We are just wrapping up the spring training season for our new LifeQuest Couple Coaches, and like these young baseball players, they are eager to get in the game. Yes, we use our sports theme metaphors with abandon. So “Let the games begin!” Starting in August, the new coaches will conduct their own Games in their homes for new Home Group members.
Here are a few of the important Game skills we covered in Spring Training.
- Coaches learned to rely on their marriage partner’s unique DESIGN in ministry. Each of us is created in God’s image, with special skills, passions, personalities and motivations. All are useful in LifeQuest Couples, but come in different measure. Couples learn how to use their unique combinations of skills to create their own unique ministry within a ministry.
- They worked on asking questions, lots of questions. Questions that help broaden awareness, offer paths to new discoveries, and create new opportunities for participants to live out God’s plans for them.
- Couples learned how to coach participant couples through the Your One Degree exercises, both individually and as a couple. Working through this unique material as couples creates a unique shared experience. Couples come away with a new sense of worth, excitement and goals for the future for themselves, their marriage, and their families.
- Coach couples tuned up their group facilitation skills to encourage important interaction among Home Group participants. Alumni of the groups tell us that these energizing conversations were their favorite part of LifeQuest Couples.
- Coach couples learned the roles of all the ministry “support players” on the sidelines. Like any great team on the field, there are many support players whose critical roles are out of sight, off the field.
Our new Coach Couples are getting ready to share the LifeQuest Couples ministry with our fall semester participants. But as they have learned, by far the most valuable player on the field when the season begins again, is the Holy Spirit (MVP if you will). It is a wonder to witness His movement in and around all the players on the field. What a privilege it is to be on His team, as we all work to move the ball forward, for marriages and the Kingdom.
