CENTRAL AND LOCAL OVERSIGHT TEAMS

Each local church in the Fellowship is substantially autonomous - each Local Leadership Team is charged with the responsibility for that church, and, under God, they are the ´seat of authority´ for that church. However, there is a flow of accountability and addressability both inwards and outwards - the local leaders are accountable both to their own congregations and also to our senior team leader, Leslie Thomas, who gives apostolic covering to the whole fellowship. This is exercised in the context of sharing and support rather than of directing.

It is our conviction that Biblical Christianity points to local churches as being the norm. The Fellowship of The King is seeking to establish local churches throughout our area that hold to our ethos, vision, values and ´DNA´ but which are, at the same time, encouraged to develop their own local character, led by a Local Leadership Team in whose members we have identified both spiritual maturity and a complementary range of spiritual gifts, ministry skills and natural, practical talents.

There is also a Central Oversight, which is not another layer of church government but rather a forum for prayer, fellowship and mutual encouragement that not only gives the local teams a connection with each other, but also provides a wider base of experience and gifting, alongside a less ´parochial´ perspective. This central oversight consists of Leslie and Chris Thomas and representatives of the local teams.