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Transformation ...
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Life Coaching
There's a lot of people throwing out the term "coaching." It is used in a variety of ways. I've had a lot of training in my first four years to ramp me up to coaching. A coach works with pastors and church leaders in helping them move from current reality to their...
Equipping the Chinese Church
One of the surprising outcomes of the summer was being involved with the Chinese Church of Akron. It wasn't even on my radar in May, but in July things changed. That was fun. My friend Todd McKenney has ministered for a long time with them, particularly when he on...
Two churches thinking deeply
This week I'm taking a new step with two of the churches I am working with. They have taken the Reveal Survey, which will give them a huge amount of information about the spiritual condition of the their congregation. It will give them a number of priorities to be...
Stories behind the Postcard
I had a hard time picking just three pictures from my trip to Scotland for the postcard I sent out. Here's the story behind each of them. The big picture is at St Andrews. There's a huge St Andrews cathedral built bearing his name. It is Kate's and my favorite places...
Key Moment in Disciplemaking in Scotland
I just finished today our three day conference with the YL staff. What an honor to be with them. This is such an exciting time for the UK young life staff. They have a neat unity within the team. It's fun being with them to enjoy the community. They have been given a...
I was taught in Edinburgh
I learned something last night. I've been pronouncing the word "Edinburgh" incorrectly. One street over from my house is EdinBURGH. I pronounce it as two syllables. But here in Scotland it's three. ...Edin-bu-rrah. That was just was the first thing I learned. So last...
Night in Perth
Last night was our pastors and lay leaders workshop on disciplemaking. About 25 men and women joined us at Blend Coffee Shop in Perth. There were a few surprising things. First, there were in attendance some fantastic disciplers. It was so fun to have them share and...
Scotland Prayer Requests
I am so privileged to be asked to assist pastors and Young Life staff in the UK. This May I'll spend nine days running workshops and interacting with key leadership of the country. My daughter will be joining me too, which is a thrill to have her with me. The...
Focusing My Vision
As a part of my own life coaching I've been going through I've had to pull away and consider my mission and vision. It's been a great process. I'm grateful to my coach Bill Mowry and the system setup that enhances clarity. So after about a year and a half of...
The Christmas Truce
This year marks the 100th year of the Christmas Truce. World War I was in it's first year. The overwhelming horrors of the war had not become full blown. This was the war when trench warfare became so important. In the fall of 1914 both sides tried to out flank each...
More of the Story, part 4
This is the last of the unedited comments from my Christmas update. Life Coaching is a big part of what how I want to accomplish my ministry. Coaching is different from mentoring because in coaching you allow the client to set the agenda and what they want to...
More of the Story, part 3
This is more from my series of posts following up my newsletter. I couldn't put all the comments the guys wrote in my Christmas letter, so I thought I'd give the rest of the story here. Karl, Mike, Aaron and I meet on Saturday for an hour or two ...or sometimes three....
More of the Story, Part 2
One of the first churches I started to work with even before I came of staff with The Navs was Providence Church in Avon. I met with Andy and Tom to talk about their groups ministry and discipleship at the Bob Evans on Rockside Rd. I was still interviewing with The...
More of the Story
You may have already bumped into the latest newsletter from December. I thought you might like to read the rest of what the four folks wrote to me. This first story Pastor Bob Quaintance shares his journey into engaging more deeply with the scriptures. Bob and I have...
Moving Churches Ahead
This past Saturday we spent six hours with 70 church leaders from seven congregations. What a great day. These churches have been gathering to learn how they can build a disciplemaking culture in their church. They are in year two of our three-year process. We...
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