by Tom Hurt Pacific Conference Coaching Director I can remember clearly my 9th grade wrestling coach. Being new to the sport I was nervous and excited to get on the mat and do my best. The reality was, I had a lot to learn and it was obvious I needed a coach. As the season…
Category: Pacific Conference
10 Lessons from the Leadership Summit
This past week the Conference was privileged to host the Global Leadership Summit for the second year. It’s an incomparable experience: world-renowned leaders of both sacred and secular success presenting inspiring and challenging points with the unique opportunity to contextualize the teaching with other leaders and pastors from the Pacific Conference. Quite frankly, it’s why…
Hold Your Breadth
Most pastors and church leaders would agree they are simply too busy. Often we are stretched and stressed by all the spinning plates we must keep going. Part of the problem is that we don’t take the measure of our capacity; we say yes and yes and yes without considering the bandwidth we’ve committed. But…
It Ain’t Church…
It’s kind of funny how we “do” church. Many have relegated church to an hour meeting each week, singing a few songs and listening to a sermon. That’s a far cry from the early church who longed to be together every day (Acts says they met daily (Acts 2:46).) Today, sadly, even the committed are…
Three Things to Commence
I love commencement season with its dual meaning. It marks both the completion and the beginning, simultaneously making a giant check on the list and creating a new checklist. With that in mind, I offer my congratulations to this year’s graduates of PESM (Pacific Evangelical School of Ministry)! Just the other Sunday we had graduation…
On Vacation…
This week Linda and I are on vacation, so I’m not writing a blog. I take my time-off seriously: I unplug from my office email and text messages to focus instead on family, rest, and restoration. Taking time off is important for all of us! In the meantime, here are a few of my past…
3 Things I’m Praying for Our Trip
Hello from Israel! We just completed our first full day in Israel. We started at 7:30 AM in Netanya and got to our hotel here in Tiberius at 6:30 PM. It’s amazing how much you can see, learn, and experience in 11 hours. If you haven’t been following you can go to holylandtripblog and catch our…
Twenty Quotes About Prayer
This week the Pacific Conference hosted our annual Mid-Winter Retreat at Newport. Our theme was “Pray First!” What a privilege to talk to God! Yet, too often, I wait too long to pray. He wants me to come to Him first. Someone said that, “Prayerlessness is a declaration of our independence from God.” LET’S TALK……
Your Trip to the Holy Land! …Yes, Yours!
If you’ve ever thought, “I would like to go to Israel someday” – now is the time. If you really think you will go “sometime”, please take time to read this blog. We have extended the registration deadline until the end of this month (January 31st). In other words, there is still time for you…
Living Beyond Ourselves
This year, the Pacific Conference is emphasizing the theme “Beyond Ourselves.” We cannot be a healthy local church without an outward focus. It is so easy to focus on our own needs and forget about our community. In fact, the gap between the church and the culture is so great, that many have given up…
The TurnAround Project
This week sixteen of our churches, with their pastors and leaders, are participating in a TurnAround Boot Camp. That’s one third of our churches! The Pacific Conference is committed to help build healthy local churches and this is one example of how we are working together. LET’S TALK… Here are four “musts” for church transformation…
Why You Need a Coach
As we work to build healthy local churches, one of the priorities of the Pacific Conference is developing leaders. As part of that area of focus, we’ve begun a program of Coaching for our pastors. I’ve personally been coached, both in the past and at present. (I wrote about it here.) I’ve found that it…
Coffee with Randall 