How do Roundtables work?
Gathering
The Transforming Essex core team intend to facilitate as many gathering points and networking opportunities as possible, to allow you to find people with a similar vision or heart to join a round table.
One or two people will be needed to lead or facilitate the roundtable.
We will publish information about active roundtables as needed and give you a contact point in the Core Team to explore the possibility of joining a roundtable further.
Culture
We believe God has spoken to us specifically about establishing a culture. It’s this loved-based culture that will transform the county, not lots of people being ‘busy’.
Therefore one of the primary tasks of any roundtable is to make sure every member is establishing this culture not only in their own lives, but in the context of the community and action of the roundtable.
Our culture is:
Loving
Love is our foundation, motivation and goal
Dependent
On the Holy Spirit and God’s Word
Relational
Not hierarchical or positional
Trusting
Of one another
Faith-filled
Believing for the miraculous and the impossible
Mature
Living as God intended
Honouring
Mutual submission to gift, call and anointing
Encouraging
We lift up and cheer on
Free
All are empowered to contribute
Diverse
All are significant and respected
Distinctive
Only through God and for God
Open
Listening to one another and welcoming feedback
The five C's
The roundtables need to be connected to one another, so that we can encourage and champion one another. We also feel it’s important to be able to keep a track of what God is doing across the county. The five C’s facilitate the communication and empowerment we need.
1. Connection
Each table needs to have a point of connection to the core team or to the table it spawned from. Most typically this will be the leader of the table.
2. Contribution
What do I bring to the table? Be empowered to speak up, contribute and build into the life of the roundtable.
3. Commission
Sending to ‘do’. What might your group do or achieve together?
4. Continuous
Relationships feeding back into the core team via the communication chain.*
5. Celebration
Share stories and testimonies.
*The Communication Chain
At this foundational stage, it’s important for each first generation roundtable to have a ‘point person’ on the core team, for the purposes of communication. This might be for support and encouragement, but it is also to facilitate the sharing of good news and activity of the roundtable. Having this information means we can ALL celebrate one another, and we can track the difference we are making.
It is expected that most roundtables will ‘spawn’ other roundtables. For example the current intercessors roundtable might generate a few regional intercessors groups in different parts of Essex. Where this happens, the core team point person will still connect with the leader of the 1st generation roundtable, but it is expected the leader of the 1st gen roundtable would be the connection and communication point for the new table(s), communicating with both the leader of the 2nd gen roundtable, and their point person on the core team. If a 2nd gen roundtable then spawns a 3rd the leader of the 2nd gen roundtable becomes the connection point between the 1st gen table and so on…
