The Body of Christ: The Church

Steve consults with churches and their leadership in a number of areas. The aim is always to promote healthy missional function that in turn encourages disciple-making disciples.
An outside perspective – to the continual day-to-day, which leaders experience – can provide a reflexive space to assess vision and mission, and the energy expended in pursuit of both. Renewed energy and creativity are often a much needed result of investing in this kind of partnership.

Church leadership
- Strategic vision and needs analysis and workshops
- Leadership/ team dynamics development
- Mentoring and support of specific ministry’s
- Conflict management and resolution
- Counselling
- Spiritual direction and coaching
Families
Marriage prep and enrichment
- Short courses in small groups
- Couple-to-couple conversation
Parenting
- Workshops, short courses and parent-to-parent conversation.
Counselling
- Specific interventions for conflict resolution, improved communication and relationship health
- Trauma, change negotiation
- For individuals, couples or whole families


Spaces of encounter with God
- Retreats:
– guided times of listening to God, often focused on a specified topic.
- Worship leading:
– a contemporary styled approach to meeting God in song and prayer.
- Preaching:
– a relaxed style of sharing Biblical interpretation and practice that invites ongoing engagement within the hearer.
- Spiritual direction:
– either one on one or in a small group setting. Spiritual direction is a term used for the process of spiritual mentoring or guiding, where someone, who seeks to grow deeper in relationship with God, engages in conversation with a guide/mentor/coach to prompt this growth. It is a three way relationship between God, seeker and guide.
- Leading of workshops on specific topics:
– Worship
– Prayer
– Spiritual formation
Fresh Expressions Church Planting
Supporting local church planting under the Fresh Expressions South Africa umbrella.
- Process:
- Invest in the planting team
- Team composition and dynamic
- Community needs assessment
- Church plant to meet the identified needs
- Ongoing coaching support for the initial two year period of the plant.
- Invest in the planting team
