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		<title>Injecting the Church with Coaching? Part 5 – Train the Staff</title>
		<link>http://www.christiancoachingcenter.org/index.php/2010/10/how-to-inject-the-church-with-coaching-part-5-%e2%80%93-train-the-staff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 04:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The staff had self-diagnosed the problem – too many congregants with issues. Our lead pastor had agreed that even he was at his wits’ end on how to handle other’s issues well. But they all had the same question, “Could this coaching thing really be helpful?”  Hence the next step of getting our staff initially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Find a Coaching Co-conspirator: Who Can Help? by Brian Rhen</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 05:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Rhen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part 4 of 12 – How to Inject the Church with Coaching –
I have learned that I can only get myself so far until I typically hit my own glass ceiling. Let’s face it – our emotions, lack of wisdom, and personal limitations in ability so often are the invisible, but real barriers that hinder [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christian Life Coaching &amp; the Local Church by Russ Rainey</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brian_rhen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Great Commission, the mandate of the local church is to win people to Christ, enable their growth as disciples, and then equip those same disciples to launch out on their own kingdom assignments in partnership with God.  This has always been a daunting task, but in our post-modern age, it has become [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recruiting Coaches for Lay Coach Training</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russ Rainey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Become a Coach]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Programs come and go in the church all the time, and if you're as passionate about training lay coaches as I am, you will want your first training to have a good reputation and a life-changing impact for the long-haul.  The best way to do that may be to carefully think through how to recruit your first class of potential coaches.  I recently had a good experience recruiting and training lay discipleship coaches in my own church, so here's a first-hand summary of what seemed to work:
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		<title>Pastor Involvement with Church Coaching Ministry</title>
		<link>http://www.christiancoachingcenter.org/index.php/2009/09/pastor-involvement-with-church-coaching-ministry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christiancoachingcenter.org/index.php/2009/09/pastor-involvement-with-church-coaching-ministry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russ Rainey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the first round of our church staff coach training, he spent most of the time on his new Blackberry. A year later, during the second round of training, he informed me he was leaving early...Hence, we had a problem, since he was not fully engaged in the staff-wide coaching training which our senior staff had agreed upon...When the dust cleared, the following insight became obvious about the role of the lead pastor when attempting to inject a coaching methodology into the DNA of paid and unpaid staff: 
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		<title>Developing Coaches within the Church:  Expose the Problem and Solution to Key Staff</title>
		<link>http://www.christiancoachingcenter.org/index.php/2009/07/developing-coaches-within-the-church-expose-the-problem-and-solution-to-key-staff/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christiancoachingcenter.org/index.php/2009/07/developing-coaches-within-the-church-expose-the-problem-and-solution-to-key-staff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russ Rainey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brian Rhen, pastor at Peninsula Covenant Church near San Franciso, is patiently working with his church to become a coaching culture by adding coaching to the overall people development process - that is, training both staff and volunteers in coaching skills and then encouraging them and holding them accountable in the practice of these new skills.]]></description>
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		<title>The Present Future Continued</title>
		<link>http://www.christiancoachingcenter.org/index.php/2009/03/624/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christiancoachingcenter.org/index.php/2009/03/624/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russ Rainey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coaching and the Church]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We now have good research that says that church programming alone does not consistently produce mature disciples.  What McNeal is clearly saying is that life coaching offers us a better alternative for discipleship.
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		<title>Introduction to the Present Future</title>
		<link>http://www.christiancoachingcenter.org/index.php/2009/03/619/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christiancoachingcenter.org/index.php/2009/03/619/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russ Rainey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coaching and the Church]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A church leadership expert talks about coaching and discipleship - Reggie McNeal, author of The Present Future, on why coaching should be the spiritual growth methodology of choice instead of just giving folks more head knowledge]]></description>
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		<title>Coaching for Joe Plumber</title>
		<link>http://www.christiancoachingcenter.org/index.php/2009/01/coaching-for-joe-plumber/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christiancoachingcenter.org/index.php/2009/01/coaching-for-joe-plumber/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russ Rainey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coaching and the Church]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will the local church accept the coach approach to leading and disciple-making? Friends have heard me rant for several years about "Why aren't Christian coaches using their coaching skills in their own local churches...]]></description>
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		<title>Reveal Study Summary</title>
		<link>http://www.christiancoachingcenter.org/index.php/2009/01/reveal-study-summary/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christiancoachingcenter.org/index.php/2009/01/reveal-study-summary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russ Rainey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This study "suggests that the church provides minimal support for those who are most devoted to Christ.  Since these people are the best equipped and most motivated advocates for Christ, providing them with ... coaching and encouragement could reap great gains for the kingdom." 
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