How Do I Become A Coached Church?
To get involved in the Promise Keepers Coaching for Ministry With Men program, your church needs to sign a Coaching Contract. The contract requires payment of a modest fee which partly funds the program. Full details are in the Coaching Proposal PDF.
Excerted from the proposal are the benefits you will get and the responsibilities you will have from Coaching.
What Will a PK Coaching Contract Do for You?
The principle behind a Coaching contract is very simple – Promise Keepers will do all that we can to ensure the success of your Ministry with Men. We will do this through the following:| • | Initial phone and email conversations to determine what level your Ministry with Men is currently operating at. |
| • | Provide resources to help you establish a clear and compelling vision for your Ministry with Men and the strategies needed to take your men to the next level. |
| • | Help you set achievable and measurable goals and realistically timetable their completion. |
| • | Assist with ideas that will create momentum in your Ministry with Men and help you put together an effective calendar of men’s events. |
| • | Provide access to speakers if required for camps and events. |
| • | Provide a quality annual PK Event to create energy and galvanise your men for the next level in their spiritual journey. |
| • | Help identify potential leaders and assist in building a Ministry with Men leadership team. |
| • | Keep in touch through a monthly phone appointment with a nominated church leader to check progress on goals and set new ones and be available between planned Coaching appointments by phone or email as needed for further support. |
| • | Provide opportunity for face-to-face meetings when Coaches are in your area. |
| • | Provide resources and support to the pastoral staff as required (where they are not the nominated leader that we connect with on a regular basis). |
It needs to be noted that while some of these items – such as the annual PK Events, some resources, and advice – are available through Coaching Consultation, most of these benefits are only available through this formal Coaching Contract.
What Will You be Required to Do?
Like all good Coaches, we can help and assist you with all of our ability, but ultimately you have to play the game! Therefore, as a participant in our Coaching Contract program, you will be required to do the following:| • |
Decide that Ministry with Men is a priority and devote time and resources to it. |
| • | Sign a Coaching Contract and commit to fulfilling your obligations under it. |
| • | Nominate someone to be the contact person in your church that we can communicate with about Ministry with Men. This person does not have to be the Ministry with Men ‘leader’ if that person has not been appointed yet, nor do they have to be a pastor. They do need to be appointed by the church leadership and empowered to fulfil your end of the Coaching relationship. |
| • | If the church contact person is not a pastoral team member, appoint another man as a champion for Ministry with Men from the employed pastoral staff. In a smaller church this will most likely be the senior pastor. In a larger church it may be an associate pastor who has the role. |
| • | Make the appropriate contributions toward the costs incurred by Promise Keepers in the provision of the Coaching service (see the costs section below). |
| • | Be accountable for the goals that are set and actively work toward their completion within the timeframes set down. |
| • | Have your church contact person and any other team members attend the Coaching events that are held in your area. |
| • | Promote and attend the annual Promise Keepers Event. |
Download Coaching Proposal