARE (Christian Action Research & Education), one of Europe’s leading Christian charities, which provides resources and helps bring Christian insight and experience to matters of public policy and practical caring initiatives. CARE undertakes a variety of social caring and educational programmes and research and is represented in the UK Parliaments and Assemblies. As Head of the Public Affairs team, Nola led campaigns on topics such as human trafficking, Internet pornography, and the value of human life from its beginning to natural end. She oversaw the publication of Living Free, a sequel to the CARE book Searching for Intimacy – a resource designed to help those trapped in the net of Internet pornography. She has a passion for developing Christian leaders and headed up CARE’s unique Leadership Programme. She is increasingly in demand as both a writer and a public speaker, has penned numerous articles, and regularly appears in the media. She now spends her time mentoring leaders, speaking, and writing.
Peter Saunders was born in New Zealand and originally trained as a General Surgeon, before serving with the Africa Inland Mission in Kenya and completing two years mission training at All Nations Christian College in the UK. Since 1992 he has worked in full-time Christian ministry first with Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF), a UK-based organisation with around 4,000 UK doctors and 1,000 medical student members, as both Head of Student Ministries (1992-1999) and CEO (2000-2018) and then as CEO of the International Christian Medical and Dental Association (ICMDA) which brings together over 100 national associations of Christian doctors and dentists. His work has involved leadership training, teaching evangelism, apologetics and ethics, medical mission, writing, editing and media work. He was a foundation member of the ELF steering group and was Director of the Care Not Killing Alliance (2006-2018). Peter is married to Kirsty and they have three sons, two married, and four grandchildren. They live in St Albans, UK and are members of Spicer Street Free Evangelical Church.
Zsolt Szalai, following his studies on Hungarian and English universities and completion of a university doctor’s degree in finance, has spent the last three decades in mid and upper management roles in banking, private equity, not-for-profit organizations, and Christian churches. Currently, he is self-employed as a business consultant. Besides that, he is Head of the Board of Elders of Szentendre Reformed Church, Chairman of Christian Businessmen Association, Board Member of Compass Europe, and leader of the Leadership Workshop of the Hungarian Evangelical Forum. During his career, Zsolt gained a wide range of experience in corporate finance, capital markets, project finance, innovation management, and business development areas. Zsolt is also an adjunct professor at Károli Gáspár Reformed University, Pentecostal Theological College, and Bakke Graduate University. He is also an active speaker and lecturer on conferences and leadership courses and workshops.
Marketing Communications
Marketing Communications Mentoring gives leaders an opportunity to learn key communications principles, ask questions, and receive feedback on their specific marketing materials from an experienced marketing communications professional.
This mentoring type is available for one-on-one mentoring.
Mentors
Keith Ogorek, president of the Author Learning Center, brings a unique perspective to communications, having worked simultaneously in ministry and the marketplace for virtually his whole career. Using his experience as a marketing and communications professional for banks, as an ad agency creative director, and at the world’s leading self-publishing company, he has worked with a number of ministries to vastly improve their communication and development efforts by crafting a message that is compelling, differentiating, and true. In addition, he has cultivated unique opportunities for independent authors to have their work pitched to Hollywood. Along with pursuing excellence in the marketplace, Keith is passionate about discipleship and has led multiple men’s groups through a two-year discipleship process at his local church. His book, A Clear View, which addresses how a person’s worldview is formed, is now used in select high schools and at a Biblical Institute in Italy. When his schedule allows, Keith speaks at conferences on the topic of marketing communications for ministries, as well as at men’s retreats and family camps.
Marketplace Leaders
This mentoring type is available for one-on-one and/or cohort mentoring.
Mentors
Stephen Giere has served in Christian ministry in America and Europe for more than forty years. He taught and led a Bible Study Fellowship (BSF) class of 500 men in Chicago for seventeen years. Steve is a board member with the Forum of Christian Leaders serving in Europe with the European Leadership Forum. Key to his role is shepherding and mentoring young leaders. He serves as a lecturer/mentor at the Cambridge Leaders Network in Cambridge, UK. Steve and his wife, Connie, are residents of Geneva, IL and members of The Moody Church in Chicago, a diverse, urban congregation with seventy countries of birth and fifty mother languages represented in its membership. There he teaches, mentors, and serves as an elder. They have two grown children and ten grandchildren. Steve retired in 2019 after 45 years engaged in finance with experience in corporate management as CEO of a commercial bank, and as a business owner establishing an investment management practice. Steve earned his B.A. in psychology at North Central College in Naperville, IL, and M.M. from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.
Personal
Family
Family Mentoring aims to provide biblically sound advice for building strong families to parents, grandparents, or lay and professional counselors who deal frequently with family-related issues.
This mentoring type is available for one-on-one mentoring.
Mentors
Sarah lives in Harrogate North Yorkshire and is a member of Jennyfield Evangelical Church. She is involved in Safeguarding, Children’s work, and pastoral support. She works for FIEC, an organisation that supports local independent churches both spiritually and practically. Before this, Sarah worked in education as a primary school teacher and then as a pastoral worker supporting vulnerable children and their families. She is married to Jonathan they have four daughters and six grandchildren. She loves walking and swimming in warm seas.
