Coaching

Ministry is hard. I’ve had my share of failures and successes in ministry. I’ve had periods in my life when I wanted to leave ministry.

Maybe you know that feeling too, when:

• it seems like everything you take in spiritually is used to try to feed your congregation spiritually. There is nothing left for your own soul.
• you find yourself doing everything in the church
• you are so worn out because people’s needs drain you
• you spend so much time with others that your family suffers.
• you rarely eat at home
• you have extended periods of mood swings
• you have no one to confide in.
• you have run out of ideas.

Or maybe you need help working through a ministry project. Or a difficult situation in your church. Or maybe you just need someone to listen when you need to vent.

Listen, everyone needs a coach. Including pastors. Especially pastors.

I have been on staff in mega-churches and small churches. Church plants and church restarts. Traditional churches and contemporary missional churches. I have transitioned churches and have been blown up by them!

I can help.

I have served as a pastoral coach with Life Counseling Center in Easton, MD. I am an expert coach/adviser for George Fox Seminary’s Doctor of Ministry program where I help students produce dissertations in spiritual formation, technology, theology, missional ministry, and publishing.

I currently coach people in the following areas:

• Missional ministry
• Transitioning churches
• Church planting and the church planter assessment process
• Conflict management
• Personal life coaching
• Spiritual formation
• Doctoral dissertation writing
• Publishing

I will even allow you to Rent My Brain.

What’s that? We can spend time on a regular basis coming up with sermon ideas, ministry ideas. If you need ideas, I can work with you to generate them. In fact, this is one of my specialties!

If you are interested in pastoral coaching, please contact me. I look forward to working with you!