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Multitudes!
We hear stories like David’s over and over
again as we equip leaders to coach well.
Over the past year, I’ve had the privilege of
training coaches in the U.S., Canada, South
America, the Caribbean, and Africa. I have
heard comments like these from leaders
I’ve trained:
“This makes everything
we do more effective.”
By Dr. Tim Roehl,
Director of Training & Development,
One Mission Society
—Sergei, pastor from Ecuador
Suddenly his eyes lit up. “Coaching! I love
coaching! Dean coached me and trained
me to coach. I coached all my pastors
and trained them to coach all the pastors
they are raising up.” With big smiles on our
faces, we hugged each other like two longtime friends.
I had never met David (pronounced
Dah-veed) before hearing him at one of our
OMS training events. David, an Ecuadorian
OMSer, now serves in Spain as a missionary to reach people for Jesus and plant
new churches. Using the training that OMS
equipped him with, David has seen more
than 40 new churches begin in just seven
years. Speaking through a translator on a
break, I asked him if I could give him a copy
of my TransforMissional Coaching book.
That’s when his eyes lit up and he told me
his story of using coaching skills to multiply
himself by empowering others.
When he mentioned that Dean (Dean
Davis, executive director of OMS’ Every
Community for Christ ministry, our church
multiplication specialists) had coached him
and trained him to coach, my eyes lit up.
I had trained Dean to coach! Here before
me was a leader I’d never met, working in
a nation I’ve not been to, describing four
generations of empowering leaders through
coaching!
David recently told me that they now
have more than 60 churches in his network,
and they are expanding to more nations.
I’m thrilled when I hear stories like David’s
… such is the multiplying power of good
coaching skills.
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“A movement began as you
coached our leader under that tree.”
—Mozambican pastor
“You cast a long shadow over
everything we do in India.”
—Roger, an OMS church multiplication
facilitator for leaders in India
Coaching skills allow us to come alongside and empower anyone, anywhere, anytime, about anything. Good coaching involves listening to where God is working in
a person’s life and then asking great questions that help them identify a goal they
want to accomplish, clarifying their current
reality, generating options, and deciding
their action steps to move forward.
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