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Coaching Church Planters: What Does it Take? by Bob Logan

Tony Stoltzfus — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:43:54 +0000

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?

Ask Profound Questions…Get Profound Answers

Jerome Daley — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:29:02 +0000

[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] Ask Profound Questions…Get Profound Answers! from ChristianCoachingMag.com By Bobb Biehl The key to focusing your thinking is asking profound questions. Without focusing and getting to clarity you [...]

Unmasking, by Marian Struble

Kimberly Dinsdale — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:58:15 +0000

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.

The 7 Best Practices, by Tim Olson

MCC Moderator — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:28:12 +0000

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” and what are the best practices to retain personnel? In a reliable study on missionary retention and the ability of a [...]

Coaching Pioneer Church Planters: Time to Leave, by Jeannette Slater

MCC Moderator — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:17:21 +0000

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 always to turn leadership over to local leaders. The danger is that new converts attach themselves to the ex-patriot missionary [...]

Coaching Pioneer Church Planters: Reproducibility, by Jeannette Slater

MCC Moderator — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:03:38 +0000

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 cannot support these long-term, the missionary is not demonstrating a reproducible way of starting new churches. The result is that [...]

Developing Coaches within the Church: Expose the Problem and Solution to Key Staff

Russ Rainey — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:50:37 +0000

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.

Coaching Pioneer Church Planters: Use of Time, by Jeannette Slater

MCC Moderator — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:46:47 +0000

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 contribute to their sense of well-being or sense of accomplishment are not wrong but if those activities start to take [...]

Coaching Pioneer Church Planters: The CP Team, by Jeannette Slater

MCC Moderator — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:44:25 +0000

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 understand the challenge church planters are facing! As a coach we can be an essential part of the team even [...]

A Congregational Coach in Residence

Russ Rainey — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:41:17 +0000

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.

Leadership Development by John Purcell

John Purcell — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:13:29 +0000

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 need of more and better leaders. And with the Baby Boom generation retiring and being phased out, Peter Drucker said [...]

Coaching the Discipling Leader by John Purcell

cherylbaker — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:47:58 +0000

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 leaders in any ministry role inside or outside the church should have as one of their goals to strive to [...]

The Present Future Continued

Russ Rainey — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:55:25 +0000

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.

Introduction to the Present Future

Russ Rainey — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:25:22 +0000

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

Coaching for Joe Plumber

Russ Rainey — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:01:31 +0000

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...