Transform Your Life with Expert Coaching for Pastors and Leaders
Empowering personal and professional growth through Biblical guidance.
About Oases Ministry
Jason Heer
With nearly three decades of pastoral and leadership experience, along with inspiring and guiding leaders to achieve their fullest potential, I will work closely with you and all our pastors to help them identify areas of concern/challenges, align your action with scripture, cultivate a culture of trust and ensure you regain hope with your families, ministry, team and community.
Liberty University - Master of Arts in Leadership, Heritage College and Seminary – Bachelor’s Degree in theology and Pastoral Ministry, Coach.Me – Coaching Certificate (ICF Approved)
Mission & Purpose
Ensuring no pastor or leader walks alone!
To empower individuals to unlock their full potential, overcome personal and professional obstacles, and create a fulfilling, purpose-driven life. Through compassionate guidance, actionable strategies, and unwavering support, with an aim to inspire growth, self-awareness, and lasting transformation in pastors and leaders.
My Services
I offer one-on-one coaching, group coaching, and workshops. These services are designed to help clients overcome obstacles, improve their mindset, and achieve their goals.
Discover Your Path with Oases Ministry
Research
Pastoring and leading churches is one of the highest callings, yet not without challenges. While leaders often must stand alone, they should never BE alone.
Research has indicated that pastors have shown alarming rates of anxiety, depression, marriage problems, compulsive behavior, and burnout. Along with, stress overload with not having close friends, not taking a Sabbath day, only studying the Bible to give sermons, and neglecting exercise.
Pastors and other ministry leaders are often under so much stress that they may find themselves just hanging on by a thread, about to burn out from exhaustion or blow out morally.
Pastor stress today is enormous. The expectations that people put on their pastors — and that pastors put on themselves! — can be debilitating. Everywhere pastors go they are expected to be “on” — ready to give stellar leadership, unending compassion, an inspiring message, anointed prayer, and words of encouragement.
Personal Life Coaching
At Oases Ministry, we specialize in personal life coaching to help you navigate through challenges and achieve your goals. Our approach is rooted in Biblical principles, ensuring that you find purpose and fulfilment in every aspect of your life.
Personal Life
We help all our pastors to think more intentionally about the key areas such as marriage, family, faith, relationships, health, and even finances. I can also provide you with information for a marriage check-up facilitated by a licensed counselor.
Professional Life
In this area, we’ll help you think through your leadership philosophy, your primary role and responsibilities, and how you and others can make progress on the deeper challenges and concerns facing your church. In making progress on those challenges/concerns, we’ll help you become more effective in the following leadership competencies: diagnosing situations, intervening skillfully, managing yourself and, energizing others.
Coaching in the Bible
You may not have thought about coaching in the Bible. But, there are many examples in Scripture of one leader guiding or mentoring another in ways similar to what coaches do for pastors and others today.
Here are just a few examples of coaching in the Bible:
· Jethro taught Moses to delegate his leadership responsibilities. (Exodus 18:13-26)
· Ahithophel gave leadership counsel to King David. (1 Chron. 27:33)
· Naomi guided Ruth in her relationship. (Ruth 3:1-6)
· Elizabeth mentored Mary to become mother to the Messiah. (Luke 1:39-45)
· Jesus sent pairs of disciples out for ministry training. (Luke 9:1-2; 10:1-2)
· Paul gave church planting coaching to Timothy. (1 Tim. 3:1-7; 2 Tim. 2:1-7)
Peter calls Jesus the “shepherd of our souls” and says that his leaders are “under shepherds” (1 Peter 2:25, 5:1-4). This illustrates Jesus’ role as Lead Coach in the relationship between a Christian client and coach.
It takes more than quoting Bible verses for coaching to be Biblical. Indeed, an excellent coach would never merely tack a Bible verse onto your experience and call it good.
Coaching conversations are sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit and foundationally rooted in the truth of Scripture.
16 Best Coaching Questions for Pastors and Leaders
The success of your coaching experience depends a lot on the questions that you and your coach discuss. Here are some of the best coaching questions for pastors and other ministry leaders.
1. What do you want to accomplish in coaching?
2. Have you worked with a coach before? Spiritual director? Counselor? What was most helpful? What did not go as well as you hoped?
3. What do you need help with today?
4. How are you feeling in your work or relationship?
5. How are you feeling in your relationship with God? What helps you feel closer to God?
6. How is it going for you with setting limits on your work in order to care for your soul?
7. How are you feeling about your family relationships?
8. What would you do if you were not afraid to fail? If money were no consideration?
9. What is the best contribution you can make to serve God, help people, grow your church/ministry, or leave a legacy?
10. What is something you should stop doing because it’s not fruitful? What makes it hard for you to stop doing that?
11. How do you feel about your church’s or organization’s mission statement?
12. What problem or conflict on your team or in a significant relationship are you avoiding?
13. What do you sense God saying to you about your leadership or ministry?
14. If you could change just one thing about your life or work right now, what would it be?
15. What was most helpful to you about this coaching session?
16. How are you feeling about the coaching work you’re doing with me?
Statement of Faith
1. The Scriptures of the Old & New Testament as being verbally inspired by God and inerrant and infallible in the original writings, and that they are of supreme and final authority.
2. In one God eternally existing in one essence, yet co-equal persons, the Trinity: Father, Son & Holy Spirit.
3. That Jesus Christ was begotten by God, conceived by the Holy Spirit and born to the virgin Mary.
4. In the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, who convicts the world of sin, righteousness and judgment. He is the life of the believer and He empowers the preaching and teaching of the Gospel.
5. That mankind was created in the image of God, sinned, and thereby incurred not only physical death, but spiritual death, which is separation from God, and that human beings are born with a sinful nature.
6. That the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice, and that all who believe in Him are justified on the basis of His shed blood.
7. In the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, His ascension into heaven, and His present life there as High Priest and Advocate for us.
8. In the blessed hope, which is the personal, visible and imminent return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
9. That all who receive by faith the Lord Jesus Christ are born again by the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God and heirs of eternal life.
10. In the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust, the everlasting conscious suffering of the lost in hell, and the fellowship of the saved in heaven.
11. In the existence of a personal devil, who is still working in the world to destroy the souls of men, and that he and all his angels and all who do not receive Christ as their personal Savior will eternally perish in the lake of fire.
12. In the Church, whose mission it is to preach the Scriptures to all the world, all its endeavors being guided by multiple leadership and supported by the wise stewardship of God’s people.
13. That the ordinances of the Church, given by the Lord, are Baptism and the Lord’s Table (Communion).