Biography of Edward Hammett Eddie Hammett, PCC, Author, Consultant, Coach -
EHammett@thecolumbiapartnership.org
Eddie has served on church staff and in denominational leadership for over 29 years. A prolific author, certified Professional Credentialed Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation and popular speaker, retreat and seminar leader across the country and among over 16 denominations and judicatories. Eddie is a founding coach of Valwood Christian Leadership Coaching (www.valwoodcoaching.com) and a founding partner of The Columbia Partnership (www.thecolumbiapartnership.org),an affiliate with Coach Approach Ministries (www.ca-ministries.com) and President of Transforming Solutions, LLC. His coaching experiences are deep and wide as he serves Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of NC as their Church & Clergy Coach. Through this partnership he launched an International Coach Federation approved course in Congregational Coaching (2013-2017) and A Coach Approach to Creating Innovation in Traditional Settings ( will apply for approval in 2017).
Eddie is the author of seven books dealing with preparing the church for a more effective ministry in the 21st century. He has also authored over 500 published articles. His writings include contributing to L. Sweet’s The Gospel According to Starbucks, 2007. He is author of Making the Church Work; The Gathered & Scattered Church; Reframing Spiritual Formation; and Spiritual Leadership in a Secular Age. His most recent best-selling books include Reaching People Under 40 While Keeping People Over 60 (Chalice Press, 2015). The companion piece to the Reaching/Keeping book is Making Shifts Without Making Waves: A Coach Approach to Soulful-leadership, 2009. Recovering Hope for the Church: Moving Beyond Maintenance & Missional to Incarnational Engagement (2015). He is currently working on a new book – Restless Church. Eddie has also served as a lead coach the Sustaining Pastoral Excellence project funded by the Lilly Foundation to develop coaching strategies for pastors and congregations across the Southeast United States and across denominational lines. On his personal website (www.transformingsolutions.org ) you will find free leadership newsletters to assist in the coach approach to church, non-profit organizational development, programming and local church and denominational ministries.
Persons like Bill Easum, Tom Bandy, and Leonard Sweet invite Eddie to lead online and face-to-face national seminars on themes related to his published writings. His seminars, coaching and leadership cross denominational lines as he has worked with American Baptists, Presbyterians, Associate Reformed Presbyterians, United Methodists, Free Will Baptists, Lutherans, Southern Baptists and Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.
Eddie’s call to ministry is to ‘equip the saints for the work of ministry’ inside and beyond the walls of the traditional church. He lives out this calling through his consulting, coaching and writing ministry and through his personal ministry serving as a life coach for a growing number of ‘spiritual travelers’ (persons on a serious spiritual journey, but not connected consistently to a traditional church).
Eddie has been mentored and coached through the year by many who have deeply influenced his life and ministry. Dr. Findley Edge was his mentor during and beyond seminary days. L.D. Johnson, William Clemmons, Gordon and Mary Cosby, Ken Smith, Reid Hardin, George Bullard, Jane Creswell, Linda Miller, Suzanne Goebel and countless others have influenced his life and ministry.
He is a graduate of Furman University, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary with post-graduate studies at Duke Divinity School, Southeastern Seminary, NC State University and Fielding Institute. He has lectured at or served as adjunct faculty at Gardner Webb Divinity School, Northern Baptist Seminary, Southeastern Baptist Seminary, Duke Divinity School, Western Seminary, Southern Seminary and Campbell Divinity School.
MINISTRY THROUGH WRITING
Published in listed periodicals by the Southern Baptist Sunday School Board (Lifeway Christian Resources) in Nashville, TN.