Ferol Ireland has elected to be a stay-at-home mom. She has raised three sons and currently has six grandchildren. She has been married to her husband, Don for the last 40 years. Ferol has led and coordinated the children's and women's ministry programs of her home church. She has been active in mission ministry in Russia, Mexico, N. Ireland, Spain and Poland. Ferol has volunteered with the pro-life program, CareNet, in the Olympia area. She has a heart for women and families who are struggling with marriage and parenting issues that are influenced by the culture of the world. The goal is always to seek God's way from Prayer, His Word and the Holy Spirit.
Krista Miller (D.Min, Wheaton College, Th.M., Dallas Theological Seminary) and her husband, Philip, serve at The Moody Church. Krista is invested in children's ministry, Bible study, and in developing thriving ministry spouses and families. The Millers live and serve in Chicago with their four children: Claire, Violet, Cora, and Jude.
Dawn Patterson has worked with para-church ministries for about 45 years — in the US, Germany and Russia. She is married (40 years) and has 4 adult children and 6 grandchildren. Her ministry focus is leading and mentoring women of various ages and cultures through encouragement and study of the Scriptures. Currently, she lives in Minnesota.
Leader to Leader Counselling
Leader to Leader Counselling was created in response to a request by many Forum participants over the years for the opportunity to meet with experienced Forum leaders and counsellors to talk and pray about personal issues or struggles.
This mentoring type is available for one-on-one mentoring.
Mentors
David Seckington is the Pastor of Shepherd's Church, a new church plant in West London that they started in 2023. He was formerly Associate Pastor at Trinity Church Central London, another church plant, started in 2014. David is married to Anna and they have one daughter.
Marriage
Marriage Mentoring aims to help married couples strengthen their relationships, provide effective resources for couples in distress and encourage individuals to develop a comprehensive approach to marriage-focused ministry.
This mentoring type is available for one-on-one mentoring.
Mentors
Ferol Ireland has elected to be a stay-at-home mom. She has raised three sons and currently has six grandchildren. She has been married to her husband, Don for the last 40 years. Ferol has led and coordinated the children's and women's ministry programs of her home church. She has been active in mission ministry in Russia, Mexico, N. Ireland, Spain and Poland. Ferol has volunteered with the pro-life program, CareNet, in the Olympia area. She has a heart for women and families who are struggling with marriage and parenting issues that are influenced by the culture of the world. The goal is always to seek God's way from Prayer, His Word and the Holy Spirit.
Krista Miller (D.Min, Wheaton College, Th.M., Dallas Theological Seminary) and her husband, Philip, serve at The Moody Church. Krista is invested in children's ministry, Bible study, and in developing thriving ministry spouses and families. The Millers live and serve in Chicago with their four children: Claire, Violet, Cora, and Jude.
I'm 74 years old, came to really know the LORD 54 years ago, married Dawn 40+ years ago. We have four adult children, and six grandchildren.
Dawn and I met while serving the LORD with Campus Crusade for Christ (Cru), with whom we were staff members for 35+ years, first in California, then Germany and then Russia. We now happily serve with a small mission group called GLINTS. For the most part I have served in the administrative realm, but my real love and work has been helping people to study, learn and believe the Scriptures. Check out my Bible study website at B-study.expertlearning.net.
I do not consider myself as an "expert" in anything, really, but as one who has been blessed by God with a number of wonderful opportunities I could not even have imagined before. I am still on the life-long process of sanctification, and He has ever been faithful. One of my life verses is, "Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass.” (1Th 5:24)
I would be happy to hear about your life and ministry, and share mine with you. God willing, we will encourage one another.
Men's Ministry
This mentoring type is available for one-on-one mentoring.
Mentors
Tom Drake recently retired from the business world as the chief financial officer of a credit union. He worked in the financial services industry for most of his professional career. He is married and has 3 sons and 5 grandchildren. Tom has been involved in small group leadership development and discipleship with his local church for over 30 years and has seen the number of small groups grow from 10 to over 350. For the last 12 years he has focused on Ministry to Men in his church and has helped develop a Core Men’s Leadership Team and Discipleship for Life small groups to help committed men grow in their maturity to become multiplying disciple-makers.
Personal Counselling
Personal Counselling was created in response to a request by many Forum participants over the years for the opportunity to meet with experienced Forum leaders and counsellors to talk and pray about personal issues or struggles.
This mentoring type is available for one-on-one mentoring.
Mentors
Jeanette Frahm has been leading women for over 45 years in the church, her community and as a staff member of The Navigators through Bible studies, discipleship groups, conferences, banquets and retreats. She co-founded The Northfield Women's Center and serves as President of the Board of Directors. A certified Narrative Life Coach who listens well and helps women feel inspired and empowered to make long-term changes that will benefit them the rest of their lives.
