LIBERTY’S RESIDENCY PROGRAM - FOR POTENTIAL MENTORS

This program connects a mentor and a resident who work closely together. The work will be within the church or in the marketplace. These work-environment relationships will train young adults in growing spiritually and gaining career skills and experience.

A MENTOR IS/KNOWS

  • Understands who he/she is (how you are hard-wired with gifts and abilities and limitations and quirks) and likes it.

  • Exhibits resilience, the grit to face challenges and does not give up easily. Has come back from failure. Sees how he/she contributes to the church and Kingdom of God.

  • Desires to make disciples (not just be practicing the disciplines, but is helping others develop the disciplines)

  • Offers levels of transparency and vulnerability that breathes life into others.

  • Known for listening skills: shows curiosity, expresses concern, shares life.

  • Embraces his/her strengths and weaknesses.

A MENTOR DOES

A mentor will meet once a month in a large group setting, with other mentors and residents, for instruction on both biblical content and soft skills.

  • You will help the resident develop and practice spiritual foundations.

  • You will help the resident develop the transferrable and life skills.

  • You will attend residency retreat in mid-January.

A mentor will also meet once a month with the resident individually to review the teaching, for encouragement and for prayer. These meetings with the resident can be as varied as your personalities, such as: breakfast or coffee at a local restaurant, baking muffins, changing a bike tire, walking the Portage Path, shopping for a car, checking out a new brewery, watching Monday Night Football, getting your nails done, playing disc golf, biking to the DQ, etc.

THE PROGRAM GOAL

We want to produce people who are: maturing spiritually, moving toward emotional health, understanding their vocational fit. Practically, we want them to be hirable and ten years from now, we trust that they are lifelong followers of Jesus, active in a local church and investing in others (making disciples).