Community Chaplains or "Life Coaches"
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Helping you achieve God's goals for your life

Community Chaplains or "Life Coaches" are people whom God has anointed with the gifts of an evangelist and a pastor as a minimum, and are able to pray with faith for the needs of people.  They have a special concern for all people living in the geographical area in which the local Christian community is based.  Their role and function is especially significant in the early years of forming of a new Christian Community in an area.

Community Chaplains are available to provide you with a listening ear, care & concern, prayer, and to help connect you with other services appropriate to your needs.

Community Chaplains have a special focus to ensure that as many people as possible come to enjoy the abundant life that Jesus Christ came to bring.  It is their responsibility and privilege to share with you the Good News of Jesus Christ, to help you study the Bible so that good Christian foundations are laid in your life, and to help integrate you into the rest of the life of the local Christian community.

Ideally, every adult should be able to fulfil the role of a "Chaplain" or "Life Coach", because in essence, it is just having a concern for people around you, and having the necessary skills and knowledge to be able to help them become a follower of Jesus. Our aim is to help all adults grow to this level of maturity.

The primary role of Chaplain therefore involves these five elements:

1.  Making contact, and keeping in contact.
· Initial visits to people's homes, or other face-to-face contacting process (eg. in market places or city streets using book tables and information stalls or open-air preaching), to introduce themselves and pass on their details;
· Delivering or making available regular newsletters ("Chaplain's Notes") to keep in touch.  In each edition they include encouraging, helpful, and sometimes challenging thoughts to help you grow in faith and realize more and more what a wonderful God we have.
· Continuing to keep in personal contact (eg. through re-visiting) in order to build a good relationship.
· Praying for your needs and the needs of the community.

2.  Sharing the Good News of Jesus.
· Upon "re-visiting", they will seek opportunity to discuss the spiritual dimension of life with you.
· They will begin to work through the five key spiritual questions with you:

1. Do you believe that God exists?
   
2. Do you understand that God loves you and wants you to experience abundant life as you obey Him?
   
3. Our world and our lives have been and are in such a mess because we have all sinned against God, and there is coming a Day of Judgement in which we will all have to give an account of our lives before God.  Do you understand what sin is and admit that you are a sinner?
   
4. Do you believe that because God loves you, He sent His own Son Jesus Christ to die on the cross as the penalty for our sins, and rise again so that we could be FREE from sin, death, and hell, and have abundant eternal life as we follow Him?
   
5. Will you now turn from your sins, turn back to God, ask Him for forgiveness, and begin following Jesus as your king, lord and master?