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Category Archive for "Coaching"
1Dec 15, 2024
As I have written recently here at Journey, I love serving as a pastoral coach. Ten years in, I am still amazed that God called me to this place of service in his kingdom. He has given me the privilege of walking with the quality and committed ministers of the Gospel in the Journey community […]
2Nov 15, 2024
It was 10 years ago, and this month, we launched the ministry of Journey Pastoral Coaching. From Day One, we have had one mission: helping young ministers build strong for a lifetime of healthy and effective ministry. Every day since, giving ourselves to this mission has been our happy privilege. Journey is really all about […]
3Nov 1, 2024
TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION I have a confession to make: I am a pastoral coach. And I love it. Many in the church are unfamiliar with pastoral coaching, usually assuming it is what it isn’t. They’re always intrigued when I explain pastoral coaching and how we do it at Journey. I invite you to peruse our […]
4Sep 15, 2024
At Journey Pastoral Coaching, we practice Cross-Coaching, a sustainable coaching model based on the linking of two mentoring relationships: walking with a pastoral coach and a community of peers Our approach is based on the Cross of Jesus and its three components: I. The Vertical Post As the vertical post of the Cross of Jesus dug […]
5Aug 1, 2024
Editor’s Note: Journey Pastoral Coaching is celebrating its 10th year of helping young ministers build strong for a lifetime of healthy and effective ministry. We thank God for His faithfulness. We invite you or your church to partner with us prayerfully and financially as continue to pastor young pastors across the country and overseas. You can […]
6Jul 15, 2024
Journey Pastoral Coaching is celebrating its 10th year of helping young ministers build strong for a lifetime of healthy and effective ministry. We thank God for His faithfulness. These ten years have served to reinforce a principle on which we began: coaching (and ministry in general) is all about relationships. God is Trinity: Father, Son, […]
7Jun 1, 2024
Pastoral coaching-mentorship is a biblical leader development approach, not a leadership development approach: our focus is not on the doing of leadership, but the being of the leader. It is modeled by Jesus as He walks with The Twelve, continued by The Twelve as they walked with John Mark, Barnabas, and others. It is the approach Barnabas used […]
8Dec 1, 2023
As we turn the final pages of 2023, I again offer my list of favorite reads for the year. As always, this is not a list of my favorite books published in 2023, but books read in 2023. If a book is on my “Best Of” list, I recommend you give it a read in 2024. Of interest, the publishing […]
9Oct 1, 2023
October is Pastor appreciation month, a month when we make a special effort as churches and individuals to thank our pastors for their ministry to us as undershepherds of Jesus Christ. “Every Christian’s life is meant to be a parable of Jesus. But pastors are particularly suited to this because so much of our lives […]
10Sep 15, 2023
I have a friend who started a retirement account many years ago, one of those something-something-Bs. He thought it best to prepare for the future, not only his but that of his children and their children. He wanted to do all he could to set in place a healthy scenario for himself and his family […]
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