Category — Coaching

Just Show Up!
When it comes to doing outreach projects with teams a lot can go right… and wrong. After doing team-oriented outreaches for decades now I realize a lot can go haywire when you step out to serve the community with a number of people. Today I was scheduled to go out with a number of folks. We are approaching the end of the year so people are a bit busier than usual. However today we had a number who were to have been present at this outing no matter what. When all things came together we had a grand total of just me and another guy present. Two of us! We made a last minute adjustment to our focus and we went out just the same.
All went well in spite of the low numbers. We spoke with a number of interesting people who were out in the retail areas of town. It seemed a good time was had by all. All and all we made progress today.
When times are down a bit it is still time to go out and make connections. No matter what, today is the day for us to connect with the community. God will show up day after day as long as we show up.

I recently sat down with Doug Roe, pastor of the Dayton Vineyard, and interviewed him about committing for the long haul to the project God is working through you.  I did a brief 5 minute outtake of the interview that you can watch right now at the ServeCoach blog.  The full interview will be on ServeCoach.com later this week.  Check out the video and leave a comment on the blog with your thoughts.

As we continue with serving it becomes fairly normal that we will expand to multiple services. By serving we are folding into the community in creative ways with the life of God. That life has a way of making room for itself much like the verse in Proverbs, “your gifts will make room for you.” So it is that our gifts make spectacular room for us in the current scenarios we find ourselves in.

Let’s serve with all our hearts and leave the details of how things work out up to God. More to come on the planning details to keep in mind when expanding toward multiple services. Key thought though is decide you are open to the notion of more services for now and are willing to pay the price to get from here to there. Once that quality decision has been made you can go a long way toward accomplishing your goal.

Ever get to a fork in the road? Yogi Berra exhorts us to take it in times like that.

We can hopefully all relate to the notion of coming to a fork in the road in the best sense of the possibilities that God is opening up for us.

I know more people who are in some sense of flux right now than I can remember in recent memory. Maybe change comes to us in clumps. Perhaps God works on a broad scale as a Scatterer of seeds of change. It seems clear that God does mount changes with groups in similar ways all at once.  Our part is to role with the punches as it all starts to flow. We get to practice patient endurance as chance commences.

So how is your change happening these days? How do you rate it? If those around you are going through thick change you might be next though we don’t need to anticipate any negativity.

My team and I have been working in high creativity mode of late. We have been on task with a big goal: how can we help more people get in touch with important coaching they need… but sometimes feel they can’t afford. Then it hit us – we will practically just GIVE COACHING OPPORTUNITIES AWAY! Go figure we figured – if people can just get a taste of the coaching we have to offer the rest will be history.

So we have done it. We have lowered the price point of our coaching to – hello – just $1.00 for your first two weeks on ServeCoach.

Try ServeCoach out on your own. Put your dollar in the ride and give it a whirl. I believe you will love it!