Feed-forward coaching helps you focus on your goals and address problems with planned solutions, giving you opportunities to grow in leadership and impact.

Greenfields offers ministers the following feed-forward coaching options:

o   Search and Call – 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   Weekly Intensive – Weekly video calls to lead you toward a time-sensitive goal, quarterly 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   Annual Adjustment – 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.

o   Half-Year Alignment – 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.

Contact us to discuss your goals, talk pricing, and schedule your confidential feed-forward coaching sessions today!

Greenfields also provides feed-forward coaching to ministers facing forced resignation or termination.

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.