This presentation combines "What are You Waiting For" lessons 1 and 2.

1. What Are You Waiting For?
Mentoring with a Mission

2. Answer the Following Questions:
write in words, draw a picture of where you are or how you feel,
express these answers in a way that means something to you
1.)Take a moment and think about your life, are there any big
questions or issues you are wondering or struggling with? What are
they? Do you have life figured out ?
2.) Is there anyone outside of your family that you talk to about these
things? What would it look like to be able to weekly share life with
someone who has been there? Who do you talk to about these issues?
3.) If you had a relationship like this what would it look like? What
type of woman would you like to meet with? What character qualities
would you like her to have?

3. “Each of us fervently wants someone to see us
exactly as we are, warts and all, and still accept us.”
-Larry Crabb Understanding People p 112

4. Thus, a “discipling” relationship is one in which a
disciple helps another person to become more
obedience to Jesus in attitude, life-style and
mission.
Discipling p. 14

5. “Some people call it self-esteem. Others say self-worth.
Whatever it is—it is the feeling of significance deep
inside us that is crucial to our emotional, spiritual, and
social stability. Everyone wants to be happy and
successful, and to regard himself or herself as a
worthwhile human being. What’s so bad about that?”
-The Search For Significance student edition p. 5

6. “Spiritual formation, education of the heart, in other words,
requires something more than traditional Western forms of
instruction. It requires a mentorship of the heart, a relationship
with a teacher of life who is able to convey . . . a way of life
that is formed, not merely instructions that are given. It
requires a life shared by people who have learned that spiritual
music is sung in its own way. To educate the heart requires
learning that frees the imagination, prepares ears to listen,
focuses eyes to look with attentiveness; it requires an open
heart.” (Reese & Anderson, Spiritual Mentoring, p. 17)

7. Mentor Defined
someone who teaches or gives help and advice
to a less experienced and often younger person
Mariam Webster Dictionary

8. Keys Of Mentoring
-involves focusing on Christ
-acceptance of one another
-spending time with others/building relationships

9. Keys Of Mentoring
1) A guide; planning, leading, directing, correcting, they
should be positive, the mentor should provide motivation
and encouragement

10. Keys Of Mentoring
2) A resource; allowing their mentee to ask questions
without fear of ridicule, disappointment or belittlement.
The mentor should be the resource to the mentee
concerning anything about their topic.

11. Keys Of Mentoring
3) A support; communication, open availability,
encouragement, humor, trust, care, positive affirmation,
gentle critiquing. Supports the mentee in rethinking her
learning

12. Keys Of Mentoring
4) A connection; The mentor needs to be connected with
the mentee, her strengths, weaknesses, and stress level
and level of excitement.

13. Keys Of Mentoring
5) An active participant. There should also be an active
dialog between the mentor and the mentee. The
communication between the two participants must
continually be two-way, allowing complete
communication of ideas, issues and collaboration.

14. A Look at Ruth and Naomi
split into groups and work on the
handout

15. What Are You Waiting For?
Add more questions
What are your next steps going to be?
What place does mentoring have in your life?
Is anything going to be different because you
heard this today? What?

16. Mentoring: Teaching in
Relationship

17. Countless women today long to be nurtured. They want the love
and acceptance of a mother or a mother-substitute. They want to
feel the warmth and security of an older woman’s approval. And
Countless women of faith throughout the world today are the
embodiment of these and other virtues that equip them to nurture
younger women. But they don’t know how to do it.
Spiritual Mothering 18

18. Titus 2:3-5
3 Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not
slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is
good, 4 and so train the young women to love their husbands and
children, 5 to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind,
andsubmissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may
not be reviled

19. Context Titus 1:10-11, 16
“Of all the ways Paul could have commanded the women to
combat the decadence of culture, he told them to invest their
energies in training the younger women to live Christianly in
their society.”
Spiritual Mothering 42

20. “The Combination of spiritual maturity and
life experiences qualify a woman to nurture a
younger woman.”
“If you area Christian who is seeking to grow
in the faith and to live obediently, then you
are qualified for spiritual mothering.”
spiritual mothering 47- 48

21. Mentoring
1. Command from Paul for Older women who
2. Helps next generation to combat the lies of the world
3. Qualifications=spiritual maturity and life experience
4. Growing relationship with Christ.

22. What are you waiting For?
How can you mentor?
Who can you mentor?
Do you have hindrances to mentoring? What are they?
Do you think God is calling you to mentor currently?
Why or why not? How will this change your life?