Coaching Church Planters

Welcome to everyone from a very hot, humid (but beautiful) Nashville, TN. I'm here this week with my wife Gena to complete a Coaching Certification Course for church planters. The course is hosted by Church Coaching Solutions, a Christian Church based ministry led by Bobby Harrington. CCS does the planter training for Stadia: New Church Strategies. CCS is a contracted provider for church planter coach training with Bob Logan's CoachNet. Bob was our primary trainer.

The course began with a 2 day introduction to planter coaching in February. We worked through the material presented in Bob's book Coaching 101 and the Coching 101 Handbook. From February to July all of us coaches were both coached and did hands-on coaching with at least 2 cochees. That was a great experience to be receiving direction and personal coaching while providing the same for these church planters.

While in Nashville we also had the opportunity to visit with the Hillsboro, Woodmont Hills and Otter Creek Churches of Christ. It is always a joy to see the activities of fellow Christians. And just an FYI, Elvis still lives! (at least the show we went to was very good).