As many of you know, until recently I was on Team D (the discipleship team) at National Community Church. For several years we’ve had a system of small groups coaches in place to help guide our small group leaders.
We’ve gotten much, much bigger as a church since we implemented that coaching system, and our small groups strategy has changed radically. Heather Zempel, our Discipleship Pastor, decided that it was time to rethink how we do small group coaching, so she commenced “Operation KABOOM!” In other words, we’re blowing up the old coaching model and building a new one from the ground up.
I’m excited to be able to be a part of strategizing our new coaching system. We had our first big team meeting tonight, and it was very insightful to hear from some different folks on coaching/mentoring/leading from a number of different approaches, from the military to sports coaches to parenting, just to name a few. We also looked at some biblical examples of discipleship.
My plan is to discuss some of the topics we covered here in the coming days.
I guess I should begin at the beginning.
On Sunday I finished up my time as a Protege at National Community Church. It was a year of ups and downs for me personally, but I learned a ton. If you’re looking for some good ministry experience, good people, and a good city, you should check it out and I’d be happy to talk with you more about it. I especially recommend Team D (a.k.a. the Discipleship Department, a.k.a. people who work on small groups).
On Monday I launched a new website, but more on that later.
On Monday night Rachel and I walked by a house that she had seen for sale online. The man selling it happened to be sitting on his front steps, so we asked him if we could take a look around. It was a great deal, and we decided to see if we could buy it, so I spent the next two and a half days applying for loans, running numbers, etc.
On Wednesday night I won $40 playing poker.
On Thursday morning I was working on getting pre-approval letters. Around 11:40 I checked the house listing again, and they had received multiple offers and weren’t accepting any more.
Whew…
I’m frazzled. I think I’m busier this week than I was when I was working at NCC. Ah well, back to work on the website.
