Home » Ministries » Youth Ministry » Fuel Magazine » All Issues » Fuel Spring 2002 » Connecting One on One

Fuel Spring 2002 > Connecting Locally

<typohead type=2>Mentoring</typohead>

‘Mentoring is about an intentional relationship, a dynamic, one to one interaction that encourages, inspires and enables…’ - Chris and Mary-Jane Konings

When it comes to connecting one on one with young people, the mentoring model provides some good guidelines of how we might build relationships effectively. Mentoring is something you can actively do yourself with your young people, but also an excellent way to get older people to be involved in youth ministry at your church.

<typohead type=2>Here are some ideas to get you started</typohead>

<typohead type=3>Penguin’s Guide to Mentoring</typohead>

Some of you will be familiar with the cool little booklet in this mailout that Chris and Mary-Jane Konings put together a couple of years ago. One of the great things about this book is its size – The Penguin’s Guide to Mentoring puts Christian mentoring in a nutshell. It's ideal to give youth leaders or congregation members that you’re trying to encourage to be mentors, because they can read it in one sitting. It also gives some ideas at the back for further reading (and movie viewing) if you want to explore mentoring in more depth. Copies are available for $2 each or 10 for $15. Email: mo.mansill(at)presbyterian.org.nz

<typohead type=3>Crumbs</typohead>

The Mentoring issue of Crumbs (Autumn 2000) has 8 articles on New Zealand & Australian models of mentoring and youth ministry. View it on the Crumbs website or email Mo for a hard copy back issue for $3.

Ccheck out these mentoring web sites:

<typolist>

ProjectK Website The National Mentoring Partnership The Mentoring Group

</typolist>

<typohead type=2>From the Library</typohead>

The following books about mentoring can be borrowed (for FREE) from the National Youth Resource Library for up to two months. To order email Janice: janiceh(at)presbyterian.org.nz

Mentoring: How to invest your life in others
GEN357 By Tim Elmore, USA, 1998
A handbook designed to improve your mentoring skills. Explores mentoring, the unique approaches of each gender, matching mentor and mentee, keys to successful mentoring, effective confronting, speaking with authority, bringing about change, training mentors, helping a church begin mentoring, guidelines for a mentoring meeting, prayer.

Intensive Caring: Practical ways to Mentor Youth
GEN359 Produced by Group, USA 1998
Articles by various authors on helping young people become more like Jesus, equipping teenagers to do
ministry, helping young men make it to adulthood, using mentoring in confirmation, mentoring as ministry to teenage mothers, mentoring as leadership training.

Lead On: A Mentor's Guide
GEN355 By Emerging Young Leaders, USA 1998
A kit with book of 24 practical mentoring sessions for university students and young adults, a discussion starters video, mentoring instructions on audio cassette. The 24 discussion starters are on developing self identity, the mentoring relationship, developing core competencies, the making of a leader, theory of knowledge, building self confidence building meaningful relationships, accountability, values to live by, developing resilience, problem solving, responding to authority, knowing what you believe, influence, power of encouragement, managing stress, attitudes, balance and centredness.

Mentoring to Develop Disciples
GEN323 By John Mallison, Australia, 1998
Using his own journey in mentoring as a background, Mallison thoroughly explores the Biblical foundations of mentoring, requirements of mentors and the mentoring relationship, and skills and strategies for effective mentoring. Contains a helpful mix of short study guides and group work captions for those working through the book as a group. Personal reflection captions help to group some of the more theoretical material in the reality of everyday practice.

One to One: BYM Mentoree's Manual
GEN364 By Mark Grace, Baptist Youth Ministries, 1998
A workbook for mentorees exploring how to have an effective mentoring relationship, have effective meetings, avoid pitfalls, evaluate a mentoring relationship, end a mentoring relationship, and deal with serious issues.

The Greatest Mentors in the Bible
GEN356 By Tim Elmore, USA, 1996
This devotional guide begins with an overview of mentoring. 32 mentoring relationships in the Bible are explored, with thought-provoking questions for mentorees and mentors.