The children’s ministry leader coaching webcast will always take place at 9:00am PST. The following is the schedule of dates, topics and guest practitioners.

Children’s Ministry Coaching Topics & Guests (9:00 am PST Tuesdays)

• Sept. 21- Cathy Coultrip – The Take It Home Room and our favorite TIH events
• Oct. 19 – Jim Wells – Connecting F@H with Orange and our favorite TIH events
• Nov. 16 – Cindy Engelkes – The 20 year plan and our favorite TIH events
• Dec. 14 – Melinda Kinsman – The Creative Launch & our favorite TIH events
• Jan. 18 – Craig Jutila – If I Had To Do It Over
• Feb. 15 – Brian Haynes – Milestones & F@H
• Mar. 15 -Mike Engbers – Steady As She Goes & our favorite TIH events.
• April 19 – Jim Toohey – What’s In It For Us? 15 Wins and our TIH events
• May 17 – Gary Strudler – Connecting with Youth Ministry

As you are probably aware the Faith@Home movement is an international movement that God is leading through the church to reestablish the home as the primary place where faith is lived, expressed and nurtured.  This movement is spreading across Canada, the US as well as Germany, Norway, Switzerland, Sweden and the Netherlands as thousands of church leaders are examining how they can lead their ministry in a more faith@home focused manner.  Since this is a new, ever evolving and fast growing movement many church leaders today are seeking ways to connect and learn from one another.  That’s why we are offering online, Faith@Home coaching networks.  Through these networks church leaders from across the world will have an opportunity to participate in a webcast to gain fresh insights and learn from other like minded leaders who are working to make their ministry more Faith@Home focused.  In addition to this we also wanted to create a place where you can learn from some leading practitioners who have developed successful approaches that we run across in our travels for the Faith@Home movement.

The final reason why we are offering online coaching is to help you keep the momentum going after you have heard a message or attended a conference that has positively challenged you to be a more faith@home focused leader/church.  Becoming a faith@home focused church is going to take time and we wanted to be there, through coaching, to help you build a strong and lasting faith@home strategy into your church ministry structure.  Through online coaching you will now have an opportunity to get fresh, new faith@home insights and support each month without having to leave your office or home!

Learn more and register today!

As you know, Satan has been at work for many generations to slowly and methodically take Christ and Christ-like living out of the home. The Faith@Home methodology is God’s response yet it is not a quick fix thing and as your missionary I want to be able to continue to provide support and encouragement to you as you wrestle with how to become more Faith@Home focused.

One of the things that God has opened a door for me to be able to provide is monthly online coaching for Sr. pastors, children’s ministry leaders and youth ministry leaders. Beginning this fall, at a monthly time yet to be determined, Sr. Pastors, children’s ministry leaders and youth leaders will be able to tune in to live, interactive, online coaching sessions targeting Faith@Home issues and topics unique to each of these ministry areas. These coaching sessions will be one hour in length and will include a “guest practitioner” who will also speak into the topic. Essentially here is how the coaching sessions will work:

• First 15-20 minutes – I will introduce the topic/issue and provide my insights on this topic and why it is one of the key issues we need to address.
• Next 15-20 minutes – I will introduce you as the “guest practitioner” who will provide your insights/ideas on the topic.
• Final 15-20 minutes – I will lead a Q&A time where you can ask questions relating to the topic or anything else you have need of.

Please register today for online Church Coaching

Focus on the Family Canada and The Leadership Centre Willow Creek Canada are presenting a one-day conference in six locations across the Cananda, featuring pastor and author Mark Holmen and other special guests. This one-day training conference for pastors and leaders offers a revolutionary yet simple methodology for becoming a faith at home focused church.

Here are the slides from Pastor Mark’s Presentation.

Tim Smith and Mark Holmen define Faith at Home Coaching

In D6, God calls parents to be the primary spiritual leaders in the lives of their children, and it’s the church’s job to partner with them in this process. Yet, so many churches have realized they do not have a spiritual formation model that is designed to develop and grow God’s plan for the family. So where do we go from here?

Ministers and parents everywhere are talking about building faith at home, but what does that look like? At the D6 Conference many of today’s leading ministers and faith at home experts will be providing real “how to” answers to some of the most Frequently Asked Questions we face in the church today.

Join Pastor Mark Holmen at the D6 Conference 2010 September 15-17 2010, Dallas, TX

D6 Conference 2010 Promo (Short Version) from D6 Conference on Vimeo.

