“The greatest means of impacting the future is to build into another personʹs life.” Howard Hendricks
Mentors help to shape the future. They are God’s choice tools to transform nations, partnering with Him to mold leaders of character and skill who can change their world. Whenever God is about to do something great, He sets His people to praying ... and proceeds to develop leaders whom He can rely on to advance His purposes.
South Africa desperately needs transformational leaders. There simply aren’t enough of them to get the job done. They are needed – from all backgrounds, ages and occupations – to bring deep change to all sectors of society and life to every community. As Michael Cassidy has said, “We need to get with what the Lord is doing and move from prayer in the stadiums to the transformation of our citiesʺ.
Mentoring is essential to the transformation of South Africa. Communities will be changed to the degree that they are influenced by transformational leaders and churches. Leaders who are themselves being transformed – and therefore capable of transforming those around them – are typically those who benefit from life‐giving mentoring relationships.
An African proverb states, “You can count the seeds in a mango, but you canʹt count the mangos in a seed”. Within each Christian leader is the potential for limitless reproduction. By God’s grace, as each leader reproduces others, the hope of a transformed nation draws near.
(Extract from South African Handbook on mentorship)
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