Stephen Giere has served in Christian ministry in America and Europe for more than forty years. He taught and led a Bible Study Fellowship (BSF) class of 500 men in Chicago for seventeen years. Steve is a board member with the Forum of Christian Leaders serving in Europe with the European Leadership Forum. Key to his role is shepherding and mentoring young leaders. He serves as a lecturer/mentor at the Cambridge Leaders Network in Cambridge, UK. Steve and his wife, Connie, are residents of Geneva, IL and members of The Moody Church in Chicago, a diverse, urban congregation with seventy countries of birth and fifty mother languages represented in its membership. There he teaches, mentors, and serves as an elder. They have two grown children and ten grandchildren. Steve retired in 2019 after 45 years engaged in finance with experience in corporate management as CEO of a commercial bank, and as a business owner establishing an investment management practice. Steve earned his B.A. in psychology at North Central College in Naperville, IL, and M.M. from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.
Following a 36-year nursing career, I trained as a Psychotherapist qualifying in 2014. I completed Post Graduate Diplomas in Integrative Counselling and Counselling Children and Young People through the University of South Wales, UK. Following this, I completed a master’s degree in Therapeutic Counselling and Psychotherapy at Waverly Abbey College a Christian college because I desired to explore Psychotherapy from a Christian perspective. I am married to Ian a Minister in the Presbyterian Church of Wales and have four children, we live in South Wales. I am in Private Practice offering Psychotherapy and Clinical and Pastoral Supervision. I am also employed by the Presbyterian Church of Wales as Wellbeing Coordinator for South East Wales Presbytery.
Peter Korevaar studied physics and astronomy at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands. In 1989, he acquired his PhD in astronomy on the topic of "Time-dependent models of stellar coronae". After two years at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, in 1991 Peter accepted a position at IBM. Since then he has worked as consultant in the areas of logistics, optimization, and analytics, mainly for automotive companies. For many years Peter was the leader of the Physics and Astronomy Group of the German Creationist Society "Wort und Wissen". Currently he is a member of the board of this society. Peter and his wife Heleen live in Germany near Heidelberg. They have five children and are members of a free evangelical church.
I'm 74 years old, came to really know the LORD 54 years ago, married Dawn 40+ years ago. We have four adult children, and six grandchildren.
Dawn and I met while serving the LORD with Campus Crusade for Christ (Cru), with whom we were staff members for 35+ years, first in California, then Germany and then Russia. We now happily serve with a small mission group called GLINTS. For the most part I have served in the administrative realm, but my real love and work has been helping people to study, learn and believe the Scriptures. Check out my Bible study website at B-study.expertlearning.net.
I do not consider myself as an "expert" in anything, really, but as one who has been blessed by God with a number of wonderful opportunities I could not even have imagined before. I am still on the life-long process of sanctification, and He has ever been faithful. One of my life verses is, "Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass.” (1Th 5:24)
I would be happy to hear about your life and ministry, and share mine with you. God willing, we will encourage one another.
Bob Pourcho was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. He and Karen met at First Baptist Church of Ferguson, Missouri and have been married for 37-years. Bob is an ordained Southern Baptist minister who was trained at Covenant Theological Seminary and has a BS from Taylor University and an MBA from Washington University. He has served as Pastor at Emmanuel Baptist Church and Youth Minister at Parkway Baptist Church in St. Louis, MO. Bob has a business background as a vice president at Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield and United Healthcare and is currently self-employed as an executive consultant. He plays guitar and loves to hike and play with his grandkids and dogs. Bob has been a member at College Park Church since 2009 and is serving as Bible study and CPCi Equip teacher, small group leader, and elder.
Women and Leadership
Women and Leadership Mentoring provides a time to seek the perspective that God may have on your circumstances and situations from an experienced mentor.
This mentoring type is available for one-on-one and/or cohort mentoring.
Mentors
Mandy has been married to her husband, Jason, for 22 years and is mother to Rob (18) and Wes (15). She is the Teaching Leader for Bible Study Fellowship International in Indianapolis, Indiana and has served in BSF for 14 years in various roles including leading a small group, training leaders, and teaching the Bible. At her church, Mandy leads worship and is involved in songwriting. Her interests include, reading, helping with her sons’ activities, encouraging parents with children on the autism spectrum, and anything related to music.
Margunn Serigstad Dahle, the co-leader of the European Media Communicators Network, is Professor at NLA University College, Kristiansand, Norway, where she has taught in the fields of communication, media, and worldviews since 1991. She was for many years Programme Director for the Communication and Worldviews Bachelor Program, which is designed to equip evangelical communicators and apologists in various fields for the contemporary Western cultural context. Especially connected to her Damaris involvement, she is a regular lecturer, speaker, and writer in various contexts in Norway and beyond. She was a co-editor of "The Lausanne Movement: A Range of Perspectives" (Oxford: Regnum, 2014). Margunn formerly served as Chairman of Lunde Publishing House and was for many years a board member of IKO – Institute for Christian Education Publishing.
