Year-Round Mentoring Group for Church Life, Leadership, and Planting
with Maurice Nightingale and Mike Frisby
Programme Overview
Goal
To mentor and help participants explore the contemporary and contextual implementation of authentic, simple New Testament values and practices in local church life, church leadership, and church planting.
Participants
Ten to twelve people who are willing to commit to becoming part of a learning community.
Qualifications
The expectation is that the participants are senior church leaders or pioneer leaders involved in, or intending to be involved in, church planting on the mainland of Europe.
Plan:
Pre-Forum Seminar: one -on ne meeting at the 2025 Forum in Wisła, Poland on 17 May (14:00-17:30 CEST)
Six 2-hour webinars with webinar assignments.
Three-day Retreat on 2-4 December 2025 in Budapest, Hungary
Pre-Forum Conference at the 2026 Forum (Friday, 15 May, dinner together – Saturday, 16 May, morning). Participants will still need to apply for the European Leadership Forum and will be responsible for paying Forum fees in order to participate in the 2026 Forum. Participants must also pay for their own travel expenses.
YRM Leaders
Maurice Nightingale
Maurice Nightingale is a member of the Relational Mission core team with responsibilities that include the supervision of early-stage church planting on the mainland of Europe, in particular training and coaching pioneer leaders and developing strategies for both initiating and supporting church plants. Originally from London, and following a short career as a military engineering officer, he has since been involved for over 30 years in two main areas of service: planting churches and reviving failing churches. Maurice completed a master’s degree studying philosophies of church movement succession, exploring New Testament church leadership principles and practices. Maurice is married to Rachel, with four adult children.
Mike Frisby
Mike Frisby is an elder at City Church Cambridge and a trustee of Relational Mission, a network of churches which is part of the global Newfrontiers family. He uses his teaching and pastoral gifts among the churches, enjoys mentoring younger leaders, and has involvement in cross-cultural training. He has a particular passion for mobilising people for world mission and has written a book for local church leaders “Reaching the Nations – From next door to worlds away”, to equip leaders to identify, recruit, send and support people called to cross-cultural mission.
Application Process
To apply:
Thoroughly review the curriculum.
Complete the online application.
All applications will be reviewed. We will notify you whether or not you have been accepted as a participant in the 2025-26 programme within four to six weeks.
If you have questions, contact us at initiatives@euroleadership.org