Exponential Europe is a community with a cause
We are passionate about creating platforms for relationship and cooperation, sharing resources generously, and providing research that inspires action.
Who we are
Core Essence
Distributing thought leadership
Mission
Together with our partners we seek to create platforms for relationship and cooperation, sharing resources generously, and providing research that inspires action.
Name
Exponential means ‘accelerating multiplication’. That is the core of what we seek to do.
Our values
Create a place for mutual learning, inspiration and empowerment for reproducing and multiplying church planting of all kind in the European context.
Give space for everyone involved in church planting on a European and regional level to give their best to the collective body of Christ.
Create a visionary space for a young generation of Europeans to ‘just do it’.
Initiate collaborative learning through cohorts, learning communities and other arrangements, initiated by people in the networks, and through books and content.
Learn
Create a place for mutual learning, inspiration and empowerment for reproducing and multiplying church planting of all kind in the European context.
Share
Give space for everyone involved in church planting on a European and regional level to give their best to the collective body of Christ.
Collaborte
Initiate collaborative learning through cohorts, learning communities and other arrangements, initiated by people in the networks, and through books and content.
Envision
Create a visionary space for a young generation of Europeans to ‘just do it’.
Meet our Executive Board

Øivind Augland
Norway CEO
Øivind Augland is founder and teacher of M4 Europe. He serves as pastor and church planter within the Evangelical Lutheran Free Church of Norway. His calling in life is to bring young people, generations, leaders, churches, denominations and nations side-by-side to increase the expansion of the Kingdom.

Remco Hempenius
The Netherlands Chairman
Remco brings over 25 years of international leadership experience from his time at IKEA, where he worked with leaders and teams in more than 30 countries on topics such as expansion, innovation, customer experience, and organisational transformation. Today, he supports both for-profit and non-profit organisations in creating movement at the intersection of leadership, culture, and strategy.

Maria Boschker
Germany Second Chairman
Maria Boschker serves as the COO of Exponential Europe. She has experience in planting churches and has contributed to several books.
Extended Board
Dave Ferguson
US
Award-winning author, founding and lead pastor of Chicago’s Community Christian Church, president of Exponential US.
Yaroslav Pyzh
Ukraine
Church planter and president of the Ukrainian Baptist Theological Seminary in Lviv.
Øystein Gjerme
Norway
Lead Pastor, Salt Church Norway
Superintendent, Norwegian Pentecostal Movement
Marie-Louise Nilsson
Sweden
National Director Alpha Sweden
Tom Jackson
U.K
CEO of Love Your Neighbour
Movement System team
Ian King
UK European Leader
Timo Heimlich
Germany Eastern Europe