Ruth Davis has over 20 years experience of working in University settings, culminating in eight years managing a large academic department of Care Sciences at the University of South Wales. Her professional background is in nursing with a specialist interest in diabetes. Her clinical and research experience is in patient education and service/role development. In 2014 she left that role, though she remains a Visiting Fellow with the University and now works as Academic Director for an online education company, overseeing the quality of around 20 post-graduate Diploma/Master's courses for healthcare professionals. Along with her husband, they are trustees of Heb Ffin, a local charity (not-for-profit non-governmental organisation) supporting God’s work in Wales (UK) and Africa. Over the last year, they have spent several months in Uganda working on various diverse projects from nurse leadership to coffee growing. At home, Ruth is a wife, mother and grandmother; familiar with the struggles of juggling home, work and church life. In the local church, she has been involved in small group ministries and practical demonstrations of God’s love to people in the church and those outside, such as helping to run a luncheon club for older people.
Nola Leach is a co-leader of the European Politics and Society Network and served as the Chief Executive of CARE (Christian Action Research & Education), one of Europe’s leading Christian charities, which provides resources and helps bring Christian insight and experience to matters of public policy and practical caring initiatives. CARE undertakes a variety of social caring and educational programmes and research and is represented in the UK Parliaments and Assemblies. As Head of the Public Affairs team, Nola led campaigns on topics such as human trafficking, Internet pornography, and the value of human life from its beginning to natural end. She oversaw the publication of Living Free, a sequel to the CARE book Searching for Intimacy – a resource designed to help those trapped in the net of Internet pornography. She has a passion for developing Christian leaders and headed up CARE’s unique Leadership Programme. She is increasingly in demand as both a writer and a public speaker, has penned numerous articles, and regularly appears in the media. She now spends her time mentoring leaders, speaking, and writing.
Vocation
Academic
Academic Mentoring gives young academics an opportunity to discuss a piece of academic work (such as a chapter of a thesis/dissertation or a scholarly article) or a general issue related to their experience in academia with a more experienced academic.
This mentoring type is available for one-on-one mentoring.
Mentors
Darrell L. Bock is Senior Research Professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary in Dallas, Texas, as well as Executive Director of Cultural Engagement for the Hendricks Center for Christian Leadership there. An author or editor of about fifty books, his special fields of study involve hermeneutics, the use of the Old Testament in the New, Luke-Acts, the historical Jesus, Gospel studies, and the integration of theology and culture. It is this latter area that is the focus of his work at the Hendricks Center, where he is responsible for producing a web-based, weekly podcast on issues of God and culture called The Table and author of the recent book, Cultural Intelligence: Living for God in a Diverse, Pluralistic World. He is a graduate of the University of Texas (B.A.), Dallas Theological Seminary (Th.M.), and the University of Aberdeen (Ph.D.). He has had four annual stints of post doctoral study at the University of Tübingen, the second through fourth as an Alexander von Humboldt scholar at Tübingen University through a scholarship offered by the Federal Republic of Germany (1989-90, 1995-96, 2004-05, 2010-2011). He was editor at large for Christianity Today for several years and served as President of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) for the year 2000-2001. He currently serves on the boards of Wheaton College, Chosen People Ministries, Christians in Public Service (CIPS), and the Institute for Global Engagement (IGE). He also serves as elder emeritus at Trinity Fellowship Church in Richardson, Texas and as advisor to staff at Bent Tree Fellowship. Married to Sally for almost fifty years, he is the father of two married daughters and a married son, and is also a proud grandfather of five.
Lars Dahle is a theologian, educator, preacher, and apologist. Having a long previous experience in various academic leadership roles, he now works as Professor in Systematic Theology (with a speciality in Christian Apologetics) at NLA University College, Kristiansand, Norway, where he has lectured in worldviews, ethics, and apologetics since 1991. Lars is also CEO of Damaris Norway, a resource development ministry for worldview analysis, cultural apologetics, and media engagement. He wrote his PhD on Acts 17:16-34. It is entitled An Apologetic Model Then and Now? (Open University, UK, 2001).
Since 2013, Lars is also Lausanne Catalyst for Media Engagement. Lars has written several academic and popular articles and was the lead editor of The Lausanne Movement: A Range of Perspectives (Oxford: Regnum, 2014). He is also the Founding Editor of the peer-reviewed Nordic apologetic journal Theofilos. In addition, Lars co-leads the European Leadership Forum Media Communicators Network with his wife, Margunn Serigstad Dahle, and his NLA and Damaris colleague Bjørn Hinderaker.
Follow Lars on his blog Media Messages Matter or on his Twitter account @LarsDahle.
Ruth Davis has over 20 years experience of working in University settings, culminating in eight years managing a large academic department of Care Sciences at the University of South Wales. Her professional background is in nursing with a specialist interest in diabetes. Her clinical and research experience is in patient education and service/role development. In 2014 she left that role, though she remains a Visiting Fellow with the University and now works as Academic Director for an online education company, overseeing the quality of around 20 post-graduate Diploma/Master's courses for healthcare professionals. Along with her husband, they are trustees of Heb Ffin, a local charity (not-for-profit non-governmental organisation) supporting God’s work in Wales (UK) and Africa. Over the last year, they have spent several months in Uganda working on various diverse projects from nurse leadership to coffee growing. At home, Ruth is a wife, mother and grandmother; familiar with the struggles of juggling home, work and church life. In the local church, she has been involved in small group ministries and practical demonstrations of God’s love to people in the church and those outside, such as helping to run a luncheon club for older people.
