Coaching Support, Strategy, and Spiritual Renewal for Church Leaders

Ministry is demanding. Coaching provides clarity, encouragement, and practical strategies to help you lead well from your best self.

At Greenfields, our feed-forward coaching is designed for pastors navigating transition or burnout, church leaders seeking strategic direction, clergy discerning their next call or vocation, ministers facing financial concerns, those striving to manage their time and work-life balance, and pastors in need of their own pastoral care.

Coaching Can Help You

• Clarify your calling and help you navigate the search and call process

• Develop leadership strategies tailored to your congregation’s needs

• Achieve specific goals whether it's rebranding, outreach planning, or coordinating events

• Gain confidence in navigating financial and operational challenges in your family or at work

• Establish healthy work-life balance and boundaries that are mutually beneficial

• Receive pastoral care and support for your personal and spiritual well-being

Meet Our Coaches

Mari Wiles

We’re thrilled to welcome the Rev. Mari E. Wiles to the Greenfields coaching team! Mari brings decades of incredible experience in pastoral ministry, college chaplaincy, missions, and leadership development. Her coaching style blends deep, holy listening with grace-filled pastoral care to help you address timely ministry needs and thrive in your ministry.

Book your first coaching session with Mari now!

Craig Janney

With years of pastoral leadership and consulting experience, the Rev. Craig A. Janney specializes in coaching church leaders through leadership transitions, church revitalization, and strategic ministry planning. Whether you're discerning a call, leading a congregation, or navigating a challenging season, his coaching style is an encouraging combination of appreciative inquiry and Ignatian discernment to help you develop a plan to move forward with clarity and confidence.

Book your first coaching session with Craig today!

Coaching Packages and Pricing

At Greenfields, we believe every minister deserves support, guidance, and accountability on their journey. Whether you need a single session or ongoing coaching, we have several options designed to fit your needs.

o   Introductory Discovery Call (FREE for 1 session)

Not sure if coaching is right for you? Try a one-time, 30-minute session at a reduced rate. This session allows you to explore coaching, discuss your challenges, and gain immediate insight to move forward with confidence.

o   Standard Coaching Session ($150 for 1 session)

One video call for those who need flexible, one-on-one coaching. Our standard session provides a 60-minute video call tailored to your specific needs. Consider this like your regular doctor’s appointment, a dedicated time to check in on your ministry health, gain clarity on emerging challenges, and receive practical guidance for the journey ahead.

o   Weekly Intensive ($600 for 4 sessions)

Weekly video calls to lead you toward a time-sensitive goal. The Weekly Intensive package keeps you organized on finishing a specific project like re-branding your church, preparing a sermon series arch, updating important church documents, implementing a comprehensive discipleship plan, setting a new policy in place, or planning a church-wide event you’ve dreamed up.

o   Search and Call ($600 for 4 sessions)

Monthly video calls to help you discern a new place of ministry with the added benefit of resume referrals. During these calls, we prepare you for the search process, help you practice interviewing, guide you in negotiations, and remind you to finish well and start strong.

o   Half-Year Alignment ($900 for 6 sessions)

Monthly video calls to align you with your stated goals. Whether you’re trying to scratch through your to-do list, looking to a whirlwind season, or break through a professional rut, Greenfields will keep you focused and accountable for the next six months.

o   Annual Adjustment ($1,500 for 12 sessions)

Monthly video calls to keep you focused on your long-term goals and outcomes. With the Annual Adjustment package, Greenfields walks the long road with you to ask important questions, anticipate speed bumps, and embody pastoral leadership throughout your journey.

Let’s Get Started!

Coaching is an investment in your calling, leadership, and well-being. Whether you’re exploring your next steps, navigating change, or striving for balance and equilibrium, Greenfields is here to support you.

📅 Book your confidential coaching session today and take the next step toward clarity and confidence! 📅

Greenfields also provides feed-forward coaching to ministers facing forced resignation or termination. Contact us for more details.

