Task Forces (Coach)

From IICM

Purpose of the Missional Coach Task Force

Missional Coach Task Force focuses on training mentors who facilitate and equip Missional Response Teams.

The Intercultural Institute for Contextual Ministry trains Missional Coaches to work with churches and believers to foster the development of Missional Response Teams. These teams of lay missionaries endeavor to penetrate specific unreached groups in their community. Many of these teams utilize the APEPT giftedness of the team to bring a balanced approach to reaching, discipling and multiplying believers among specific target populations.

The purpose of the Missional Coach Task Force is to discuss ways to develop new Missional Coaches, create materials and resources for them, improve their training process, foster ongoing interaction between them in peer-to-peer learning networks, and improve their implementation as they develop and work with Missional Response Teams.

There is no related travel for participants. We ask the Missional Coach Task Force participants to commit to four quarterly meetings over the next year with a time of 2 hours for each meeting via Skype. Beyond this commitment, the Task Force participants themselves may extend the sessions based on their own consensus.

Benefits for Participants on the Missional Coach Task Force

• Direct input into the design of Missional Coach training process, materials, and resources
• Collaboration with others who have been trained or who seek to be trained as Missional Coaches
• Ongoing case studies regarding implementation in various church and community settings.
• Input in the design of a grant proposal for developing Missional Coach training
• Option to become a Regional Missional Trainer who equips Missional Coaches

Co-Hosts for the Missional Coach Task Force
Curt Watke, PhD, Founder and Executive Director. Dr. Curt Watke		Ed Docampo, D.Min., Associate Director for Missional Leadership. Dr. Ed Docampo

Missional Coach Task Force Participants

Otis Corbitt

Chaplain Major, Rev. Otis Corbitt

Rev. Otis Corbitt is a State Missionary with the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions as well as an appointed missionary with the North American Mission Board. In this role Otis works with Anglo church planters and their sponsors in Alabama and he also coordinates training for all church planters who relate to the Alabama Baptist Convention. In addition, Otis also consults with churches to help them plan their facilities to support ministry and church growth. Since Otis became a State Missionary six years ago he has provided this planning assistance to hundreds of churches across Alabama. Otis also serves as chaplain in the Alabama Army National Guard with the rank of MAJ and he deployed to Iraq with his unit in 2010. Otis has extensive training in crisis ministry and he is a graduate of the US Army Command and General Staff College. Prior to coming to the State Board of Missions Otis was a pastor of churches in Georgia and Alabama, and an associational director of missions in Troy, AL. He and his family also served overseas with the International Mission Board for seven years.

Fred Creason

Dr. Fred Creason

Dr. Fred Creason is Director of Missions for the Old Faithful and Powder River Associations in Northeast Wyoming. Fred also serves as Director of the Wyoming Southern Baptist Center for Leadership Development, a diploma granting school sponsored by Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary. He is an IICM certified Missional Strategist for Intercultural Evangelism, Intercultural Congregations and Intercultural Leadership. Fred has many years of experience as a pastor, ADOM, educator, church strategist, and writer. He holds two doctorates: a Ph.D. in Old Testament Interpretation from BJU, and a D.Min. in Pastoral Ministry from Denver Seminary.

Matt Flindt

Rev. Matt Flindt

Rev. Matt Flindt is the Minister of Education/Administration at Central Baptist Church in Owasso, OK where he also is leading the implementation of APEPT Missionality. Missional Response Teams are being developed to penetrate a shopping area, a sports arena, a skate park, and a biker hang-out. He is a certified Missional Coach Trainer for Apostolic Missionality, Prophetic Missionality, Evangelistic Missionality, Pastoral Missionality, and Teaching Missionality. He also serves as a certified Missional Strategist for Intercultural Evangelism, Intercultural Congregations and Intercultural Leadership.

Rafael Hernandez

Dr. Rafael Hernandez

Dr. Rafael Hernandez is the Executive Director of the Southeastern New England Baptist Association in Warwick, RI. He is responsible for developing and casting vision for the association, and managing all aspects of strategy development for the planting of new congregations, the strengthening of already existing churches, developing indigenous leaders, budget development and implementation, and supervision of volunteer personnel. His ministry includes the development of networks and partnerships with individuals and organizations engaged in similar activities throughout the region and the country. Dr. Hernandez graduated from the University of Maine with a B.S. in Business Administration, an MPS in Theology from the New York Theological Seminary, and a D.Min. from the Andover Newton Theological School.

Buddy McGohon

Dr. Buddy McGohon

Dr. Buddy McGohon served as Director of Mission for the Montgomery Baptist Association, Montgomery, AL for eighteen years before retiring in 2004. Previously he was a pastor for 28 years, serving 7 churches in Kentucky, Mississippi and Alabama. In retirement he has served as an Intentional Interim Pastor for three congregations in the Birmingham area and is currently Interim pastor of the Indian Springs First Baptist Church, Pelham, AL. He has also been the Interim Executive Director of Birmingham Baptist Association and a part-time associate in the Office Of Associational Missions and Church Planting of the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions. He has served churches in Alabama, Kentucky and Missouri as a strategic planning consultant. He holds M Div and D Min degrees from The Southern Baptist Seminary, Louisville, KY and is certified as an Intentional Interim Minister by the Center for Congregation Health, Winston Salem, NC.

Ken May

Rev. Ken May

Rev. Ken May is the Director of Missions for the Montgomery Baptist Association, Montgomery, Alabama. In this position he has led the association in developing partnerships to start churches, led the association in developing a strategic vision for the future, streamlined bugeting and ministry processes, and assisted with four church starts. He is an IICM certified Missional Strategist for Intercultural Evangelism, Intercultural Congregations and Intercultural Leadership. Previously he served as a Pastor of two Alabama churches, was Baptist Campus Minister at Troy University, Auburn U. at Montgomery, Alabama State U., U. of Alabama-Huntsville, an A&M U. He has taught as an Adjunct Professor of Ethics in the Department of History and Philosophy at Troy University. He has served on numerous boards and committees of denominational and service agencies. He has graduated from Jacksonville State University with a B.A. and Southern Seminary with a M.Div.

Jim Pollard

Dr. Jim Pollard

Dr. Jim Pollard is the Associational Missionary for the Pilot Mountain Baptist Association in Winston-Salem, NC. He received a Master of Divinity from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and a Doctor of Philosophy from Bethany Theological Seminary in counseling. Jim has been certified as a coach, as a consultant for Pursuing Vital Ministry, Intentional Evangelistic Church Strategy, Continuing Witness Training and Master Life. He is a member of the American Association of Christian Counselors and the Network of Baptist Associations. He has pastored three churches in North Carolina and one in South Carolina and has also served as a Southern Baptist Missionary to Chile, South America with the International Mission Board.