2026 Leaders in Christian Organisations Network

The Leaders in Christian Organisations Network seeks to equip emerging leaders to direct the continent’s Christian churches and organisations in a way that ensures the greatest impact for God’s Kingdom. This Network seeks to provide practical wisdom, useful leadership insights, and biblically-based solutions to key problem areas, as well as to encourage leaders facing key organisational challenges. This Network also addresses significant issues that new leaders may encounter, from how to deal with their own assumptions of personal integrity and virtue, to topics like strategic planning, vision-casting, time management, and delegation, prioritising organisational objectives, and assessing finances and resource development.

Each day will incorporate mixed modes of learning, combining expert input, working on live leadership issues, working through tools and frameworks that you can take away and apply back home, time for peer learning exchange, and the opportunity to pray together as fellow leaders. We hope this will enable each participant to contribute from the richness of their own experience in leadership, as well as providing space and support to apply learning to the specific leadership challenges and opportunities you face. 

Prior preparation will be set for all applicants.

What Network Participants Are Saying

• "Here at ELF I have met lots of good teachers who have become my mentors and guided me through every step of ministry growth. Our youth ministry has expanded in the last few years. We learned to challenge young people to lead others closer to God, to share the Gospel with their works and words." 
  - Steponas Davidavicius, Youth Director, Lithuania
• "I participated in ELF this year for the first time, after 28 years of full time ministry. The leadership training has been fantastic and the worship God-focused. I have connected with many like-minded brothers and sisters. I plan to come back next year, hopefully with my entire leadership team." 
  - Laszlo Kazar, Director of Word of Life, Hungary
• "Being at the European Leadership Forum is a great opportunity to meet people who inspire me, receive information that instructs and informs my work, and to be in an environment that energizes me in so many ways. My perspectives are broadened and my heart is stretched in positive ways. This is a great help to me in the different leadership roles that I serve in in Romania."
  - Adiel Bunescu, Pastor, Romania