Startup Coaching
Stadia’s Church Startup Coaches provides comprehensive services for church planters in the startup phase, including direct, hands-on support, and access to Stadia’s proven startup process. We equip church planters with personalized coaching and the essential tools and training needed for success. As an outsourced solution, our Church Startup Coaches will compliment and significantly enhance your church multiplication efforts.
Core Components
A Dedicated Startup Coach
Every church plant is unique. Stadia’s coaches guide planters in discerning the best approach for their context, empowering them to develop ministries that are relevant, responsive, and rooted in the needs of their community.
Proven Resources & Best Practices
Church planting involves a maze of decisions. Our coaches acts as consultants too, providing direct access to time-tested resources, frameworks, and strategies. These tools help planters save hours of research, allowing them to focus on connecting with people and building their ministry.
Personal Soul Care for Lasting Impact
Ministry can be spiritually and emotionally demanding. Our coaches prioritize the soul care of each planter, providing spiritual mentorship and personal support to help them launch with health and resilience. A healthy pastor leads to a healthy church, and our focus on wellness ensures planters start strong and stay strong.
On-Demand Training Content
Access to a comprehensive suite of online training modules covering the core principles of church planting, adaptable to any context. Full list of training modules available upon request.
Customized Project Management Tasklist
Our Startup Coaching program includes a comprehensive task management system, hosted on Asana, that serves as a structured roadmap for planters. This system breaks down each phase of church planting into actionable tasks, ensuring planters stay organized, focused, and moving forward effectively. Our coaches cover vision and mission development, team building and leadership, community engagement, operational foundations, and personal health and wellness during their sessions with planters.
VENDOR RECOMMENDATIONS
Curated list of recommended vendors for various services and supplies crucial to the church planting process, vetted for quality and reliability.
Meet your guide
Sam Chacko
Director of Church Startup
Sam Chacko serves as the Lead Pastor at LOFT City Church in Richardson, TX. He helped plant the church in 2011 and has seen the church become a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural church community. Sam is a second-generation Indian American and a third-generation pastor. He’s also been a bi-vocational church planter, having served 15 years on staff at Marketplace Ministries. Church planting is something near and dear to Sam and his family. He has a heart to see more minority-led multi-ethnic church plants and to see bi-vocational pastors flourish in ministry.
Why Partner with Stadia?
By offering Stadia’s Startup Coaching to your church planters, your church, network, or denomination is investing in a comprehensive support system that fosters both immediate success and sustainable growth through customized guidance and proven resources.