What Peer Mentoring Should Look Like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsNlcr4frs4

While this opera duo have impressive voices…what impressed me the most the model we see here of peer mentoring. Charlotte saw through the shyness and outward appearance, and without her, Jonathan may not have stepped foot on stage, and he would not have reached his potential. We forget sometimes in ministry that we need to help mentor our peers and our students need to do the same.
Student leaders need to find peers they can support, encourage, and take to new levels. Similarly, youth leaders/pastors need to find someone in their same boat that they can help bait their hook and reel in the big one, so to speak. Find some time to help another in the trenches, in ministry, and follow the model of “iron sharpens iron”.

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What the Church Can Learn From Disney World

Fresh off my trip to Disney World…I was thinking as I left one of the parks.  With 16 million attending Magic Kingdom alone each year, what makes this place so special, and how does it keep it appeal to generation after generation?  Could the church learn some things from Disney?  Now before you come at [...]

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You mean…Visitors are supposed to come back? What?

Yes.  It is true.  Visitors should not stay visitors for very long.  You should know their name, get to know them, and invite them back…and sometimes, if you do it right, they will! Day of:  Leaders & students (student leaders especially) welcome the student.  Exchange names, link up with similar ages & gender, and encourage [...]

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5 Tips for Developing a Student Leadership Team

First, you get a whole bunch of kindling, then start a big fire, make some students take off their shoes, and tell each of them they need to be a leader.. Okay, maybe it worked for Moses, but you don’t need a burning bush incident to get your students to be a leader.  Here are [...]

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