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The newly released MTD Health Indicator is allowing us to quickly identify who isn’t thriving and give them the time and coaching they need to get MTD back on track. We know coaching cohorts are an effective means of getting seasoned missionaries back to health. And, as MTD health increases, ministers’ lives are changed, their marriages healed and peace restored. 

Intro to MTD Cohorts

Coaching cohorts are intended for seasoned missionaries who want to raise more funding. The objective of this weekly, one-hour group call is to guide missionaries in creating and achieving specific goals to increase their MTD health. The cohort provides camaraderie, structure, accountability and encouragement around an 8-week focused time of MTD. 

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The group is limited to 7 people at a time, not including the coach. It can include people from around the country and across the globe. Coaches can host sessions via phone or video call. 

The time commitment for coaches

Per call, cohort coaches can expect to spend about 15 minutes of prep time, one hour for the call, and 15-30 minutes after the call. 

Total time, per weekly call: 1 hour and 30-45 minutes. 

Coaching Bonus

Reliant offers a coaching bonus - we pay you!

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PS - We also know people who are coaching others end up raising more personal support than normal. So, this is a huge side-benefit of coaching. 

What it takes to lead a cohort

The cohort model is based on four pillars: 

1. Shared Knowledge: We all have something we do well in MTD. The cohorts are a place to share that knowledge; for support-raisers to teach one another. The coach facilitates this conversation, and fills in gaps where needed. But, mainly the cohort is teaching the cohort. 
2. Accountability: Updating the group each week on what they said they were going to do often provides the motivation needed to reach goals. 
3. Camaraderie: People work better when they know they’re not alone. Coaches ask questions to bring out obstacles group members are facing and help work toward solutions. When group members can hear how others are overcoming the same obstacle, it builds camaraderie and strengthens resolve. 
4. Structure: Cohorts provide structure during what can be a very unstructured time (raising new support). This structure ministers to the individual both by reducing stress and keeping them focused. 

What happens in a cohort call

1. Hour-long calls (video or voice) are at the same time weekly, for 8 consecutive weeks. 
2. A cohort member opens in prayer. 
3. Discussion is facilitated through: 
   1. There is no single “expert.” As the coach, you don’t bear the burden of having all the answers. Instead, you’re encouraging the cohort to answer each other’s questions. You’ll fill in the gaps when needed. (You’ll also have access to resource pages that have been curated from the last 3 years of seasoned missionary cohorts. These are written topically so you can send them directly to missionaries.) 
1. Six update questions at the beginning of the call. These are the same each week. 
2. Creating weekly action items and encouraging accountability
3. Q&A time
4. Sharing of knowledge, strategies, and motivators
5. Teaching time 
4. The coach ends the call in prayer. 

How to get started

• Contact Jenni.Saniuk@reliant.org to let her know you’d like to coach.  
• Join a cohort coach training session. 
• Observe a cohort call. Contact keva.ambre@reliant.org to schedule.  
• Be available to coach a weekly, one-hour call for 8 consecutive weeks.

Questions? 

Contact Jenni.Saniuk@reliant.org. 

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