Our Consultants
What Is a consultant?
A CHC Consultant is someone who comes alongside you to enable greater learning, insights and planning for the future.
Dedicated professionals
Each has completed extensive training and is ICF (International Coach Federation) certified. While diverse, we are united around a shared love for churches and clergy that permeates all we do. To engage the services of a consultant, contact CHC.
What can my church expect?
Our focus is upon process consulting. By that we mean that our role is to help you design a path forward that maximizes local wisdom and expertise under the leadership of God’s Spirit. Our consultants do not offer ready-made or easy answers, but guide you to explore possibilities that are sustainable.
Key Distinctives
CHC is known for:
- A Pastoral Care DNA that emphasizes diagnosis before prescription
- A commitment to process consulting that emphasizes thoughtful diagnosis over expert consulting and prescriptive solutions.
- A non-naïve knowledge of congregations, characterized by a deep love for, success with, and actual involvement in ministry in local churches
- A financial model that makes these services affordable and available to all congregations and clergy
- An ecumenical, innovative and entrepreneurial spirit with a focus upon establishing an appropriate balance between the five dimensions of health in churches: Spiritual, Mental/Emotional, Physical, Financial, Structural
What is CHC's approach to cultivating a healthy church?
Congregations face intense pressure as they embrace life in the 21st century. When trying to determine best overall courses of action, or how to respond effectively to change, congregations find that our impartial but interested perspective can provide important direction and encouragement.
Through consultation, we help churches face a variety of challenges from both inside and outside the congregation. Consultants are trained in helping staffs, deacons, boards, elders, councils, or other leadership groups during these challenges.
What benefits would CHC Coaching provide?
Whether a minister is hoping to increase effectiveness inside the church or enhance quality of life beyond congregational duties, coaching is a remarkable tool for helping bridge the gap between aspiration and reality. By cultivating and boosting a minister’s existing skills, resources, and creativity in a safe and challenging environment, coaching is the perfect way to explore a variety of professional and personal possibilities as well as articulate new goals.
How would CHC help our congregation or our ministry?
We provide the following services: Congregational Planning and Visioning, Consulting, Search Committee Coaching, General Teaching and Coaching, Transitions
What We Offer to Churches
- Congregational Coaching/Consulting
- Individual Coaching
- Denominational/Judicatory Consulting
- Speaking, Preaching, Workshops, Educational Events
CHC is devoted to improving the spiritual, emotional and organizational health of churches and ministers.
We bring hope, help and healing in the spirit of Christ.
Through congregational coaching and consulting, CHC helps churches and clergy experience spiritual discernment and guidance as they seek to be faithful to their call.

Belmont University
The national center for The Center for Healthy Churches is located at Belmont University in Nashville TN.
This unique collaborative partnership enables CHC to have access to excellent resources and facilities, and establishes Belmont as an interested and engaged partner in the health of congregations and clergy across America. In partnership with Belmont’s College of Theology and Christian Ministry, the Moench Center for Church Leadership, and H. Franklin Paschal Chair of Biblical Studies and Preaching, and in collaboration with the Center for Executive Education, CHC seeks to cultivate health and hope for congregations and clergy.
As our relationship takes root and grows, we anticipate a wide array of services and events to emerge.
” ‘The more things change, the more they remain the same.’ What in other contexts might be a cynical statement is, in this case, a truism that gives confidence. Bill Wilson who heads CHC, newly named but same as always, focuses on helping congregations become all they can be. This is good news for anyone who knows CHC, because they know church.”
“Most helpful, of course, was having a trained person from outside listen to and raise question for members in the listening sessions. Our consultant, Travis Collins, then was able to assemble and present in a well-organized way his findings of matters that must be addressed by the church. Everyone seemed to appreciate his personality and manner of carrying out this process.”
“What impresses me most about The Center for Healthy Churches is the way Bill Wilson and his team use their understanding of pastors and churches to help congregations see better, bigger, more Christlike possibilities than they saw before. When church leaders are looking for advice, recommending they talk with someone at CHC is the best guidance I give.”
Contact Us Today
Whether your needs are congregational counseling, individual counseling, ministerial coaching, or event related, we can help.
Reach out to us today and we’ll be in touch shortly.