Coaching
Because no one should do this alone.
Have you ever left a conversation with clarity, insight, and courage? That’s the kind of feeling you get with a great coach. That’s why we have experienced leaders to coach you as you develop a new worshiping community. We believe this is essential for healthy and sustainable ministry, so we would like to connect you with a specially trained coach. Coaches meet regularly with you to listen, ask great questions, help you discover your gifts, and enable you to discern the way forward when you get stuck.
Do you have a coach? Let us help you find a great one.
Details
We have 60 trained new worshiping community coaches from different regions and different cultures with experience in urban and suburban ministry. Our coaches are pastors or leaders who have started new communities themselves--or helped others start them. They are not experts. But they can help you: weigh decisions which must be made, pay attention to what God is doing, encourage intentionality in your actions, foster space for discernment and strategy, find courage to take risks, keep you on track and moving forward. We would love to get you connected to a coach to help you with your project.
The cost of a coach is $1,500/year plus any expenses of a site visit. The typical coaching relationship consists of one site visit per year (touring the ministry context, meeting with leaders/core group/stakeholders/presbytery teams) and two half hour to hour long phone conversations per month.
If you are interested in coaching, contact Shannon Kiser, who will ask you to write up a short description of your ministry and what you're looking for in a coach. She will recruit a potential coach for you, and will connect you for an initial coaching conversation. If after that conversation you feel like it could be a fruitful coaching relationship, you and your coach will work out a contract.
The NWC investment grants and growth grants include the expectation of a coach, and have increased in value to assume the cost of coaching. Why not start now to get connected with a coach who can walk alongside you in this journey?