As a synod staff, coaching through Vibrant Faith Ministries helps us define our focus and holds us to a common vision. It is important for our congregational leaders to know that we take our focus of passing on the faith seriously and are willing to walk that talk through coaching.

Tammy Jones-West
North Carolina Synod

I have been a parish pastor for 15 years. As good as my seminary education was, it didn't adequately prepare me for the challenges of congregational development, leadership, mission planning, and how my own uniqueness intersected the life of the church. I have a sense of clarity, conviction, and means of practical application of ministry that I never had before. My church and I have been joyfully blessed!

Pastor Tim Johnson
All Saints Lutheran Church, Minnetonka, MN

Coaching has been very important to me and to First Presbyterian in the following ways:

• Great help in learning to ask the right questions about new opportunities in ministry.
• Important discernment tool for listening to where God is leading us.
• A great expansion of vision.
• A wonderful tool for moving into transforming, rather than maintaining ministries.

Pastor Roula Alkhouri
First Presbyterian Church, Bend, OR

It was amazing to have a coach who could hold a mirror to my work, awaken in me areas of interest and passion I had put aside, and draw a stronger sense of leadership out of me. Two questions asked of me were "Where do you want to be with your ministry?" and "What's stopping you?" The roadblocks I had been standing behind were blown over with prayer, vision, and strategy. I still keep notes from our coaching meetings within reach!

Stacy Frost
Director of Annual Giving
Southwest Minnesota State University

The coaching our staff and ministry teams have received from Vibrant Faith Ministries has been amazingly helpful in our journey to become more faithfully effective in our work and daily lives. In coaching, we were given tools to use and techniques to apply which actually work!

Gail Bach
Program & Staff Minister
St. Andrew Lutheran Church, Eden Prairie, MN

Through Vibrant Faith Ministries, our church has learned core principles of how faith is passed on to others. Now, aided by The Institute’s coaching ministry, we are finding clarity and focus in applying these principles in our particular setting. The coaching is helping us do what we believe God is calling us to do.

Pastor Tim Berdahl
Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, Duluth, MN