Using the stages of grief in congregational leadership

Today’s entry is by guest blogger Dave Wasemann. As I was coaching a pastor recently I had an insight:  I was hearing the pastor reflect the five stages of grief through leadership and membership of the congregation. Is it possible to glean insights from work done on...

You can’t do change alone

  By guest blogger Dave Wasemann of www.visionteam.info When you’re balancing leading a local congregation with a deficient budget and angry people, ministry can get ugly fast. You need a bigger perspective, that calm divine company that directs your eyes upward....

D + V + CA = C

  Dave Wasemann, of www.visionteam.info has been walking mainline pastors through my latest book, The Missional Journey. He has developed a protocol of involving people in a study of the book for a few months, then meeting with them once a month for eight months...
One way through the Missional Journey

One way through the Missional Journey

By guest blogger Dave Wasemann I am a coach working with pastors and have recently developed a process for guiding them through Bob’s latest book The Missional Journey. Meet every two weeks to discuss one of the first eight chapters of the book (4 months). Orient and...

Coaching a second grader

Here’s a fabulous coaching story by ministry leader Dave Wasemann: I am preparing a fourth grader and a second grader for baptism and first communion. They are related so we meet in the kitchen of one family’s home. We have been studying four chapters a week in...