{"id":34923,"date":"2024-01-18T14:31:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T22:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/?p=34923"},"modified":"2024-01-18T14:31:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T22:31:43","slug":"theres-gold-in-that-bucket-over-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/theres-gold-in-that-bucket-over-there\/","title":{"rendered":"There’s Gold in that Bucket over there!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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‘mining for gold’ this summer with my youngest daughter<\/p><\/div>\n

This past summer we spent some time with family in Eastern Oregon. On one of our days together we went to an old mining town where gold is still being dredged from the bottom of the river to this day. At the visitor center, there were large tubs of sediment and sand where anyone could ‘pan for gold’. The sand and sediment was guaranteed to contain gold and you could take home a few flecks of the precious metal for a small fee. Of course, our kids wanted to give it a try and they were not disappointed. It took a little while for us to figure out what was gold and what wasn’t but eventually, we ‘struck gold’ and felt the satisfaction of discovering that which was most precious in the sediment and the water.<\/p>\n

This idea of searching for gold is much of what Camacho’s book is about.<\/p>\n

Camacho’s book is about learning to discover and develop leaders in God’s Kingdom by searching together, with the Holy Spirit, for the ‘gold’ parts of each person that are unique to them so that they can be a part of building God’s Kingdom. This type of coaching involves slowing down and paying attention to the work of the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n

I appreciated the acronym of G.O.L.D. and resonated with a desire to continuously developing leaders. I’m learning to develop leaders at a sustainable rate in my own life and ministry so that I can be attentive to the leaders I am developing, quality over quantity.<\/p>\n

That part of Camacho’s book that resonated the most with me was the idea of finding your sweet spot. I appreciate that he spent time thinking about how to find it myself, and how to help others find it as well. This idea of Passion, Wiring and Fruit is extremely helpful. There is always the 20% of the time where we are operating in areas that aren’t those things and that’s part of life. But it was an encouragement and help re-focus to remember that when we are serving in our sweet spot we experience the joy and purpose that comes from being in partnership with the Holy Spirit and seeing fruit for His Kingdom!<\/p>\n

This book is extremely helpful to me, as coaching and empowering others has always been a passion and desire for me as a pastor and leader. Empowering others to discover their calling, strengths and place for ministry is one of my primary passions and calling as a pastor. God has recently blessed our church with 5 students who have been called to pursue vocational ministry in some way and I am privileged to personally coach some of them and to oversee all of them. We’ve also been entrusted with a growing number of high school students that would benefit greatly from coaching models and mindsets. I’m reminding myself while reading this text that I’m not the only one who has to coach all these amazing women and men God is raising up in our church. We have a multi-pastor staff team, retired pastors and other Christ-centered leaders who can also participate in this development. Camacho’s book has me thinking about how this resource could be used not just to coach others but to raise up other coaches too!<\/p>\n

I want to develop these skills in my own life and began to share these concepts with other leaders in our church so that they too can coach the people in their ministry areas. I’m reminded by reading this book that its the work of the Holy Spirit in them that I want to help them notice and respond to, not any expertise or insight from my own self without the working of God.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, as I’ve been reflecting on my doctoral research and passion of helping people discover the gift of Sabbath, I’ve been wondering about how “Sabbath Coaching” could become a part of my ministry and life moving forward. I will need more training around the professional practice of coaching, but I’ve considered launching a Sabbath coaching ministry as a way to specifically come alongside pastors, leaders and people in my church to journey with them in their discovery and practice of this wonderful gift of Sabbath given to us by God to enjoy Him!<\/p>\n

Camacho’s book is giving me helpful tools in learning how to do this better in my ministry context. There’s definitely gold in every person and every context where we are working. Will we take the time to sift, search and discover it as we interact with and serve others? May God enable us to do so!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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