For the past ten years God has blessed me with the opportunity to speak to thousands of church leaders regarding what it means to be a church focused on faith at home Yet, the question I hear most often is—“What do I have to do to get my pastor on board with this?” Let me answer that question speaking from the place of a former Sr. Pastor who knows what it’s like to have many people telling you what you should get “on board” with. Here’s why you should consider becoming a Faith@Home focused church and pastor.

Faith@Home Is About You Before Your Church. I have had literally hundreds of pastor’s comment to me that the faith at home focus saved their family. As pastors we are called to be spiritual leaders of our congregations yet many times this means we are spiritually empty when we get home. We have spent all day praying, listening, discerning and reading Scripture with people at church so when we get home we don’t have the time, interest or energy to do it with our spouse or children. Put simply, we can’t lead a faith at home movement in our churches if we aren’t leading it in our own homes as pastors and church leaders. The Faith@Home Church seminar will not only make you a better church it will make you a better person and family.

For the past ten years God has blessed me with the opportunity to speak to thousands of church leaders regarding what it means to be a church focused on faith at home Yet, the question I hear most often is—“What do I have to do to get my pastor on board with this?” Let me answer that question speaking from the place of a former Sr. Pastor who knows what it’s like to have many people telling you what you should get “on board” with. Here’s why you should consider becoming a Faith@Home focused church and pastor.

Multiple Faith@Home Models Exist. As a senior pastor I get excited when I look at different working models that can help me implement a new ministry strategy in my church. That is probably one of the things I enjoy the most is sharing with pastors a variety of models and methodologies for how they can become a more faith at home focused church. God has been leading a national and international Faith@Home movement over the last 5-10 years and as a result hundreds, if not thousands, of churches are now implementing Faith@Home strategies and initiatives across all of their ministries. We are seeing Faith@Home student ministries, children’s ministry, men’s and women’s ministry as well as senior’s ministry and even Faith@Home worship! Churches of every size, expression and affiliation are becoming Faith@Home focused and we have the privilege of serving them all and sharing their innovations with others through our website and Faith@Home coaching process.

For the past ten years God has blessed me with the opportunity to speak to thousands of church leaders regarding what it means to be a church focused on faith at home Yet, the question I hear most often is—“What do I have to do to get my pastor on board with this?” Let me answer that question speaking from the place of a former Sr. Pastor who knows what it’s like to have many people telling you what you should get “on board” with. Here’s why you should consider becoming a Faith@Home focused church and pastor.

Satan Doesn’t Want You To Be Faith at Home Focused. Satan has been strategically and methodically attacking the home, realizing that if he can get people to be, at best, one-hour Christians, he can lead the following generations away from following Christ. Current statistics say that anywhere between 60-90% of current Christian children are going to disengage from the faith when they are young adults. And the primary reason they are walking away is hypocrisy. They believe Christianity is a bunch of hypocrisy because they grew up seeing Christianity as something you did at church only, and not at home. Satan doesn’t want singles, seniors, students, or parents to live out their faith at home, because the home is the primary place where faith is lived and nurtured. Therefore Pastor, you need to realize that Satan doesn’t want you or your church to become faith at home focused. I don’t know about you but when it’s something Satan doesn’t want, that compels me even more to do it!

For the past ten years God has blessed me with the opportunity to speak to thousands of church leaders regarding what it means to be a church focused on faith at home Yet, the question I hear most often is—“What do I have to do to get my pastor on board with this?” Let me answer that question speaking from the place of a former Sr. Pastor who knows what it’s like to have many people telling you what you should get “on board” with. Here’s why you should consider becoming a Faith@Home focused church and pastor.

Faith@Home is not an overhaul but a 2% shift. Many pastors have shared that one of the most surprising things was the fact that becoming a faith at home focused church was a revolutionarily simple shift. John Trent describes it as a 2 degree shift. In other words, by being just two degrees off we can end up far off course over time, which describes where we are today with the fact that less than 10% of Christian households pray, read the Bible or engage in any type of family worship or service in the home. Yet the good news is in the fact that we don’t need to make a 180 degree change to fix the problem, we just need to make a 2 degree shift and we will be back on the right course! Pastor, becoming a faith at home focused church does not require a complete overhaul to how you do church, it’s simply a 2 degree shift that will have long term impact. Pastor, would you like to lead something that is going to outlast you?