Discerning whether to stay put or pursue possibilities takes a lot of work. Having a confidential guide to assist you through the search process with best practice counsel and recommend you to search committees is vital.

With Greenfields, ministers – like you – find empathy and advocacy as you listen for the Holy Spirit to bring clarity to your next steps. Our encouragement and feed-forward coaching throughout your search and call process helps ease the stress that significant change creates.

We’ve assisted over 1,300 ministers and over 700 churches with their search needs. Greenfields has the experience and network to help you! How can you take advantage of Greenfields’ resume referral service? Simple. Email a copy of your current resume to craig@greenfields.consulting and schedule your introductory call. Given the sensitive nature of ministerial search, confidentiality is assured. Don’t worry, you won’t have to fill out another ministerial profile.

Greenfields takes seriously the call of God on your life and is committed to enhancing diversity within congregation life. Greenfields does not discriminate.

Look at our feed-forward coaching options if you’d like to maximize your search efforts throughout the search and call process. There is absolutely no obligation or pay-to-play expectation for ministers who only wish to keep their resume active with Greenfields.

We also believe that your ministry includes planting, watering what is planted, and trusting God. Today, ministers are facing anxious demands to help their church grow without any training or mentoring. Social media is filled with targeted ads peddling books and courses on church growth that help church growth companies and authors but aren’t helping churches grow in theologically sound, sustainable ways.

“We are not peddlers of God’s word like so many.”

2 Corinthians 2:17

Greenfields is committed to results. Our comprehensive approach to understanding church growth begins from finish to start by reviewing the biblical Kingdom-come benchmarks that lead Christians in discipleship and spiritual maturity. We work with you to audit your church’s systems and structures, align your congregation’s values with your mission and vision, and accompany your church to implement your plan of action. There are no shortcuts, silver bullets, gimmicks, or overnight fixes to church growth.

"Write the vision; make it plain on tablets,

so that a runner may read it."

Habakkuk 2:2

Greenfields works with you and your congregation’s leaders to cultivate the habits necessary to expand the reach of your church in natural, inviting, and discerning ways.

Contact us today to tell us more about your church and discuss our next steps together. We want to help you advance your mission for God’s glory and Christ’s church.

Built on the “green pastures” principle of Psalm 23, Greenfields exists to help church leaders flourish. Leadership training is an important component of restoring a pastor’s health and well-being.

"He restores my soul: he leads me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake."

Psalm 23:3

Currently, Greenfields offers the following half-day leadership training sessions to help you – and by extension, your church – thrive:

o   Defining Your Mission, Vision, and Values – Explore who God created and called you to be through energetic, guided facilitation and group work. Leading from your core with purpose toward God’s dream is our desired outcome.

o   Church Growth from Finish to Start – Discover a comprehensive way to grow your congregation beyond reaching young families and over-programming. You will learn our approach to help your church act on its mission.

o   Building Congregational Culture – Transform your church’s culture with simple interventions to heighten mutuality, accountability, and trust. Managing change takes perspective and patient execution. Sharpen your skills to strengthen your culture.

o   Updating Staff Evaluations – Turn your outdated annual evaluations from a stressful information dump into its opposite! Repairing your feedback process to an exercise that you and your staff look forward to is the goal.

o   Re-balancing Church Staff Retreat – Do you feel like your church staff is stuck in their proverbial silos, at-odds with each other (or close to it), or facing a demanding season and could use some focused time together? Carve out some time to invest in your church staff.

o   Preparing for the Search Process – What can you expect in today’s ministry job market? How has the search and call process changed? Find out what you need to do to prepare your heart, mind, and family.

o   Silent Retreat – Great for first-timers who want to unplug, disconnect, and reflect. Our half-day guided retreat allows you the safe space to slowly detach from and slowly re-enter into the noisy cacophony of everyday life.

Are you - or your denomination - looking for a leadership training that Greenfields does not currently offer? Let us know what you need, and we’ll see what we can do or introduce you to another expert.