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TOPIC: Topic Here Mentoring links people to the resources
of others empowering them for greater
TOPIC: Mentoring personal growth and ministry effectiveness Mentoring is a
relational experience in which one person empowers another
by sharing God given resources.
The identification of those God
has provided to help resource your The relationship between mentor and mentoree may be formal
needs as a leader. or informal scheduled or sporadic The exchange of resources
can take place over a long time or just once Mentoring can
also occur face to face or may happen over a great distance.

The resources which are shared in a mentoring relationship

WHAT MENTORING?
Coaches help to draw things out.
Mentors help to put new resources in.
Mentoring is all about the exchange of
resources. One person shares with another the
needed resources through the relational
pathway of mentoring.
could include:
• wisdom and discernment
• life and ministry experience
• timely advice
• new methods and skills
• leadership principles
• important values and lessons
• organizational influence
• financial resources

VIDEO NOTES: CORE CONCEPTS

IN THIS MODULE
• Mentoring helps enhance a leader’s ability
to finish well.
• Coaching pulls things out... while mentors
help put things in.
• Mentors exchange their resources with
another. Empowerment is the result.
• Mentoring myths often keep us from
gaining mentors, and mentoring others.
• There are at least nine types of mentors.
• Intensive-Occasional-Passive Mentors
• Look for help on both being (character)
and doing (skills/knowledge).
• Know your mentoring issue also helps you
identify potential mentors. Define the
“presenting issue.”
• You need to be intentional in seeking after
mentors.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
For More on MENTORING, check Out:
The Mentoring Workbook
http://www.leaderbreakthru.com
BOOKS: Connecting, J.Robert Clinton
and Paul Stanley. Spiritual Mentoring by
Randy Reese.

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TOPIC: Mentoring

NINE TYPES OF MENTORS WHAT IS YOUR PRESENTING ISSUE

One of the keys to finding mentors is to recognize there
are more mentors available to us than we think. One WHAT DO YOU FEEL THAT YOU NEED TO ADDRESS, OR
way to have “mentoring eyes” is to recognize that there WHAT TYPE OF RESOURCING HELP ARE YOU LOOKING
are many types of mentors. FOR?

BEING
iNTENSIVE MENTORS Spiritual Guide
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
Business Executive
____________________________________________________
• DISCIPLER
____________________________________________________
Pastor
____________________________________________________
Chaplain
• SPIRITUAL GUIDE ____________________________________________________

• ADVISER (COACH) DOING

Pastoral/Spiritual Care
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
OCCASIONAL MENTORS Complete Doctoral Studies
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
Virtually Engage Business with Dependable Team
• COUNSELOR ____________________________________________________

• TEACHER WHICH OF THE NINE TYPES OF

MENTORS DO YOU FEEL YOU NEED?
• SPONSOR
Historical Model - Divine Contact
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
Spiritual Guide - Adviser(Coach)
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
Sponsor
PASSIVE MENTORS
WHO ARE YOU THINKING OF
• CONTEMPORARY MODEL APPROACHING?

• HISTORICAL MODEL WHAT ARE THE OBSTACLES THAT COULD HOLD YOU BACK
FROM ASKING FOR MENTORING?
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
My Former Bishop
• DIVINE CONTACT ____________________________________________________
Dr. George West - ACPE Supervisor
____________________________________________________
Dr Terry Walling
____________________________________________________
Retired Pastors: Russell Lee, Clyde Stanfield
____________________________________________________
Business Executives: Mike Stanford; Lonnie talbert;
____________________________________________________
Larry Candelaria

Process you thoughts with your coach.

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COACHING
Qu estions
Mentoring
WHAT MENTORING?
Coaches help to draw things out.
Mentors help to put new resources in.
Mentoring is all about the exchange of
resources. One person shares with another the
needed resources through the relational
pathway of mentoring.
WHO WOULD BE
MOST HELPED BY
THIS MODULE?
• Leaders in the Deciding Transition (often
45-60 years old), who need to re-
encounter God and restore the “being”
side of the relationship.
• Leaders struggling to understand past
wounding, and God’s purposes.
• Leaders in the midst of transition or a new
chapter in their development.
• Leaders wanting to better understand and
know how God might want to shape their
lives and development.
• Leaders who are driven, and drawn to task
and excluding character growth.
• Leaders who are close to burnout and in
need of renewal and replenishment.
• Leaders wanting to explore new areas of
spiritual growth and development.
• Leaders who face The Wall (God has
grown quiet and seems to not be present)
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REPLENISHMENT
Mentoring links people to the resources
of others empowering them for greater
personal growth and ministry effectiveness Mentoring is a
relational experience in which one person empowers another
by sharing God given resources.
The relationship between mentor and mentoree may be formal
or informal scheduled or sporadic The exchange of resources
can take place over a long time or just once Mentoring can
also occur face to face or may happen over a great distance.
The resources which are shared in a mentoring relationship
could include:
• wisdom and discernment
• life and ministry experience
• timely advice
• new methods and skills
• leadership principles
• important values and lessons
• organizational influence
• financial resources
COACHING QUESTIONS
• What stood out to you from the online video?
• As you listened to the various myths or reasons why leaders fail to find
mentors, which one was closest to your struggle? Or, have you had
other struggles in finding mentors?
• Talk to me about the nine types of mentors? Which have you had in
your past? Which do you think you need in the days ahead?
• What is God focusing on right now in terms of your greatest growth
need?
• What are your needs in terms of your character formation? What are
your needs down the skills/knowledge side of things?
• If you were try to pinpoint what you think you need help with, how
would you state your presenting need?
• Based upon your need, which of the nine types of mentors do you
think you need? Anyone come to mind? Brainstorm others?
• Rehearse with me how you would approach a possible mentor and
share with them the mentoring need/help you are seeking?
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
For More on MENTORING, check Out:
The Mentoring Workbook
http://www.leaderbreakthru.com
BOOKS: Connecting, J.Robert Clinton
and Paul Stanley. Spiritual Mentoring by
Randy Reese.
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