Per Ewert is the director of The Clapham Institute, Sweden’s leading Christian think tank and research institute. His PhD describes the political process which shaped Sweden into the world's arguably most secular-individualistic nation. Per is the author of several books on the Bible, apologetics, relations, and the role of faith in society. He currently works on a post-doc study on internal secularization in free protestant denominations. He lives with his wife and four children in southern Sweden.
Alexander Fink is Director of the Institute for Faith and Science (Institut für Glaube und Wissenschaft) in Marburg, Germany (www.iguw.de). He studied physics at Bayreuth and St. Andrews (UK) universities and received his PhD at the Institute for Biophysics at the University of Regensburg. After working as an industrial product manager, he became the director of the SMD graduates' ministry (Akademiker-SMD, the German branch of IFES) until 2014. Since 2008, he has been a member of the ELF Steering Committee and has co-led the Scientists Network. He is the editor of the "Begründet-glauben-Podcast" (www.begruendet-glauben.org) and has produced three documentary movies, "Fascinating Universe", "More than My Brain", and “Is there meaning in suffering?” which were officially recommended for use in secular public schools. Together with his wife, Alexander enjoys raising his two children, preaching and leading a house group in his local church, and being a youth soccer trainer in his local sports club.
Peter Imming received degrees in pharmacy and chemistry and a PhD and venia legendi in pharmaceutical chemistry from a German university. He has been involved in drug chemistry teaching and research in Germany, the UK, China, and other countries. Currently, he is professor in the faculty of biosciences of a German university. His research focuses on the design and synthesis of new drug substances and on molecular mechanisms of drug action. He has a strong interest in the relation of science and Christian faith, frequently lecturing on related topics by invitation of e.g. universities, churches, and schools.
Steffen G. Jenkins is half German, half Welsh, was born in Spain but again in England. He serves as Senior Lecturer in Greek and Biblical Studies at Union School of Theology in the United Kingdom. He has served at various seminaries in Cuba, as tutor in Biblical Languages at Tyndale House (Cambridge, England), and as pastor in an evangelical Presbyterian church. He is the author of Imprecations in the Psalms: Love for Enemies in Hard Places (Pickwick); a Greek textbook for pastors who have forgotten their Greek or who want to start from scratch (Cambridge University Press); Scripture is Inspired (Union Publishing); and the forthcoming Hearing God’s Voice in Leviticus (IVP) and Enjoy the Psalms (Union). He is no good at sports (whether playing, watching or discussing).
Dr. Andrew Loke is an elected Fellow of the prestigious International Society for Science and Religion and Associate Professor in the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Hong Kong Baptist University. He has published 8 monographs with world-leading academic publishers in the fields of theology, philosophy, and science and religion. He has been invited as a Visiting Scholar to Cambridge University, and to speak at leading universities such as Harvard and Oxford, at the PBS program 'Closer to Truth: the greatest thinkers, the deepest questions', and at seminaries and churches around the world.
To read more on this topic by Dr. Andrew Loke, see his books 'The Biggest Questions of Existence'; The Origin of Humanity and Evolution: Science and Scripture in Conversation (London: Bloomsbury, 2022), and https://www.academia.edu/92656662/Reply_to_reviews_of_The_Origin_of_Humanity_Science_and_Scripture_in_Conversation
David McIlroy is a practising barrister in the UK and Ireland. He is a Global Distinguished Professor at the University of Notre Dame (USA) in England. He is convinced that justice matters enormously to God, and He wants Christians to work hard to see justice done more and more in situations around the world. Through his books (A Biblical View of Law and Justice, A Trinitarian Theology of Law, The End of Law, Ransomed, Redeemed, and Forgiven: Money and the Atonement), his website www.theologyoflaw.org, and many articles, David seeks to deepen people’s reflections on justice and to inspire others to take up the challenge of acting justly, loving mercy, and walking humbly with God (Micah 6:8).
Andy McIntosh holds an Emeritus chair in Thermodynamics at the University of Leeds and is also an adjunct professor of Engineering at Liberty University in Virginia. He has had a long scientific research career concerning mathematics, combustion and aeronautics, both in academia and in a government establishment, and is author of over 200 academic papers. Andy has long worked on combustion and its interaction with acoustics and larger pressure waves. He has also worked on the mathematical modelling of ignition, and he is the inventor of the 𝜇Mist novel spray technology which mimics the Bombardier beetle spray and has led to this spray technology being applied to fuel injectors, pharmaceutical sprays, aerosols and more recently fire sprinkler systems. This was awarded the 2010 Times Higher Educational award for the Outstanding Contribution to Innovation and Technology. His work has also included investigations into the fundamental link between thermodynamics and information. This strikes at the heart of the issue concerning abiogenesis – the information in living systems is neither matter nor energy but is absolutely essential for life.
