Imagine a church where every member is equipped with the tools to deepen their spiritual connections, overcome challenges, and achieve personal growth in Christ. Our monthly Coaching in the Church community group meeting is a shared discussion format to help Christian Coaches create a dynamic coaching program that fosters unity and spiritual flourishing in their churches and faith-based organizations. We take a coach approach to our monthly conversation and build our discussion around needs that arise on developing a coaching niche in the church.
Past Coaching Topics:
- How to define a compelling vision for your coaching program that aligns with your church's mission and values.
- Discovering the essential steps to lay the groundwork for a solid coaching program, such as: identifying potential coaches, establishing program goals, and creating a coaching framework and structure.
- Exploring effective coaching techniques tailored for spiritual development and discipleship within the church community.
- Listen and share real-life success stories and gain insights into overcoming common obstacles faced when initiating coaching programs in a church setting.
- Occasionally, we will have a thought partner who will deliver content for us to ponder and add to our coaching portfolio in the church.
Come to our monthly meeting prepared to receive and share ideas on how to introduce coaching to your congregation and faith-based organizations.
Your Facilitators
Ken Kessler
Ken has a great love for the local church. His thirty-five years of ministry have been built around ministries of the local church. He loves to see the church live to its full Kingdom potential and has devoted his life to find ways to assist churches and their leaders.
Ken presently serves as Director for the Empowering Coaching Network at the Baptist General Association of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia. Ken has been coaching church leaders and churches since 2004 and has earned his PCC status through International Coach Federation. In 1995, Ken earned a Doctor of Ministry from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. His learning emphasis has been on coaching church members and leaders to grow in their learning capacities in personal, spiritual, and leadership areas.
He has served on the BGAV staff and lived in Richmond area since 2008. Ken is known best as the husband of Teresa Vaughn of Greenville, SC, and the father of three sons, Kevin, Bryan, and Jacob.
Bob Weinkle
Bob is an award-winning leader with over 35 years of experience in the military, corporate, federal government, and non-profit sectors. Bob is a published author, speaker, instructor, facilitator and served as an Associate Professor of Leadership and Management at Georgia Institute of Technology and Morehouse College. Bob holds credentials as a CCNI Certified Professional Christian Coach (CPCC), ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), and a NCDA Certified Career Services Provider (CCSP)™. He is the founder of Trifecta Coaching and Leadership Consulting where he provides leadership and career coaching services.
Bob’s educational background: MS in Organizational Behavior & Executive Coaching; University of Texas-Dallas; MS in Logistics Management, Florida Institute of Technology; BS degree in Communications, University of Tennessee; and a graduate of Harvard University’s National Leadership Preparedness Initiative (NPLI) executive program.
As a retired senior military officer and a retired federal senior supervisor, he has lived and worked in over 22 countries around the world and found God’s love for people in each location.