Adult Leadership
"A Celebrating Sunday School Class" - May, 1983
"Members Need Training Too!" - September, 1983
"Trapped In A Sunday School Class" - March, 1989
Search
"The Ministry of the Laity in the Southern Baptist Churches" - Winter, 1988
"Minister in Education: A Catalyst for Lay Ministry"
"Rethinking the Role of a Minister of Education" - Winter, 1991
Church Administration
"Overcoming the Shadow of Your Predecessor" - June, 1983
"To Leave or Not to Leave: Issues to Consider When Contemplating a Move" - December, 1984
"Church Secretaries Can Multiply Ministry" - April, 1985
"A Letter to a Church Personnel Committee from a Staff Member" - December, 1987
"A Shared Ministry Testimonial" - November, 1987
"When Deacons Serve Out of Giftedness" - October, 1989
"Equipping the Church to Govern Itself" - November, 1989
"The Challenge from the Pew" - January, 1991
"Apathy in the Church" - February, 1991
"Minister of Education: A Catalyst for Lay Ministry" - February, 1991
Living with Preschoolers
"Will Eric Have Faith" - July-August, 1982
Discipleship Training/Growing Disciples Magazine
"Energizing for Ministry" - August, 1983
"Discovering Marketplace Ministry in Your Church/Community" - June, 1990
"Ministry in Your Marketplace" - November, 1990
Growing Disciples Magazine
"Leading in Times of Change and Challenge" - April-June, 1994
"Discipling Busy Adults" - June, 1995
Growing Churches Magazine
"Reshaping The Church For The 21st Century" - 1995
"Curricula Design: The Challenge of Today's Church" 1995
Let's Worship Magazine, Lifeway
"Navigating Worship Wars: Moving from War to Worship" December, 2009
Deacon Magazine
"Applying Spiritual Gifts to Deacon Ministry" Fall, 2001
"Deacon Ministry in Times of War" , Spring, 2002
"The Coach Approach to Church Leadership" - Winter, 2010
"As Generations Change, Leadership Shifts Occur" Spring, 2009
Faith At Work Magazine
"Confessions of the Unchurched" Summer, 1998
Caregiving Newsletter published by Lifeway, Nashville, TN
"Gift Based Deacon Ministry" , October, 2000
Regular Contributor to NetResults Magazine, published by Tom Bandy and Bill Easum
"Who Is Leading Your Church", March, 2001
"Transformed Leaders, Transform Churches"
"The Churches Response to the Unemployed" March, 2002.
Keeping People Over 60 and Reaching People Under 40 Years of Age 3/03.
Rev Magazine
"Alternative Careers for Today's Distressed Clergy" July/Aug. 2003
"Translating Ministry Skills into Secular Careers" Nov. 2003
BOOKS:
Making the Church Work: Converting the Church for the 21st Century. Smyth & Helwys, June, 1997. (second edition, 2000)
The Gathered and Scattered Church: Equipping Believers for the 21st Century. written by Eddie Hammett - Focus on marketplace ministry,discipleship and penetrating the secular world for Christ .Released by Smyth & Helwys, August, 1999.
Reframing Spiritual Formation: Discipleship in an Unchurched Culture. Smyth and Helwys, 2002.
Spiritual Leadership in a Secular Age: Building Bridges Instead of Barriers, Chalice press, 2007.
Reaching People Under 40 While Keeping People over 60: Being Church for All Generations, chalice press, 2008.
Making Shifts Without Making Waves: A Coach Approach to Soulful Leadership, Chalice press, 2009
Recovering Hope for Your Church: Moving from Mainteance to Missional to Incarnational Ministry, (to be released in 2014)
Contributed material to Doctrinal Study: The Ministry of the Laity, Convention Press, 1987. Authored by Dr. Findley Edge.
Contributed material to It Ought to Be Joy, Home Mission Board, 1986. Authored by Ken Smith.
Contributed Chapter entitled "How to Develop Mission Driven Curricula" for book entitled Facing Critical Issues of the Church published by Broadman Press - October 1995
Strengthening Deacon Ministry for the 21st Century: Congregational Education Guidebook, 1998.
Deacon Ministry in the 21st Century - Book in progress - Release date 2004.
Christian Education Journal - Glen Ellyn, Illinois
"Updating Adult Christian Education in Today's Southern Baptist Church" Winter, 1993.
"Reshaping the Church for the Twenty-First Century" , 1995
"Curricula Design: The Challenge of Today's Church" - Fall, 1995
"Mobilizing the Church for Effective Ministry in the 21st Century" Baptist Today, December, 1999.
