How do I connect with a Coach?
The relationship between a coach and person being coached is a personal covenant. Each relationship is established through a conversation between the two parties during which time clarity is established regarding the expectations of each party and the length of the coaching relationship.
To select a coach best suited for you, it is suggested that you:
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Review the brief biographies below and select a couple of coaches that bring the type of background and experience that would be most helpful to you
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Contact the selected coaches using the contact information at the conclusion of the biography and have a conversation about coaching style and expectations
If you are unsure about the type of coach that would be most helpful to you, please feel free to contact Dr. Phil Maynard @ phil.maynard@flumc.org to have a conversation about your needs and potential coaches.
Born and raised in the Washington, D.C. area, Vicki moved with her husband, Charlie, to Delray Beach, Florida in 2002. In 1996, she sensed God’s call to leave a 20-year banking career and pursue a master’s degree in Christian Education. Following seminary, she joined a denominational staff and later Church Resources Ministries, a missionary organization working with pastors and leaders in church revitalization. Vicki describes herself as a recovering “performance” addict who is on a journey of becoming – becoming more in love with Jesus, more whole and holy, and more of the person God created her to be. She recently started a footprint friend to accompany others on their journey of becoming through coaching, mentoring, and spiritual friendship. For more information, check out her website at: www.vickiblose.wordpress.com.
Contact Information
(561) 302-9035
vblose@comcast.net
Brian Brightly has been a Pastor in the Florida Conference over the last 18 years. He was trained as a National Church Development coach and coach’s Pastors and churches in the Christian Resource Ministry ReFocus Program. His local church (Boca Grande United Methodist of Boca Grande, FL) has completed both Phase I and Phase II. He serves as Chairman of ReFocus for the South West District Transformation Committee. The district has supported special events and subsidized through matching funds all transformational activities including training for the Southwest District in Florida. Brian’s background as a second career Pastor was in communications. He worked for United Methodist Communications National Office in New York for 3 years as a media consultant for all conferences throughout the U.S. He was a Communications Media Consultant for the Florida Conference for 3 years, and also served as an Associate Pastor. As a Missionary for the Board of Global Ministries, he was executive producer for the United Methodist Russian Christian Radio program for 4 years, as well as special short wave radio broadcasts for African Methodist churches in the late 1990’s. His early career was in children’s TV/Radio for PBS, CPB & National Public Radio in Washington, D.C. His local church ministry for the last 18 years (in 3 churches) has been mission focused with extensive involvement with sister churches in Cuba. He is the Southwest District Pastoral Representative for 26 sister churches in Cuba. His current church supports a large Christian School (La Vega School) in the Dominican Republic. Local mission & community outreach has always been a high priority in his calling. He has participated in four “Celebrate Jesus” campaigns within the conference. He is a Stephen Minister trainer and has supported the Spiritual Growth Program for Laity in the Emmaus movement on both the east & west coasts of Florida. He presently is a mentor to two future Pastors and coaches three Conference Pastors in revitalizing their congregations through Christian Resource Ministry.
Contact Information
(941) 214-0335
brian.brightly@flumc.org
Russ Graves is an NCD coach for about a dozen churches, a reFocus network facilitator and now nationally certified reFocus network facilitator, trainer and Natural Church Development trainer and coach. His vision for our denomination is to have revitalized congregations where the laity move out of the church and their comfort zones to reclaim God’s vision for us, and reach out to the lost and least in our communities to share the Christ we know.
Contact Information
(321) 427-0513
russgraves@cfl.rr.com
Rev. Warren Langer received his D.Min. in church transformation. During his 34 years of ministry in the Florida Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, Dr. Langer has transformed six churches with declining membership and attendance into growing churches. He has been recognized four different times for having the fastest growing church by either a district or the annual conference. He was recognized as Clergyman of the Year for the State of Florida by Kiwanis International.
Dr. Langer has consulted with a variety of churches about transformation in both the Florida and the Tennessee Annual Conferences along with churches in other Christian denominations. He is a trained NCD coach and is currently earning his International Coaches certification. He has also been trained as Critical Incident Debriefing Coach and has worked with numerous police and fire/rescue departments around the State of Florida. He was also an Army Reserve Chaplain assigned to a Field Hospital unit.
Currently, Rev. Langer is Sr. Pastor at Sun City Center United Methodist Church which is a three campus community of faith located throughout south Hillsborough County. In four years the church went from a lay involvement of about 28% of the congregation involved in a ministry of the church to 82%. He is currently leading the church from a retired adult faith community into an inner-generational faith community.
Some of Dr. Langer’s greatest accomplishments lie in the creative ministries birthed in the churches he served. The current church has birth over 50 ministries in four years with some of the most unique being a Life Resource Center( tapping the resources of over 62 professions in the Tampa Bay area), a Care Giver Day Out program, and a special partnering program with developers within the area.
Contact Information
(813) 363-8958
warren.langer@flumc.org
Bob was born and raised in Central Florida. Prior to entering the ministry, Bob worked as a Program Manager with a high tech electro-optical laser manufacturer and as a professional recruiter with a national recruiting firm. An entrepreneur by trade, Bob created a new division within his company and became a top producer. Bob’s call to ministry came through his layperson experience as being one of four families to create University Carillon UMC in Oviedo, now one of the largest churches in the Florida Annual Conference. Bob is currently a first generation coach for new starts in the Florida Annual Conference as well as one of its coach trainers. His passion for coaching is the center of his calling. Bob's approach to sharing the gospel message is down to earth and a style that is easy to adapt to today’s fast paced environment. Before coming to East Lake in 2006, Bob served as Associate Pastor at St. Luke’s in Windermere (the largest UMC in the Florida Annual Conference) and was the founding pastor at LakeSide Fellowship in Sanford. He is married to Patti and they have two daughters. Bob holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from the University of Central Florida and a Master of Divinity Degree from the Divinity School at Duke University.
