When is the District rolling out coaching for pastors?

Before we could roll out coaching to District pastors, there were some things that needed to be done.  First, we needed to develop excellent coaches.  In order for that to happen, we believed that potential coaches needed to experience coaching themselves and recieve training.  We have been actively doing this since District conference in October.  Six coaches have been recieving…coaching and have been trained to coach.  Secondly, we have been working on development of a coaching system that can be reproduced at every level of leadership both in local churches and in other Alliance ministry (i.e.  candidate development, missionaries).  We have been learning through our staff experiencing coaching from different organizations, readying widely, consulting with other Districts as well as Alliance Theological Seminary and Nyack College.  What is being developed is a Christocentric model of coaching that will serve us well for many years.  Although we would have liked to have rolled out coaching sooner, we wanted to make sure that we did it with excellence.  It would have been ironic to have a system to develop leadership excellence that was not done with excellence.  We expect that we will be ready to launch out with our first initiatives beginning some time in June 2008.  Thanks for asking!  We are encouraged by the number of pastors that are hungry for this kind of relationship.