Coaching, Training, Mentoring & Partnership

Coaching with Pastor Folmer

On February 24-26, all the church planters and trainers of Faith Evangelical Church of the Philippines went to Binalonan, Pangasinan to spend the days with Pastor Mar, the National Church Planting Coordinator and Pastor Folmer, OMS International trainer for church multiplication.  During the meeting you could observe what it actually means to train and to coach.  Pastor Folmer coached Pastor Mar and then Pastor Mar coached the rest of the church planting team.

The first hours together were spent in worship and fellowship.  It was followed by reports of each church planter and trainer about the victories, challenges and opportunities they face in the ministry in general as well as in training leaders implementing Train and Multiply as a follow-up during the training in October of 2009.  The reporting was followed by group discussions helping each other turn the challenges into opportunities.  Through group efforts and discussions, each church planter and trainer was able to see clearly the direction toward achieving their goals and vision, pointed out their mistakes and be able to make new plans to improve the ministry.

Pastor Mar facilitated all the discussion and reports of individuals and groups.  Pastor Folmer ended the time together with words of encouragements and challenge to continue training leaders and planting churches.  All the church planters left the place physically tired but spiritually renewed and their vision and passion fueled by hope and new insights they learned from the coaches and from each other as well.

 

Train and Multiply Training

 

On February 27, there are ten FECPI churches who sent their pastors and lay leaders to attend the training in church multiplication using Train & Multiply in Faith Fellowship in Pozorrubio, Pangasinan. The churches include Bulacan, Tarlac, Sta. Ignacia, La Union, San Carlos, Dagupan, Malued, Alaminos, Pozorrubio and Rizal.  One pastor of different denomination also joined the training to see how they can adopt the same process of leadership training.  There were around 50 delegates in all attended by young professionals, fathers, mothers and even some senior citizens who were all involved in leadership in their respective churches.

Pastor Mar, as the National Church Planting Coordinator, facilitated the overall training.  He was being coached by Pastor Folmer, an OMS Missionary Trainer for Church Planting Ministry.  The training was highlighted by group discussions and activities until finally at the end they were able to plan with their pastors and lay leaders on how they will implement the said training.

Almost all the churches started with identifying their key leaders to be trained for pastoral leadership like cell group leaders, church planters and lay pastors.  They planned also to implement the training as soon as they get back to their churches by praying and talking to the identified leaders.  The lay leaders were also encouraged to start new groups and train new leaders.  All the churches were convinced that training leaders is the key to church growth and multiplication.

 

 

All the churches reported also in detail all the advantage and benefits of implementing Train and Multiply in training leaders.  They all look forward to growth, not just of leaders, but of members as new groups will be started and opened.  They are positive also that it will bring growth in their tithes and offering collection every Sunday as the people will be taught and discipled in a deeper way by the new leaders equipped and trained under Train and Multiply.

The concept of planting new churches instead of bringing new believers to an existing church somewhere is not something new to the churches in partnership with church planting ministry.  But for those who belong to the traditional churches, they still need time to transition and they resolved to apply it in cell group and training cell leaders which is a good start already.

We, in the church planting ministry is looking forward to partnership with local organized churches and see them grow and multiply as they train leaders using Train and Multiply.