Individual Coaching and Prayer

Introduction

Individual coaching and prayer, and group coaching and prayer, are both essential for healthy disciple-making. Individual coaching provides space for personal accountability, encouragement, and prayerful help in following Jesus. Group coaching and prayer build shared rhythms of learning, mutual encouragement, and intercession within Christian community. Together, these settings help ordinary believers grow strong in faith and participate in the multiplication of disciples and churches by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Coach (Mentor) and Coachee (Mentee)

Ministry coaching is a relational and intentional process in which a coach meets regularly with a coachee to pray, listen, ask questions, and help the coachee grow as a follower of Jesus. Coaching is not counseling, and it is not instruction alone. It is guided conversation that helps believers worship God through obedience and love others through serving, evangelizing non-Christians, and discipling believers in everyday life.

Coaches help coachees attend to their relationship with God, their relationships with others, and their calling to make disciples among Christians and non-Christians. Every Christian is encouraged to receive coaching and, over time, to invest in coaching others so disciple-making remains relational, intentional, and reproducible across generations.

The Goal of Ministry Coaching

The goal of ministry coaching is to help believers practice loving God and loving others as they obey Jesus and make disciples in the natural contexts of life: family, the church, and relationships with non-Christians (Matt. 28:19–20). Coaching creates space to reflect, pray, and take concrete next steps toward obedience, maturity, and multiplication.

Our Approach to Ministry Coaching

This goal is carried out through the Ministry Coaching Framework, which provides a shared structure and language for coaching conversations. The framework helps coaches and coachees focus on what matters most, establish consistent rhythms of discipleship, and grow in clarity and faithfulness over time.