Dan Rogers announced recently that Anthony Mullins, in addition to his responsibilities as GenMin director, will be coordinating CAD’s ministry coaching services. Anthony will oversee the training and certifying of new ministry coaches and the assigning of coaches to assist new church planters, new (first time) pastors, and other pastoral and ministry leaders serving within GCI-USA.
CAD is committed to providing quality ministry coaching services because coaching is highly effective in helping people reach personal and vocational goals. This effectiveness is born out by research including a study conducted by Manchester, Inc., which showed that coaching greatly helps turn knowledge into practice:
- 5% of learners transfer new skills into their practice as a result of theory
- 10% do so when demonstration (in training) is added to theory
- 20% do so when practice (as part of training) is added to demonstration and theory
- 25% do so when feedback is added to practice, demonstration and theory
- 90% do so when coaching is added to feedback, practice, demonstration and theory
Clearly, coaching is very powerful.
Though the terms “mentoring and coaching” often are interchanged, as used by CAD, coaching means drawing out from a person, while mentoring means pouring into a person. CAD certified ministry coaches assist those being coached in defining, then meeting specific goals they choose, related to ministry and other aspects of life.
If you would like to be trained to be a ministry coach or if you would like to be coached, you may contact Anthony at Anthony.Mullins@gci.org.
CAD provides certified coaches for its pastoral interns. Some of those interns are included in the video below. Note how they talk about the powerful impact in their lives of the people who coached them.
(On YouTube at http://youtu.be/OuHccXlFI0U)
Several pastors of established GCI churches are being coached. In the video below, pastor Doug Johannsen discusses what he sees as the great value of coaching.
(On YouTube at http://youtu.be/J75pVXlLtaY)
