MENTORING

Mentoring is a process for the informal transmission of knowledge, social capital and the psycho-social support perceived by the recipient as relevant to work, career, or professional development; mentoring entails informal communication, usually face-to-face and during a sustained period of time, between a person who is perceived to have greater relevant knowledge, wisdom, or experience (the mentor) and a person who is perceived to have less (the protégé)". Over ages, mentoring has proven to be a veritable tool in character molding and skill development. The much an individual can do has a lot to do with character and skill. A man of skill without character is a tragedy; and often character unlike skill is acquired most through an informal process and training. Talking about informal training is more or else talking about home training and Bible says when a child is trained he will never depart from the training. Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverb 22:6. The home is God’s ordained environment for child training and character formation. If this fails to happen in the home, the child of today becomes a dangerous adult of tomorrow. And ye shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. “And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, Deut. 11:19-20. And you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. Deut. 6:7 This responsibility of character molding and formation lies on the shoulders of fathers and mothers and by extension caregivers. It is supposed that a mentor is a man of skill and has all is required to replicate these skill in the protégé. So the question then is as a mentor, what do I have to replicate into my protégé? Following my step can my protégé end up living a life of influence and value. If my protégé decides to walk in my steps will he/she be seen as pleasing God; Solomon walked in the status and practice of his father David. Can your children walk in your steps and their life receives God’s approval and commendation, it’s a question every parent must give an answer to. Solomon loved the Lord, walking [at first] in the statutes and practices of David his father 1 kings 3:3a