Abstract:
Succession planning within the church movements has been an issue of interest to Christians, because of the weight with which spiritual leadership is viewed. The pattern of leadership development and succession observed globally in most
contemporary Pentecostal movements and churches has been characterized as dynastic succession. The study sought to asses coaching as a leadership development strategy and its effect on succession in Evangelical churches. The case study was Nairobi Chapel (NC) church that had embarked on a strategy of planting 300 churches by the year 2020. The research applied mixed
methods approach to collect both quantitative and qualitative data. The study was descriptive in design with a target population of 108 Nairobi Chapel churches from which the study sample was drawn using a non-probability sampling technique. The data was analyzed using STATA and Microsoft Excel packages and the findings presented in table and narrative forms. Consequently, the
effectiveness of the coaching programme was rated as not effective in succession planning at NC. Therefore, coaching and succession planning was identified as critical to the overall NC strategic plans. There was also little evidence of the existence of a clearly laid down succession strategy for positions within NC.
