The One on One Difference

“In my 30 years of Christian development, including training from some of the
best teachers available, I have never experienced as much transformation as I have now in only the first half of my first Lifeforming Coach training course.”

That is the kind of comment we continually hear in our travels around the country, though this oneDr. Joseph Umidi I heard from one of our church members this past Sunday! These are the ones we want to hear from you as you send us what you are hearing from an RTT, ACT, or other Lifeforming training or coaching session. Please keep those stories coming in to Rebekah in the next few weeks; here is why!

Lifeforming is taking the lead to research the measurable impact of Coaching to help Churches and Christian organizations embrace the unique role of one on one in the formation and development of maturing disciples and multiplying leaders. Twelve masters students at Regent University , as well as several partnering ministries, are conducting surveys from people and articles/books that can help you present coaching as a paradigm for your church to engage the culture and community around it. You can look for articles and books coming out on this in the near future!

One of the leading pastors in Washington D.C. gave this story:

“As our staff grows larger, leadership gets more complicated. More people equals more synergy. But more personalities also equals more tension if you aren’t intentionally building morale and coaching your team. And the more players you have on the team, the harder it is to keep everybody on the same page. So I’m really trying to be more intentional about team building this year. I want to do a quarterly event where we stop working and focus on personal development and team building.

Yesterday I had one of my old seminary profs, Dr. Joseph Umidi, come and do a little life coaching along with his colleague Jeff Williams. Great seminar called real talk. I’ll blog some thoughts in other posts, but if you want to check it out visit lifeformingcoach.com.

posted by Mark Batterson”

I like one of Mark’s powerful quotes; “To be irrelevant, is to be irreverent.” The staff at Lifeforming holds firmly to the value that the One on One difference is key to relevancy in both relationships and organizations. Let us know your report on the stories you are witnessing and hearing. The world is waiting for Christians and churches to recover from irreverence!

LIFEFORMING TRAINING SCHEDULING INNOVATIONS

While continuing to offer our three times a year training schedule for our Professional Track we are experimenting with offering an additional course each semester for those who could not make the registration deadline or the workshop schedule. If you know of someone who does not want to wait until May 08 to enroll we are offering our Formation Track for the first week of March, 08. Please have anyone contact Rebekah asap for any inquiries and don’t forget the $50. Referral fee to come your way per trainee who enrolls!

CALLING 7M COACHES

Lifeforming is finalizing a 7M Base Camp Adventure Guide to help small groups process their own vocational calling. Using materials developed from the Lance Wallnau seminars coaches will be able to facilitate these groups and secure coaching clients during and after these sessions.

You can receive training for these materials by attending the Lance Wallnau 7M conference in Dallas Texas this April 25-26. Lifeforming will add a mini-coaching summit during this conference to enable potential 7M coaches to be confident on how to help those who are hearing and processing the call to their vocational mountain to get started immediately following this conference.

As soon as details from Lance become available we will let you know so you can register as one who is also participating in the Lifeforming Coaching Summit. Please email Rebekah asap to let us know if you are planning on making this event!

Sincerely,

Joseph Umidi, President

Freely You Have Received!

There was a revolution underway and Jesus was sending out His 12 key leaders He has been coaching and training. They had been working with Jesus and participating with Him but now they would be sent out to do what Sam Scaggsthey had both seen and experienced. I would be willing to bet that they were excited and anxious simultaneously. Then Jesus says something interesting: “Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.” (Matthew 10:8 (NIV) He was inviting them to personally take ownership in the transformational revolution that He was igniting with them. Currently there is another chapter of a Jesus coaching & training movement sweeping planet earth where leaders are transformed forever because we are doing ministry the way He did in those early days. We call it “Lifeforming Leadership Coaching.” Many of you reading this newsletter have been touched and transformed by this ministry and do not need me to tell you how powerful it is. However, we have more leaders than we can count in countries all over the world waiting to be trained through our professional track so they too can join us in establishing a Jesus style coaching movement on all seven mountains of every nation. The only thing that stands in our way is the money to actually train them. That is why we are setting up our first ever Lifeforming Leadership Scholarship Coaching Fund to help remove this barrier. We have a dream to have a fund that would be large enough that it would produce ongoing scholarships to leaders in all arenas of life, from family to government; from marketplace to ministry and from the education environments to entertainment and media venues. God is at work and we invite you to join us in the revolution that Jesus began with the 12 that he coached! If you or someone you know are interested in contributing to this fund contact our office today for details. What a joy to serve leaders all over the world who have a dream to change their nation for Jesus! God bless you!

Sam Scaggs

International Director

Thank you for being a part of our coaching community. Please let us know if we can serve you in any way.

Sincerely,

Joseph, Sam, John, Lyn & Rebekah

Lifeforming Leadership Coaching