Contact Information
(727) 366-7199
robert.martin@flumc.org
My name is Phil Maynard. After 20 years of serving local congregations Inow serve as the Director in the Office of Congregational Transformation for the Florida Conference. My role with the Conference includes the training of coaches for Natural Church Development, ReFocusing Leaders Networks, Transformational Coaching, and soon, New Realities Partnerships. I have received training through NCD, ReFocusing Leaders, CoachU, On-Purpose Ministry, ChurchPlanters Bootcamp, Gallup StrengthFinders, and Peace Makers Conflict Coaching, Mediation, and Church Conflict. My calling is to walk with leaders in the local church to help them develop healthy and missional congregations for the Kingdom.
Contact Information
(321) 217-6007
phil.maynard@flumc.org
David Moenning has been married to Debbie, his wife, for 20 years. They have 2 children, Andrew and Taylor. David is the Pastor of Pine Ridge Fellowship Church in Deltona, Florida where he is blessed to serve alongside a great team of staff and lay leaders. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Florida Southern College, his Masters of Divinity degree from Candler School of Theology at Emory University, and his Doctor of Ministry degree from Asbury Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky.
David is in his 13th year as the pastor of Pine Ridge Fellowship, a church he and his family were called to plant in 1997. David has a particular passion and giftedness for coaching those called to the ministry of new church development.
Contact Information
(386) 747-7577
david.moenning@flumc.org
Tom Nelson was born in Grove City, Pennsylvania, where he grew up and attended college in his hometown. Tom began his career in travel by becoming a motor coach driver. In his fourteen years in the travel industry, Tom found success in the group travel business by being named Assistant VP of Special Operations for Educational Field Studies. In 1996, Tom answered a personally described “lifelong call” to ministry by entering Duke Divinity School where he obtained his masters in divinity. Upon graduation in 1999, the Bishop appointed him as Associate Pastor to First UMC of Kissimmee. Tom was then appointed to First UMC of South Miami from 2002 until 2008, and currently serves First UMC of Port Orange. Tom served on the Executive Board of South Florida Urban Ministries and served as their chair from 2003-2005, the Board of Directors for the Wesley Foundation at University of Miami, the Miami District Committee on Superintendence, The South East District Transformation Team where he has served as the chair, and the South East District Leadership team. Tom is currently the Natural Church Development Coach Trainer for the South East and South West Districts, a member at large on the Conference Congregational Team, and a Conference Transformational Coach.
Contact Information
(386) 405-2532
tom.nelson@flumc.org
Steve is a Transformational Coach for the FL Annual Conference UMC providing individual and team coaching to clergy, laity, and congregations in the process of transformational change. He coaches congregations as a conference certified Natural Church Development (NCD) Coach, and is trained by the conference as a ReFocusing Facilitator. He is trained by Peacemakers Ministries in Conflict Coaching and Mediation, and Reconciling Church Conflict. He is an experienced personal Life Coach, and is a Certified Grip/Birkman Blueprint (GBB) Coach and Consultant for the Birkman Method. Steve retired from the Marine Corps as a Lt Col in1993 and from Tropicana/PepsiCo as a manager in 2008, and currently serves as Chair, Committee on Congregational Transformation, FL Annual Conference UMC. He attended Hamilton College in Clinton, NY until enlisting in the Marine Corps in 1968, graduated from Chaminade University in Honolulu in 1974, and earned an MPA from the University of Oklahoma in 1991.
Contact Information
(941) 737-4166
mpotter2@tampabay.rr.com
Kim Shockley is currently serving as the Congregational Transformation Coordinator for the East Central District of the FL Annual Conference. She is a Certified Christian Educator for the United Methodist Church and has been trained and certified as a coach for Natural Church Development and ReFocusing. She has enjoyed her husband’s appointments as a pastor for 28 years and has experienced churches of all shapes and sizes. She and Gary live in Winter Garden, FL and have two young adult sons.
Contact Information
(407) 276-5114
kshockley@flumc.org
David is an ordained Elder serving as a Pastor, Coach, and Leader in the Florida Conference. He is a transformational leader helping people and churches achieve health and wholeness. David’s passion “For people to be in relationship with Jesus Christ and to grow in that relationship” translates into developing healthy and mature Christian leaders serving our Lord. As one of the first NCD Conference Certified Coaches David has several years of coaching experience. He is also an NCD Network Coach, a Transformational Coach and is trained in the CRM reTurn ministry. Along with his MBA and MDiv Degrees, diverse experiences in Church, Business, Education and Life have taught him many lessons. One of the most important lessons is that God uses others to help each of us reach our fullest potential and effectiveness. God has called and gifted David to coach others to become all that God wants them to be.
Contact Information
(904) 607-9309
david.spaulding@flumc.org
Dr. Jeff Stiggins is currently serving as the Executive Director of the Office of Congregational Transformation. Prior to that, he served small, medium and large congregations for over 22 years and served as the district superintendent of the EC district for 4 years. Jeff has a passion for helping congregations fulfill God’s dreams for their ministries.
Contact Information
(321) 223-0557
jstiggins@flumc.org |
