Modular Training Taster Afternoon – Coventry

Reimagine Church – The ways of Jesus in mission and discipleship.

Are you grappling with busyness, struggling budgets and  high demand projects, but don’t feel they are being particularly effective in seeing lost people come to faith or in raising healthy and motivated disciples? Is the idea of growing communities of believers where discipleship is the air they breathe, mission the thing that gets them out of bed in the morning, and community the place where they find important extended family relationships a mere dream?

What if there was a way to equip your whole church to be effective in mission, discipleship, community and growing leaders?  We don’t have all the answers, but we’d love to share the principles and practices that we’ve learnt and that have blessed hundreds and hundreds of leaders across the UK.

Join us for a taster afternoon exploring our new whole church, easy access, quick win and low cost modular training starting in Coventry this autumn. Church leaders and their teams are welcome.

To book a place for your team click here

Full-time Student Worker Post – Coventry

One of the churches which is part of the Kx Midlands hub, Westwood Church, is recruiting for a full-time student worker and Form Discipleship year leader.

Could it be you?

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GROW Central Senior Leaders Retreat Day

GROW Central is the Kairos Connexion regional hub located in the Midlands.  They are hosting a Learning Community which starts in April 2018 and you are invited to take part.

Their Senior Leaders Retreat Day is a chance for Leaders in the region to come together to reflect on discipleship culture.  For more information please contact [email protected]

GROW Central Learning Community: Gathering 3

GROW Central is the Kairos Connexion regional hub located in the Midlands.  They are hosting a Learning Community which starts in April 2018 and you are invited to take part.

The third gathering of the GROW Central Learning Community takes place 2nd – 4th April 2019. For more information please contact the GROW team on [email protected]

GROW Central Learning Community: Gathering 2

GROW Central is the Kairos Connexion regional hub located in the Midlands.  They are hosting a Learning Community which starts in April 2018 and you are invited to take part.

The second gathering of the GROW Central Learning Community takes place 9th – 11th October 2019. For more information please contact the GROW team on [email protected]

GROW Central Learning Community

GROW Central is the Kairos Connexion regional hub located in the Midlands.  They are hosting a Learning Community which starts in April 2018 and you are invited to take part.

We are hosting an abridged Learning Community experience this October for those who are ready to start on the journey with us now. The full Learning Community programme will begin in April 2018 and the dates for those gatherings are as follows:

For more information contact the GROW team on [email protected]

Kx Annual Family Community of Practice: Exploring Movement Dynamics with Alan Hirsch

Hosted by Kx & Grow Central at Westwood Church Coventry

What is it?

A 2-day Community of Practice for experienced practitioners and church leaders with teaching, dialogue and reflections from Alan Hirsch, Rich Robinson and the Kairos Connexion team. We will be exploring the dynamics of building a movement of mission in our churches and other arenas of influence. As we embark on our 2018 Community of Practice we’ll be exploring together the 6 strands of missional DNA as we journey through what is, what could be and what will be. We’ll be thinking about what it means for us to be both missional and movemental in our local contexts, our wider regions and our nation. Using 3DM language we’ll be trying to unpack what it means for us to be red hot centres of mission so that we can see increasing missional expressions of church in our towns and cities. Bring your team and come and explore with us.

Who is invited?

• Kairos Connexion family churches
• Church leadership teams who have been part of a 3DM or Kx Learning Community/Community of Practice.
• Experienced practitioners who are leading out of the values of missional discipleship within the UK

MEET OUR SPEAKERS

Alan Hirsch

Alan Hirsch is the founder of 100Movements, Forge Mission Training Network, and Future Travelers.  Alan is also founder of 5Q Collective and resident coach and consultant with the team. Known for his innovative approach to mission, Alan is widely considered to be a thought-leader and key missions strategist for churches across the Western world. Hirsch is the author of 5Q: Reactivating the Original Intelligence and Capacity of the Body of Christ, The Forgotten Ways; co-author of The Shaping of Things to Come, ReJesus and The Faith of Leap (with Michael Frost); Untamed (with Debra Hirsch); Right Here, Right Now (with Lance Ford): On the Verge (with Dave Ferguson); The Permanent Revolution (with Tim Catchim).

Rich Robinson

Rich is the Director of 5Q Collective, the training arm of 5Q, which is part of the 100M family. He also leads Catalyse Change, which provides training & coaching for church leaders and other organizations to equip and enable them around discipleship, leadership, mission and multiplication. Over the past 10 years he has led pioneering work using 3DM tools & training across Europe, Australasia and Canada. Locally, he lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he works for Cairn, a ministry working with churches in the Celtic lands, training them to recapture discipleship & mission at the heart of their culture and practice.

What are the timings of the event?

We’ll start at 9:30am on Wednesday 7th February and finish by 4pm on Thursday 8th February.  There will be an evening social event on the Wednesday evening from 8pm.

How can I book in my team?

Follow this link to our Eventbrite page and book in your team. Early bird tickets with a 10% discount are on sale until 31st December so don’t miss out.

Form UK Stories

We love Form!  An intense year of discipleship, rooted in a culture of leadership and mission running in several Kx family churches.   Last week we shared some stories from Form USA,  here is a video of similar stories from Form UK trainees.

There are three ways you can get involved in form.

1.  Give a year to form as a trainee yourself and see see what God can do!
2.  Recommend form to one or two young adults from your church and send them off on a life changing adventure!
3.  Start a Form training centre at your church.

To find out more about each of these head to www.form-uk.org.

God Can Radically Change Your Life Through Form

FORM is an intensive year-long discipleship internship for young adults, currently running in 4 locations in the UK and also in the USA.  Here are a few stories from this years trainees at Form Fort Wayne, Indiana about what God has done with them over the past year.

Learning Community Taster Day – COVENTRY

This is a Taster Day workshop for church leaders and their teams who are exploring a discipleship & mission Learning Community starting in the Autumn of 2017.

Booking details here www.growcentral.eventbrite.co.uk, or to be added to the Grow Central mailing list (the name of the Kx Coventry Hub) email [email protected]

A Learning Community Taster Day is a workshop designed to give a feel for what a full Learning Community is like.  You will be introduced to the basic structure of a Learning Community which is to aid reflection, learning, dreaming and planning for your church or community.

The three questions which are asked are:

• What Is? (an honest reflection of where things are right now)
• What Could Be? (an opportunity to dream big dreams with God about the future)
• What Will Be? (making concrete goals and plans to move towards the big dreams)

Many church teams have found this process to be incredibly valuable in moving towards embedding a culture of discipleship and mission in their contexts.

For more about Learning Communities click here.