Andy now lectures widely on origins, and has authored the books “Genesis for Today” (Day One, 6th Edition, 2017), and “A verse by verse examination of Genesis 1-11” (Day One, 2016) and has contributed to a number of other books including “Wonders of Creation – Design in a fallen world”(co-authored with Stuart Burgess and Brian Edwards, Day One, 2017), “Origins – examining the evidence” (Truth in Science, 2011), “In six days” (Master Books, 2009) and “Should Christians embrace Evolution?” (IVP, 2009). He has also written the booklet “Are you really an Atheist?” (2018) and co-authored the booklets “Is it True – Evidence for Creation” (2018) and “A wonder of Creation – the Kingfisher” (2024) and is co-director of the UK education think tank Truth in Science. He is married with 4 children (one of whom died in infancy), and 7 grandchildren.
David Sandifer was born and raised in France, of American parents. He holds a Ph.D. in history, from the University of Cambridge (2014). He spent 20 years in pastoral ministry in the U.S. and Australia, and also worked for a Christian public advocacy organisation in Australia, where he co-launched an on-going campaign to protect children from online pornography. He currently lectures in the area of practical theology and ethics at Tyndale Theological Seminary in the Netherlands. He has a heart to see the church in Europe renewed in love for God and holiness, and to see Christian families equipped to raise counter-cultural disciples who will 'shine like stars in the universe' (Phil. 2:15).
Junias Venugopal is the Associate Dean at the Litfin School of Ministry and Theological Studies at Wheaton College, where he also co-directs the M.A. in Leadership program. He has a Ph.D. in Education, a Th.M. in Bible Exposition, an M.B.A. in Finance, and a B.E. (Hons.) in Electrical Engineering. Junias is an experienced higher education administrator having served as a dean for the last 23 years in Asia, Columbia International University, SC, Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and now at Wheaton College. Junias, his wife, Beth and his family served for 15 years overseas. Over 8 years in India as a pastor of Delhi Bible Fellowship and another 6 years in the Philippines as a dean at AGST-Philippines. His passion is to be a catalyst in the lives of those with whom he intersects so that they achieve their God-given potential. Junias and Beth have four adult children and five grandchildren.
Artists
Artists Mentoring creates a space for participants to connect with and receive practical help and guidance from an experienced Christian artist leader on living out their calling.
This mentoring type is available for one-on-one mentoring.
Mentors
Ann Brown is a geographer and taught geography for many years. She also has an advanced diploma in the history of art. She has an interest in the reception history of the Bible, especially in the way that the themes that it generates lend themselves to apologetic and evangelistic engagement. She is author of Apology to Women: Christian images of the female sex. Currently she is working on a book on the environment.
Brian S. Chan is a professor at Dallas Theological Seminary in Media Arts & Worship, teaching creative writing, visual artmaking, and theologies of beauty, creativity, story, and film. Dr. Chan pastored in Hollywood/Los Angeles and taught courses at Biola University on a theology of beauty, art, and film. He is a workshop instructor and conference speaker in Hollywood on story, creativity, and beauty. He discipled entertainment industry professionals and innovated creative outreaches to the community. As an award-winning fine artist, he exhibited around the U.S.A., at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, and in Rome and is a board member of Lantern of the East Los Angeles International Artists. As an accomplished martial artist in kung fu, he is a certified Wing Chun master (sifu) and worked as a fight choreographer, stuntman, and trainer for actors. As a writer, he is the author of “The Purple Curtain: Living Out Beauty in Faith & Culture from a Biblical Perspective, Not Easily Broken” (a novel), “Shadow” in “It Was Good: Performing Arts to the Glory of God,” and “Movies: Celluloid Sanctification” in “Ordinary Saints.” His other interests include the pop culture of comics, hiking in nature, traveling, and bonsai art. He is married to Ellen, and is the proud dad of his 12-year-old son. His mission is to create beauty that causes a love for God and exhibit the beauty of Christ in all of life.
Educational Leadership
Educational Leadership Mentoring exists so that leaders in an academic setting can discuss the successes, challenges, questions, and best practices in leading an educational institution.
This mentoring type is available for one-on-one mentoring.
Mentors
Lars Dahle is a theologian, educator, preacher, and apologist. Having a long previous experience in various academic leadership roles, he now works as Professor in Systematic Theology (with a speciality in Christian Apologetics) at NLA University College, Kristiansand, Norway, where he has lectured in worldviews, ethics, and apologetics since 1991. Lars is also CEO of Damaris Norway, a resource development ministry for worldview analysis, cultural apologetics, and media engagement. He wrote his PhD on Acts 17:16-34. It is entitled An Apologetic Model Then and Now? (Open University, UK, 2001).
