For church leaders looking to build, innovate & thrive
October 2024 Roundtable
How to lead a gender balanced church with a healthy culture of singleness, dating and marriage
Date: 1st October 2024 10am – 11am on Zoom
There’s a 2:3 ratio of men to women, and twice as many single women as men in the majority of the church. This has massive intergenerational consequences for men, women and children.
What are the often invisible issues that church leaders need to know about?
What are the implications for evangelism and discipleship?
How can we practically develop a more relationally healthy church?
SJI is hosting this roundtable with the Engage Network (a collaboration of national Christian organisations including Christian Vision for Men, Care for the Family, Single Friendly Church, Youth for Christ) who will be sharing expertise and solutions that are biblically and research based. In this webinar, we’ll explore resources from Engage to help churches redress the gender imbalance, and further develop healthy singleness, dating and marriage in this and future generations.
A bit of context…
Andy Frost and Mark Waterfield have been leading church leader roundtables since 2012.They have been happening around the UK with regular ones in London. They were birthed out of a relationship with Claude Thomas who is now part of the team at Keystone Church.
These roundtables gather church leaders from different denominations and streams to share together, support each other and push each other to fulfil the vision God has given us to reach the UK. In 2019 we brought many of these roundtable groups together for the first Ekklesia Conference.
The roundtables have been a space to pool resources to maximise our mission. For example, in London, church leaders have worked collaboratively on sermon series such as ‘What would Jesus say to…’ exploring how Christ would interact with celebrities from todays culture.
‘I love the Roundtables because they facilitate candid & practical conversations that can and will help your church grow, if applied.’
Andy Gray | City Hill
‘This is a great forum for leaders to learn and grow together. It has been encouraging to see leaders developing ideas together that impact both local congregations and communities across London.’
Sarah Grimshaw | Methodist Circuit
‘I have found the Roundtables a very useful stream of creative ideas for church leadership. The content has been practical and challenging. As a local church we’ve benefited hugely from the shared preaching series in the last 2 years, with it’s creative promotional material and collaborative preparation of messages.’
Andrew Holmes | Every Nation London
The Roundtable sessions provide teaching input and the opportunity to meet and share with other church leaders. I have found it a great place to bounce ideas around and learn from others. It is a blessing and encouragement for me, and my church has been strengthened as I have take back ideas and implemented them’
Dave Simms | South Chingford Congregational Church