Ministry Mentoring

Two key ingredients for mentoring to be effective are trust and confidence.

This agreement is intentionally simple because it relies on trust and confidence from the start.

Calvin R. Tadema

 

Risk Reversal Before entering into a Mentoring Agreement an analysis and review of your situation is conducted. If, after you have entered into an agreement, you are unsatisfied with the service or results you may request a complete refund of any fees you have paid. Contact Information

Mentoring Agreement

Christian mentoring is an ongoing relationship between a mentor and a person who desires mentoring.  We agree that:

1. Mentoring is not therapy, counseling, mental health care, or treatment for physical or emotional diseases or distress.  The mentor is not functioning as a licensed mental health professional, and mentoring is not intended as a replacement for counseling, psychiatric interventions, treatment for mental illness, recovery from past abuse, or professional medical advice.  The mentor is not functioning as a licensed financial or legal professional, and mentoring is not intended as a replacement for investment advice, financial planning, tax advice, or any kind of legal counsel.
    
2. Mentoring is for people who are basically well-adjusted, emotionally healthy, functioning effectively, and wanting to make changes in their lives.
    
3. Mentoring is designed to address issues the person being mentored would like to consider.  These could include (but are not limited to) personal ministry identification, business consulting, career development, relationship enhancement, spiritual growth, lifestyle management, life balance, decision making, and achieving short-term or long-term goals.
    
4. Mentoring will be an ongoing relationship that may take a number of months, although either party can terminate the relationship at any time.  Some or all of the mentoring will be done through telephone contact.
    
5. Mentoring can involve brainstorming, values clarification, the completion of written assignments, education, goal-setting, identifying plans of action, accountability, making requests, agreements to change behavior, examining lifestyles, and questioning.
    
6. Mentoring is most effective when both parties are honest and straightforward in their communication.
    
7. Mentoring is a confidential relationship and the mentor agrees to keep all information strictly confidential, except in those situations where such confidentiality would violate the law.
    
8. Mentoring assumes that each person in the relationship is guided by his or her values and beliefs.  The Christian mentor is a committed follower of Jesus Christ and seeks to live in accordance with this commitment.  The Christian mentor is honest in making this revelation but respects the different values and beliefs of others.  The Christian mentor does not seek to impose his or her values on another, proselytize, condemn, or refuse mentoring services to people who do not share similar values and beliefs.
    
9. Each of the people whose signatures appear below agrees that this agreement represents our mutual understanding of the mentoring relationship.

Signatures

_____________________________________________ Person being mentored	_____________ Date
_____________________________________________ Mentor	_____________ Date

 

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