How do you train missional coaches well?

Coaching

Sure, you can send them to a training event and have them do some reading.  But if you really want a practical level of competency, you also need to help coaches-in-training get some hands-on experience:  living missionally themselves, practicing coaching, getting...

Why get missional coach training?

Coaching, Leadership, Training

  Ministry leaders are at least 50% more effective with coaching. They need someone who will listen, ask them questions, and help them reflect on what they’re hearing from God. They need someone who will help them develop action plans and stay accountable to...

Coach or cash?

Coaching

A man I work with in the transitional living center recently wrote a letter to me and Janet asking for $100. Our policy in environments where we volunteer is that is that we don’t give money directly to individuals, but we do give time and training to them. That’s the...

Catch the seashore vision

Coaching, Leadership, Visionizing

As a young church planter, knocking on doors in the 70s and struggling to get a new church up and running, I had a vision that has since directed the rest of my life. In my vision I was standing at the seashore in southern California. I was joined by other church...

Advice for an upcoming confrontation

Coaching

Sometimes we don’t have much warning when we’re heading into a confrontation or difficult conversation.  But in other cases, we have a pretty good idea on the front end that things might get challenging. As the Apostle Paul wrote, “I always want to give a good report...