What is Coaching?

An ongoing partnership that helps a group of believers produce fulfilling results in their own personal and professional life.  The coach listens, observes, and gives feedback that is designed to help the client clarify and achieve their missional purpose.  The coach helps the group build awareness and take responsibility for personal and corporate transformation. 

Through Faithwalking coaching is only available in groups.  The personal and corporate transformation that is needed to live missionally in a post-Christian society is dramatically accelerated when the coaching occurs in a group setting.

Faithwalking offers two kinds of coaching experiences.  One coaching experience is for small groups (cell groups, bible study groups, support groups, affinity groups) who are relationally connected and share life through church, work, recreational life, etc.  A second coaching experience is for small groups of leaders in a ministry, business or school where the focus is on living missionally in a specific work environment.

Who does the coaching?

• Jim Herrington is the lead coach with Faithwalking.  He is a  husband, father, pastor, author, mentor, and coach.  His bio is below.  Jim works with a small team of coaches with personal experience in missional living.
• Jim has been married to his childhood sweetheart for 34 years.  They have four children, a son-in-law, and three grandchildren. 
• He holds a BS in Psychology from the University of Arkansas and a Masters in Education from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. 
• Competencies and accomplishments
• Led Union Baptist Association, a highly diverse association of churches in the Greater Houston area,
  to reverse a 40-year trend of loosing ground against thegrowth of the city.  Developed a highly diverse,
  high performance team to meet the challenges of
  leading churches through change.  Successfully mobilized leaders across ethnic, theological, and denominational barriers. 
• Served as congregational growth/health consultant to hundreds of pastors and congregations
  across the U.S. with special focus in spiritual renewal, leadership development, and
  managing change.
• Taught seminars on congregational change for pastors from a wide variety of denominational backgrounds including those from the Assemblies of God, Churches of Christ, Episcopal Church, Four-Square, Presbyterian U.S.A., Southern Baptist, and Vineyard.
• Seminar leader (1995-97) at The Purpose Driven Church Conference in Saddleback Valley Community Church teaching "Leading Your Church Through Change.”
• Co-author withJames Furr and Mike Bonem of Leading Congregational Change: 
  A Practical Guide for the Transformational Journey (2000).
• Co-Author with Robert Creech and Trisha Taylor of The Leader’s Journey: 
  Accepting the Call to Personal and Congregational Transformation (2003).
• Contributing author to City Reaching:  On the Road to Community Transformation.
  (1999) by Jack Dennison.
• Founder and Chairman of the Board of Mission Houston.
• A part of the Leadership Team for CityFest Houston with Luis Palau, the largest mobilization of congregations and congregational leaders to occur in Houston’s history.
• Senior Pastor of Harbor Church, an inner-city network of house churches in the Montrose
  community of Houston.
• Executive leadership coach for a variety of business leaders and Pastors across
  the Houston area.