By: Andy Hale on January 24, 2023
Where do we get our concept of most things within society? What determines whether or not something becomes a societal norm? What about all of these matters from a theological perspective? What about when you raise these questions for the subject of gender? Modern gender theory is complex as more platforms have been created…
By: Tim Clark on January 23, 2023
Recently I watched the 2016 film “The Arrival” in which 12 extraterrestrial spacecraft visit Earth. Mild spoiler alert: It turns out that how people engage with the aliens leads to a major threshold moment for humanity and alters the course of history. Last week I read the story of Jacob in Genesis. Jacob sent everything…
By: Russell Chun on January 23, 2023
Бар’єри для навчання та момент «Ага», (Ukrainian) Barriers to Education and the Aha moment Part 1 – Barriers to Education (from an ESL perspective) I teach Ukrainian refugees on job training on Wednesdays. Mondays and Wednesdays I teach Central and South Americans in Intermediate Grammar. As an English as a Second Language teacher, I am…
By: Laura Fleetwood on January 21, 2023
“You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to PUT OFF YOUR OLD SELF, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be MADE NEW in the attitude of your minds and to PUT ON THE NEW SELF, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.” EPHESIANS 4:22-24 According to Forbes…
By: Kristy Newport on January 21, 2023
Doctor Seuss’ books were a favorite growing up. I remember a less popular Doctor Seuss book titled: “Are You My Mother?” As a young child I thought it was pretty silly to follow the main character, a little bird, on his journey to find who his mother was. Asking who my mother is could be…
By: Jonathan Lee on January 20, 2023
Mining for Gold is a book on developing Christian leaders through coaching written by Tom Camacho. Tom Camacho started his leadership experience first in the military as an officer and a pilot, then moved on to human resources and leadership development role in the GE corporate world. Then into answering the calling to the ministry…
By: Caleb Lu on January 20, 2023
What’s the difference between pastoring and coaching? I have to admit that I have held a negative view of coaching born from life-coaches who have taken advantage of and given horrible advice to my sister-in-law. Tom Camacho’s Mining for Gold gave me a new perspective on coaching. At its core, Camacho states that “mining for…
By: Chad McSwain on January 20, 2023
“We always look for the next person up.” This rang through my ears with enough pure elation that it would be an understate to say that it made my day. It was said to me by a women in her seventies as we debriefed interviewing candidates for an open staff position. She said it with…
By: Pam Lau on January 20, 2023
Reading Mining for Gold by Tom Camacho brought back strong memories of Bill Burnett’s and Dave Evan’s New York Times best-selling book, Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived Joy-Filled Life. The similarities between the two books are almost identical in theme: True happiness comes from designing a life that works for you. On…
By: Noel Liemam on January 20, 2023
“Thriving kingdom leaders are like pure gold. They are very valuable and they are quite scarce. Loving, fruitful and multiplying leaders are works of art, masterpieces fashioned by the hands of God himself. Like trees bearing fruit in season, their leaves don’t wither and they fulfil the call God has for their lives (Camacho, Tom.…
By: Elmarie Parker on January 20, 2023
In “Mining for Gold: Developing Kingdom Leaders through Coaching,” Tom Camacho offers a guidebook to his leadership development theory, a theory that integrates key life coaching skills and scripturally informed leadership practices and perspectives. He writes, “We must get a new lens on leadership. We need to develop the skills of Coaching Leadership.”[1] His book…
By: Jana Dluehosh on January 19, 2023
I am a PK…in other word’s a Pastor’s kid. In fact, I’m (or was) a pastor’s Grandkid, Pastor’s niece, Pastor’s sister-in-law, Pastor’s wife and Pastor. I have grown up inside the fishbowl of a ministry family. I start this way because I want to orient why I am a harsh critic of the church and…
By: Becca Hald on January 19, 2023
I am sitting by the pool at the Polynesian Resort at Walt Disney World. Between winter storms, loss of power, evacuating, and migraines (due to the winter storms and stress), I did not get my post done prior to this trip. So here I am. Not a bad place to sit for a bit…
By: Jenny Dooley on January 19, 2023
In his book, Mining for Gold: Developing Kingdom Leaders through Coaching, Tom Camacho presents leaders with an invitation to mine for the gold hidden within the people around us. Mining for gold is a mindset and a heart attitude to see the immense treasure and image of God in others. Camacho’s premise is that God…
By: Mary Kamau on January 19, 2023
In 2007, our ministry started on a trajectory of exponential growth; from one church congregation and one school at the end of 2006, we had four schools by September of 2007, and this growth continues to date. One incident in 2007 came to mind as I read Tom Camacho’s book, Mining for Gold.[1] We recruited…
By: Adam Harris on January 19, 2023
Anyone ever told you there are no stupid questions? Mining for Gold may challenge that idea. Tom Camacho claims “There are great questions, OK questions, and terrible questions.” (Camacho, 70) At least when it comes to coaching. The journey that introduced Tom to coaching was raw and inspiring. It involved some real pain and I appreciated…
By: Jonita Fair-Payton on January 19, 2023
“It is beautiful. It is pure. It is soft. It is rare.” Honestly this book grabbed me with these twelve descriptive words, and I kept reading until I reached the end. I had no intention of reading every word, but this book was well-timed and really spoke to some struggles that I have been currently…
By: Todd E Henley on January 19, 2023
Oohhh, Mining For Gold by Tom Camacho had my heart racing for days. I literally felt it was Christmas as I read through many of the pages. Just over a year ago, I founded Restore Counseling Center. We have 1, 3, 5, and 10-year goals. Part of those goals include multiplying our counseling center in…
By: Kally Elliott on January 19, 2023
Reading Mining For Gold by Tom Camacho reminded me of a time when I was planting a new church and my husband was planting a new community center. When anyone would approach me or my husband with a new idea my husband’s first instinct would be to say, “Yes! That’s a great idea! Let’s try…
By: Nicole Richardson on January 19, 2023
To be coached or not to be coached? If someone is sitting on the fence asking that question, Mining for Gold by Tom Camacho is the go-to apologetic to help answer the question for the fence straddler. Camacho uses GOLD as an acrostic to define his “coaching style of leadership”[1] and unpacks this style with…
