Trained through ICF Continuing Coach Education, Coaching at End of Life and ELCA Coaching, coaches are individuals who are trained to take part in active listening, powerful questions and intentional exploration to produce awareness, change, and transformation for the client.

Faith-based coaching looks at each individual as beloved of God, they believe that each person has been specifically gifted by God. They help the individual discover how they are being invited by God to use their gifts in God’s work of loving and healing the world.

The ELCA defines coaching “as a relational alliance that leverages the art of deep listening, powerful questions and intentional exploration to produce awareness, change, and transformation for the client. In coaching, the client has agency, is the one naming the goals, designs action plans to meet those goals, and does 80% of the talking.  Faith-based coaching (from a Christian lens) looks at each individual as beloved of God, believes that person has been specifically gifted by God, and helps the person discover how they are being invited by God to use these gifts in God's work of loving and healing the world.” 

The client steers the sessions, they are the ones naming the goals, designing action plans, and does 80% of the talking.

Coaching can be used for multiple opportunities, a few examples are:

1. Personal Leadership Growth

2. Empowering Evangelism

3. Worship, Mission, or Stewardship Development

4. Strategic Planning

5. Multiplying Leaders

We believe that anyone who has goals they want to accomplish can benefit from a coaching relationship. The core requirements are a posture of openness, teachability, an openness to reflection, and a desire to work on the part of the client.