Tools for Pastoring or Mentoring of Leaders
1. Self-Evaluation of Emotional Health
– permits an X-ray of a person’s present life situation on a single page. We have three versions:
2. Diagnostic Questionnaires for Leaders, Teams and Churches
3. Accountability Questions
4. GROW Mentoring Model – this simple, problem-solving model helps a mentee or someone seeking counseling within an hour’s time. It uses good questions to help the person discover their own solution. The acrostic indicates four steps: 1) Goal to be reached; 2) Reality or context of this goal; 3) Options or various ways that the goal could be accomplished and 4) Workplan, how to put it into practice.
Special Resources
- Pastoring Pastors and Wives Training Retreat: this two day retreat helps people deepen their vision and understanding of a Leader that Shines with a special focus on how to mentor and be mentored through the GROW model. Presently it is only offered in Portuguese or Spanish. If someone wants to be trained in how to offer it in English and consider covering the cost for translation and training, contact Dave Kornfield.
- Mentorlink website: http://mentorlink.gospelcom.net/. An excellent website that explains mentoring and the vision behind it. It includes many resources in English and some in four other languages. MAPI offers a Mentorlink training seminar in Brazil on the vision and values of mentoring.
- Pastoring of Pastors Networks – Find out where the network closest to you is located. Most of our networks are in Brazil, but we are developing a database for English-speaking countries also.
- Articles:
A. A Leader that Shines – Seven Relationships that Lead to Excellence
- Outstanding Books:
A. Hendricks, Howard, As Iron Sharpens Iron, Chicago, Illinois: Moody Press, 1995.
B. Phillips, Keith, The Making of a Disciple, Old Tappan, N.J. : F.H. Revell Co., 1981. Outstanding book on discipling that has considerable overlap with mentoring.
C. Wright, Walter C.; Mentoring: The Promise of Relational Leadership, Paternoster Press, UK, 2004.
When you are done with this page, you can return to the initial page abour pastoring of pastors and leaders or go on to learn about our pastoring of pastoring network database.
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