Bringing Grace Based Leadership Training to Europe

Darcy and I spent the last week in Poland speaking at the European Leadership Forum (aka ELF). ELF is the lovechild of some Oxford and Cambridge University brainiacs who wanted to create an outlet for Europe’s leading Christian voices, thinkers, and people of influence to get advanced training. ELF offers twenty-four Networks in a vast array of spiritual/theological disciplines. All of these Networks are sponsored and overseen by Europeans … except one. Several years ago, our ministry, Family Matters, was approached by the leadership of ELF to create the European Marriage & Family Network. Up to that point, ELF offered nothing in this area. Three years ago we established that Network for them and for these past three years Darcy and I have teamed with our friends Kory and Gail Schuknecht to teach a theology of marriage and family that launches from the heart of the gospel message–how to have marriages and create homes that are guided by God’s truth while simultaneously tempered (defined) by His grace. This year’s M&F Network had over thirty leaders from 15 different countries. We spoke to many more leaders through workshops we offered in addition to the Network training. All told, we got to minister to some of the finest and precious Christian leaders of greater Europe representing over twenty different countries.