Year-Round Mentoring for Christian Artists

with Dr. Brian S. Chan

Programme Overview

Goal: To develop European Christian Artists in (1) personal, spiritual formation, (2) calling and vision, and (3) creativity and craft to affect culture for building God’s kingdom in the missional cause of Christ.

Qualifications: A spiritually growing Christian who is serious and professional about his/her creative craft in his/her artistic discipline and committed to kingdom-building with his/her artistic vision and abilities through active artmaking.

Participants: 8-12 Christian artists in the disciplines of visual art (fine, animation, illustration, digital, sculpting), filmmaking, writing (poetry, novel, novella), fashion, acting, and dance who will commit to being in fellowship to grow in (1) personal, spiritual formation, (2) craft & calling, and (3) integration of art with effecting and evangelizing the world.

Plan:

  1. Pre-Forum Seminar at Wisla, Poland in 2025 (17 May) (14:00-17:30 CEST)

  2. four Webinar Sessions throughout the year, with webinar assignments

  3. 3-Day Retreat in Budapest, 2-4 December 2025,

  4. Pre-Forum Conference at Wisla, Poland in 2026 (15-16 May). 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 Leader

Dr. Brian S. Chan

Brian S. Chan is an assistant professor in Media Arts and Worship at Dallas Theological Seminary (DTS). His prior teaching experience of 17 years at Biola University equips him with insight on the young adult generation’s thinking and questions about movies and matters of life movies address. Chan was a workshop speaker in Hollywood for 15 years, teaching writers, directors, and actors on the CBS Studio backlot, at Warner Bros Studios lot, and at Netflix lot. He taught for Hollywood Prayer Network, The Greenhouse Arts and Media, and The Act One Program, and was a juror for The 168 Film Project. He pastored in Hollywood/Burbank for 18 years, outreaching and discipling entertainment professionals. As a certified kung fu trainer, Chan is credited for acting, stunt, and stunt coordinating on Interrogation (2014) by Katey Darling, which is on Amazon Prime. He authored The Purple Curtain: Living Out Beauty in Faith & Culture from a Biblical Perspective, “Shadow” in It Was Good: Performing Arts to the Glory of God, “Movies: Celluloid Sanctification” in Ordinary Saints: Living Everyday Life to the Glory of God, and Not Easily Broken (novel). He is the chapter director of Hollywood Prayer Network at DTS. Chan is also familiar with the art world as an award-winning fine artist, exhibiting internationally, including Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, and Istituto di Cultura Evangelica e Documentazione in Rome. He is on the board of LELA International Artists.

Application Process

To apply:

  1. Thoroughly review the curriculum.

  2. Complete the online application.

  3. 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.