"So how does this Coaching Network really work? Check out the following andfind out."
-- CPC Int'l Coordinators

A gifted church planting team leader who has had a few years of experience and makes himself available to serve other team leaders within his general vicinity.

The coach is a servant who encourages and facilitates. He does not control. He will not push uniformity of church planting methods but will promote application of Biblical church planting principles.

The coach learns by doing. He develops the skills needed to help other church planting team leaders:

1) evaluate their progress in light of their goals,
2) make their own plans for their next steps,
3) acquire training materials which will better equip them and their teams in their work.

The relationship between coach and team leaders is shown in this diagram:

As a coach gains more experience, he is able to serve up to five different church planting team leaders. More than that creates difficulties in maintaining his own involvement in church planting.

Coaching chains emerge naturally. Some coaches will want to encourage gifted team leaders whom they have served to progress into the role of coach for newer teams. Thus we continue to reproduce new coaches.

Serves other coaches as the number of teams and coaches grows, and as relationships continue to develop.

Dick Scoggins, coach to FRONTIERS teams says, "I think it is likely that the network coach will emerge from experience. As he reproduces himself in others, networks will begin to form around his disciples."

A network coach is one who reproduces and serves other coaches. He may be able to work directly with a maximum of five coaches. With this being more time consuming, the network coach is often unable to continue to lead a church planting team. (He would coach a team member to take his place.)

The relationship between network coach and coaches is shown in this diagram:

These field-based network coaches facilitate other coaches. Their goal is to help coaches succeed in helping team leaders succeed in helping churches reproduce among the unreached.

He builds up the network coaches by staying in close communication with them helping them evaluate progress and make plans--the same as all the coaches do. (Once again, it is important to remember that he is facilitating not controlling coaches.) He also helps to oversee the flow of information and training resources within the COACHING NETWORK. He will be limited in the number of people that he can effectively serve. Five network coaches may be his maximum.

The following diagram illustrates the relationship between the Regional Facilitator and the network coaches:

As YWAM Frontier Missions continues to grow, Regional Facilitators are expected to emerge for each frontier region.

The structure is personal, relational, decentralized and field based. It propels team leaders forward. It does not hold them back nor control them.

This scenario is already well developed in the South Asia region. It has been growing through relationships. Rather than being administratively imposed, it has emerged in a "grass roots" way.

The result we look for is network coaches giving of themselves to coaches, coaches to team leaders, team leaders to team members, team members to potential local elders of the emerging churches, elders to faithful disciples, faithful disciples to new converts, new converts to receptive friends and relatives...all for the purpose of chain reactive reproduction of churches among unreached people groups.