Since 2013, Lars is also Lausanne Catalyst for Media Engagement. Lars has written several academic and popular articles and was the lead editor of The Lausanne Movement: A Range of Perspectives (Oxford: Regnum, 2014). He is also the Founding Editor of the peer-reviewed Nordic apologetic journal Theofilos. In addition, Lars co-leads the European Leadership Forum Media Communicators Network with his wife, Margunn Serigstad Dahle, and his NLA and Damaris colleague Bjørn Hinderaker.
Follow Lars on his blog Media Messages Matter or on his Twitter account @LarsDahle.
Ruth Davis has over 20 years experience of working in University settings, culminating in eight years managing a large academic department of Care Sciences at the University of South Wales. Her professional background is in nursing with a specialist interest in diabetes. Her clinical and research experience is in patient education and service/role development. In 2014 she left that role, though she remains a Visiting Fellow with the University and now works as Academic Director for an online education company, overseeing the quality of around 20 post-graduate Diploma/Master's courses for healthcare professionals. Along with her husband, they are trustees of Heb Ffin, a local charity (not-for-profit non-governmental organisation) supporting God’s work in Wales (UK) and Africa. Over the last year, they have spent several months in Uganda working on various diverse projects from nurse leadership to coffee growing. At home, Ruth is a wife, mother and grandmother; familiar with the struggles of juggling home, work and church life. In the local church, she has been involved in small group ministries and practical demonstrations of God’s love to people in the church and those outside, such as helping to run a luncheon club for older people.
Law and Religious Liberty
Law and Religious Liberty Mentoring is designed to answer questions with regard to international religious liberty, sanctity of life, and defence of family or how to receive additional training opportunities in these areas as a barrister (attorney), law student, or pastor.
This mentoring type is available for one-on-one mentoring.
Mentors
David McIlroy is a practising barrister in the UK and Ireland. He is a Global Distinguished Professor at the University of Notre Dame (USA) in England. He is convinced that justice matters enormously to God, and He wants Christians to work hard to see justice done more and more in situations around the world. Through his books (A Biblical View of Law and Justice, A Trinitarian Theology of Law, The End of Law, Ransomed, Redeemed, and Forgiven: Money and the Atonement), his website www.theologyoflaw.org, and many articles, David seeks to deepen people’s reflections on justice and to inspire others to take up the challenge of acting justly, loving mercy, and walking humbly with God (Micah 6:8).
Media Engagement
Media Engagement Mentoring provides an opportunity for creative personal dialogue with an experienced practitioner relating the individual context and calling to ‘media ministries’ (the creative use of media technologies in the Church and mission), ‘media presence’ (being salt and light in mainstream media), and/ or “media awareness” (media analysis or critique as disciples and witnesses).
This mentoring type is available for one-on-one mentoring.
Mentors
Lars Dahle is a theologian, educator, preacher, and apologist. Having a long previous experience in various academic leadership roles, he now works as Professor in Systematic Theology (with a speciality in Christian Apologetics) at NLA University College, Kristiansand, Norway, where he has lectured in worldviews, ethics, and apologetics since 1991. Lars is also CEO of Damaris Norway, a resource development ministry for worldview analysis, cultural apologetics, and media engagement. He wrote his PhD on Acts 17:16-34. It is entitled An Apologetic Model Then and Now? (Open University, UK, 2001).
Since 2013, Lars is also Lausanne Catalyst for Media Engagement. Lars has written several academic and popular articles and was the lead editor of The Lausanne Movement: A Range of Perspectives (Oxford: Regnum, 2014). He is also the Founding Editor of the peer-reviewed Nordic apologetic journal Theofilos. In addition, Lars co-leads the European Leadership Forum Media Communicators Network with his wife, Margunn Serigstad Dahle, and his NLA and Damaris colleague Bjørn Hinderaker.
Follow Lars on his blog Media Messages Matter or on his Twitter account @LarsDahle.
Margunn Serigstad Dahle, the co-leader of the European Media Communicators Network, is Professor at NLA University College, Kristiansand, Norway, where she has taught in the fields of communication, media, and worldviews since 1991. She was for many years Programme Director for the Communication and Worldviews Bachelor Program, which is designed to equip evangelical communicators and apologists in various fields for the contemporary Western cultural context. Especially connected to her Damaris involvement, she is a regular lecturer, speaker, and writer in various contexts in Norway and beyond. She was a co-editor of "The Lausanne Movement: A Range of Perspectives" (Oxford: Regnum, 2014). Margunn formerly served as Chairman of Lunde Publishing House and was for many years a board member of IKO – Institute for Christian Education Publishing.
Simon Diercks is both a pastor and a nerd and is passionate about empowering digital missionaries worldwide and developing digital ways of mission. He has worked for 20 years in IT and was a pastor of a local church for eight years. For eight years now, he has been working with the German mission agency Allianz-Mission, leading the Unit Relations and kickstarting the Regional Unit Digital since 2023. There, he is responsible for digital evangelists, digital church planting and mission, and AI. He is leading the Outpost Europe for two global networks, “The Church Digital” and “Indigitous”, and is on the board of the Lausanne Movement in Germany. In 2024, he hosted the “European Digital Missionary Summit” by The Church Digital and is leading "Equipping Digital Missionaries" cohorts with participants from across Europe. Simon is married to Kerstin, and they have two children aged 9 and 14 years.
