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Coaching gives you the follow through you need to accomplish the goals you’ve set for yourself and your ministry.
How can you best equip your people for ministry?
What kind of training do you need? We design interactive training systems geared toward coaches, church planters, disciplers, pastors and key leaders.
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We can enter your ministry situation to help you find contextualized solutions.
On-ramps for bringing people on-board
I live in Pasadena near the oldest freeway in the country-- the 110. In the oldest section of that freeway, they have stop signs just before you enter the freeway. There’s a stop sign, then you have literally 50 feet to get onto the freeway. You have to sit there at a...
Vineyard movement: Everybody gets to play
Everybody gets to play-- that’s one of my favorite sayings from the Vineyard movement. But here’s a question: If everybody gets to play, where’s the playbook? What are the little pieces that you can help people with so they can participate more easily? Here are two...
Video clip training
A while back I was thinking of ways to make training more easily reproducible, and I came up with the idea of video clip training. Basically, you identify the material you need to cover and break it down into little units. Do a 3-5 minute video clip for each unit to...
Intentionalizing the spontaneous
I began coaching a leader in a growing organization recently and he came to an important realization: what had been working for leadership development and discipleship in the past wasn’t working as well anymore. Some of the dynamics had changed since the organization...
The emotional tollbooth
The emotional tollbooth is a term coined by David Nicholson, founding pastor of Open Door Church in Noblesville, Indiana, as his church was going through the Natural Church Development (NCD) process. The first step in the process is taking a survey designed to point...
Cheeseburger, cheeseburger
When you approach something from a consultant perspective, you need to see what the church needs... not just your area of specialty. Instead, a good consultant sorts out their needs and approaches the situation appropriately, referring to the appropriate tools for the...
The Practices of a Barnabas
I talk about Barnabas a lot. He’s one of my favorite biblical characters… probably because he functions as a behind-the-scenes coach empowering others. I heard a talk that Bubba Justice gave on the practices of a Barnabas, taken from his study of the book of Acts....
Three words
Recently friend and pastor Dennis Easter shared three words with me that he has found helpful in life and ministry… words that set the stage for a way of living different than what most of us are experiencing on a day-to-day basis. Pace, Space, and Grace Pace -...
What makes a network work? #4: Focused prayer
The final of the four essential elements for making any network fully functional is focused prayer. Investing time in praying together provides the spiritual and relational support people need to do the difficult work of the ministry together. Prayer with and for one...
What makes a network work? #3: Peer relationships
The third of the four essential elements for making any network full functional is peer relationships. Peer relationships are the most attractive part of a network for pastoral leaders. There is nothing like a roomful of people who are sharing the risk, joy and...