Kairos is committed to helping regional initiatives to form to plant new churches in those regions of the country. On April 9-1, 2007 thirty ministers from North Carolina up to Rhode Island met at the Manhattan Church of Christ in New York city to strategize about how we can work together to create a growing church multiplication movement in what could be several regions along the upper east coast.
Summary: The purpose of the summit was to gather together ministers who have a passion and commitment to extending the kingdom borders in the Northeast United States. The summit was a series of conversations based around 4 overarching questions (provided below). There are multiple models of churches active among churches of Christ in the NE: traditional congregational, relational congregational, organic, and networks of organic churches. The conversations demonstrated a strong awareness of the cultural shifts and religious foundations of the NE, a sense of exploration and willingness to adapt to the myriad changes and cultural enclaves and an interest to take definite steps in the future to strategically engage in church planting.
Question 1 What is happening in the NE?
Question 2 What are the challenges of the NE?
Question 3 Where do you feel our heritage gains and loses traction in the context NE?
Question 4 Where do we go from here?
A summary of these discussions is available under Northeast /Summit Notes. PowerPoint presentations are also available below.