Coaching of pastors and ministry teams
Aim
To build churches with a disciple-making rather than a program culture
What does this disciple-making culture look like?
- Pastors leading training teams
- Small groups as disciple-making communities with leaders trained as disciple-makers
- Parents discipling their children
- Sunday gatherings with effective welcoming and ministry of the pew
- A network of personal discipling relationships
- General commitment and skills in evangelism and inviting
- Mission teams reaching local communities
Flexible coaching process
- Set vision, goals and implementation steps with staff and lay leaders
- Personal or group coaching for ministry staff
- Identify and train a vinegrower trainer in each church
Possible workshops conducted with church members
- Vision of disciple-making - day or weekend for whole church
- Training for small group leaders as disciple-makers
- Parents discipling children
- Ministry of the Pew
- One-to-one Bible reading
- Equipping pastoral workers to follow-up contacts
- Training for mission teams / evangelists
- Vintage - mobilizing the over 50's