Lendell Nolan Email & Phone Number

Bixby, Ok, Us

Bixby, Oklahoma, United States

• Founded a Life Purpose Coaching business offering Life Purpose Coaching & Life Plan Facilitations to clients around the world (China, France, United Kingdom, South Africa, Canada, and across America)• Developed the FocusUnleashed Weekend as a small group coaching experience designed to introduce clients to the benefits of intentional living• Certified Life Coach, Speaker, and Trainer with the Maxwell Leadership Team• Equipped Life Purpose Coaches around the world as a Master Level Instructor

100% Online (Springfield, Mo)

Taught master-level students in life coaching, evangelism, missions, and biblical languages• Touchstone Course: Developing the Focused Life: 2014 (x2), 2015, 2016 (x2), 2017 (x3), 2018, 2020• Capstone Course: Practicing the Focused Life: 2019 (x2), 2023• Contemporary Evangelism: 2008, 2010, 2011• The Theology and Practice of Evangelism: 2009, 2024 (x2)• Understanding Other Cultures: 2015, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2024• Bible Language Tools: 2009

Bixby, Oklahoma

BIXBY.CHURCH is a forever family that glorifies God by helping you find and fulfill God's purpose for your life. • Raised $500K to launch a new church from scratch.• Built a mutually beneficial relationship with the Bixby Chamber of Commerce to share space and audio-visual equipment to better serve the Bixby community through event space rental. • Launched BixbyCR.com in partnership with other local churches to help citizens overcome their hurts, hang-ups, and habits.• Provided Life Coaching and Leadership Development for four former staff launched into full-time pastoral ministry in other churches.

Roswell, New Mexico

In obedience to God's call to "preach the gospel" and with a desire to grow in the necessary skills to serve effectively as a senior pastor of a local church, I resigned my position as the Executive Pastor and transitioned to the role of Missions Pastor at Grace.• Launched Celebrate Recovery at Grace in January 2019 with 27 in leadership, serving an average of 60 in attendance. This included overseeing Celebration Place for children and The Landing for students.• Developing, Equipping, and Mobilizing a team of 127 volunteers to reach out to Roswell through coordinated evangelistic activities.• Preaching consistently at Celebrate Recovery (60 people), Grace Community Church (950 people), and other churches whenever opportunities arise.

Roswell, Nm

My primary responsibilities as Executive Pastor were pastoral coaching and development (9 Pastors), strategic planning, financial oversight (2MM), and church administration under the leadership and vision of our Senior Pastor, Rick Hale. (950 avg attendance)• Provided life planning and ongoing coaching of pastoral and administrative staff in the adult ministry departments.• Implemented a new annual strategic planning process for pastoral staff that resulted in a coordinated calendar, annual goals, and spending guides all measured by a dashboard of clear metrics• Led the stewardship campaign that resulted in our eliminating all outstanding debt (over $3MM) while raising over $680,000 toward future building campaigns• Led in the search and hiring of a new Worship Pastor, Equipping Pastor, Student Pastor, and Growth Pastor (Small Groups)

Roswell, Nm

• Built a solid foundation for championing the purpose of ministry at Grace by developing a three-year strategy to help every member surrender, seize, share, and strengthen their serving sweet spot• Established a new Church Management Software (CCB) to better assist in the coordination of ministry and placement of members into ministry through matching of profiles to ministry opportunities• Launched a Life Purpose Coaching Center focused on helping members find and fulfill God’s purpose for their lives• Equipped a team of volunteers to provide premarital and marital counseling

Tulsa, Ok

• Helped transition a declining church toward a purpose-driven model through the implementation of the CLASS seminars, rewriting of the church’s constitution and by-laws, and redesign of adult Sunday School classes around a small group purpose-driven model (450 avg attendance)• Led in the planting of Primera Iglesia Bautista Hispana, a Hispanic church plant

Fort Worth, Tx

• Helped transition an inward-focused church into a growing church with a vision for the community (250 avg attendance)• Coordinated a total discipleship process, including Sunday morning Bible study; Sunday evening discipleship small groups; youth, children, and preschool discipleship; outreach ministries; and mission involvement both local and international• Led Connell in the planting of Casa de Luz Iglesia Bautista, a Hispanic church plant• Coordinated the opening of the SonShine Community Learning Center in partnership with West Mt. Moriah Baptist Church, an African-American congregation

Fort Worth, Tx

Master's Level Courses Taught• Church Growth Evangelism (1998, 1999)

Fort Worth, Tx

While mentoring under Dr. Billie Hanks Jr. responsibilities included coordinating church and area-wide conferences, field-testing curriculum, consulting churches in new member assimilation, and leading a summer discipleship training program for college students at the West Texas Ranch for Christ.

Wellington, New Zealand

During the Summers of 1990 and 1991, I served as a Student Minister Intern with Newlands Baptist Church of Newlands, New Zealand (suburb of Wellington). I focused primarily upon leading students in evangelism and discipleship. (150 avg attendance)

Master'S Degree, Ministry Leadership

Joined the faculty as a Professor while completing my second master's degree.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, School Of Theology

Dissertation: "The Pauline Paradigm for Assimilation of New Christians and Its Implications for Contemporary Evangelism." Who’s Who Among.

Master'S Degree, Theology

Masters of Divinity with Biblical Languages (Advanced Standing) - Due to undergraduate work and testing out of Biblical languages (Hebrew.

Bachelor'S Degree, Bible & Biblical Languages

Minor in Discipleship Life Beautiful Award (Most Outstanding Graduate - Academics & Character), 1992 Most Outstanding Theological Student.

High School, 4.0

Valedictorian Mr. B.H.S. Award Student Body President