Øystein Gjerme is the founder and lead pastor of Salt Bergen Church in Norway, and also the head of the Norwegian pentecostal movement. He has a Master of Divinity, and as chairman at Norwegian School of Leadership and Theology, he has built it to be an attractive institution of education. For many years he lead the multidenominational movement Sendt Norway, a movement which main purpose is to help church planting. Øystein is a speaker and lecturer in a lot of different contexts, and has written a few books. He is married to Gina, and together they have three children.

Pastor Friedhelm Holthuis (born 1971), married, three children. He is senior pastor of Credo Church (www.credo-kirche.de), a congregation with five locations.

One of Friedhelm Holthuis’ heartfelt concerns is relevant, multiplying congregations. He began preaching at the age of 17 and put his gift at the service of a small congregation in Weener (East Frisia), which, as a mother church, has so far produced eight daughter congregations. He is an inspiring preacher and in demand as a speaker throughout the country and internationally. He dreams of seeing a church in every town and village where people can meet God He is active as a speaker at home and abroad. Since September 2022 Friedhelm Holthuis is the president of the BFP.

Tom and Sarah Jackson are on the senior clergy team at Holy Trinity Brompton Church in London. Sarah is CEO of the Church Revitalisation Trust (CRT) which oversees and supports church planting through the HTB network across the UK and beyond. Prior to CRT, Sarah was HTB Group Chief of Staff, Director of Operations and Executive Pastor at St Paul’s Hammersmith and was Founding Director of a property and design company. Tom and Sarah are parents to three daughters and have a dog called Wilber.

Øivind has been a pastor and church planter within the Evangelical Lutheran Free Church of Norway for the past twenty-five years. He led the national church planting network for ten years and through that, became the founder of what now is M4 Europe, and is currently working in fifteen European nations, and has also initiated NC2P (National Church Planting Process), with the European goal of mobilising the entire body of Christ in a nation, so they work together to respond strategically to the church planting need in their nation.

Øivind is founder and co-owner of Xpand Norway and Persolog Norway. His calling is to foster unity and multiplication in the body of Christ. Øivind is married to Linda and together they have four adult children.

Jaz Jacob is a well known song writer and worship leader in Spanish speaking nations. Her passion is that the global church fall more in love with Jesus and walk in their full identity as sons and daughters. She was born and raised in Spain, went to Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry in Redding California and currently pastors a church in Madrid Spain. 

Rev Cris Rogers is a church planter in East London, Urban Theologian, doctorate student, artist, maker and Star Wars fan.  Cris and his wife Beki together lead All Hallows Bow, a highly missional church in East London. Cris has a deep passion for discipleship and apprenticeship in the way of Jesus. Cris developed the Discipleship Assessment Tool and hosts a weekly Discipleship Podcast called “Making Disciples with Cris Rogers”. Cris is also the Chair of Spring Harvest Easter Conference.

The Rt Revd Dr Ric Thorpe was appointed as Bishop of Islington in 2015 to oversee the Diocese of London’s church planting and church growth work. He also serves the Church of England nationally as “bishop of church planting”, supporting bishops, dioceses, church planters and pioneers, developing church planting strategies to plant new worshipping communities to reach new people in new and renewed ways.
Ric is the director of the Gregory Centre for Church Multiplication, which offers training and support for church growth and church planting for the full breadth of the church. Ric is also an assistant bishop in Southwark Diocese, a Tearfund Ambassador, chair of the Gratitude Initiative, and episcopal visitor to the Order of Mission (TOM). He has a doctorate in church planting from Asbury Theological Seminary, is a tutor in church planting at St Mellitus College, London, an advisory board member for the Centre for Church Planting Theology and Research, Cranmer Hall, Durham, and the St Hild Centre for Church Planting, Leeds, and a member of the contextualisation team for Exponential Europe.
Before assuming his current role, Ric and his wife Louie led a team from Holy Trinity Brompton to plant into and revitalise St Paul’s Shadwell in London’s East End. The church went on to send four other planting and revitalisation teams to churches in the local area.
Ric trained as a chemical engineer and worked in marketing with Unilever before joining the staff of Holy Trinity Brompton. Ric and Louie have three children and a sprocker called Murphy.
Ric has contributed to and written several works, including Resource Churches: A story of church planting and revitalisation across the nation; Anglicans, church growth, and church planting (chapter in Anglicans and Pentecostals in Dialogue); and Identifying your vision (chapter in Vision to Action by Tricia Neill).

