MINISTRIES
Your Coach
Warren Groves
Warren combines a passion for seeing frontier workers thrive in their process of creating a legacy with a competency that comes from training and years of experience in pastoral ministry and missions. Since the 70’s, he has led discipleship, leadership, Bible, and long-term missions training schools. In addition, his experience with leading short-term teams, living long-term in Romania, church planting, orphanage work, and coaching indigenous pastors and cross-cultural workers, provides a platform from which he can help others. Since 2014, he has been using his passion and experience within YWAM to mobilize, prepare, and coach long-term workers.
Certifications:
Leadership Breakthru certified Life/Sabbatical Coach
CSA certified as a stress assessment coach
Prepare and Enrich Marriage Coach
Bachelor of Science in Education. Master of Arts in Intercultural Studies
Ekballo Cohort - Long term mission pathway
Looking to go long term to the nations but needing to plan? We can help you get there. As you have pursued Jesus, hopefully, you have realized that others have gone before you. That’s probably why you are reading this - you have a longing to be mentored, i.e. an understanding that you can’t get where you want to go alone. As a person of understanding, you are searching for people with deep water to draw from. By doing so, you can have their ceiling be your floor rather than reinventing the wheel. The option you are trying to avoid is figuring things out on your own through trial and error.
Member Care
Sensing a need to connect with someone with experience in missions and pastoral ministry who can listen, encourage/comfort, affirm, help, guide, counsel and/or debrief with you? Realizing that it’s difficult to come to clarity alone? If you are sensing those things, we offer a number of options to assist you.
Debrief
Needing clarity in sorting through the victories, challenges, losses, and sense of failure? Debriefing with someone else can help you reach that clarity and help you transition forward into your future with a positive and energized attitude.
Sabbatical Coaching
Unfortunately, few people plan a sabbatical to proactively prevent burnout; rather most burn out; then plan a sabbatical. Regardless of which of those describes you, it’s important to have a sabbatical plan to optimize your time so that you come back refreshed and with new vision and energy. So it’s important to make a plan, prepare for the sabbatical and then make a re-entry plan. We can coach you through your sabbatical to help you make the most of it.
Team Building
Using the CSA (Cerny Smith Assessment - identifying current stressors) and SDI (Strength Deployment Inventory - very similar to the Enneagram), we can help your team build more effective relationships by being self-aware of their stress points and motivation value system. From that awareness, we can strategize on how to reduce the stress points and how to understand each other’s differing motivations and conflict sequences so that the team can work together in harmony as well as resolve conflict quickly and peacefully when it arises.