Perhaps the greatest need facing the church in Europe today is the need for more leaders. Quality leaders emerge rather than arrive. Training in a classroom context can be a significant component in the development of a leader. However, it is not enough on its own; something more relational is required. Can we learn from New Testament models of ministry development? Can we shape a culture where the multiplication of ministry occurs naturally?

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Tuuli Platner is the daughter of missionaries and a third culture kid - living in two different continents by age 7 before her family settled in the UK long-term. Now she is all grown up and has the privilege of serving the local church on the student team and God's wider church in her media and communications role at Relational Mission. Most recently, she has also stepped into a new adventure of living missionally in a small community in London.

Jon Beardon is a member of the Relational Mission core team, with responsibilities that include overseeing the team of directors responsible for governance, finance, and communications and directly supervising some of the Relational Mission churches in the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic (Pardubice), France (Lille), Serbia (Nis) and Nepal. Jon loves working with these local churches to strengthen them and foster unity between them overflowing into ownership of shared church planting mission. In the United Kingdom, he is preparing to move to the city of Bath later this year to spearhead a new church planting initiative called Go West which is following a similar model to one he launched in the East known as the 20/20 initiative – reaching 20 more places in the East of England over 20 years. In the south of Serbia, he is working with longstanding local partners to serve a movement of Roma churches through teaching and training. Jon is currently a local church elder based at Wellspring Family Church, Dereham, a church he planted in 2002. Jon has a secondary teaching qualification, he spent six months in Ghana as a missionary, and for nearly five years worked as a schools’ evangelist in the United Kingdom, before focusing solely on local church ministry and mission since 2000. Jon has a BA in Theology from the London School of Theology. He is married to Nicky and has four children. In his spare time, he plays field hockey and likes to walk.

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