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

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.

Envision

Create a visionary space for a young generation of Europeans to ‘just do it’.

Collaborate

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

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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.

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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

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Timo Heimlich

Germany
Eastern Europe

Our Partners