You Can Mentor: A Christian Youth Mentoring Podcast

Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be your name.  Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.  These words, found in Matthew 6 are the start of the most famous prayer in history: the Lord’s prayer.  It was a response to Jesus’ disciples asking him to teach them how to pray.  Many people use it as the basis for their own prayer life, and it can be a helpful tool to teach your mentee how to begin theirs.  John Barnard from Middleman Ministries is back with Zach this week to talk through what exactly these words mean and how they can encourage us on a daily basis as we meditate on them.

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What does a shepherd do?  They protect and guide their sheep.  They show their sheep the way.  In a way, they love their sheep.  Jesus is known as the Good Shepherd, and models all of these things for us.  Zach is flying solo today to bring a short, but encouraging word to all you mentors out there about how Jesus is our Good Shepherd, how he calls us to be shepherds for our mentees, and how we can live that calling out.

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How are people experiencing me as a mentor?  What do people feel when I walk into the room?  Every person has a presence.  It's that thing people notice about them when they walk into a room, either positive or negative.  It's the experience people have in interacting with you.  So what is your presence as a mentor?  How is your mentee impacted when you show up?  Stephen "Murr-dawg" Murray is finally back on the podcast as Zach's special guest this week to help unpack how you can use your presence to benefit your mentee.

Let Stephen or Zach know how you feel about a Mentoring Conference sometime next year:
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It takes a village to raise a child.  We’ve all heard this old saying, but it’s absolutely true; community is vital in every person’s life.  We were never meant to do life alone.  But how do you include your mentee in your community?  What does it look like to help them develop their own community?  In the final installment of our Pillars of Mentoring series, Zach and John Barnard talk about these questions as well as the three areas of community and the three I’s of what community even is.

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Check out Middleman Ministries:
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You Can Mentor: How to Impact Your Community, Fulfill the Great Commission, and Break Generational Curses

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Why are you here?  What are you supposed to be doing with your life?  What is the reason for your existence?  These questions seem aggressive in how they're phrased, but the fact of the matter is we all ask ourselves these questions.  As they grow, your mentee is asking themself these questions too.  So how do we help them discover their purpose in life?  Zach is back with John Barnard from Middleman Ministries this week to share about the second of the three pillars of mentoring: purpose, and how you can help your mentee discover their vision, skills, and action steps to live out their calling.

Reach out to John:
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Check out Middleman Ministries:
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Purchase the You Can Mentor book: 
You Can Mentor: How to Impact Your Community, Fulfill the Great Commission, and Break Generational Curses

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Who are you?  Are you what you do? Are you where you're from? Are you your parents?  Are you your neighborhood?  Are you your talents?  Who does God say you are?  All of these questions target the same thing: identity.  Who we are is the one of the most critical questions we try to answer as we navigate our lives, and the foundation for how we see the world.  And the world is quick to answer it.  So how do we, as mentors, speak identity over our mentees?  How do we speak THEIR identity over them and not OUR identity?  Zach and John unpack this topic in this week's episode.

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Check out Middleman Ministries:
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You Can Mentor: How to Impact Your Community, Fulfill the Great Commission, and Break Generational Curses

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"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn."  Benjamin Franklin said these words about what it takes to actually impart knowledge on someone.  In mentoring, these words prove true.  These words also point to each of the three levels involved in teaching something to another person: the head, the heart, and the hands.  But what does it mean to teach something at each of these levels?  Zach is back this week with John Barnard from Middleman Ministries to talk through what it looks like to teach your mentee at each of these levels, and why each is important.

Reach out to John:
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Check out Middleman Ministries:
https://www.middleman-ministries.org

Purchase the You Can Mentor book: 
You Can Mentor: How to Impact Your Community, Fulfill the Great Commission, and Break Generational Curses

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Did you know that a mentor wears three hats?  Sometimes it's one at a time.  Sometimes it's all three in the same mentoring encounter.  But at some point in the relationship, every mentor will fill the role of the farmer, the miner, and the tour guide.  So what do each of these roles do?  John Barnard is back with Zach this week for the second episode of our Pillars of Mentoring series to define how to fill each of these roles.

Reach out to John:
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Check out Middleman Ministries:
https://www.middleman-ministries.org

Purchase the You Can Mentor book: 
You Can Mentor: How to Impact Your Community, Fulfill the Great Commission, and Break Generational Curses

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There are several pillars to an effective mentoring relationship.  After all, if there isn't trust, love, or respect, then the relationship can't thrive.  But trust, love, and respect aren't necessarily pillars.  They're important, but they stem from three key elements that all relationships possess.  Zach is back this week with special guest John Barnard from Middleman Ministries to start a new series on the three pillars of mentoring:  Identity, Purpose, and Community.  This week, John shares his thoughts on why identity is so important and does a deep dive into a lesser known passage in 2 Samuel about how identity plays a role in a person's life.

Reach out to John:
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Check out Middleman Ministries:
https://www.middleman-ministries.org

Purchase the You Can Mentor book: 
You Can Mentor: How to Impact Your Community, Fulfill the Great Commission, and Break Generational Curses

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There's an old saying: "It takes a village."  Of course, this has many different connotations and interpretations, but the point is that community is a necessity to accomplish any goal.  That community is built through collaboration.  Zach is on this week with Jon Passavant from Start Up Waco to talk through how to collaborate with other members of your community to accomplish everyone's goals.  He shares a real, powerful example of a time when that almost didn't happen and the lessons he learned from that experience.

Check out Start Up Waco:
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Reach out to Jon:
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Purchase the You Can Mentor book: 
You Can Mentor: How to Impact Your Community, Fulfill the Great Commission, and Break Generational Curses

youcanmentor.com