Theo Visser

Project Coordinator

Theo has a passion to see the church of Jesus restored to its original vigour: missional, colourful, passionate for Christ, Spirit filled, grace oriented, holy, God centred and high view of Christ. His vision is to see people from all ethnicities becoming disciples of Christ in such a way that they will disciple others. In this way he longs for a multiplying movement of God’s Spirit across Europe.

After his study of theology in Utrecht (1995) he was involved in starting a new refugee ministry and worked for five years with refugees as the first field worker with GAVE (Gastvrijheid aan Asielzoekers door Vriendschap en Evangelisatie). Afterwards with a great team he planted an intercultural church in Rotterdam (ICF Rotterdam, planted in 2000). Later, the Dutch ICP network was launched in 2005, where by God’s grace in 10 years’ time about 30 newly planted churches came together. Next to this, Theo then started a new church planting church (2013) in Rotterdam.

In this learning process and through many mistakes he got much experience in planting intercultural churches. He used to write down all his lessons and store all the lessons that he has learned in this specific intercultural field. From 2017 on he served full time in the European network of intercultural church plants. From 2024 on this network became part of M4 Europe, still serving and equipping national and regional leadership teams to recruit, assess, train and coach church planters and their team in planting healthy reproducing intercultural churches.

Theo is married to Rieneke with 3 children, Samuel, Shekinah and Joshua.