LEADERSHIP & ACCOUNTABILITY

How does a Boiler Room Community relate to 24-7 ? 

Since the first Boiler Room opened in 2001, we have found that these ‘millennium 3 monasteries’ have looked very different in different cities.  Whilst this diversity is good, we found there was a simple need to clarify what these Boiler Rooms were and then how they related to 24-7.

In the previous sections we have set out what is expected from 24-7 Boiler Rooms. 
This section covers how these Boiler Rooms are accountable and how they relate to the wider movement.  In our early days, this structure was largely top down, like the Roman Monasteries, with a point of contact and then all monasteries linking to that point.  As the movement grows, that structure will inevitably limit growth as well as being slightly alien to our DNA as a movement.  Instead we want to move to a more Celtic model, where monasteries were commissioned and then able to plant other satellite monasteries, which they then oversee.

Boiler Room Centre

A Boiler Room Centre is a Boiler Room that has been licensed by 24-7 to:
o    Train – using 24-7 training resources (E.g. the 24-7 Transit course)
o    Multiply and Lead - planting and supporting other Boiler Rooms in conjunction with 24-7.

A Boiler Room Centre is recognised as a model of good practice, outworking the Boiler Principles, Practices and customary.  A Boiler Room Centre is accountable to a local Board / church and also to 24-7 Prayer nationally. Other Boiler Rooms look to it for support and resources.

Boiler Room Teams

This document has already made mention of 24-7’s overall management and licensing of Boiler Rooms.  Each Boiler Room is ultimately accountable to 24-7’s International Base and to its Trustees.  However day-to-day management of 24-7 Boiler Rooms is divided into three areas:

·    Boiler Room Development Team.  Made up of abbots and abbesses from key Boiler Rooms, this team consults with 24-7’s International Base and co-creates the values and macro development of Boiler Rooms at an international level.

·    Boiler Room Network Team.  Once numbers of Boiler Rooms begin to increase in a nation, a team will develop to provide leadership in country.   Their role is to build relationships with those in their area who are in process of dreaming a Boiler Room for their city. Currently these team are an aspiration rather than a reality as we are in the early stages of developing Boiler Rooms internationally. 

·    Boiler Room Office Team.  This is the team working practically on managing and developing Boiler Rooms.  Currently based in Reading this team has the central responsibility of communication and implementation of Boiler Room vision into the nations. This team currently consists of Andy Freeman, Andy Wilson, Lucy Burnell and Resa Daven in Sweden. 

Review & Relationship

A 24-7 Boiler Room Community (i.e. a 24-7 prayer community that has met the above criteria and been licensed by 24-7 to function as a Boiler Room), takes an important place in the international network of Boiler Rooms. They can expect to share support and resources with other Boiler Rooms around the world.

In order to maintain our edge, and stay true to our purpose, each 24-7 Boiler Room, submits to an annual process of review, according to the principles, practices and customary outlined above. This provides an enriching opportunity for cross-fertilization as well as the safety net of accountability. 24-7 reserves the right to withdraw the Boiler Room license from a community that consistently fails to pursue the purposes and principles of this Boiler Room Rule.

The Practices and the accompanying Customary outlined in this document are themselves subject to an annual review by 24-7’s International Base and by the Boiler Room team to assess their ongoing value to the movement.
   
   

19 Apr 2005