What is The Gathering?
AS A FAMILY THERE ARE MANY REASONS WHY WE LOVE TO GATHER TOGETHER – FOR FOOD AND FELLOWSHIP, FOR CELEBRATION AND MOURNING, TO JOIN OUR HEARTS AND VOICES IN PRAYER, TO ENCOURAGE ONE ANOTHER AND TO LEARN FROM ONE ANOTHER.
As we gather, our family values are strengthened, reinforced and passed on from one generation to another. We grow both in understanding and in unity, and are equipped and envisioned to go back out and live out our family values in our different contexts.
To this end we have launched ‘The Gathering’. These will take place three times a year in the same way our Prayer & Equipping events did, but we will be widening our lens slightly with them, to develop a two year programme that runs from one Leadership Conference to the next, taking the current apostolic and prophetic theme, ‘Courage’, and exploring together how we can and should be working that out in our churches, church plants, local communities, workplaces and individual lives.
So often we can attend a conference and be inspired, but when we return home we lose momentum. We want to continue the momentum kick-started by our COURAGE conference and see this take hold in our culture and be embedded across our family of churches. We have intentionally designed the Gathering to help us do this.
Mike talks more about the heart behind the Gathering in the following video:
“One day as he saw the crowds gathering, Jesus went up on the mountainside and sat down. His disciples gathered around him, and he began to teach them”
We are excited about the journey God has ahead for us and the role our Gatherings will play. We hope and pray that you will return home from these times refreshed, built up and not only thinking about the step of courage God has laid before you, but ready to take it.
Latest Gathering News
