Arrow Leadership International Development

14/09/2026

Teodor is a Ukrainian pastor. When the war came, he and his wife took their four sons to Switzerland and, with God’s help, started a church for people who had lost everything.

Then the hard part. Everything he knew about leading a church came from Ukraine, and in Europe it stopped working. He learnt by his mistakes, and in his own words, «I and my family suffered for it.»

Nobody trained him for this. He took the challenge cause refugees were coming in. But he was not shaped for it yet! That is why Arrow exists.

Teodor is now in our first Slavic cohort in Europe, with a mentor, leadership partner, prayer partner and a room full of amazing leaders carrying the same weight.

«Arrow is the answer to many of my questions. This is a great blessing for me and my family.»

And to the people who made his place possible: «Without you this would have been impossible. May God bless you and repay you a hundredfold.» he says.

02/09/2026

That’s a wrap on ALIGN. A week ago most of us knew each other as faces in Zoom squares. We leave having eaten together, prayed together, argued a little, laughed a lot, and put our hands to the same work.

Programme Directors from around the globe, and our inaugural International Council — gathered around one vision: to raise Christ-centred leaders for the global church, so that the whole world would know Jesus.

That’s not a slogan. It’s why we get on planes.

Grateful beyond words for these people. There is so much yet to do, great to be TOGETHER!

24/08/2026

Never overlook the powerhouse a woman in leadership is.

Liya's first leadership school was her own kitchen table. Raising a large family taught her everything a leadership course tries to: how to lead a team that never clocks off, how to run a budget that never stretches far enough, how to make peace between people who do not want it (teenagers, mostly), and how to turn almost nothing into a feast for every birthday and every Christmas. Nobody handed her a title for any of it.

So when she and her husband planted a church in Lithuania, and when she took on a job in an international ministry, she did not arrive empty-handed. She brought years of wisdom the church has too rarely counted.

So why Arrow? Because raw wisdom is not the same as a sharpened arrow. There comes a season when a leader has been given a great deal and the question is no longer whether she has what it takes, but whether she can bring all of it to bear with precision, and with a clear understanding of what God has actually called her to. That is the season Liya was in. And she knew it before we did.

"I had started praying that God would keep growing me as a leader. The invitation to Arrow came in exactly that season. For me it was a very clear answer from God."

Alongside the church and the family she carries children's ministry, women's ministry, and administration in theological education. This is what she told us after her first months in our Slavic cohort, based in Poland.

19/08/2026

11 countries. 5 languages. One calling.
Arrow Leadership is growing across the world — and this is Great Britain, led by Jo McKee.
Listen to these stories of transformation. Then take the journey yourself: to be led more by Jesus, to lead more like Jesus, to lead more to Jesus.
🔗 Link in bio to find an Arrow programme near you.

16/08/2026

We’ve just spent a whole day doing exactly that. Running it, adjusting, adapting, listening. Loving the process of discovering what lands in a different culture and what quietly falls flat.

And what a gift it is. God’s creation holds so many cultures, ethnicities, languages — and so many ordinary daily rhythms that you’d never see from the outside, but that shape everything once you’re inside. People read from within that context. So the materials have to be shaped by it too.

We take this mandate seriously, because leadership makes it or breaks it. We’re here to empower emerging leaders to make the greatest possible impact for the Kingdom.

11/08/2026

When the war began, Ivan Semyonov started a church in Poland for Ukrainians who had just lost everything.

This year he is walking through Arrow Leadership in his own Ukrainian language. For over thirty years leaders like Ivan heard about this programme and could only watch from the outside — it simply was not available in Ukrainian. Now it is, and that opens the door for thousands of Ukrainian-speaking leaders to be transformed.

He calls it a safe, quiet port. “A time of deep transformation — of sharpening my calling. Not simply another conference, but a place where you can stop, listen for God’s voice, be restored, and have the fire in your heart lit again.”

What moves him most is the honesty. Mentors who are open. Leaders who share their challenges and their victories without hiding. And his leadership is shifting: from doing everything himself, to trust. From productivity, to caring for his own soul first. From leading alone, to raising others up.

That is what a new language makes possible — not one translated programme, but a generation of Ukrainian leaders formed to live like Jesus, pastoring people who carry war in their bodies.

Six languages so far. Eleven countries. Let’s go to the next nation — pray with us, and stand with us. Link in bio · arrowleadership.global

Discipleship LeadershipDevelopment

31/07/2026

15/05/2026

Hurry promises you can outrun your limits, but it only empties you — and an empty leader has nothing left to give but fumes and good intentions. So pause. Keep the Sabbath. Sit in silence long enough to hear God before you speak for Him. The people you serve don’t need a borrowed, depleted version of you; they need you leading from an overflow — a spirit and soul so tended by Jesus that giving becomes the natural runoff of a full life.

05/05/2026

Roman. David. Iryna.
Three young Ukrainian leaders carrying thousands of people through four years of war they did not ask for.
Days after a drone strike near the venue, Roman led the youth worship conference anyway. 1,200 came despite the real danger. Fifty lives changed that night.
David, 30, will be stepping up to lead one of the largest churches in Kyiv. He didn’t ask for it. He said yes because of a deep sense of calling.
Iryna’s leadership pipeline has been emptied by emigration three times. She has rebuilt it, stronger, every time.
None of them had ever been formed for what they already carry. Until now.
Welcome to Arrow Europe (Slavic).

18/04/2026

Character is the quiet work Arrow is most committed to.
Skills sharpen quickly. Strategies can be taught in a weekend. But the leader you actually become — the one people trust in the long seasons, the hard conversations, the unseen decisions — that is forged over time, in the deep places.
This is why Arrow is not a course. It is not information to absorb and file away. It is a transformational journey. Because the Kingdom does not need more competent leaders. It needs leaders whose character can carry the weight of what they were made to do. Leaders led by Jesus.
Your character will be tested more than your competency ever will be. Arrow exists to prepare you for that test.