Year-Round Mentoring in Music & Worship Leaders

with Angela MacKenzie and Colin Peckham

Programme Overview

Goal: To support, equip, and mentor experienced and aspiring music, praise and worship leaders, songwriters and music directors in the European church; helping them to become effective in ministry and to navigate the pitfalls of the music world both in and out of the church.  Desired results include greater clarity of purpose, direction, and of influencing Kingdom impact; thus providing a context and framework for consistent, effective decision making.

Participants: Leaders in church music in particular; whether worship pastors, worship leaders, songwriters, music directors.

Qualifications: Participants are devoted followers of Jesus Christ and in positions of responsibility in their church or ministry, relating to music, praise and worship. Aspiring leaders also considered depending on experience and position.

Plan:

In-Person Meetings

  • 17 May 2025  (14:00-17:30 CET):  Pre-Forum Seminar in Wisla, Poland

  • During the 2025 Forum:  One-on-one meetings with Angela or Colin

  • 2 – 4 December 2025:  Three-day Retreat in Budapest, Hungary

  • May 15-16 2026:  Pre-Forum Conference at the 2026 Forum in Wisla, Poland

ZOOM MEETINGS

  • Three 2-hour webinars with assignments (Dates to be confirmed with participants_

  • One-on-one Zoom meetings as needed


The program starts with a Pre-Forum Seminar at the European Leadership Forum on May 17 from 14:00-17:30.  For this purpose, you must also be registered and accepted to the 2025 ELF.  Please use this link to read more about ELF and how to apply.


YRM Leaders

Angela MacKenzie

Angela MacKenzie is a broadcaster, pianist, vocalist, and worship leader. Her music has travelled all over the world for conferences and concerts in addition through her Facebook live events and weekly television teaching program. Whether in person or through media, Angela’s passion is to be a witness to the glory of God in song and word. Angela has a B.A. degree in music/vocal performance from the University of Central Florida, and an M.A. in apologetics from Talbot School of Theology, Biola University. Angela also holds a number of non-executive positions on several ministry and charitable boards both in the US and the UK (where she currently lives.) With her marriage to Kenneth MacKenzie back in 2014, Angela now has an immediate family of 31 (19 grandchildren). Through media, music, and speaking, Angela continues to advocate for her vision of a place where the artist and the Christian thinker can collaborate.

Colin Peckham 

Colin Peckham is the artistic and ministry director for Origin Ministries, an event-based arts ministry in the central belt in Scotland, and in Cape Town, South Africa. He served as a worship leader, arranger and worship advisor for the 3rd Lausanne Congress and has worked for many years as a worship and music leader in the local church, both in Scotland and South Africa. He currently serves as an orchestra, choir and band director, arranger & orchestrator with Origin, varying broadly in styles from classical through jazz, blues, gospel, and contemporary Christian music, in venues such as churches, concert halls and public spaces in Scotland and South Africa in both evangelism and worship ministry. He has degrees in music from Edinburgh University, theology from the University of South Africa, and education from Heriot Watt University. He is married to Norma and has a teenage son, Andrew.

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.