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Thursday, June 11, 2015

Small Church Coaching

"I believe small churches are uniquely poised to meet the needs of Millennials and perhaps turn the tide on the trend of the unchurched." 
KARL VATERS 

I have been in ministry for over fifteen years. The over part is due to work accomplished in seminary and college. Of course, I was not ordained or much of what is considered "professional" church leader in those days, but I was in leadership in different situations in the life of the church. I was even director of the Vacation Bible School on summer in collage (I was a Christian Education major). 

In these fifteen years, I have been blessed to serve in a variety of settings. My home church is a larger congregation (1300 or so members). During collage, I attend what many would call a medium church. My plans when I went to seminary were to work as an associate pastor in a large church. As I learned and participated in internships, I started asking myself how I could be the second or third pastor in a church when there where churches with no pastor. I began sensing a call to small church ministry as a solo pastor. 

For the last fifteen years, I have served as a small church pastor. I felt the frustration the members of the church feel with limited and decreasing financial and personal resources. They see the building falling apart around them and costing more and more each year. I share in these frustrations as the leader of these congregations. As their leader, I would search and look for avenues to assist congregations with growth and new programs. I would get frustrated as I found consultants and coaches for churches that were expensive. Small churches do not have the extra income to hire these consultants. 

Karl Vaters is the mind behind a website based on serving small churches. He is the author to the quote on the top of the page. The whole articles are based on the idea that small churches are best situated to serve the younger generation. I believe he is full of truth. The whole article is encouraging for the small church. 

It is my passion, my calling, and my agreement with the above article that I see and want to serve small churches in a coach capacity. Coaching allows an outsider to come into the congregation, ask some important questions of the church to help them see themselves and discover what God is calling the congregation to accomplish in their community and the world. 

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