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August 2008
How Coaches Can Help Churches
How Coachable Is a Leader?
The Warm Heart of Africa
Sam's Itinerary
July 27 - August 3
Manhattan Beach Camp Winnipeg, Manitoba
August
6-15
Africa
August 17
First Assembly
Aberdeen, North Dakota
August 18-19
Trinity Bible College
Ellendale, North Dakota
August 24
Hope Church
Charlotte, North Carolina
August 31
Fox Valley Christian Fellowship
Kimberly, Wisconsin
Contact Us
Sam Farina
14553 Greenpoint Lane
Huntersville, NC 28078
Office: 919.696.0184
Fax: 800.588.1085
Email:
sfarina@samfarina.com
Website:
www.samfarina.com
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How Coaches Can Help Churches
by
Sam Farina
Congregational coaching
should be rich in content. That is, it is based on assessments that the church
has taken previously and during the coaching. The coach serves as facilitator
in content rich coaching helping the congregation move from their present
reality to the desired changes either discovered from assessments or felt by the
congregation. Contextual framework coaching is a second approach that can be
used with congregations. This is where the coach helps the church find the
image God wants that fits the unique situation of the congregation. The
discovery of the image God wants comes out from within the congregational
members.
After leading the congregation in discovery, the coach then helps facilitate the
spiritual journey of moving the church from discovery to redevelopment.
Content-neutral coaching would not be used in redevelopment since it is
coaching about anything the congregation feels is important. An example of
content-neutral coaching would be a congregation asking a coach to help with
church growth, the choosing of staff, team development, or developing passion.
How Coachable Is a Leader?
The following is an
assessment tool that can be used to discover the coachability of the leadership
of a church. This would be an effective tool in charting the initial openness
and year to year progress of the transformation to a coaching philosophy of the
congregation going through redevelopment.
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Less
More True True |
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1 2 3 4
5 |
Leaders of all
areas of the congregation are willing to support coaching through
regular participation in individual and group coaching sessions. |
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1 2 3 4
5 |
This is the
right time for the congregation to accept coaching. |
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1 2 3 4
5 |
The congregation
has a history of innovative thinking with regard to all areas of church
life. |
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1 2 3 4
5 |
The congregation
is willing to focus on utilizing spiritual gifts and strengthening
strengths of individuals, not on adding skills where there is no
foundation of strength. |
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1 2 3 4
5 |
The congregation
has a reputation of doing what it says it will do. |
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1 2 3 4
5 |
Time for
coaching sessions is not an issue for the congregation, coaching is seen
as an investment. |
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1 2 3 4
5 |
The congregation
would be willing to put a ?covenant? in place committing to work with
the coach, support all coaching activities and make appropriate
congregation-wide adjustments that result from individual and group
coaching sessions. |
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1 2 3 4
5 |
The congregation
is willing to look at any and every part of its church life for
improvement. |
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1 2 3 4
5 |
The congregation
has a history of commitment to continuous improvement as evidenced by
significant changes that have been successfully implemented.
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1 2 3 4
5 |
The vision of
the congregation is well understood and embraced by all. |
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TOTAL SCORE |
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Scoring Key |
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10-20 |
Not coachable
right now. |
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21-30 |
Coachable, but
ground rules should be put in place and honored! |
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31-40 |
Coachable. |
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41-50 |
Very coachable;
ask the coach to demand a lot from the congregation! |
?Coach U,? n.p. [cited 27 January 2005]. Online: http://www.coachinc.com.
The Warm Heart of Africa
This
week, I am privileged to preach the
Gospel in Malawi Africa, the seventh poorest nation in the world with one
million orphans and with the life expectancy being only 41.7 years old.
Yet, incredibly this nation is still considered the warm heart of Africa, not
only for the incredible warmth of the air, but due to the amazing warmth of the
hearts of these people in need. "Need" doesn't even seem strong enough a word
to describe the amount of people stricken with poverty. "Need" does not fairly
describe the amount of people struggling through the end of life with HIV AIDS.
"Need" is a weak word for those who are living their lives without the knowledge
of the One who came to give them life.
It is into this incredible country that
in August of 2008 the first YC on the
African continent will be held. YC is Canada's largest Youth Conference;
and this year it's going global. Not only will there be a life-changing
event on the weekend of August 8th, 2008 (08/08/08), but our dream is to impact
the country by sending in up to 12 teams from Canada (under the leadership of
Mike Love) to minister with compassion, love, and truth to this warm country.
Indeed, God is using the prayerful
support of friends like you to share Christ with thousands of people.
Thank you for helping us reach this nation one heart at a time.
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