Coaching is central to Overseed’s strategy for revitalizing New England churches . The goal of the coach is to come alongside pastors to primarily guide and provide resources to help jump start ministry.
Overseed coaches are pastors of a strong local church who desire to serve their sister churches in the surrounding region by helping them reverse the decline and flourish once again. The coaches work with pastors and share their wisdom, experience and resources, where appropriate.
Declining churches are typically short of qualified leaders and laborers in five key foundation areas of the church life:
Typically, a pastor struggles for years in order to develop enough lay leaders to adequately address these five key ministry areas. An Overseed coach can help shorten the time it takes for a replant church to regain health by coaching ministry leaders and providing other resources in these five areas. The particulars of helping a replant church varies from church to church, but the overall goal is to empower the replant church to do ministry.
Besides being a blessing to a church, the coach’s church members can also gain significant ministry experience in a New England context. This is a great opportunity for the “B” team to gain ministry experience in the midst of offering significant help to a smaller church.
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For more information on becoming an Overseed coach contact Jim Harrell at jim@overseed.org or Jack Daniel at jack@overseed.org.