Women Mentoring Women at Redeemer

Titus 2:3-5 -- Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

Redeemer encourages our women of all ages to mentor and be mentored as Paul exhorted in his letter to Titus. These relationships shouldn’t intimidate any of us. They can be short or last a lifetime. They might start with guidance on a specific need or with a general desire for deeper one-on-one relationships with another Christian woman.

As you consider this opportunity, here are a few questions to ask yourself:

1.     What do you want in a mentoring relationship? Clearly define what you hope and expect. Mentor and mentee should understand what the other expects from the experience. Unmet expectations can lead to failure and disappointment.
2.     How do you want mentoring? Agree together how often, when, where and why to meet. Perhaps start with a three-meeting get-acquainted relationship and build from there. Mentoring can be for a season. It can change over time.
3.     How can we help each other? The mentee may be younger and the primary seeker of knowledge, wisdom and help. But mentors need help and wisdom too. Mentor each other. Learn from each other. Listen to each other. Provide each other options not commands, relationships not tyranny.

If you want to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity and be a mentor or to be mentored, please contact Marilyn Van Pelt – howvanpelt@aol.com, 214-783-3854. Marilyn is keeping a list of both to facilitate matching women to meet specific needs.