Impacting the Kingdom by Impacting Kingdom Leaders
Pastors face all kinds of issues and have few places to turn for the assistance and support they need. Being in the pastorate has been described by Ken Blanchard as one of the three most difficult leadership professions to be in. The need for a comprehensive resource that can help pastors effectively deal with the issues they face is tremendous; The Pastors Roundtable can be that resource.
The Pastors Roundtable contains four distinct components:
- Community: the development in a safe place of a “Koinonia, shoulder to shoulder bearing of each other’s burdens,” not just a coffee grab and comparison of “what are you running” numbers.
- Church Leadership Development: the provision for the development of the pastor at the roundtable and the equipping of that pastor with materials to lead in the development of that pastor’s church leadership team.
- Solution Generating Processes KANI (Keep Awake Night Issues): a tried and true process for gaining insight into the “Keep Awake Night Issues” of life and ministry that pastors face. This will encompass larger issues, scheduled for discussion months in advance, as well as acute issues that appear that need to be dealt with immediately.
- Participation in an encouragement model: each pastor will meet with the Roundtable Chair or a Triad of Peer Pastors once a month to be mentored/coached/supported/encouraged. Important thought is given to what the desired future should look like for the pastor in the areas of Personal Vision, Ministry Vision, Leadership Philosophy and Key Relationships. The Encouragement Model is designed to support the accomplishment of the goals necessary to move into that desired future.
The key result of The Pastors Roundtable is Healthier Pastors through the development of a context of high trust where pastors can build community and demonstrate vulnerability so that they can deal with the key issues in their lives. This will be done in a safe environment so that they can move to the posture where they see the “Real” reality of their circumstances and be guided by the Holy Spirit to develop and implement solutions to those issues.
What We Do
The Vision of The Pastors Roundtable: to engage, energize, enhance and renew pastors in the call to their ministry. We’ll meet monthly for a peer led and prioritized time of:
- Community building
- Insight into leadership development and supporting materials that can be taken back to each pastor’s leadership team
- Solutions that are peer led, supported and monitored
Combine that with the Encouragement Model through the roundtable chair or a Triad of Peer Pastors and The Pastors Roundtable offers a comprehensive solution to a vast array of the issues many pastors have. The Pastors Roundtable takes the life experiences of each participant in the roundtable and makes it available to the others in the group.
- It is frequent enough for trust to be built
- It is diverse enough to be able leverage the learning and wisdom in the group
- It is focused enough for each pastor to have their issues addressed
- It is guided enough so that it stays healthy
- It is flexible enough to meet the highest needs at each meeting
- It is ongoing, supportive, and helps in holding one another accountable
The Pastors Roundtable will also equip each participating pastor with materials to lead their leadership team, back at their own church, in discussion. The aim is to provide for an opportunity to develop congruency in the strategic vision for their church.
A high value for each Roundtable is trust. Without trust, it will be impossible to deal with the root of issues. Each Roundtable will develop its own covenant of values that will bind the behaviors of the Roundtable. Without this kind of “unquestionable trust” it will be impossible for the participants to uncover, acknowledge and deal with the “Real” reality of their issues.
