Mentoring

What is Mentoring?

Mentoring relationships come in many shapes and forms.

Ultimately, they are relationships built on the desire to walk together towards Christlikeness as we navigate everyday life. The mentor inputs into the life of the mentee, as the mentee shares time with their mentor.

This could happen over a coffee, a shared hobby or project, or in any space that helps facilitate a healthy level of sharing together.

We see mentoring exemplified best in the life of Jesus, and continued in the lives of others through intentional discipling relationships such as with Paul and Timothy.

The Old Testament is also full of life-giving mentoring relationships: Jethro and Moses and Joshua, Elijah and Elisha, Nathan and David, Naomi and Ruth etc.

Further information about our Mentoring Framework

If you are interested in being a Mentor or being Mentored, we encourage you to check out the rest of our information on Mentoring at New Life through the button below:

Mentoring Covenant

The Mentoring Covenant is our primary tool for establishing healthy mentoring relationships. You can find a digital copy by clicking the button below:

How do I find
a Mentor or
Mentee?

Whether you are seeking a mentor or a mentee, the process is the same:

1. First, we would ask you to prayerfully consider who already exists in your life that you could approach about being a mentor for or mentored by. Established relationships and already formed connections can easily allow for organic mentoring relationships to develop.

  • As a potential mentor, this could be having what we refer to as an 'I see in you’ conversation.

    It can be incredibly empowering for a younger person to hear from someone older that you see great potential in them and that you would like to invest in them.

  • As a potential mentee, it could come in the form of approaching someone older in your life and asking them to invest their wisdom into you as your mentor.

    Doing so can be highly honouring and potential mentors are often keen to commit, knowing that you as the mentee have specifically desired life input from them.

2. If you don’t have someone in mind that’s totally fine, we are keen also to connect mentors and mentees together. Just fill out the section below; enter your name, and whether or not you’d like to be a mentor or mentee and we’ll prayerfully consider who on the adjacent list would be a compatible fit. We will then arrange for the two of you to meet and go from there.