Websites: http://www.transformingsolutions.org/ and was designed by Eddie to introduce lay ministry, deacon ministry, leadership development, discipleship and his personal writing ministry.
Biblical Recorder - Baptist Paper for North Carolina Baptist - Numerous articles on church renewal and discipleship. See website http://www.biblicalrecorder.org/ - search under Eddie Hammett.
Multiple ezine articles can be found under Eddie's page at http://www.thecolumbiapartnership.org/
Conventions/Groups
EHammett@thecolumbiapartnership.org
Eddie has served on church staff and in denominational leadership for over 29 years. A prolific author, certified Professional Credentialed Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation and popular speaker, retreat and seminar leader across the country and among over 16 denominations and judicatories. Eddie is a founding coach of Valwood Christian Leadership Coaching (www.valwoodcoaching.com) and a founding partner of The Columbia Partnership (www.thecolumbiapartnership.org),an affiliate with Coach Approach Ministries (www.ca-ministries.com) and President of Transforming Solutions, LLC. His coaching experiences are deep and wide as he serves Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of NC as their Church & Clergy Coach. Through this partnership he launched an International Coach Federation approved course in Congregational Coaching (2013-2017) and A Coach Approach to Creating Innovation in Traditional Settings ( will apply for approval in 2017).
Eddie is the author of seven books dealing with preparing the church for a more effective ministry in the 21st century. He has also authored over 500 published articles. His writings include contributing to L. Sweet’s The Gospel According to Starbucks, 2007. He is author of Making the Church Work; The Gathered & Scattered Church; Reframing Spiritual Formation; and Spiritual Leadership in a Secular Age. His most recent best-selling books include Reaching People Under 40 While Keeping People Over 60 (Chalice Press, 2015). The companion piece to the Reaching/Keeping book is Making Shifts Without Making Waves: A Coach Approach to Soulful-leadership, 2009. Recovering Hope for the Church: Moving Beyond Maintenance & Missional to Incarnational Engagement (2015). He is currently working on a new book – Restless Church. Eddie has also served as a lead coach the Sustaining Pastoral Excellence project funded by the Lilly Foundation to develop coaching strategies for pastors and congregations across the Southeast United States and across denominational lines. On his personal website (www.transformingsolutions.org ) you will find free leadership newsletters to assist in the coach approach to church, non-profit organizational development, programming and local church and denominational ministries.
Persons like Bill Easum, Tom Bandy, and Leonard Sweet invite Eddie to lead online and face-to-face national seminars on themes related to his published writings. His seminars, coaching and leadership cross denominational lines as he has worked with American Baptists, Presbyterians, Associate Reformed Presbyterians, United Methodists, Free Will Baptists, Lutherans, Southern Baptists and Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.
Eddie’s call to ministry is to ‘equip the saints for the work of ministry’ inside and beyond the walls of the traditional church. He lives out this calling through his consulting, coaching and writing ministry and through his personal ministry serving as a life coach for a growing number of ‘spiritual travelers’ (persons on a serious spiritual journey, but not connected consistently to a traditional church).
Eddie has been mentored and coached through the year by many who have deeply influenced his life and ministry. Dr. Findley Edge was his mentor during and beyond seminary days. L.D. Johnson, William Clemmons, Gordon and Mary Cosby, Ken Smith, Reid Hardin, George Bullard, Jane Creswell, Linda Miller, Suzanne Goebel and countless others have influenced his life and ministry.
He is a graduate of Furman University, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary with post-graduate studies at Duke Divinity School, Southeastern Seminary, NC State University and Fielding Institute. He has lectured at or served as adjunct faculty at Gardner Webb Divinity School, Northern Baptist Seminary, Southeastern Baptist Seminary, Duke Divinity School, Western Seminary, Southern Seminary and Campbell Divinity School.
MINISTRY THROUGH WRITING
Published in listed periodicals by the Southern Baptist Sunday School Board (Lifeway Christian Resources) in Nashville, TN.
