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Posted in CCM - Featured Articles, CCM - Featured Column by Jerome Daley Mar 24th, 2010 |
Tags: Accountability, Church, Church Growth, Coaching Community, Communication, Impact of Coaching |
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[The articles I post on the Coaching Center are drawn from recent issues of Christian Coaching Magazine and represent a wide array of leaders and coaches as the authors. Thanks for reading! -Jerome Daley, Publisher]…
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Posted in CCM - Featured Column by Jerome Daley Feb 25th, 2010 |
Tags: Benefits of Coaching, Church Growth, Coaching Community, How To..., Impact of Coaching, Marketing, Personal Growth |
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I’ve been coaching church planters for over twenty years now. Church planters are a unique breed, often presenting distinctive challenges to their coaches. I know this because I’ve also been—and currently am—a church planter. I know firsthand how challenging we can be, and I also know what we need from our coaches.
Our international qualitative research project shows the outcomes of what good coaching accomplishes. We have isolated the competencies and microskills a coach needs to accomplish those outcomes. But one question I’m often asked is this: To coach a church planter effectively, what else is needed besides the basics of being a good coach?
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Posted in Featured Content by Tony Stoltzfus Feb 15th, 2010 |
Tags: Church, Church Growth, Leadership, Techniques and Skills |
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[The articles I post on the Coaching Center are drawn from recent issues of Christian Coaching Magazine and represent a wide array of leaders and coaches as the authors. Thanks for reading! -Jerome Daley, Publisher]
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Posted in CCM - Featured Column by Jerome Daley Feb 11th, 2010 |
Tags: Church Growth, Coaching Community, Coaching Relationship, Impact of Coaching, Personal Growth |
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[The articles I post on ChurchCentral are drawn from recent issues of Christian Coaching Magazine and represent a wide array of leaders and coaches as the authors. Thanks for reading! -Jerome]
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Posted in [None] by Jerome Daley Jan 26th, 2010 |
Tags: Accountability, Benefits of Coaching, Church, Church Growth, Coaching Community, Coaching Relationship, Discipleship, Life Balance, Personal Growth |
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Women often find themselves hiding. Ever since Eve chose to eat the apple, mankind has been covering themselves up with the fig leafs. There are a lot of reasons. We mask our shame, fear, insecurity, loneliness, and low self worth. We cover up our true heart desires, convincing ourselves we are silly to want to accomplish something more. We live in a world of make believe instead of the real one we were destined by God to help create.
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Posted in Coaching Women - Guest Posts by Kimberly Dinsdale Oct 20th, 2009 |
Tags: Accountability, Church Growth, Coaching Community, Impact of Coaching, Personal Growth |
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An alarming trend: "Over the past 20 years there has been an increasing number of people leaving the mission field for reasons that could have been potentially prevented or avoided!"
What are these "potentially preventable reasons"…
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Posted in Missions Coaching - Guest Posts by MCC Moderator Aug 15th, 2009 |
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Church planters that are coming from a different culture or nationality must always begin with the end in mind; that they are not going to be the long-term pastor of the church. The goal is…
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Posted in Missions Coaching - Guest Posts by MCC Moderator Jul 7th, 2009 |
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An important principle in pioneer church planting is reproducibility. Missionaries coming in may bring with them methods, techniques, resources, or equipment that can facilitate the starting of a new church. However if the local culture…
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Posted in Missions Coaching - Guest Posts by MCC Moderator Jul 3rd, 2009 |
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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.
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Posted in Coaching and the Church by Russ Rainey Jul 1st, 2009 |
Tags: Church, Church Growth, Coaching Community, Discipleship |
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Because church planters have to pay attention to all aspects of the church planting effort, it is easy to get distracted into activities that are tangential to the church plant itself. Interests or opportunities that…
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Posted in Missions Coaching - Guest Posts by MCC Moderator Jun 29th, 2009 |
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What an awesome privilege - to coach church planters who are on the front lines of church extension. Church planting is often a lonely prospect with few who join in the work and few who…
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Posted in Missions Coaching - Guest Posts by MCC Moderator Jun 25th, 2009 |
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Eddie Hammett, Senior Coach and Consultant for the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina talks about the benefits of churches having a Congregational Coach in Residence and the options churches might consider for working with a certified coach.
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Posted in Coaching and the Church Guest Posts, [None] by Russ Rainey Apr 22nd, 2009 |
Tags: Benefits of Coaching, Church, Church Growth, Coaching Relationship, Organizations |
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The effectiveness of our organizations, churches, non-profits, governments, and businesses alike is directly related to the quality of the leaders of those organizations. We probably know of few of those that are not in great…
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Posted in Coaching and Discipleship by John Purcell Apr 7th, 2009 |
Tags: Church Growth, Leadership, Techniques and Skills, Training |
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For a while now I have been using the term "Discipling Leader," and I firmly believe it describes an idea that could change the church world. The simplest statement of the concept is this: Christian…
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Posted in Coaching and Discipleship by cherylbaker Apr 7th, 2009 |
Tags: Benefits of Coaching, Church Growth, Discipleship, Leadership |
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