Coaching, Leadership, Networking, Training
One of the four essential elements for making any network fully functional is an emphasis on adult learning. This engages participants through appropriate activities and reflection. It is learner-oriented rather than teacher-oriented. Consider these principles of...
Coaching, Leadership, Networking
Exciting things are happening in some churches. Others are encountering struggles. Leaders are looking for ideas, for encouragement. You can see the connections that would be helpful… but it feels like no one knows about them but you. Everyone is doing their own...
Coaching, Leadership, Networking, Teambuilding
The most common way to do coaching is one-on-one. Yet I’ve found that another strategy that works well is coaching one-on-three– what I call coaching clusters. As a coach, I have each person prepare individually. Then during a 90-minute session, I coach each...
Church Planting, Leadership, Networking
We’ve just completed a series on church planting and incarnational living in small towns and rural areas. The concept is small handfuls of people in each geographic community who meet together regularly, yet are networked with similar groups across the region....
Church Development, Leadership, Networking
By guest blogger Ronnie Higuera, church planter and pastor. Ronnie is part of a network of leaders planting churches across small towns and rural areas. In five years, we’ve seen six churches born out of Canyon View Vineyard Church in Grand Junction, Colorado....
Church Planting, Leadership, Networking
I recently had a delightful time meeting with a group of church planters and pastors who have a vision to plant churches across rural and small town areas. Now if you’re thinking of planting traditional types of churches, that can be overwhelming in a rural...
