What is Life Coaching?

Life Coaches help people maximize their life for success today and for all tomorrow’s! Coaches honor the client as the expert in his or her life and work and believe every client is creative, resourceful, and whole (spiritual, emotional, and physical). Standing on this foundation, the coach’s responsibility is to empower and encourage clients. Our desire is to improve the client’s outlook on work and life, while improving their leadership skills and unlocking their potential in Christ. We motivate our clients to strengthen their spiritual core, like strengthening their physical core; to be firmly planted, connected in Christ, and rooted in God’s Word. When you realize and believe in your identification with Christ; that you were crucified, buried, and raised with Christ, your life will be healthier, stronger, and victorious!

Grace Fellowship International Coaching

GFI offers coaching to individuals, pastors, leaders, businesses, ministries, churches, and influencers. Our Life Coach Guides are all certified Life Coach’s and have obtained an Exchanged Life certification through GFI. GFI’s coaching focuses on exchanged life principles, walking in the Spirit, and how to guide people into complete and victorious identity in Christ. Our coaching also includes training in effective exchanged life counseling. The coaching relationship is the vehicle of change and transformation.

What are the Biblical Foundations for Coaching?
  • Galatians 2:20
  • Ephesians 2:10
  • Proverbs 27:17
  • Proverbs 20:5
  • 1 Thessalonians 2:11-12
Distinctions in Christian Coaching
  • Inviting Holy Spirit into the coaching conversation and allowing Him to guide the client and the conversation.
  • Asking direct questions that grow the client’s faith.
  • Encouraging the client to see, understand, and follow God’s will and plan.
  • Challenging the client to view life from a Biblical perspective.
  • Creating awareness, designing actions, and formulating solutions using God’s Word.
  • Encouraging the client’s transformation into the image of Christ.
  • Emphasizing being over doing.
Is coaching for me?  
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Self-care is important to your soul care.  Your own growth and transformed life matters.  What would it look like for you to stop striving in this life and start thriving?  We are not designed to be driven by our emotions but to be set free by the truth of God (John 8:32).  Our coaches are trustworthy, communicative, and motivating.  You can expect that our coaches are joyful, empathetic listeners, will ask curious questions, and are concise communicators.  Our coaches coach people not problems.
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Coaching vs. Counseling
  • Both provide relationship improvement and overall wellness.
  • Counseling deals with the past while coaching is future oriented and proactive.
  • Counseling is more problem-focused and coaching is more solution focused.
  • Counseling works toward emotions while coaching works toward outcomes.
  • Counseling gives recommendations but coaching does not give advice.
  • Coaching is about growth not healing.  Coaches walk alongside clients, not in front of them.
(Some of this information is taken from the AACC Light University Coaching curriculum.)
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Director of Coaching Ministry

Mark McKeehan

Memberships:
American Association of Christian Counselors
International Christian Coaching Association.

Light University:
    Professional Life Coach
    Health and Wellness Coaching
ISSA:
   Personal Training
   Fitness Coach
   Elite Trainer
   Specialist in Strength and Conditioning

Schedule a Coaching Meeting

To learn more about our coaching methods or to schedule a coaching session, please:

  • Click the schedule a coaching session button below.
  • Call GFI at (865) 429-0450
  • Email [email protected]
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