Henryk Król is president & CEO of DEOrecordings Association (CCM Media), an umbrella organisation owning three limited companies: Studio DR, Ltd (he is its President and CEO), Radio CCM Ltd. and MCC Group, Ltd. It forms an innovative media ministry based in Poland that combines traditional media (6 FM Radio stations), art (professional recording studio and publishing), and new tools (Software development with a flagship – Gele/CODEX e-learning platform tailored to spiritual follow-up, Service Center to Jesus.net global evangelistic movement, multiple own portals, multimedia productions, etc). Having a holistic vision of a “full path,” all the communications and technology are backed by an army of hundreds of volunteers who implement it daily with interested seekers, both online as e-coaches and offline as small group leaders. His heart is in building cooperation and partnership across denominations and countries, networking for better effectiveness in spreading the Gospel. Henryk holds a PhD in engineering. His present research focuses on how to best use the Internet without forgetting to "stand firm" on the biblical truth as the final authority. He is married to Boguslawa, with whom he has three adult children: Filip, Paulina, and Szczepan.
Music, Praise, and Worship
Music, Praise, and Worship Mentoring is designed for worship leaders, singers, and musicians who lead and influence worship ministry in their local church, to help them develop and grow in their gifting.
This mentoring type is available for one-on-one mentoring.
Mentors
Derek Brandt is a dedicated worship pastor with a passion for raising up the next generation of church leaders. With years of experience in multisite church environments, Derek currently oversees the Worship, Communications, Production, Campus Environments, and Film teams at Scottsdale Bible Church, guiding both staff and volunteers. Alongside his leadership role, he is in the process of completing his seminary studies. When not working, you’ll likely find him with an iced coffee in hand, immersed in a good book, or quoting from his favorite shows, “Seinfeld” and “The West Wing.” Derek lives in Phoenix with his wife, Sarah, and their four children.
Mandy has been married to her husband, Jason, for 22 years and is mother to Rob (18) and Wes (15). She is the Teaching Leader for Bible Study Fellowship International in Indianapolis, Indiana and has served in BSF for 14 years in various roles including leading a small group, training leaders, and teaching the Bible. At her church, Mandy leads worship and is involved in songwriting. Her interests include, reading, helping with her sons’ activities, encouraging parents with children on the autism spectrum, and anything related to music.
Theologians
Theologians Mentoring is for evangelical theologians with little opportunity for dialogue, fellowship, and encouragement from their evangelical brothers and sisters. It has been designed to make available an opportunity to interact one-on-one with some of the world's leading evangelical scholars.
This mentoring type is available for one-on-one mentoring.
Mentors
Darrell L. Bock is Senior Research Professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary in Dallas, Texas, as well as Executive Director of Cultural Engagement for the Hendricks Center for Christian Leadership there. An author or editor of about fifty books, his special fields of study involve hermeneutics, the use of the Old Testament in the New, Luke-Acts, the historical Jesus, Gospel studies, and the integration of theology and culture. It is this latter area that is the focus of his work at the Hendricks Center, where he is responsible for producing a web-based, weekly podcast on issues of God and culture called The Table and author of the recent book, Cultural Intelligence: Living for God in a Diverse, Pluralistic World. He is a graduate of the University of Texas (B.A.), Dallas Theological Seminary (Th.M.), and the University of Aberdeen (Ph.D.). He has had four annual stints of post doctoral study at the University of Tübingen, the second through fourth as an Alexander von Humboldt scholar at Tübingen University through a scholarship offered by the Federal Republic of Germany (1989-90, 1995-96, 2004-05, 2010-2011). He was editor at large for Christianity Today for several years and served as President of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) for the year 2000-2001. He currently serves on the boards of Wheaton College, Chosen People Ministries, Christians in Public Service (CIPS), and the Institute for Global Engagement (IGE). He also serves as elder emeritus at Trinity Fellowship Church in Richardson, Texas and as advisor to staff at Bent Tree Fellowship. Married to Sally for almost fifty years, he is the father of two married daughters and a married son, and is also a proud grandfather of five.
Steffen G. Jenkins is half German, half Welsh, was born in Spain but again in England. He serves as Senior Lecturer in Greek and Biblical Studies at Union School of Theology in the United Kingdom. He has served at various seminaries in Cuba, as tutor in Biblical Languages at Tyndale House (Cambridge, England), and as pastor in an evangelical Presbyterian church. He is the author of Imprecations in the Psalms: Love for Enemies in Hard Places (Pickwick); a Greek textbook for pastors who have forgotten their Greek or who want to start from scratch (Cambridge University Press); Scripture is Inspired (Union Publishing); and the forthcoming Hearing God’s Voice in Leviticus (IVP) and Enjoy the Psalms (Union). He is no good at sports (whether playing, watching or discussing).