News from the Mentoring Front

I’ve been working at Youth Horizons now for about 6 months. In some ways, I’m getting comfortable and in other ways I feel like I’m just getting started. The more I learn and experience, the more I see and understand the need for mentoring.

Coaching is one of the responsibilities of the mentoring staff at Youth Horizons. Our job as mentoring coaches is to stay in touch with our mentors, the proteges,  and their parents to help support the mentoring matches. I’m learning that sometimes it can be a challenge to track down the mentors and families, but it is also exciting to learn what is happening in these relationships.

Last month one of our mentors told me about a conversation that he had with his protege. At dinner together, the boy, who is in middle school said, “when I own my own house, I’m going to hang the poem ‘Footprints’ on the wall.” To which the mentor replied, “Really, why?” And the response from the protege was, “With all that I’ve gone through I can really relate with that poem. I can see that through all the difficulties in my life, God is with me.”

This may seem like a small story but it was significant in this mentoring relationship. Our mentors rarely see the impact that they are having in the life of a child. The short conversation shared above was encouraging to this mentor.

Thank you for investing in the ministry of Youth Horizons and allowing us connect mentors with children that need someone to listen them and show them they are people of great worth.

If you are investing in a child, either your own or someone else’s, I’d like to challenge to be faithful. At times it feels like we are having little impact, but  stay the course. Keep doing what is right. God is at work,  even when we cannot see what he is up to.

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