Kx Annual Community of Practice: Breakthrough in Pioneering new Gospel Communities
What is it?
A 2-day Community of Practice for experienced practitioners, church leaders and their teams with teaching, dialogue and reflections from the Kairos Connexion team.
At last year’s CoP we had excellent input from Alan Hirsch on mDNA and APEST /5fold ministry. As a movement we have been strong in the apostolic, are growing in the prophetic, but need to gain more understanding of how to raise and release the evangelists. The APE gifts are crucial to getting the breakthrough in planting, pioneering, and propagating gospel communities.
We hope to answer the following questions:
* How do we identify and release the evangelist?
* How do we help evangelists play their part in pioneering teams?
* How does the Apostolic, Prophetic and Evangelist work together?
* How do we move from maintenance to multiplication of gospel communities? How does social space help us to do this?
* How does pioneering and planting new expressions of church give life to the whole body?
Who is invited?
* Kairos Connexion Family Church teams
* Church leadership teams who have been part of a 3DM or Kx Learning Community/Community of Practice
* Experienced practitioners and their teams who are leading out of the values of missional discipleship within the UK
We recommend that you bring a team of between 3-6 people although there is no upper limit. As a family of churches we are passionate about investing in the next generation, all teams are encouraged to bring with them associate and younger leaders to this year’s Community of Practice.
What are the details for the event?
The CoP is being held at Network Church Sheffield at the Philadelphia Campus. We’ll start from 9:30am on Tuesday 12th February and finish by 4pm on Wednesday 13th February 2019. There will be an evening social event on Tuesday 12th February from 8pm.
How can I book in my team?
Visit this page to book onto the Community of Practice.
“One of the great things about the Tunbridge Wells LC is that it has been the vehicle for Frontier Leader Training. We are clearly modelling to all the participants on the LC the taking of LC leaders around the discipleship square (see diagram). We deliberately point out to the participants on the LC that, for example, ‘Andy Strajnic is now doing L3 as a LC leader on this third immersion. Please encourage and support him.’
spoke to Paul Maconochie (Director of 3DM USA) recently and he reminded me that getting a movement going requires doing the same things, in the same way, over and over, until people ‘get it’ and begin to run with it themselves. The guys we are training are leaders on the frontier of making that happen in our nation and that is no overstatement. There are still thousands of churches in our nation that have not even begun to ask the right questions about what is wrong with the church, let alone begun to search for the answers. There is still massive scope for Learning Communities.
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.
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.
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.
“Our church, Journey Communities, is opening a specialty coffee shop as a business as mission. FLTR Coffee will be at the heart of one of the residential neighbourhoods in Bicester. At the core of this new coffee shop is a missional community with a vision for people to encounter life on earth as it is in heaven, and journey towards full life through relationships with God, his extended family, and their neighbours.
A coffee trike will also allow us to promote the new shop at other local events leading up to its opening and be used to serve as another source of income that we can reinvest back into Kingdom mission.” –
This MC has been running for 8 months now and during this time we have averaged around 18 – 20 men and women coming to every meeting. During this time it has been amazing to see how relationships have been developing, but one thing that has become apparent to us is the lack of safe social space for people in recovery to access. This is mainly because of the fact that alcohol is available in so many social spaces and the issue that most people in recovery find it difficult to make the time for safe social space because of attending AA support meetings nearly every day. Also due to the chaotic lives of many of the attendees, they are not able to organise something by themselves, at least at this point in their journeys.
“The dream is see Christian young people energised as a community to make a substantial and sustainable difference among 17-30s in Birkenhead. For the young people of Wirral Christian Centre in particular to be doing life together not solely for their own benefit, but to be growing as disciples who make disciples, radically changing the culture of the town and enabling young adults to journey into amazing futures with God.