Jonah Gets A Do Over from New Hope Community Church on Vimeo.

Dr Jim Poit
29 January 2012
message starts at 18:05
Jonah 2

Friends have been stopping by to welcome us back with gifts like mangoes and pineapple.  Yum!  I also have been giving out the Christian books our friends in Wisconsin gave us.

Sierra is reunited with  Dude, her long lost friend.

Please pray with us for these transitions:

• Chris to Faith Academy – lots of changes and tough adjustments.  That I would have wisdom and that God would clearly guide me.
• Heather to language study – for guidance in hiring and training a helper and language teacher, and which Filipino school for Sierra’s JK.
• Sierra and Joe – sleep at night (16 hour time change L), safety

We praise the Lord, for He has enabled us, He has sustained us and by trusting in Him we can soar on wings like eagles, run and not grow weary, walk and not be faint.  May we keep seeking His will for our days and take the opportunities He shows us to share our faith and help our Filipino friends.

For Christ’s love compels us,
Chris and Heather Sawdon
NTM Philippines; Faith Academy Mindanao
#7 Jade St. Marfori Hts.; Davao City 8000 Philippines

All Stars is a community-service based children’s ministry program for kids ages 4-years through 6th grade.  All Stars teaches children about serving others through a service-oriented curriculum and community service projects such as making cookies for local firefighters, visiting elder care centers, making get well packages and other projects.

If your kids aren’t part of this great program, come check it out on Sunday, February 5th.    ~Miss Lisa, Miss Janine & Miss Jane

From the Series, “God Allows Spiritual U-Turns”
Dr Jim Poit
January 22, 2012
Text:  Jonah 1

JANUARY 22, 2012:  2^ND ANNUAL WINTER RESIDENT BRUNCH at SUPERSTITION SPRINGS GOLF COURSE (Baseline just west of Power) @ 10:15AM.   GREAT BRUNCH (not a fund raiser).  Cost is $9.99…plus drink…just come…no need for reservations.

FEBRUARY 2, 2012:  23rd ANNUAL WINTER RESIDENT DINNER (at New Hope on a Thursday evening). Our Winter Residents are invited to join us for an evening of Good Food, First-Class Entertainment, and Great Fellowship!  Appetizers served at 4:45PM.  This year’s Fund-Raising goal is to help our church plants, Nueva Esperanza and Launch Point, achieve their outside funding goals as they work toward self-sustainability in the next 2-3 years.   Sign-ups begin Sunday, January 15, 2012.

FEBRUARY 11, 2012:  2^ND ANNUAL WINTER RESIDENT  GOLF TOURNAMENT at SUNLAND VILLAGE EAST.  Tee time is 1:00PM (check-in by 12:30PM).  18 Holes including Cart $30.  Gather a foursome, sign-up in pairs or individually, and let Tom Ennis know if you’ll be playing….480-299-3137, or see him at New Hope Café.

YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO INVITE OTHERS YOU MAY KNOW WHO DO NOT ATTEND NEW HOPE ON A REGULAR BASIS.

Pastor Gary Jarvis
January 15, 2012
Text:  Acts 11:19-30

This webinar series is offered  at 1 p.m. (EST) on the first Wednesday of every month.

Schedule of Upcoming Webinars:

February 1:  ”Selecting Your Lead Planter” with Jim Poit, Paul DeVries, and Ben Ingebretson

March  7:  ”Release, Support of the Plant and Parent Recovery” with Ben Ingebretson, Jim Poit, and Paul DeVries

Register here

Here is a list of previous Parenting Churches webinars available for on-demand watching/listening:

Determining Your Starting Point

Making the Case to Parent

Developing Your Launch Team

Navigating Hidden Forces when Parenting a New Church

Choosing Your Parenting Model

Likewise, Rodger Price, Coordinator of Leader Renewal and Networks, and Vicky Menning, Coordinator of Church Health and Coaching, obtained their CoachNet certification under Bob Logan.  Since 2006, they have developed the “Foundations of Coaching” management system that has become a standard tool for both the RCA and CRCNA.  This system has been successfully mentoring church leaders and certifying others to be mentors and trainers of coaches in their own right.

Last month the CMI Implementation Team agreed to contract Gary Reinecke, Executive Director of InFocus (www.infocusnet.org), to conduct an advanced coach training workshop for representatives of each KEZ.  “Coaching Church Planters and Parent Churches” focuses on a train-the-trainer process so that trainers will be specifically equipped to train church planter and parent church coaches.  The goal is to establish a self-sustaining system that will equip 3-4 trainer per KEZ (i.e. one representative per denomination as well as a potential of one thnic leader).  The workshop is scheduled for March 26-28, 2012 in Phoenix, AZ.

Excellent coaching of church planters and parent churches will fuel the support, equipping, and empowerment aspect of a church multiplication movement.  In order to train excellent coaches for that task, there are four key training components that will be of great value to coaches, those being coached, and the movement as a whole.

Foundations of Coaching:  Prior to applying coaching concepts to any particular contextual situation, students must be able to apply the basic coaching skills in a coached relationship and understand best practices in coaching.  This training focuses on content-neutral coaching, In this kind of coaching, the one being coached brings the agenda to the relationship, while the coach listens, and asks powerful questions that will help the one being coached discern and pursue a God-given direction.  Although coaching planters and parents churches require content-rich coaching, this component plants key principles that are necessary in all other coaching contexts.

Coaching Planters:  Best practice suggests that church planters do not need what is called content-neutral coaching, but rather content-rich coaching.  A good understanding of the Church Planting process, and landmines to avoid can help a coach ask specific questions in regards to these areas to help a church planter find God’s path for planting a church.

Coaching Parent Churches:  Like coaching planters, parent church coaching is best done through content-rich coaching. If a Church has not parented in the past, or has never parented before, a coach can help that congregation navigate a process for parenting churches, and to avoid landmines that are common amongst parent churches.

Training Trainers:  Ultimately, in order for multiplication of Parent Churches and Church Planters to occur, there must also be the ability to multiply coaches.  This last component develops people who can develop more coaches who can develop more coaches.

Mike Hayes, a member of the SF-Sacto KEZ leadership team and Executive Pastor of City Church of San Francisco (RCA), describes Gary’s coaching approach as goal-focused.  Mike appreciates the fact that more people in each denomination will be trained as coaches and trainers in the specialized area of church planting and parenting.