Teens need mentors.
Mentors need training.
You need
NextGen
Simple Mentoring
Adults with full lives often make the best and most interesting mentors for young people.
That's why we created
Simple Mentoring.
This powerful free tool strips away the guessing, overthinking, and complication and leaves leaders like you with a simple way to help those around you love teenagers and point them to Jesus.
What is NextGen Simple Mentoring?
NextGen Simple Mentoring is a FREE turnkey resource to help senior pastors mobilize the Christian adults in their faith community to disciple the young people closest to them.
You don’t have to
for your faith community.
Simple Mentoring
Here’s How to Get Started!
Step One
Download the free Simple Mentoring Jumpstart for Senior Pastors.
The jumpstart includes everything you need to catalyze mentoring relationships in your faith community.
Step Two
Access the free Simple Mentoring Handbook.
This short primer unpacks the 3 Mentoring Keys and equips the caring Christian mentors in your faith community to increase their impact.
Step Three
Ask your faith community to commit to walk through the Simple Mentoring Small Group Series [coming March 2025].
This video series, produced in partnership with RightNow Media and The Barna Group, provides five short video lessons that small groups can use to learn about and practice Simple Mentoring.
What makes NextGen Simple Mentoring different from other discipleship resources?
Simple Mentoring resources are:
Turnkey, free, and easy-to-use
Scripturally-grounded and research-based
Designed to work in diverse ethnic and ecumenical contexts, and fit different faith community sizes
Faith communities are filled with people who have a heart for the young people in their lives. But when you mention mentoring, they feel overwhelmed and inadequate.
As a senior leader,
How can you help young people be discipled to a lifelong, rich faith?
Give the young people in your community the care they need while also equipping mentors to provide that care.
Access the Free Toolkit
The mentors are there. The young people are there. And now, the FREE resources are there too!
3 Mentoring Keys
In NextGen Simple Mentoring, we present the 3 Mentoring Keys that get to the heart of what success looks like in a mentoring relationship. Hint: it’s way simpler than people think!
Little Acts > Grand Gestures
Practice small acts more than grand gestures.
Authenticity > Pretending
Be authentic instead of pretending.
Questions > Answers
Ask questions more than give answers.
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