by Beth Kennett | Feb 5, 2025 | Coaching, Congregations, Emotional intelligence, Leadership, Ministers, Relationships
I regularly hear colleagues inquiring about coach training—Is everyone becoming a coach? It seems like everyone calls themselves a coach, is the market saturated? Why is coaching and coach training so popular? What makes your coach training any different from...
by Beth Kennett | Mar 4, 2022 | Coaching, Leadership, Ministers
Summit Coach Training from Pinnacle Leadership Associates has achieved a new status. SCT has been approved as an ACSTH (Accredited Coach Specific Training Hours) provider by the International Coaching Federation, a global organization dedicated to professionalism in...
by Beth Kennett | Mar 4, 2022 | Coaching, Leadership, Ministers
by Marci Wilson-Boggs (Marci is an Associate with Pinnacle Leadership Associates and a participant in Summit Coach Training.) These days we hear a lot of memes about so-called Life Coaching, and they seem to range from the utterly serious to the absolutely absurd....
by Chris Gambill | Jan 29, 2019 | Leadership, Ministers
As you may have heard at the end of last year, we announced that the Wake Forest University School of Divinity, in partnership with Center for Congregational Health, was awarded a significant grant from the Lilly endowment. The money was given to support a new project...
by Beth Kennett | Oct 31, 2016 | Congregations, Consulting, Future, Leadership, Ministers
By Dirk Elliott DownRiver Church celebrated its first worship service as a new church start on July 7, 2013, with 186 people in attendance. DownRiver is a Vital Merger of four churches in the Detroit area. In December, 2012, each of these four churches voted, with...
by Beth Kennett | Jan 24, 2016 | Congregations, Future, History, Leadership, Ministers
by Les Robinson Recently, Chris Gambill, Director of the Center, wrote a blog (A new year, a new look at congregations) about the Faith Communities Today 2015 national survey of American congregations. He was referring to their most recent survey. Since 2000, this...
