FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

A CONSULTANT?  A COACH?  I'VE NEVER DONE THAT BEFORE.

Most people haven't.  Let's change that. 

Imagine hiring a temporary, part-time employee with extremely high-level, executive-level skills.  Imagine not having to pay that person a full-time salary.  You get what you need from them, you take ownership, and you move forward.  

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Wouldn't that be worth every penny?  Especially if it didn't break the bank?  

I provide collaborative leadership, coaching, training, and church-business expertise.  I facilitate, using a variety of tools.  I share these with you - they are not proprietary*.  I hold your hand as long as required during coaching, consulting, and in our community.  I steer you away from danger zones.

You will receive the best tools, techniques, and expertise available from the last 100 years of best business practices.  If you prefer a particular tool or technique, I will provide that for you.  My toolbox is large and diverse, and all of it is available to you.

*Note: Many consultants, organizations helping churches, and others have an entire Dog and Pony Show with proprietary tools and techniques.  Much of this is branding and marketing.  Do not be fooled.  

Truly effective tools and techniques that work among groups of people have been well researched over the last 100 years.  You can learn these from any library, and someone with Masters degrees in social science and business (like myself) is well-versed at a deep level.

I don't do the work for you.  You must do the hard work.  There's no sitting back and "hiring" someone who will "fix" our problems. 

Sometimes in a period of rapid change, we resist.  We sabotage.  We raise up a leader only to knock them down so we can blame them for our own fear.  

Those are hard words.  I wish I weren't writing them from years of watching this very thing happen.  But these are also normal, forgivable human responses to fear and change.  

The trick is to catch ourselves and forgive each other.  We are only human - this is true - but we are also Christians who forgive. The second trick is to realize our resistance, forgive it, turn toward the change we seek, and commit.  And when we fail, we re-commit.  Simple, but not easy. 

You get to decide what is best for you. 

There may be times that decisions and desires are truly impractical, and I will tell you when we've gone too far into impracticality.  Yes, all things are possible for those who believe, but I am most concerned with being practical and realistic.  

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In addition, a good indication that you're ready to run under your own steam is that you begin having your own ideas and feel the urge to argue with me.  THIS IS A GOOD SIGN ..and I welcome it.  That's why I provide coaching.  

Don't worry.  Honest.  Just look at how many times scripture tells us not to fear.  Think about the worst that can happen.  Go ahead.  I'll wait.  No, you can do better.  I'm still waiting.  

Done?  Okay.  All those fearful imaginings?  They may be accurate.  But you have an option.  Several, in fact.  That's why I'm here.  

Are you ready to begin a free conversation?  Are you ready to see if there's anything more you can do?  For free?  Are you ready for hope?

Let's talk.

No, I am not ordained.  I sensed a call to ordained ministry as a priest in the Episcopal Church in 1992, and have discerned this call to this day.  This call was recognized and affirmed by a few congregations, but was frustrated as I walked further along the path.  Those who have observed this have been baffled by the roadblocks while continuing to confirm the call to ministry.  

I have made peace with what I see as a call to lead, teach, and preserve the Body of Christ among mainline Protestant churches in North America and elsewhere.