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Mentors and the A-Team
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Mentoring takes place in my life during my walk with Jesus is Ptr Darrel Durksen. He disciple us, praying together, have coffee together. We invite him for supper and shared his ministry to us. Pts Danny Rarama, Visit us in our place and and talks about life in the ministry. Holly Fraser, in I need some advice ,she is full of wisdom.
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Mentoring for me usually happens over coffee or a meal or working together in ministry. I have had times when mentoring has taken place on a long car ride. I have been mentored by some wonderful people in my life. People who breathed life into dreams I thought were dead and buried. People who believed the best in my even when I had very little faith in myself. People who saw giftings in my life I had no idea existed and called them out in me. I will forever be grateful to these people and the role they played and continue to play in my life to bring me to where I am today. Being able to mentor others has been amazing to see transformation in their lives and being able to do for them what my mentors have done for me is so rewarding!
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I’ve never labeled any relationship in my life as a mentorship because I grew up thinking you could only talk about what you’re being mentored in with a mentor. It felt like a relationship with a strict agenda, not really a friendship. But I’ve come to realize the friendship I have with some older, respected spiritual leaders in my life may be considered a mentorship. Just last week my husband and I reached out to one couple and asked if we could pick their brains about finances and other life struggles. It’s very informal, and I would still consider them my friends more than my mentors, but they are Godly people who have gone before Hugh and I and we recognize there is wisdom they have from their life experience that we would love to know. So the main context mentorship has taken place in my life is over supper, over coffee, at a church event, or just while hanging out.
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I think the biggest mentor in my life was my Dad. Of course, I never had to ask him to mentor me, as it was pretty much his responsibility – at least early on! That being said, there was no one that I went to – albeit informally – more than him. Having been a Pastor and someone with unshakable faith, I would rarely make a big decision without running it by him. I also observed how he “did life”, how he handled himself with people, with his relationship with the Lord and with the church.
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