Derwin and his wife Vicki began an itinerant speaking ministry, One Heart At A Time Ministries, in 1999. Derwin went on to graduate magna cum laude from Southern Evangelical Seminary with a Master of Divinity (M.Div.) degree, with a focus in apologetics. Derwin and Vicki founded Transformation Church in January 2010. In 2018, Derwin received his Doctor of Ministry in the New Testament in Context at Northern Seminary under Dr. Scot McKnight.

Neluțu is married to Rocsandra, and together they have 3 children. His passion is preaching the gospel, leadership, leading events and conferences and planting churches.
Everything that he is doing, he is doing with passion and gives it all for the glory of God.
Currently he is the Visionary Leader for M4 in Romania, and serves as the Senior Pastor for the church „Sfânta Treime” from Bucharest Romania.

Christian Kuhn, married for 28 years, father of 2 children is Director of the Swiss Evangelical Alliance, French speaking part. He is co-founder and coordinator of the disciple multiplication movement (DMM) and church planting movement called “@home” in Switzerland for close to 20 years. He is a pastor, church planter, mentor, speaker, trainer, entrepreneur, coach and consultant in organizations. As engineer by training, he enjoys pioneering, innovative or bridge-building contexts. A man with a passion for Jesus, the kingdom of God and the Church in all its forms. Catalytic leadership and teamwork are among the subjects he often teaches in schools and training centers.

Theo (1970) believes in a God who multiplies that which he breaks. He has a passion to see the church of Jesus restored to its original vigour: missional, colourful, passionate for Christ, Spirit filled, grace oriented, holy, God centred and high Christology. His vision is to see people from all nations becoming disciples of Christ in such a way that they will disciple others. In this way he longs for a multiplying movement of Gods Spirit across Europe.

After his study of theology in Utrecht (1995) he was involved in starting a new refugee ministry and worked for 5 years with refugees as the first field worker with Gave. Afterwards with a great team he planted an intercultural church (2000) in Rotterdam (ICF Rotterdam). Later the Dutch ICP network was launched (2005) where by God’s grace in 10 years’ time about 30 newly planted churches came together. Next to this Theo then started a new church planting church (2013) in Rotterdam (LEEF!),

In this learning process and through many mistakes he got much experience in planting intercultural churches. He used to write down all his lessons and store all the lessons that he has learned in this specific intercultural field. Right now, with a passionate team he serves fulltime the European network of intercultural churchplants (2017), ICP Europe. The goal of this network is to give churchplanting back to ordinary people.

Theo has deeply experienced what it means to be purified and cleansed through the refiner’s fire. From this brokenness he lives to see Christ power through our weaknesses.

Theo is married to Rieneke (1972) with 3 children: Samuel (1996), Shekinah (2000) and Joshua (2002).

Miro and Marta Toth are church planters from Slovakia and Hungary. Miro visited the Northpoint Bible College, USA, has a Masters degree in Evangelical Theology from Matej Bel University and a PHD in Urban Theology from the same university.

Marta and Miro planted an ACS churches in Slovakia and planted an equippers church in Budapest Hungary. Miro is director of Gateway College Bible School, leads the platform CityLdr, is in the Board of the Apostolic Church in Slovakia and the Association of Evangelical Churches.

Miro and Marta are speaking around the world, both individually and as a couple.

Dave Patty has been involved in training youth leaders and leading national and international youth movements in Europe for over 30 years. He serves as the president of Josiah Venture. He is also a founding member of Global Youth Initiative, which mobilizes and equips youth ministry trainers in over 60 countries of the world. Dave is an ordained pastor with a BA in theology and a MA in education. He has also done graduate work in leadership development at Harvard University. For the past 27 years he has lived in the Czech Republic, and he spent the 10 years before that in Germany. Dave is married to Connie and has three grown children, Tyler, Caleb, and Claire.