CHURCH MENTORS
Robert Hicks discusses a mentoring program designed for seminarians at the Seminary of the East, and presents the mentoring process as that which facilitates the three ingredients of success: 1. the dream or ambition of the seminarian, 2. someone who believes in the seminarian and helps this person bring the dream to reality, and 3. determination. Hicks concludes: “We have found that the mentor contributes several things to his students: a brain to pick, a shoulder to cry on, and an occasional kick in the pants. Beyond this, the mentor cares for the younger man in the totality of his life and wants to see him become successful in life. I believe this is the greatest need in the church today. So many younger men in our churches need to hear the voices of older men in some context besides church business meetings. They need the one-on-one, the life experience, the realism of what life was like for them at the same…
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