Sending Well: A Field Guide to Great Church Planter Coaching

Sending Well: A Field Guide to Great Church Planter Coaching gives practical steps for creating a system that delivers great coaching to church planters. Whether you are coaching planters or attempting to develop coaches for multiple planters, this book will help you.

Sending Well helps coaches and leaders enhance their coaching efforts in three parts:

Part One: Build a Coaching Framework – Coaching is a vehicle to help church planters pursue their unique Kingdom assignment. Building a coaching framework is crucial to this assignment. Church planter coaches and the planters they coach must have the same purposes in mind. Building a framework helps ensure this will be the case.

Part Two: Develop Great Coaches – Great coaches are made not born; they are developed. Sending Well creates simple targets for coaches who want to move from “good enough” to “great."

Part Three: Deliver Great Coaching –The meaning of the word “coach” must evolve from training to action. “Coach" is a verb, and supporting church planters is the desired outcome. Sending Well explores four vital elements of a coaching delivery system.

Dino Senesi is the Coaching Director of the North American Mission Board’s Send Network (SBC). He has led congregations and encouraged leaders for over thirty years. He has served local churches in Louisiana, Ohio, and South Carolina, and his ten years of denominational leadership have provided hands-on experience with hundreds of churches and leaders. 

Dino has a Bachelor of Arts from Milligan College, and a Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He holds coaching credentials through CoachNet Global (www.coachnet.org); Pastor’s Coaching Network (www.visionventures.org); and Creative Results Management (www.creativeresultsmanagement.com). 

In addition to his formal training, Dino has spent hundreds of hours coaching leaders and training coaches in various contexts throughout North America. He and his wife, Yvette, live in Rock Hill, South Carolina. They have three daughters and two grandsons.