YLG EUROPE 2025 GATHERING

13-16 November 2025

Durres, Albania

Double Room - 230€
Single Room - 340€

GATHERING

Our gatherings are organised so that younger leaders across the continent can meet, receive teaching, share testimonies, encourage each other, and strategise! We are committed to providing a forum for younger leaders to find the tools and support to continually grow in their leadership and to finish the race well.

We will start with dinner at 18:00 on Thursday and will finish with lunch at 13:00 on Sunday.

Register

Please register or send this link to a younger leader of your choice. We are especially looking for people in their mid to late 20's, but we will consider all younger leaders between 20-40. If you know of anybody who could benefit from, or contribute to this community, we would like to extend an invitation to them. If you would like to join us as a mentor, please contact us.
REGISTER

LOCATION

This year we are going to beautiful Durres, Albania. We will be staying at the Royal G Max Hotal and Spa, which is beautifully situated right next to the beach!

The hotel has kindly offered these prices for everyone who wants to arrive earlier or stay on for some days:

59 Euros – double room
95 Euros – single room

So why not bring your spouse along?

Please note: We will book the hotel room for you, you should not do so separately.
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SPEAKERS

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JASPER RUTHERFORD

Christ in Youth
European Director
SPEAKER

Jasper expects God to show up where other people don’t expect it. Jasper is a passionate evangelist with a heart for peace and reconciliation. He has been involved in youth ministry for nearly 20 years, within the local Church and with para-church organisations. Jasper has been on staff with CIY since 2016. Jasper graduated from The University of Liverpool and has a PhD in Physiology from the University of Birmingham, and also a Diploma in Applied Evangelism from York St John University. He and his wife Lynne have three children – Elijah, Shannon and Nathan. His other passion is Liverpool Football Club.
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Evi Rodemann

Lausanne Movement
YLGen
SPEAKER

Evi Rodemann is from Hamburg, Germany. Her biggest passions are for youth, young leaders and Europe. If this can be connected with events, even better. Next to investing into young people across Europe, she also works as the associate programme director for the Fourth Lausanne Congress, taking place in September later this year. She did an MA in European Missions (Redcliffe College/University of Gloucestershire) and now pursues a PhD in theology (UNISA) with a focus on event impact. She also chairs the YLGen commitment for Groups & Gatherings globally.
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Usha Reifsnider

Lausanne Europe
Regional Director
CONTRIBUTOR

Usha Reifsnider is a British South Asian Christ-follower from a Hindu background. She and her American husband Matt have served as mission partners working with migrants, refugees, and diaspora for over three decades. Usha's research interests are in the intersection of cultural anthropology and practical theology.

Her various roles in ministry include serving as a director with the Centre for Missionaries from the Majority World (CMMW), training churches and para-church agencies on mission to, through, from, and with diaspora people groups. Usha also teaches a module on philosophical frameworks and ethics at the postgraduate level at Waverley Abbey College.

Usha and Matt have two adult married children and two recently adopted teenage 'grandlads'.
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Jim Memory

Lausanne Europe
Regional Director
CONTRIBUTOR

Jim Memory is a member of the International Leadership Team of the European Christian Mission (ECM). He and his wife Christine were church planters in Spain from 1994-2008 before moving into mission leadership.

For the last 10 years, Jim has taught the postgraduate modules on European Mission at Redcliffe College and continues to do this now through All Nations Christian College (UK). He is one of the founding editors of Vista, a research-based journal on crucial issues for mission in Europe, and is the author of Europe 2021, a recent report on the context for mission in Europe today.

Jim and Christine have three adult children and they live between the UK and Spain.

MENTORING

One of the ways we want to make sure that younger leaders are receiving the support they need, to continue to be influencers and agents of transformation in their communities and nations, is through mentorship and assistance from senior leaders who are willing to walk alongside us as younger leaders and share their wisdom and experience.


Every year we are privileged to have some amazing individuals ready to share their time and experience with younger leaders.

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Ole-Magnus and Kari Olafsrud