YWAM European Leaders' Learning Community (ELLC)

In this video, Stefan and Carl share their experience of navigating this leadership change and the steps they took to make it work. Whether you're in leadership or going through a change yourself, you'll pick up some valuable lessons for handling transitions with ease.

Noémie Marsh is sharing from her experience in leadership growing up in KKI a few keys she learned along the way on building effective teams.

Romkje shares lessons from working with Rita over several decades running hospitality courses and general base hospitality.

Rita was known as the hospitality Queen and has impacted so many around Europe and the wider mission. We wanted to share a few things we learned from her and enjoyed about her as part of our community here at YWAM Harpenden.

YWAM Norway leader Andreas Nordli presents some of his takeaways from the recent YWAM Europe Leadership Gathering in Albania.

In this LDx, Belinda Chaplin and Barbara Connor chatted the importance of maintaining a sustainable work-life balance in ministry. They looked at good principles such as focusing on the importance of incorporating rest, breaks, and healthy lifestyle habits. They explored various strategies for effective time management for leaders and those that they lead, including building margins for unexpected...

In this LDx, Belinda Chaplin and Barbara Connor chatted the importance of maintaining a sustainable work-life balance in ministry. They looked at good principles such as focusing on the importance of incorporating rest, breaks, and healthy lifestyle habits. They explored various strategies for effective time management for leaders and those that they lead, including building margins for unexpected...

In this LDx talk, Belinda Chaplin chats with Andrea Barnette about her experiences of working with servant leadership over the years. Andrea, who has been working with YWAM for 17 years and is now part of the Leadership Team at YWAM Seamill, Scotland, emphasized the importance of compassion, character, and empowering others in servant leadership. She also drew out many principles that she has lear...

Frank Bauer reminds us as leaders that what we do is for Jesus and for His glory. This often is forgotten and overlooked in our busy days. We lead others and serve others to see God's dream and His Kingdom come through and to see His Kingdom grow.

For this LDx, Belinda Chaplin chats to Florin Mihaly about his experience of plateauing in leadership and how he grew beyond that to once again balance hearing God's voice and planning strategically to follow what He says.

Lynn Green shares with us more about how much YWAM uses collaboration, by sharing past examples and present practices. If we want to be strategic, one of the best methods to bring synergy and growth is through collaborating with other organisations.

Lone one of the YWAM Grimerud base leaders, and Kiyana one of their DTS leaders share with Belinda Chaplin the testimony of how they went from a DTS of 15 to 70 students. Watch and find out the many keys that they have found along the way!

In this video Andreas shares some of the foundational, big picture strategy of YWAM in Norway and how they implement the sequence of “Events – Communities – Movement”.

Leaders from all major movements globally just gathered in Seoul, Korea. With a strong call for collaboration in the Body of Christ - what does it mean for YWAM Europe?

Belinda Chaplin interviews Ema Bogdan, base leader of YWAM Craiova and part of the delegation from Romania to Lausanne 2024 in Seoul. We hear more about what she saw and experienced there and how it is useful for what we are doing in YWAM Europe.

Dick Elisa Aalberts from the YWAM Europe Member Care Resource. The concept of "Selfless Self-Care" emphasizes the importance of stewarding one's physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being to serve others effectively without burning out, grounded in biblical principles like the Sabbath. This is the link to the handout for this LDx: https://returnwell.nl/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Selfless-Self-C...

This video talks about what is the definition of member care, who's role it is, and how it is and can be implemented in YWAM communities.

Lynn shares some thoughts on how eldership should look in YWAM.

Belinda Chaplin hosts a wonderful discussion on June's topic of Relational Fundraising with Terry Sherman and Mombo and Juan Galloway. This is definitely a Round Table you do not want to miss!

In this video, Lynn shares some stories of his involvement in fundraising which illustrate the principles needed to be able to raise money for a ministry project.

If you like this video, and want to go deeper, you can check out their podcast “The Sweet Life of Missionary Partnership” which is on all major podcasting platforms!

Belinda Chaplin, who became a Biblical DISC practitioner last year, shares some of the insights from the DISC profile and how we can use it to transform our leadership to be more like Jesus.

Tom Bloomer talks about two types of leadership, and what is servant leadership.

Forming community in the midst of a visionary base. The importance of visionary and operational leadership working together with pastoral and spiritual leadership.

In this LDx you will hear some key ingredients for making a real top performing team and they may not be what you expect. See what Andy has to share about being worshippers first and the importance of listening to God together.