Keystone Coaching
The Keystone Coaching Program exists for the purpose of providing support to the ministers and congregations of the Keystone Conference to help ensure that no one needs to minister alone. It is personalized, confidential, and exists outside Keystone’s judicatory. All for the benefit of those seeking to engage in the hard, yet incredibly rewarding, work of ministry.
Like so many parts of the newly formed Keystone Conference, Keystone’s Coaching Program is in its infancy with grand visions for the ways coaching will become a dynamic resource to clergy, laity, and congregations over the next couple years. During 2026, the primary focus of Keystone’s Coaching program is providing individual coaching to authorized ministers and lay leaders seeking to invest in the success of their ministry or more effectively navigate ministry challenges. Team coaching is also available, but on a limited basis.
Additionally, Conference subsidized coaching is available to all authorized ministers in the first 24 months of a new congregational ministry setting or who receive approval for Conference subsidized coaching through a regional conference minister.
What is Coaching?
The International Coaching Federation (ICF) defines coaching as: partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.
In essence, coaching is having an intentional thought partner who provides personalized, confidential support in the areas of your most pressing need, while enhancing your ability to vision, implement, and achieve the needed goals for your ministry setting and yourself. Furthermore, coaching creates the game changing benefit of not needing to do ministry alone. In a coach, you have a trained partner to work with you through the hard parts of ministry and life, so you can thrive in both.
The Core Components of Coaching
Client driven – The client, in collaboration with the coach, defines the goals to be achieved and the topics to be explored, creating the dynamic and flexible nature to the coach approach which empowers the client, and holds them accountable to identifying and addressing their most salient issues.
Holistic Minded – Coaching addresses the whole client, from values to limiting beliefs, from head to heart, from action oriented to reflective thought, so that through greater personal and environmental awareness the client is enabled to access their best wisdom and resources.
Growth Oriented – Through a discovery mindset, the coaching process creates a rich environment for new insights, dynamic perspective taking, and action steps that move the client towards the achievement of their goals.
Strategic Accountability – Coaching facilitates the development of SMART (strategic, measurable, attainable, realistic, timely) action steps and the follow-up to those action steps in ways that supports greater growth, insight, maturity, and effectiveness.
Types of Coaching
Individual Coaching
Personalized one-on-one, client-centered coaching tailored to achieve self-identified goals and address pressing pain points. Coaches accelerate client growth and effectiveness in a holistic manner through a collaborative harnessing of the client’s expertise, passion, resources, and effort, while promoting a mindset of accountability. Clients remain in the driver’s seat throughout the entirety of each session as coaches actively listen, evoke awareness, and partner in next step planning. Individual coaching is generally provided online or by phone, with sessions contracted to be 30, 45, or 60 minutes in length.
Team Coaching
(Limited availability for 2026)
Group Coaching
(Coming in 2027)
Coaching Credential Levels
ICF Trained
Minimum of 60+ hours of ICF training, providing at least ACC level coaching
Associate Certified Coach (ACC)
ICF Trained, 100+ hours of professional coaching, 10 hours of mentor coaching, passed ACC exam
Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
125+ hours of ICF training, 10 hours of mentor coaching, 500 hours of professional coaching, passed PCC exam
Master Certified Coach (MCC)
200+ hours of ICF training, 10 hours of mentor coaching, 2500 hours of professional coaching, passed MCC exam
How Much Does Coaching Cost?
Keystone Coaching is provided at a highly discounted rate similar to that charged by other denominational coaching bodies. Coaching rates are determined by the coach’s ICF certification level.
Standard Coaching Rates
- ICF Trained or Equivalent – $60/hr
- Associate Certified Coach (ACC) or Equivalent  – $80/hr
- Professional Certified Coach (PCC) or Equivalent – $100/hr
- Master Certified Coach (MCC) – up to $150/hr
Keystone Subsidized Coaching Rates
- First set of 3 sessions subsidized 100%
- Second set of 3 sessions subsidized 75%
- Additional set of 6 sessions subsidized 50%
Want to Learn More?
