Every day I have amazing conversations with clergy and congregational leaders.  Each conversation helps me to grow more fully in my profession (as a coach and as a pastor) and as the person that God has created me to be.  I am a coach.  I have a coach.  My work and relationship with my coach, has allowed me to be more fully who I am…more of the time.  My confidence in living as the person that God has created me to be and the person who God is continually calling me to be is in a much healthier and stronger place today, because of my work with a coach. 

Frequently, I hear clergy struggling with the expectations of being how the congregation wants them to be, so much so that they lose being who God has created them to be.  This feeling pulled in different directions, consumes the energy that one has to healthily and effectively lead a congregation.   Imagine having the freedom and the grace to be the person, the pastor, the creation that God has called and continues to call you to be.  It takes a lot of energy trying to fit an expectation that you think others of have you…and it isn’t very comfortable, either.  Be who you are and be fully who you are.  That is who God has called and continues to call.

If you have a coach, how have you benefitted from that relationship?

If you don’t have a coach, embrace a coaching relationship, today.

Beth Kennett February, 2011