2007-2009

In 2007 a group of church planters and leaders from Norway came together to pray, talk and explore how they could develop a church planting process that trained not only the church planter but also the whole team. M4 Europe was birthed out of that process. Their belief was that the Great Commission is for all believers. And while anybody can be part of a church planting team, only some are called and gifted to lead a church plant.

They developed a training that focused on four main topics that come out of the Great Commission: Master, Mission, Multiplication and Movement.

Øivind Augland led this network and out of that in 2009 M4 Europe began.

2010-2015

The first nation outside of Norway to implement M4 Team Process was Latvia. In many ways, M4 Team Process was co-developed with the Latvians. From there it crossed over the border into Estonia. At the same time, Øivind Augland was asked to come to Czechia and Sweden and help start M4 Team Process there. By the end of 2015, a team led by Øivind Augland and Arnt Jacob Holvik had implemented our church planting training process in five European countries.

2016-2017

As our organisation grew, we discovered the value of forming national leadership teams and we challenged them in the following ways: 

1. Long-term: Commit to running two cycles of M4 Team Process.
2. Indigenous: Adapt and contextualise M4 Team Process content within 3-5 years.
3. Multiply: Start helping other regions or nations within 3-5 years.
4. Community: Gather each year with all M4 national leadership teams.

Our process started in Romania, Spain, France, the French speaking part of Switzerland, and Russia. Teams from Slovakia joined the second cycle in Czechia.

2018-2019

We experienced organic growth as nations started serving other nations. During this period, M4 Team Process was started in Poland, the UK, Finland, Ukraine, and the German speaking part of Switzerland.

2019-2021

We started to see the need of a recruitment tool of potential church planters and leaders. M4 Ready, a nine-month training for potential leaders, was launched in Norway in 2019, followed by Spain and Czechia in 2021.

Germany also joined as the sixteenth European nation with the plan to start both M4 Team Process and M4 Ready in 2021.

2022-2024

In response to God’s amazing work in Europe, the vision, values, and mission of M4 Europe were refined, as well as the organization was restructured to ensure effective service to the nations.
Amid the challenges and the escalation of the war in Ukraine, the M4 Connect project was launched to support Ukrainian leaders in planting churches among refugees in Central Europe.
During this time, Denmark and Moldova joined the M4 family, and Bulgaria was in progress to join in 2025.

Our dream of planting a church every day in Europe drives us to serve the nations with greater effectiveness and efficiency. All 19 European nations are actively engaged in a National strategic planning process to turn this dream into reality by 2030.