For those who want to serve the movement of the gospel through coaching of leaders, church planters and teams.

The 21st Century is marked by an ever-changing landscape. This fast pace of change demands that leaders be agile in their ability to assess and to adjust to ever changing situations. Coaching uniquely helps today’s leader to navigate personal and church-plant-related challenges.

WHY COACHING?

Coaching provides accountability and a framework for just-in-time learning as individuals, groups and teams. Coaching helps leaders with forward momentum and development of new skills. A coach is in conversation with leaders in regards to their personal, missional, relational and spiritual life in the context of their communities, team, organizations and church plants.

A TEST-DRIVE

Coaching provides church planters with support, assistance and accountability. A coach helps a planter develop their church-planting competencies, addresses personal life issues, and provides insights into role navigation in the church planting project in the context of an intentional gospel friendship. It is a process of imparting encouragement and skills to the planter in order to succeed in starting a gospel-centered church.

Beautiful phrases, isn’t is?
But training new coaches is like learning to ride a bicycle in a busy city, becoming a soccer-player or how to hunt deer.
Theory and books only will go so far.

So how do we train?
We are convinced that one has to know theory, but it’s the application of what you know… that’s the crux of it. And the way you approach people and content, that’s the art and craft of it.
So our training is based on a lot of learning by doing. You will be coached an coach yourself. And you’re given the chance to observe and discuss coaching-sessions.

And what then would you learn?
We aim for for improved listening skills, empathic presence, good questions and summarisations. We work towards a form foundation in the way the Gospel is listened to and is lived out. And as a coach one needs to have a clear self-insight: So you get to learn yourself even more!

WHAT’S IN THE TEST DRIVE?

1. THE WHY OF GOSPELCOACHING!
   - Vision
   - Centered on planters
   - Coaching as part of the ecosystem of churchplanting

2. HOW WE TRAIN EXPLAINED
   - The flow not the water
   - The power of questions and summarisation
   - The gospel and common idols
   - Do’s and Don’ts for Coaches

3. WHAT WE TRAIN AND WHAT WE BUILD
   - Specific ‘ingredients’ like RPMS, SKIMMIES & CROSS
   - Building a coaching network in Europe:
   a community of coaches, a network of trainers, good contextual materials

What else can you expect

• Our Test-drive is build on the methodology of the actual training: A teach how we preach mini-training.
  So expect

  1. hands-on experience

  2. Personal questions

  3. Mini-excercises

  4. Prayers

  5. Testimonials

  6. Fun

  7. Lots of interaction

  8. Contextual and customised sessions

Below you see what an ecosystem organized around church planting can look like. You understand why we think Coaching adds values!