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does this Coaching Network really work? Check out the following and
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The Coach -- Serves the Team Leaders |
A gifted church
planting team leader who has had a few years of experience and makes himself
available to serve other team leaders within his general vicinity.
The coach is a servant who encourages and facilitates. He does not
control. He will not push uniformity of church planting methods but
will promote application of Biblical church planting principles.
The coach learns by doing. He develops the skills needed to help other
church planting team leaders:
1) evaluate their progress in light of their goals,
2) make their own plans for their next steps,
3) acquire training materials which will better equip them and their teams
in their work.
The relationship between coach and team leaders is shown in this diagram: |
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As a coach gains
more experience, he is able to serve up to five different church planting
team leaders. More than that creates difficulties in maintaining his own
involvement in church planting.
Coaching chains emerge naturally. Some coaches will want to encourage
gifted team leaders whom they have served to progress into the role of coach
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The Network Coach
-- Serves the CP Coaches |
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Serves
other coaches as the number of teams and coaches grows, and as relationships
continue to develop.
Dick Scoggins, coach to FRONTIERS teams says, "I think it is likely that the
network coach will emerge from experience. As he reproduces himself in
others, networks will begin to form around his disciples."
A network coach is one who reproduces and serves other coaches. He may be
able to work directly with a maximum of five coaches. With this being more
time consuming, the network coach is often unable to continue to lead a
church planting team. (He would coach a team member to take his place.)
The relationship between network coach and coaches is shown in this diagram:
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These field-based network coaches facilitate
other coaches. Their goal is to help coaches succeed in helping team leaders
succeed in helping churches reproduce among the unreached.
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Regional Coaching Facilitator -- Serves the
Network Coaches |
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He builds up the
network coaches by staying in close communication with them helping them
evaluate progress and make plans--the same as all the coaches do. (Once
again, it is important to remember that he is facilitating not controlling
coaches.) He also helps to oversee the flow of information and training
resources within the COACHING NETWORK. He will be limited in the number of
people that he can effectively serve. Five network coaches may be his
maximum.
The following diagram illustrates the relationship between the Regional
Facilitator and the network coaches:
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As
YWAM Frontier Missions continues to grow, Regional Facilitators are expected
to emerge for each frontier region.
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| Concluding Comments |
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As
coaching chains evolve, every YWAM church planting team will have access to
a coach if they desire. The coach is available to give personal attention
to the team leader, offering encouragement, fellowship, advice and training
in church planting strategy.
The structure is personal, relational, decentralized and field based. It
propels team leaders forward. It does not hold them back nor control them.
This scenario is already well developed in the South Asia region. It has
been growing through relationships. Rather than being administratively
imposed, it has emerged in a "grass roots" way.
The result we look for is network coaches giving of themselves to coaches,
coaches to team leaders, team leaders to team members, team members to
potential local elders of the emerging churches, elders to faithful
disciples, faithful disciples to new converts, new converts to receptive
friends and relatives...all for the purpose of chain reactive reproduction
of churches among unreached people groups. |
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