"At our annual Coaches Retreat last month, CMI coaches, leadership team members, staff and others celebrated CMI’s 5 year birthday. It was an amazing event! It’s incredible to look back and see how God has brought us from a dream 5 years ago to a dedicated cadre of coaches, staff, board and intercessors upholding leaders literally around the world. Despite significant health and personal challenges for several of our key leaders this year, God has accomplished more than we asked or dreamt:

• CMI’s first class of 2 year professional Mission Coach Trainees graduated in July having produced thousands of hours of coaching to missionaries around the world
• 2 new training programs were launched: Follow up Coaching Training and Marriage Coach Training to increase availability of trained missions coaches
• 3 writing projects were completed, enabling further multiplication of coaching And most important, hundreds of missionaries received coaching and gave testimony of transformed lives and ministry as a result!

Thank you for enabling these and many other amazing works of God through your prayers, encouragement, and financial support!"

Tina Stoltzfus Horst

Mission Coach Training 2012

Do you share CMI's calling to support and empower frontline missions workers? Do you need experience, advanced skills and training to live out this calling with excellence? CMI would like to invite you to apply for our 2012 Mission Coach Training Program (MCT2012). This 2 year missions-focused training will equip you to serve frontline leaders with Christ-centered Life, Leadership and Cross-cultural coaching at a professional level. Since June 2009, 47 MCT trainees have provided over 4500 hours of coaching to over 460 persons all over the world ... while still in training. Here's what a couple trainees recently shared:

“I got involved with coaching hoping to learn a skill that would enhance part of my job in leadership. What I didn’t realize is that it would totally revolutionize all that I do … In the last year and half 90 churches have been started in [restricted country] by taking a different approach I learned through coaching.” - MCT Trainee, Latina America Mission Director

“Coaching enables me to have a clear way to continue to be involved in kingdom work even without being on the field.”
- MCT Trainee, Retired missionary

If you are called to support missionaries in reaching greater levels of fulfillment and fruitfulness as they live out their call to the nations, this training is for you! To learn more, go to MCT2012."

Partnership Opportunities

If you would like us to provide an in house lay coach training program within your missions organization tailored to your organizational culture and needs, email us at director@coachingmission.com.  We would be glad to serve you!

Tina Stoltzfus Horst, M.S., CLC
Contact@CoachingMission.com

Coaching, because it is not telling or advice-based, is extremely flexible cross culturally and is an adaptable leadership development tool for missions. In addition, because coaching works successfully over internet or phone connection, it is highly accessible for missions. Its transformational impact has made coaching an explosively growing part of the business world; and it is also widely used in walking with church planters and small group leaders, where research has found that coaching leads to more successful church plants and is the single most important factor in maintaining successful cell groups.

CMI's own research with missionaries in Asia, using comparison of pre and post coaching evaluations has revealed that leaders receiving a year of professional Christian coaching from a cross culturally experienced missions coach resulted in an average:

• 34% improvement in leader satisfaction with pace of life and ministry

• 35% improvement in leader clarity about calling and roles; and improvement in active movement towards roles that most reflected the leader's calling

• 35% improvement in the leader's perceived sense of being supported and cared for

• 49% improvement in leader satisfaction with their own leadership development process

In fact, in EVERY area surveyed, the group of leaders receiving coaching improved! These dramatic results demonstrate coaching's effectiveness and impact on missions workers on the field. Here are some reflections from leaders in South Asia about their coaching experience:

The world is rapidly changing and impacting the work of frontline missionaries. Consider the following:

• Political shifts, globalization and introduction of cell, internet and transportation technologies have opened doors to large blocks of unreached, unevangelized people on an unprecedented scale.
• Many nations are now closed or highly restricted toward traditional missionary work.
• Frontline mission leaders are faced with pioneering new strategies and non-traditional approaches that push them way beyond their training and experience.
• To meet the challenge they require a level of support, encouragement and accountability that most understaffed mission organizations are not able to provide.

The caliber of frontline mission leadership impacts the effectiveness of hundreds of others. Thankfully, the same technologies that are opening new frontiers are being applied to make that support possible. (Learn more....)