Developing a Mentoring Culture

“IT TAKES A VILLAGE to raise a child.” This is just as true in a child’s faith development. Years ago, in a conversation with a fellow youth pastor about mentoring youth, he told me that he regularly invited his youth to babysit his young kids. While it seemed like a nice perk to have so many babysitter options in the youth group, his main reason was that he wanted his kids to begin building relationships with these teens so that when they were teenagers they would already have relationships with Christian young adults with whom they could talk and from whom they could learn. Adults that would hopefully be mentors to his kids.