Rodney continued the training on mentoring by focusing on member care and how member care can be a tool for mentoring.
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Trace began the morning by talking about mentoring and giving us some tools for identifying and developing leaders.
Terry spoke on a vision for mentoring and challenged and encouraged leaders to work to recognize and develop emerging leaders. He also spoke about the Sequence in Learning by need. Slides from the presentation
Brenda spoke about mentoring as the bottom line of a group leader’s ministry. She also went through our leadership core commitments.
Terry recasts the vision for the reality that our Beliefs shape our values which in turn inform our behaviors. He gave us an overview of group life and then the staff led the time through the different components of group life: Meetings, Mission, Member Care, and Mentoring.
Terry talked about the meaning of being well-differentiated as a leader and took the leaders through some exercises to help people think about the importance of being well-differentiated. The well-differentiated leader is someone who cares and is connected but it not controlled by the drama and emotions of others.
Jim, Brenda, and Rodney talk with group leaders about mentoring threats and opportunities.
Terry talking about the importance of seeing people as whole persons. We are spiritual / physical hybrids. A group leader’s responsibility is in seeing people with the whole person in mind. The physical, spiritual, mental and relational are all facets of a persons life.
As a church we just finished going through the book of 2 Timothy. Terry took a few minutes to highlight a few key lesson from group life from our time in 2 Timothy.
