This weekend I met with my mentor. And I always have to blog afterwards.
I was meeting my mentor at Dairy Queen, because one of the girls I spent a lot of one-on-one discipleship with at the last church I served at worked there, and I was in town visiting people. As I was standing there waiting for Lydia (my mentor) to arrive, I thought about how funny it was that Mackenzie (the young lady I was invested in) had no idea of the impact Lydia has made on her life. I told Lydia this, and she told me that she recently went to her mentor’s wedding and met her mentor’s mentor and was thinking the same thing. So now Mackenzie has four generations of mentors accounted for above her. I told Mackenzie, and she kind of shrugged it off (I mean, she’s 16 and was at work) but I think she thought it was pretty cool.
Visiting my college town the weekend before their classes started was strange for me. I drove past a campus event, and looked out at all the fresh faces. It was so strange to be around during freshmen orientation, and not have any “plan” or even excitement about the possibilities of investing in futures students… but I realized that’s why I discipled new students, so they could disciple the next line of students, and so on and so forth.
This is discipleship: equipping disciples to disciple. We are called to be students and teachers at the same time. When you think about the people you are investing in, think about the opportunities they have to invest in others! The thought is exciting! I think about the students I mentor, and how they have friends, siblings, coworkers, even parents that they can invest in and bring truth to. When you invest in one person, you literally have access to investing into the world. Bam. Exciting.
Heather Lea Kenison 