Being A Mentor A. Introduction: As I came to this subject, I became aware again of the shortness of time and how quickly our lives and ministries pass. Mentoring is one of the great ways to ensure that your gifts, insights, wisdom and values live on in someone else who in turn will pass parts of you, themselves and others onto a new generation. Mentoring is an incredible gift to mentor and mentoree alike.

William D. Morrow

Mentoring is a popular subject these days. It is talked about in many circles and used extensively in social agencies, the business world, education, and certainly is a biblical premise for the Church.

Writing in a classic of modern Christian literature, “The Master Plan of Evangelism,” Ronald Coleman points out the mentoring plan of Jesus: Selection, Association, Consecration, Impartation, Demonstration, Delegation, Supervision, and Reproduction. While I will not use this outline for our presentation on mentoring, it is hard to improve on it and for all who ultimately are used as mentors, I recommend you re-read this classic.

To prepare for this session, I went to a number of sources...reading, past studies, and the web. I did a general search on the web and when I got to the bottom of the page of the first list of mentoring web sites, I was informed that there were another 1,519,990 available!

The number of mentoring programs has grown dramatically in recent years. The popularity results in part from the testimonials by people who have been benefited by someone who has mentored them. I believe it has always been this way. From the students of the early Greek philosophers to the disciples of Jesus, or the prophets or early church leaders, most people who have become effective in any form of leadership or influence have been mentored by someone...even if no one called it mentoring when it happened.

Most of us can remember and identify at least one person who had a significant and positive impact on their development.

Mentoring relationships can be formal or informal, structured or casual, accidental or planned, but they all result in change in both the mentor and the mentoree.
Mentoring is a powerful way for people to learn a variety of skills...personal and professional they will need for life and ministry.

"There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success."
--George Matthew Adams

The focus of this presentation will be on the mentor rather than the mentoree. Master’s will do an excellent job in preparing the students. This session is about preparing ourselves to be effective mentors.

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