Contact your Regional Conference Minister or Regional Coaching Coordinator
Region 1
- Regional Coaching Coordinator: Rev. Joseph Motz
- Regional Conference Minister: Rev. Kevin McLemore
Region 2
- Regional Coaching Coordinator: Rev. Jim Latimer
- Regional Conference Minister: Rev. Nora Foust
Region 3
- Regional Coaching Coordinator: Rev. Ken Evitts
- Regional Conference Minister: Rev. David Ackerman
Meet Keystone’s Authorized Coaches
Schedule a Free Initial Coaching Session with Any Coach
Joe Motz - ICF Trained Coach
Keystone Coaching Coordinator &
Region 1 – Coaching Coordinator
Joe is an ordained minister with over 20 years of experience in small town, suburban, and rural ministry as a solo and multi-staff pastor. He is a recipient of Lancaster Theological Seminary’s Meck Award for Excellence in Pastoral Ministry. As a coach, Joe has 170+ hours of coaching experience, 140+ hours of training, and provides PCC level coaching, as he pursues his PCC accreditation. He is an active coach within the ELCA and the Center for Non-Profit Coaching. His coach approach is steeped in holistic listening, authentic connection, and client centered growth. Joe readily draws out strengths, gets to the heart of the matter, identifies limiting beliefs, and shifts perspective, while ensuring clarity in next steps. Joe lives in southeastern Pennsylvania, serving the congregation of Bausman Memorial UCC, Wyomissing.
Rev. Dr. James H. Latimer - PCC
Region 2 – Coaching Coordinator
Rev. Dr. James H. Latimer is a Professional Certified Coach and a committed Intentional Interim Minister. As the founder of CoachingForInterims.com, he hosts the collaborative “Wisdom from the Field” podcast project featuring brief interviews with transitional interim ministers, and others, with practical help and wisdom to offer those engaged in transitional ministry.
Jim has been coaching ministry leaders and teams for many years around vitality, ministry effectiveness, governance and leadership development, including serving as the Lead Coach for PINNE (Pastoral Innovation Network of New England), and nine years as a staff coach with Convergence (Formerly the Center for Progressive Renewal). He also teaches coaching leadership skills to ministry leaders and is a former faculty member with Coaching4Clergy. As both a settled and transitional minister, he has served UCC congregations in CA, PA, OH, CT and MA. He currently serves as Interim Minister at St. Paul’s UCC, Kutztown, PA.
Jim’s diverse background includes degrees in divinity, engineering, business and Asian Studies. He loves singing, cross-country skiing, tennis, speed rollerblading and foreign languages. He and his partner, Brooke, live in Phoenixville.
Ken Evitts - Executive Christian Coach (PCC equivalent)
Region 3 – Coaching Coordinator
Ken has been connected to the UCC for all his life and has served as an authorized (ordained) pastor in the UCC since 1988. As a minister, he has served three churches In Massachusetts, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania. Ken’s coaching philosophy aligns with the ICF and is rooted in the heart for discovery. His goal in coaching is to empower individuals, teams, and congregations to Discover God’s Design (DGD4u). Drawing inspiration from Ephesians 2:10, Ken seeks to evoke new awareness and help clients discover, develop, and deploy their God-given gifts with expectation and energy. Ken has trained and worked with Coach Approach Ministries since 2012. He has had the opportunity and success coaching pastors and churches that identify as either ONA or FWC. He is a certified coach through Soul-Metrics, and he continues to take courses that empower him to more effectively coach those whom he serves. Ken lives in south central PA, is married, has 3 sons and 7 grandchildren.
Susan Teegen - PCC, GPCC
Keystone Leadership Team Member
Susan is an ordained minister with more than 25 years of experience in urban and suburban ministry, serving both congregations and community-based settings. Throughout her vocation, she has centered the transformative interplay of creativity, healing, and faith to support individuals and communities in meaningful change including those navigating transitions. Susan holds credentials as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coaching Federation and as a Gestalt Professional Certified Coach (GPCC™). As a coach, she partners with clients to unleash and leverage strengths, gently examine and clear stuck places, deepen creative and spiritual practices, and focus on the growth that is ready to emerge. Her approach is grounded, collaborative, and spiritually attuned – honoring the whole person, inviting courageous growth, and renewed possibility. Susan currently serves as Bridge Pastor for Glenside United Church of Christ. She maintains a private practice in coaching, counseling, and spiritual companioning/spiritual direction, and serves on the faculty of the coaching certification program at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland.
