Mentoring Here in the States

Altered on stage opening the program for the camp.

One of our objectives while in the States is walking alongside missionaries who serve here in America. At the same time we find ourselves ministering to missionaries who are home on furlough. This month we are spending time with Kiley and Rachel Butler, of Area One Ministries (the picture above is from the Area One Camp in Florida), and Rick and Kim Beck from Honduras.

 Our first objective with each missionary is to establish casual mentoring through teaching, counseling and sponsoring activities that complement the needs of missionaries. We come alongside and serve them in the field. This will help:

• Refocus their clear sense of calling to missions.
• Rebuild their self-confidence and ability to be proactive in addressing the leadership and relationship issues they face.
• Recognize their role as leaders rather than managers, using Christ as the model for understanding their role as catalysts in the lives of peers and the local community.
• Rekindle the vision that brought them to the field, encouraging a healthy disregard for the impossible.

 At this level we are looking for people with leadership potential and a teachable spirit.

 …but be transformed by the renewing of your mind… Romans 12:2b (NIV)

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