Our Lord spoke truth when he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few” (Matthew 9:37). Within the first weeks of school, there are already large numbers of young women on our campus who have expressed a desire to get involved in a mentoring relationship with an older woman! Why? Because they desire to gain wisdom from someone older than them who has laughed, hurt, loved, and lived through the “stuff” of life just like they are now.
Mentoring is the new word for discipleship but the concept is time-tested and straight from the Bible. The apostle Paul instructed his young disciple Timothy in the multiplication principle inherent in discipleship, “The things which you have heard from me… these entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also” (2 Tim. 2:2). Dawson Trotman, founder of the Navigators, put it this way,
“Where’s your man? Where’s your woman?
Where’s the one for whom you are pouring out your life
to help them walk with Christ?”
In his letter to Titus (whom he calls “my true son in our common faith”) Paul charges him, “Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live… Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God…” (Titus 2:3-5). The young women of PBA are hungry for wisdom and accountability from somebody outside of their age group!
Please pray and consider whether or not you feel the Lord leading you to pursue a mentoring relationship with a younger girl on our campus!
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