Adult Leadership
"A Celebrating Sunday School Class" - May, 1983
"Members Need Training Too!" - September, 1983
"Trapped In A Sunday School Class" - March, 1989
Search
"The Ministry of the Laity in the Southern Baptist Churches" - Winter, 1988
"Minister in Education: A Catalyst for Lay Ministry"
"Rethinking the Role of a Minister of Education" - Winter, 1991
Church Administration
"Overcoming the Shadow of Your Predecessor" - June, 1983
"To Leave or Not to Leave: Issues to Consider When Contemplating a Move" - December, 1984
"Church Secretaries Can Multiply Ministry" - April, 1985
"A Letter to a Church Personnel Committee from a Staff Member" - December, 1987
"A Shared Ministry Testimonial" - November, 1987
"When Deacons Serve Out of Giftedness" - October, 1989
"Equipping the Church to Govern Itself" - November, 1989
"The Challenge from the Pew" - January, 1991
"Apathy in the Church" - February, 1991
"Minister of Education: A Catalyst for Lay Ministry" - February, 1991
Living with Preschoolers
"Will Eric Have Faith" - July-August, 1982
Discipleship Training/Growing Disciples Magazine
"Energizing for Ministry" - August, 1983
"Discovering Marketplace Ministry in Your Church/Community" - June, 1990
"Ministry in Your Marketplace" - November, 1990
Growing Disciples Magazine
"Leading in Times of Change and Challenge" - April-June, 1994
"Discipling Busy Adults" - June, 1995
Growing Churches Magazine
"Reshaping The Church For The 21st Century" - 1995
"Curricula Design: The Challenge of Today's Church" 1995
Let's Worship Magazine, Lifeway
"Navigating Worship Wars: Moving from War to Worship" December, 2009
Deacon Magazine
"Applying Spiritual Gifts to Deacon Ministry" Fall, 2001
"Deacon Ministry in Times of War" , Spring, 2002
"The Coach Approach to Church Leadership" - Winter, 2010
"As Generations Change, Leadership Shifts Occur" Spring, 2009
Faith At Work Magazine
"Confessions of the Unchurched" Summer, 1998
Caregiving Newsletter published by Lifeway, Nashville, TN
"Gift Based Deacon Ministry" , October, 2000
Regular Contributor to NetResults Magazine, published by Tom Bandy and Bill Easum
"Who Is Leading Your Church", March, 2001
"Transformed Leaders, Transform Churches"
"The Churches Response to the Unemployed" March, 2002.
Keeping People Over 60 and Reaching People Under 40 Years of Age 3/03.
Rev Magazine
"Alternative Careers for Today's Distressed Clergy" July/Aug. 2003
"Translating Ministry Skills into Secular Careers" Nov. 2003
BOOKS:
Making the Church Work: Converting the Church for the 21st Century. Smyth & Helwys, June, 1997. (second edition, 2000)
The Gathered and Scattered Church: Equipping Believers for the 21st Century. written by Eddie Hammett - Focus on marketplace ministry,discipleship and penetrating the secular world for Christ .Released by Smyth & Helwys, August, 1999.
Reframing Spiritual Formation: Discipleship in an Unchurched Culture. Smyth and Helwys, 2002.
Spiritual Leadership in a Secular Age: Building Bridges Instead of Barriers, Chalice press, 2007.
Reaching People Under 40 While Keeping People over 60: Being Church for All Generations, chalice press, 2008.
Making Shifts Without Making Waves: A Coach Approach to Soulful Leadership, Chalice press, 2009
Recovering Hope for Your Church: Moving from Mainteance to Missional to Incarnational Ministry, (to be released in 2014)
Contributed material to Doctrinal Study: The Ministry of the Laity, Convention Press, 1987. Authored by Dr. Findley Edge.
Contributed material to It Ought to Be Joy, Home Mission Board, 1986. Authored by Ken Smith.
Contributed Chapter entitled "How to Develop Mission Driven Curricula" for book entitled Facing Critical Issues of the Church published by Broadman Press - October 1995
Strengthening Deacon Ministry for the 21st Century: Congregational Education Guidebook, 1998.
Deacon Ministry in the 21st Century - Book in progress - Release date 2004.
