Meet the Team
Members of Empower Forward function as a cooperative support group to help pastors and leaders in discovering methods based on biblical leadership principles.

Ministry Coaching
The adventure of the Great Commission, people coming to Christ and living out their faith and calling. These are the visions that keep us going, the pictures we can see with the eyes of our hearts, if not yet with our own eyes.

Church Health
The strategy of Empower Forward is to support the transformation of plateaued churches into organic, healthy, reproducing churches by the universal principles of Natural Church Development (NCD).

Contact Us
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You may be good. You may even be better than everyone else. But without
a coach you will never be as good as you could be.
- Andy Stanley
A coach is like a bridge, helping people hear
from God and discover His unique plan.
Coaching is the art and practice of guiding a person or group from where they
toward the greater competence and fulfillment that they desire.
- Gary Collins
Coaching is helping people discover what they could not discover on their
own, so they can become what they want to become.
- Aubrey Malphurs
Coaching is a dialogue, not a monologue.
- Joseph Umidi
Mentoring is imparting to you what God has given me; coaching is
drawing out of you what God has put in you.
- Dale Stoll
A coach doesn’t assume the role of an expert because this process isn’t
about him, it’s about the person being coached.
- Bob Logan
People implement very little of what you tell them, but a lot
more of what you help them discover.
- Rick Tansey
God centered coaching has the power to change lives…both your life
and the lives you come in contact with.
- Bob Logan
The goal of coaching is to empower others and help them succeed.
- Bob Logan & Sherilyn Carlton
Coaching is the process of coming alongside a person or team to
help them discover God’s agenda for their life and ministry, and then
cooperating with the Holy Spirit to see that agenda becomes a reality.
- Bob Logan & Sherilyn Carlton
There is not one way that God develops people.
Coaching is a relationship with a purpose
focused on facilitating change.
You can observe a lot by watching.
- Yogi Berra
A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more
than an hour of praise after a success.
Healthy churches are growing, reproducing churches
We can grow a church, but that doesn’t mean
it is a healthy church.
It is not just about having a healthy church, or a well-oiled
machine, it’s all about the harvest.
What will it mean for you if your church continues
basically as it is for the next few years?
Our God is a people seeking God, He has called us
to be a people seeking people.
- Donald McGavran
The early church capitalized on what they had: relationships.
Some church growth concepts are so focused on fruit, that
they fail to consider the root that produces the fruit.
- Christian Schwarz
We have a great need for Christ and a great Christ for our needs.
- Zinzendorf
The purposes of a man’s heart are like deep waters, but a man of understanding draws it out.
- Proverbs 20:5
For you know that we dealth with each of you as a father deals with his own children,
encouraging, comforting, and urging you to live lives worthy of God who
calls you into His kingdom and glory.
- I Thessalonians 2:11-12
For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good
works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
- Ephesians 2:10
Jesus said, This is what the kingdom of God is like: a man scatters seed
on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the see sprouts
and grows, though he does not know how. All by itself, the soil produces grain.
- Mark 4:26-28
The one who calls you is faithful and He will do it.
- I Thessalonians 5:24