What is the future of the Church?

...building churches of resilience and sustainability 

What is it?

Join us for our next Community of Practice where we’ll be looking at the future shape of church in the light of all the global and societal changes taking place. We'll be dreaming together about how we build churches, groups and plant new expressions of church with resilience and sustainability.

As with every Community of Practice and Learning Community we go through the arc of learning. What is - giving us the opportunity to reflect together on what's working well and where the challenges are; What could be - with outside input to fuel our imagination and What will be - we'll finish with making our 12 month plans to guide us through the next year.

Who is invited?

• Kairos Connexion Family Church teams
• Church leadership teams that have been part of a 3DM or Kx Learning Community/Community of Practice 
• Experiences practitioners and their teams who are leading out of the values of missional discipleship within the UK 

As a family of churches we are passionate about investing in the next generation, all teams are encouraged to bring younger leaders with them to this year’s Community of Practice. We would especially encourage you to invite young female leaders and leaders from ethnic minority backgrounds to join you on this journey. 

We recommend that you bring a team of between 3-6 people although there is no upper limit. 

Who are our speakers?

Patrick Dixon

Patrick is Chairman of Global Change Ltd, author of 16 books on global trends including The future of Almost Everything. Hear from Patrick as he unpacks the major cultural and societal trends that will affect the shape and life of the church in the UK

Christie Lothamer 

Christie is a leader at Journey Communities in Bicester, a practitioner in missional discipleship, and entrepreneur and coach. With her husband Jeff they are establishing a network of micro churches in the UK embedded with the DNA of mission and discipleship. Christie will share some of their journey and how they are creating resilience and sustainability as they plant and champion new expressions of church. 

John McGinley

John is Executive Director of Myriad & New Wine Director of Church Planting, seeking to serve the planting churches of England. John will be sharing what the future of the church might look like, drawing on his years of experience, his role in Myriad and his new book. 

Nic Harding

From a background of 10 years as a GP in Bristol, and planting 4 congregations, Nic, his wife Jenny and their 4 girls moved to Liverpool to plant Frontline church in 1991. This grew to a church of 1000 adults and children.

After handing on the church to younger leaders in 2015 Nic took on the national role of director of Kairos Connexion, a network of leaders and family of churches who are seeking to grow and multiply communities of missionary disciples all across the country

What are the timings for the event?

Tuesday 8th February 9am - 4:30 pm 

Tuesday Evening Social: 8pm -9:30pm. Join us for some fun, a few drinks and a quiz at  Top Bar Castle Grounds 7 Little Park Street, Coventry CV1 2UR. Our evening social is part of the event programme and we encourage all delegates to attend. 

Please note that the cost of refreshments at the social is not included in the ticket price. 

Wednesday 9th February 9am - 4pm 

Tickets 

Tickets are sold one per person and include refreshments and lunch on both days. 

Delegates are responsible for organising their own travel, accommodation and meals outside of the event times.