Not to oversimplify, but branding is simply having a cohesive look and a cohesive message. Put another way, its the packaging and communicating of what you do, whom you serve and how you stand out…
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Over the years I’ve personally been deeply grieved to watch a number of important relationships in the Christian coaching world implode over contract issues. Those experiences started me thinking: what does scripture have to say about a Christian coachs relationship to contracts and the legal system? We all use coaching agreements, and we have contracts with the schools that train us with those who do work for us. Is the way we craft these agreements biblical, or are we just copying common business practices without really thinking about how the fit with a Kingdom perspective?
So let’s dive in and explore what a biblical approach to coaching contracts might look like…
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Judy Santos, MCC, founder and director of the Christian Coaches Network, passed away on Tuesday, March 2, in Bellingham, WA. She was a beloved coach, mentor, colleague, friend, mother and grandmother. As a community of Christian coaches, we grieve with her family and all those who knew and loved her.
It may be her cheerfully raspy voice or delightfully distinctive laugh that we first remember when we think of Judy Santos. After all, as coaches living in a virtual community, many of our most significant relationships…
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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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“Why has God given Christian Coaching to the Church at this time?”
The retreat leader who asked this question to a group of Christian Coaches said that he wasn’t sure that the Christian Coaching movement as a whole had a clear answer. He also said that we needed to understand God’s purpose for Christian Coaching in order to be good stewards of the ministry into which He had called us.
The answers from the audience were similar. The theme was that God isn’t done in human history, that The Church is His chosen vessel through which He wants to accomplish His purposes and Christian Coaching is a way to strengthen it. In other words, Christian Coaching is one way God wants to strengthen the Church to fulfill its purposes…
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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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Missions coaching is a new and exciting part of the Christian Coaching movement, with great potential to support the expansion of God’s kingdom around the world. We have an opportunity, as missions coaches, to cooperate…
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