Christian Education Journal - Glen Ellyn, Illinois
"Updating Adult Christian Education in Today's Southern Baptist Church" Winter, 1993.
"Reshaping the Church for the Twenty-First Century" , 1995
"Curricula Design: The Challenge of Today's Church" - Fall, 1995
"Mobilizing the Church for Effective Ministry in the 21st Century" Baptist Today, December, 1999.
Websites: http://www.transformingsolutions.org/ and was designed by Eddie to introduce lay ministry, deacon ministry, leadership development, discipleship and his personal writing ministry.
Biblical Recorder - Baptist Paper for North Carolina Baptist - Numerous articles on church renewal and discipleship. See website http://www.biblicalrecorder.org/ - search under Eddie Hammett.
Multiple ezine articles can be found under Eddie's page at http://www.thecolumbiapartnership.org/
Conventions/Groups
- South Carolina Baptist Convention Discipleship Department - 1999-2001
- Georgia Baptist Convention - Minister of Education Seminar - 2000
- Tennessee Cooperative Baptist Fellowship - 2000
- South Carolina Cooperative Baptist Fellowship - 2001
- North Carolina Cooperative Baptist Fellowship - 2001
- Led Minister of Education Track at Discipleship Week for Lifeway Christian Resources - 2001,2002
- Christian Educators Network - 2002
- Mid-Atlantic Christian Educator's Assoc. - 3/2002
- Discipleship Group - Small Church Summit in Nashville TN 7/2002
- United Methodists - Churches That Make a Difference Seminar for Judicatory Leaders and Drew Divinity School D. Min. Students
- Georgia Baptist Convention - Discipleship Team, 2003
- Plenary speaker for Stewardship Development (http://www.sbsda.net/) - South Dakota, 2003 "Creating Opportunities to Grow, Give and Go"
- Plenary speaker for Easum/Bandy Sponsored Event for Judicatory Leaders - Rediscovering Your Missional Objectives - Ohio - July, 2003
- American Baptist of Michigan Plenary Speaker, 2007
- Arundel Baptist Association, MD, Pleanary Speaker, 2008
- Plenary Speaker for Philadelphia Baptist Convention, 2007, 2009
- Free Will Baptist Annual Session, Eastern NC , 2009
- Plenary Speaker for North Alabama United Methodist District, 2009
- Disciples of Christ Regional and National Gatherings - 2009
- Pastor's Gathering Annual Session for Tulsa Baptist Network, OK, 2009
- Pastor's Learning Community - Kansas/Nebraska Baptist Convention, KS, 2009
- Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Virginia Annual Session - 2009
- Plenary Speaker Indiana-Kentucky Conference United Church of Christ - 2009
- Plenary Speaker American Baptist Church of Great Rivers Region, 2009
- CBFNC Staff - 2009
- (See Eddie's calendar on this website for 2010 and 2011 Consultations and speaking engagements)
Plans for 2013-2014
(Move from Plateaued to Progress)
Current Writing & Seminar Topics include:
Contract with Eddie for his services. Save money, time, energy and benefit from his decades of experience in the local church, denominational life, and coaching pastors and churches. The focus of Eddie's ministry is to "equip the saints for the work of ministry in the church & the world" and prepare churches for effective ministry in a rapidly changing world. He brings hope, encouragement and creates paths for transformation.
Lost your passion, lost your way as a leader or church let's talk about it. FREE 30 minute consult
Email for appointment Eddie@transformingsolutions.org or call 828 272 0903
Current Writing & Seminar Topics include:
- Lies Churches Believe
- Restoring Hope in Hopeless Leaders/Churches
- Conquering Leader-Fatigue
- When Change is Needed but Not Wanted
Contract with Eddie for his services. Save money, time, energy and benefit from his decades of experience in the local church, denominational life, and coaching pastors and churches. The focus of Eddie's ministry is to "equip the saints for the work of ministry in the church & the world" and prepare churches for effective ministry in a rapidly changing world. He brings hope, encouragement and creates paths for transformation.
Lost your passion, lost your way as a leader or church let's talk about it. FREE 30 minute consult
Email for appointment Eddie@transformingsolutions.org or call 828 272 0903
