Since 1990 Steve Ogne has served with Church Resource Ministries (CRM), a mission agency with teams serving in 24 countries. As a National Coach, Steve provides coaching and strategic guidance to the leaders of 15 CRM Ministry teams that provide resources and coaching to thousands of church leaders in the US and internationally. Steve has trained more than 10,000 ministry leaders from all over the world and personally coached more than 500 leaders, with a focus on the starting, strengthening and multiplying of missional churches.
Steve’s latest book is TransforMissional Coaching, as published by B & H Publishing Group. He is the co-author of three additional published works: The Church Planter’s Toolkit and Churches Planting Churches with Dr. Bob Logan and Empowering Leaders Through Coaching with Tom Nebel.
In 1990 Steve and Dr. Bob Logan created the New Church Incubator (a coaching, training, and support system for new church planters). The New Church Incubator was adopted by over 50 denominations serving over 1,000 church planters in five countries. The New Church Incubator became the prototype for most of the church planting networks found in America today.
In 1993 Steve partnered with Bill Mallick to found the Church Multiplication Training Center and the original Church Planter’s Boot Camp, a four-day intensive training and coaching experience that has benefited more than 10,000 church planters in the last decade. Steve developed the original training materials and activities for the Boot Camp. These training materials have been franchised, cloned, or enhanced by dozens of denominations and training organizations and are recognized as the foundational training for church planters in the U.S.
In 1995 Steve and Dr. Bob Logan created the Parent Church Network to prepare and support existing congregations in the process of birthing new churches. The Parent Church Network has provide coaching and accountability to hundreds of congregations who are committed to church multiplication.
Since 1998 Steve has been involved in ten national consultations for Church Planting Movements involving more than 400 leaders from 50 regional teams. Each of these two-year consultations involves a minimum of six two-day training events and monthly coaching for regional team leaders. In most cases, the success rate of churches has moved from 50% to 90% and the number of new church starts has tripled, resulting in hundreds of new churches across the nation.
From 2000-2005 Steve developed and taught a Doctor of Ministry concentration in Church Multiplication Movements at Bakke Graduate University in Seattle, Washington. Over 60 students from six countries have been involved. Steve also teaches a course in raising and coaching leaders at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida.
Since 2005 Steve has partnered with Global Church Advancement and Dr. Steve Childers to facilitate the development of Kingdom Partnerships and Church Planting Networks resulting in the multiplication of Gospel centered churches.
Steve has observed and trained ministry leaders in more than seventeen countries, including three trips to Korea where Steve has trained more than 750 church planters and pastors to become coaches or church planters. This training is resulted in the formation of CRM Korea. Steve’s training and coaching resources had a significant impact in Germany, Australia and Venezuela as well.
Since 2007 Steve assisted with the leader development of 60-70 apostolic leaders who oversee an indigenous movement of over 1100 churches being planted in the midst of persecution across North India.
Prior to joining Church Resource Ministries, Steve was in pastoral ministry for fourteen years and was part of planting Calvary Community Church in Westlake Village, California and Crossroads Community Church in Camarillo, California. During this time Steve pioneered the coaching of more than 100 small group leaders involving over 1000 members, the coaching of dozens of children’s workers, as well as life coaching for single adults and newly married couples. Steve is an ordained minister in the Missionary Church.
Steve is a featured speaker at a variety of leadership gatherings including coach training events, national church planting events, regional pastors’ gatherings, and local church leadership training events. Wherever leaders gather, Steve’s unique wisdom and perspective is sought.
For the last ten years Steve’s personal coaching ministry has continued to escalate. Church planters and pastors, as well as regional and national leaders continue to benefit from Steve’s great coaching questions. Steve is routinely asked to train and develop coaching networks in a variety of local, regional, national, and international ministry settings.
Steve’s education includes a Bachelor of Arts with majors in psychology and theology from Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, California, a Master of Arts in Christian Education from Talbot Theological Seminary in La Mirada, California, and a Doctor of Ministry in Transformational Leadership from Bakke Graduate University in Seattle, Washington.
Steve, his wife Jane, and their two dogs live in rural Ventura County, California and continue to attend Crossroads Community Church in Camarillo. Steve has also provided leadership in local volunteer settings including the YMCA and the Boy Scouts of America.
