i am on journey looking for good strong discipleship&mentoring material. primarily for youth 8-21yrs old!!! i know a wide range. we are wanting to utilize small groups and mentors in our youth’s lives. we are launching a small group/host home ministry for our High School this fall, and hoping to instill a mentorship for our 8th grade confirmands and for our high school students as well in the spring of 2010.
This is very new ground for me, and i’m out of my element with the size of our church and number of youth and families we have! we are looking right now with the mindset we have complete room to do what ever. our foundation is in Christ and Family community… so the possibilities in my mind our endless
I am have some resources but i am looking for some more. I will be using this summer to research and study different forms of mentoring and great discipleship programs. Currently looking at doing a merge of Faith Inkubators and Tom Schwolert’s resources here for some family based discipleship and mentoring.
But i am wondering what ‘you’ use.
who you follow?
what resources/programs have you found to be useful?
do you have any good books on the topic?
any good theology concepts on the reasoning for discipleship and mentoring? Titus 2 i find for great biblical new testament teaching… but what else
any advice and wisdom you could give would be gratefully appreciated in this neck of Gods Kingdom in Colorado
June 5th, 2009 at 10:25 am
I came across your blog via Twitter “@mattcleaver Got a friend looking for Discipleship & Mentoring resources! Can you help? http://bit.ly/Y7g5h”
Have you heard of “Making Disciples” by Willimon? http://www.cokesbury.com/forms/ProductDetail.aspx?pid=380917
It has a Methodist twist but is very adaptable for individual or group use across denominations.
Faith Inkubators has great materials.. can be tricky to integrate depending on the willingness of your group to sing the songs, etc but the basic concepts/rituals are awesome.
Also do you know about the Youth and Family Institute? (www.tyfi.org) You’ll find excellent materials through them as well.
Blessings!
June 5th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
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June 6th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
@Leena
Thanks for visiting the site and for some input! i have checked out Tyfi.com. they have some great resources. i have not though checked out making disciples yet. will give that a look.
my fear with Faith Inkubators is how some of the rituals. our congregation is pretty down to earth and i don’t know how they would feel about things like family sing along. I’m heading away this weekend to the mountains and will be using that time to PRAY PRAY PRAY for direction and guidance for the direction of mentoring and discipleship for our youth ministry.
Thanks again