The Christian Coaching School is committed to raising up a global tribe of spirit-led Coaches who ready to serve as transformational healers in a world that desperately needs the love of God.
Our School
Our Staff
Co-Founder/President/Coach Training Instructor
Jennie Turton, Founder of the Christian Coaching School
Jennie is passionate about one thing: seeing individuals live out the fullness of the Gospel’s promise for the abundant life. She’s convinced that happens only through deep inner transformation and that coaching is one of the most powerful models that God is using today to facilitate that transformation. She co-founded Invigorate Life Coaching (parent ministry of CCS) in 2011, in partnership with Valentin Miculit, to see ministry leaders flourish in their professional and personal lives. Nearly a decade later, Jennie has trained and coached leaders from the United States to China, rejuvenating their own relationship with God so they can pour out that overflow to those they serve.
Jennie received her Professional Coaching Certification and Coach Training Certification through Lifeforming Leadership Coaching (2006). She coaches and trains senior pastors, heads of ministry organizations, mission leaders, church planters and ministry leaders globally. Jennie is a member of the Christian Coach Network, and has spoken at their annual Coaching Summit.
Jennie received a Master of Arts in Practical Theology with a Life Coaching emphasis from Regent University’s School of Divinity and a Bachelors of Arts in Communication and Journalism. She trained in Inner Healing under Francis MacNutt’s School of Inner Healing Prayer and Grace Walk Ministries. She is a life-long learner who has immersed herself in the neuroscience work of Dr. Caroline Leaf (2011), the faith-based holistic healing work of Dr. James Richards (2012), the inner healing and deliverance ministry of Dr. Neil T. Anderson’s Steps to Freedom (2005), the Christ-centered Jungian psychology work of Robert A. Johnson and other powerful believers who have dedicated their lives to Christ-centered holistic healing. When she is not coaching or teaching coaching, Jennie is learning all she can about neuroscience, holistic healing, natural medicine, psychology and wellness.
Jennie has ministered in Ukraine, Jamaica, Romania, Serbia, Bosnia (where she served as a missionary in 2007) and China. She served as Vice Chair of Mercy for the Children Myanmar, a non-profit ministry providing food, education and medical care for 110 orphans (2014-2018).
Jennie resides in Santa Barbara, CA with her husband.
Coach Training Instructor
Julie Eickman, ACC
Julie is a career coach who is passionate about God’s people living out the purpose they were created for on this earth. Julie founded Abound Career Coaching in 2013 and loves helping her clients fall in love with Monday by discovering how their unique combination of gifts and experience connects with the world’s needs.
Julie has been helping clients live authentically out of who God created them to be since she earned her Growth Coach certification through the Christian Coaching School. She continued her coach training through Lifeforming Leadership Coaching, receiving her both her Life Coach Certification and Leadership Coach Certification in 2014. Julie holds an ACC accreditation through the International Coach Federation and is an active member of the Christian Coaches Network International.
Julie has served in full-time ministry with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship for 18 years in Colorado and Montana and currently serves the movement in the areas of staff development, coaching and training. Julie began teaching for the Christian Coaching School in 2015.
Julie and her husband Bill live in Bozeman, MT
Business and Marketing Consultant
Valentin Miculit
Valentin has served as the Business and Marketing Consultant for CCS since its inception. An entrepreneur at heart, Valentin’s talent is behind several start-up companies including Family Care Assisted Living (a private care home for the elderly) and Quickplan Studio Consulting (a full-featured architectural and permit expediting service).
He is the owner of QuickPlan Consulting, a consulting service focused on delivering custom digital marketing, advertising and web development solutions and has created and assisted in the creation of the digital marketing strategies for a host of companies/organizations.
Valentin was born and raised in Romania and educated in a German school. He brings his international perspective and flair to his business and marketing consulting.
Valentin resides in Santa Barbara, CA with his wife.
Admissions Administrator
Bev Marshall
Bev is a Certified Growth Coach through the Christian Coaching School (Class of 2016). Her past professional experience includes owning multiple small businesses and working in corporate insurance. Bev enjoys getting to know new people and seeing individuals connect to their God-given potential.
When she’s not talking with potential students at CCS, she can be found coaching, on the beach or playing with her grandchildren.
Bev resides in Phoenix, AZ.
Our Roots
CCS utilizes a coach training curriculum created by some of the founding Fathers of the Christian coaching movement.
Tony Stolzfus, author of some of the premier Christian coaching resources being produced today!
- Leadership Coaching: The Disciplines, Skills, and Heart of a Christian Coach
- Coaching Questions: A Coach’s Guide to Powerful Asking Skills
- Questions for Jesus: Conversational Prayer Around Your Deepest Desires
- The Calling Journey: Mapping the Stages of a Leader’s Life Call – A Coaching Guide
- A Leader’s Life Purpose Workbook: Calling and Destiny Discovery Tools for Christian Life Coaching
Dr. Joseph Umidi, Executive Vice President for Student Life and former Interim Dean of the School of Divinity, author of:
CCS, in partnership with Lifeforming Leadership Coaching, uses a curriculum was written by Stolzfus and Umidi 1999. Since then the curriculum has been used to train over 15,000 coaches in over 22 countries!