Time for a new adventure

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Tomorrow I travel to the Funding Your Ministry Symposium at the Glen Eyrie Conference Center, near Colorado Springs. I will be attending this event with Adrian McMullen, Associate for Collegiate Ministries with the Presbyterian Mission Agency. Our goal is to build the base from which we offer support to Presbyterian collegiate ministries and ministers with fundraising in these times of high change and high need. I always enjoy time with Adrian and the opportunity to catch-up on what is happening on the national college ministry scene. I am also looking forward to visiting Glen Eyrie. I have heard about it over the years and this will be my first visit.

Opportunities…

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Here are some of the projects I am focusing on these days: 1) Life Coaching related to self discovery, goal setting, decision making and life transitions, 2) Fundraising support, (for campus ministers and ministries) I’ll be in Colorado next week for a training related to coaching others in support raising, 3) Networking, helping connect people and organizations to build supportive relationships and explore new opportunities, and 4) Leadership Mentoring, helping organizational leaders proactively move forward. For fun this week I am going to start working with the local middle and high school Special Olympics Spring Soccer program.

Please contact me and we can explore ways in which I can help you and your organization in the coming days.

support for the journey

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It is a joy to support people through Life Coaching. Life Coaching can be focused in a variety of areas: translations, decision making, clarity and purpose, career focus, relationships, life stages and ages and more. Following are Julie Miller’s comments about how I have supported her in recent years. Let me know if you’d like to connect and explore helpful ways we can work together.

 

Practical help I first met Jim in 2006. Over the past few years, Jim has been a solid supporter and mentor to me through some very challenging personal events that have taken place in my life. I am so appreciative of his ability to truly listen, empathize, and ask questions in a way that is honest yet sensitive. Whether I talk to Jim about my faith, relationships, life goals or my current transition into being a young professional, he is consistently a positive source of encouragement and reason. I’m thankful to have a mentor like Jim in my life!

 

Julie Miller, Elementary Teacher, Burlington, WA

Now is always a good time…

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A good time for decision making, life clarification and direction setting. My hope is to help individuals work a process that brings clarity and progress toward understanding and living their best life. Following is Caity Kepler’s story of how we have worked together over the years.

As my mentor, Jim has the inherent ability to ask the exact right questions I have needed to hear in the moment. He has the wisdom to see what should be dealt with immediately and what should be reflected on for longer periods of time. After having a mentoring conversation with Jim, I am always amazed at how he was able to bring clarity and thought to details I hadn’t even realized I needed to think through. Plus he always continues to show genuine encouragement and interest as I’ve taken steps to improve my life and work towards my goals. And somehow knowing Jim is in my corner always makes those steps just a little bit easier to attempt.

     Caity Kepler, Grad student, Bellingham, WA

Please contact me now and we can schedule a Life Coaching or Leadership Mentoring appointment for April.

If you know Anne…

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Knowing Anne Campbell over the years is a joy. She makes any gathering a party and any party a better party. It’s been a privilege to support her in times of transition and decision making.  Following are Anne’s words related to our friendship and working together.

 

At first I was drawn to Jim because I simply liked him, back in 1999 as a freshman at Western Washington University, young and excited and seeking direction in life. But over the course of years, I have found his willingness to get together and talk about any season of life (particularly transition times, i.e. from college to an internship at the INN, from the internship to moving away to the city, from the city to moving yet again for graduate school, then from being single to being married) absolutely refreshing from the standpoint of his keen insights and intelligent challenges toward excellence.

 

     Anne Campbell, free-lance writer, Accounting Clerk, Bellingham, WA

 

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A great day with

Anne & Robert Campbell!

decision making and direction changing

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Karlie WIpperling’s story gives clarity to how I can help you through supportive coaching. Following are her words:

 

I have known Jim for close to 10 years and am blessed to count him as mentor and good friend.  With any challenge I face in my life, whether personal or professional, Jim listens with genuine interest and true concern. He asks just the question I am avoiding that also happens to be the key to the solution. Jim’s strength is building relationships and tailoring his coaching to each individual he works with. I am forever grateful for his guidance and friendship.

 

Karlie Wipperling, Clinic Manager, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA

 

If you are at a place of decision making or direction changing I can help you process and move forward for your best possible future. Now is always the best time for action. Contact me now and we can get moving forward soon.

 

Jim

jim@jimschmotzer.com

360.224.4974

 

Real help for real (campus) ministers

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Last week I was in Chicago meeting with the UKirk (http://www.ukirk.org/) Fundraising Resource Team. Our goal is to develop systems to help campus ministers and ministries meet ever present financial needs. Situations and systems are rapidly changing often resulting in new, and at times overwhelming, pressure on those working to minister to students on a daily basis. The team members have real experience in campus ministries and thereby consider the work a coming alongside to help.

Look for updates and practical help in the coming months.

Here are the UKirk Fundraising Resource Team members I am privileged to be working with:

  • Mark Elsdon Campus Co-Pastor/Executive Director, Pres House, Madison Wisconsin
  • Stead Halstead, former campus minister and current MBA student, Eugene Oregon
  • Adrian McMullen Associate for Collegiate Ministries at the General Assembly offices; Louisville, Kentucky
  • Diana Malcom Associate in Ministry for College-Age Ministries, State College Presbyterian Church, State College, Pennsylvania
  • Susan Rose Campus Minister, United Campus Ministry University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas