James Lawrence, Mentoring Matters: Identify, Equip and Resource Mentors (Warwick: CPAS, 2011)
There’s been lots of work done on leadership development for churches and CPAS with their Growing Leaders Course has been part of this. They now add this excellent user friendly resource on mentoring to further enrich Christian discipleship and ministry at ground level. Mentoring involves helping a less experienced disciple or leader grow through their relationship with a more mature practitioner. The resource pack enables a parish or a deanery to set up a training course to equip mentors to exercise their role reflectively and fruitfully. The pack is divided into three sections. Part one, Getting Started, shows how to establish a church-based mentoring network. Part Two is an 8 session training process for mentors covering a wide range of material using biblical and contemporary insights. Part Three is a resource guide. There is a CD-ROM included. What I liked about the pack was its easy layout, its clear approach and the sense that it could work in any parish or deanery. It also fits within our diocesan vision and strategy since it is all about building up sustainable Christian communities, deepening discipleship and expanding ministry. We have a copy of the course in the Resources Centre so if the upfront cost is too high, why not borrow it from there.
Revd Canon Patrick Coghlan
February 14, 2012
We’re using this pack at St Polycarp’s and after 2 sessions have had very good feed back