Anne-Mette Fredegod
Lead pastor
About us
Pastors and leadership
The church is led by a team of pastors, a church council and a leadership team who together keep the church focused on its vision, values and everyday life.
Our pastors
Sebastian Fredegod
Pastor
Elon Jepsen
Pastor
Pastoral trainees
Therese Kongsgaard
Jonas Grube Callesen
Filip Fredensborg
Church council
The church council meets four times a year and works with the church's overall vision, values, strategy, budget, accounts and appointments.
Anne-Mette Fredegod
Pastor
Rune Kongsgaard
Lecturer at the Danish Police Academy
Per Christensen
Self-employed
Anders Harvey Poulsen
Self-employed
Jens-Erik Høj Pedersen
Former headteacher, missionary and pastor
Leadership team
The leadership team meets every two weeks, focusing on putting the vision and values into practice through strategy and goals.
Sebastian Fredegod
Communications
Anne-Mette Fredegod
Sunday services, groups and relationships, training and equipping
Elon Jepsen
Jonas Grube Callesen
Søren Viftrup
Global mission and Fristedet
Therese Kongsgaard
Next generation and family network
Helle Overvad Ploug
Mission and social care
Filip Fredensborg
Sunday services and the building
Leadership with authority and responsibility
We have an episcopal model of leadership. For us, this means that the lead pastor is entrusted with the authority to lead the church, set its direction and delegate the work.
An important part of this task is to build a strong team. We seek to find, develop and make room for skilled and capable leaders who can contribute their experience, judgement and gifts. Leadership is collaborative, with clearly shared responsibilities and tasks so that more people can help sustain and develop the church.
With significant authority comes significant responsibility. Leadership is built on trust and requires listening, openness to correction and accountability for decisions. That is why we have ongoing supervision, with an external supervisor who both supports and challenges the pastors and local leadership.
The church’s supervisor
Niels-Peter Hedegaard
Supervisor · pastor at Åbenkirke Odense
We believe healthy leadership needs trust, dialogue and accountability. As part of the Apostolic Church Denmark, our pastors and leaders share a committed relationship with other churches.
Our supervisor is Niels-Peter Hedegaard. He is an external conversation partner who can support and challenge our leaders on faith, collaboration and church development. His role also includes oversight and authority to correct both pastors and leaders.
The framework is the network’s shared declaration covering ministry, theology, mission and sharing resources. Supervision helps us take responsibility for people and for the work entrusted to us.