The City Table

How do you truly get to know your city? Prayer for our cities downloads God’s heart for our cities and that heart is the engine for coming to know our cities. Today we hear from our friend Ben Woollard, chair of Together for Sheffield in Sheffield, England. Ben relays his journey to know his city, serve his city with his team, and see tangible transformation by the people of God for their neighbors.

Visit citytable.org for more information, resources, and ways to get connected with Jon, Ken, and the City Table community. We’d love to hear from you!

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Not much happens without the communication between heaven and earth - prayer! It comes in all shapes, styles and forms, but at the end of the day it is the fuel of transformation. Ken and Jon sit down with Renee Boucher; known in her city of Portland, Oregon as the “mother of prayer.” Renee is a rich resource for the prayer and unity that every city is being called to incarnate.  

See more of what Renee Boucher is up to in Portland, Oregon at www.togetherpdx.org

Visit citytable.org for more information, resources, and ways to get connected with Jon, Ken, and the City Table community. We’d love to hear from you!

Music in this Episode by St. Vrain. https://linktr.ee/stvrain

Twenty-eight years after Jon and Mindy left Amsterdam, the city is beginning to experience a spiritual renaissance. Churches are working together, the poor and the immigrant being tended to, and spiritual and material needs are being addressed. In this episode we look at the blueprint the Father has given the leaders in the city, and how the ingredients of this plan are readily transferable to others seeking to see their cities transformed. We will travel the signposts on this pathway more closely in following episodes.

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End Credit Music by St. Vrain. https://linktr.ee/stvrain

God’s plan is both ancient, current, and yet to be fulfilled! What is the big story that our little stories fit into? It is nothing short of all things becoming restored - New Creation. Jon and Ken share an update on how the city of Amsterdam is experiencing a spiritual transformation thanks to the kingdom work of the family of God. In this episode, we will explore this New Creation mandate and how it relates to every neighborhood, workplace and city.

Visit citytable.org for more information, resources, and ways to get connected with Jon, Ken, and the City Table community. We’d love to hear from you!

Friends, we’re back! We’ve been hard at work and are excited to announce we are launching Season Two next week, Sept 8th. In this upcoming season, we’re excited to be expanding what we can bring to you: not only will we hear more from Jon & Ken, but we will also introduce you to a batch of friends from around the globe and hear how others are working to bless and serve their cities.

Also, Jon and Ken have re-launched their website at citytable.org, now including more resources, and ways to connect with them and the growing City Table network. Drop by and say hello!

Building on phases 1-3, Ken and Jon tell personal stories of their journeys of moving from “slaves and orphans” to their past, and into their sonship in Christ. Phase Four, the Life Maturing Phase (sometimes called the “mid-life crisis”), is amongst the most challenging of ones journey; a journey out of one's personal strongholds into a life where all of God’s dealings up to that point culminate in the total capture of the leaders’ heart. This produces the Convergence (Phase 5) of a lifetime; a synergy in relationships, knowledge, experience and focus. This is where “mothers and fathers” of the faith are formed, personal agendas surrendered, and the Spirit is free to dictate all dealings of ones that can truly say, “I am crucified, with Christ, but I live….not me, but Christ.”

Jon Petersen's books 'Unravelled' [CityForce, 2018] and 'Unveiled' [CityForce 2019] are available on Amazon, and you can connect with Jon and Ken at www.cityforce.org/ They would love to hear from you.

In this session, Jon and Ken describe how leaders are shaped starting with our birth, family and cultural context, the critical nature of our conversion season and the ensuing years of learning to realize and serve God’s calling in our lives - all are sovereignly designed to bring redemption and new creation to the disciples of Christ - no matter the pain one has experienced.

Jon Petersen's books 'Unravelled' [CityForce, 2018] and 'Unveiled' [CityForce 2019] are available on Amazon, and you can connect with Jon and Ken at www.cityforce.org/ They would love to hear from you.

A leader is defined, not primarily by a role, but as any person shaped by God to bring influence to the world around them.

In the next three sessions, Jon and Ken lay out the process of becoming transformational leaders. Dreams are seeds that takes a life-time.  Jon and Ken explore the “life-long” objectives of God’s commitment to develop our characters (image of Christ) as the fountain head of all of our activity. This session will explore why disappointment and failure are key ingredients to the redemptive process of shaping character and delivering the dream in our hearts.

Jon Petersen's books 'Unravelled' [CityForce, 2018] and 'Unveiled' [CityForce 2019] are available on Amazon, and you can connect with Jon and Ken at www.cityforce.org/ They would love to hear from you.

More Greek words? Yes! This week, three Greek words that captures how the early church understood the How’s and Where of it’s lived out faith in public spaces. There are numerous texts in the New Testament referred to as the “politeia” texts, these amazing verses lay out how every believer was to be a “benefactor” to culture and display the “good works” of Jesus in their cities. They lay out God’s plan for serving civic leaders as Spirit-led ambassadors, so that they see our good works and glorify God because of us. These “good works” are to be Jesus working through us to steward his new Creation in our workplaces and cities.

Jon Petersen's books 'Unravelled' [CityForce, 2018] and 'Unveiled' [CityForce 2019] are available on Amazon, and you can connect with Jon and Ken at www.cityforce.org/ They would love to hear from you.