How to Find a Mentor on Your Christmas List

For years I’ve wanted a Dust Buster for Christmas, but I have yet to score. Sometimes we repeatedly ask for something, but we fail to make it happen. A lot of women want a mentor and have put it on their “wish list” in conversations, but they remain mentor-less. Having a mentor sounds great, but how do we actually get one? As we approach a new year, you can have the courage put “Mentor” on your wish list and do something about it! I’m putting a MENTOR on my Christmas list! Click To Tweet Having a mentor makes a difference. …

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Wonder If Mentoring Matters & How YOU Can Make a Difference?

Have you ever wanted to start a Titus 2 ministry but you weren’t sure how?  Perhaps you have tried to use material that may work for some churches but your church or ministry has a very different volunteer base, skill set, and logistics than where you’ve seen it work before. The MOM Initiative is here to help YOU tailor a Titus 2 Mentoring Ministry specifically for YOUR church and to help you reach out in YOUR community in a very unique way through mentoring moms both inside your church and in your community. We make mentoring moms easy and missional. …

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11 Shows I Wouldn’t Let My Children Watch

“I will not look with approval on anything that is vile. I hate what faithless people do; I will have no part in it.” Psalm 101:3 (NIV) Have you noticed how crude, crass and blatantly corrupt television shows have become? There’s almost nothing worth watching these days… especially for kids. Back in the day, writers of television shows focused on writing scripts that promoted morals, doing the right thing, consequences to misbehavior, patriotism. Television shows that embraced truth, faith, courage, integrity, civil service, and hard work.  Today, scripts are basically the polar opposite. I know this may sound hard, but to …

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How to Set Curfews for Teenagers

There’s no greater DoAhead on the planet than raising good kids. It can feel like a daunting task when they are little but sometimes it can feel impossible when they become teens. One such example has to do with weekend recreation. You know the drill. It’s a Friday night and your beyond exhausted waiting for your teen to get home. Oh, it’s not that you have a bad kid. It’s just part of parenting teens. Years ago a mother who mentored me told me that there are two seasons in which a parent becomes sleep deprived. The first season is when the …

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5 Things I Wish My Mom Had Told Me

 Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. Proverbs 1:8 NIV   Sweet mamas, oh how I wish we could sit down over a cuppa coffee and talk through these together. I don’t have all the answers, but if you’ll let me, then I’d love to share with you 5 of the things that I wish my mom had told me when I first got married and started having kids.   My “babies” are now almost 21 and 19. By all accounts they are “adults” and so I’m coming to sit alongside you as a mama …

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A Special GIFT for MOMS (1 for $10, 2 for $17)

Christmas is coming and we want every mom to have something that will encourage and equip her like no other book can. Laying a solid and fresh look at what biblical motherhood looks like, The Making of a Mom offers practical and do-able tips that will help every mom on her journey, real life stories every mom can relate to…. and the tools for mentors in this all-in-one resource make this an easy and inexpensive way for ministry leaders and mentors to mentor moms! *THIS  week ONLY we are offering The Making of a Mom signed copies at a special price! BUY …

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When the Idea of Mentoring Makes You Cringe

Even though I’ve spent years mentoring teenagers and younger women, along with writing how to simplify the whole mentoring process, I still have my moments when the mentor word makes me want to cringe. I wonder if my investment of time is really worth it. I question if I am doing it just-the-right-way. And I still long for a mentor to live next door and have time to sip a cup of coffee with me face-to-face.  Yet God never seems to allow me to wallow in my self-pity for long before reminding me of the beauty of mentoring — like …

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20 Foundational Verses for Every Family to Grow

Not too long ago, I saw a photo on Facebook that read “If you don’t teach your children to believe in Jesus, then world will teach them not to.” As I sat staring at my screen, I realized their world revolved around me right now and then wondered what messages my words, actions, and lifestyle reflecting for my kids.  The more I thought about it, the more I thought we’re like everyone else as a typical Christian family, we go to church on Sundays and Wednesdays. We pray at meal times and before bed. We say a prayer as we …

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Are You a ‘Steel Vault’ Kind of Mentor?

We all need someone we can trust…the kind of friend who has our back and who knows our secrets, yet treats them as if they are their own. We all need someone like that in our lives. And we all need to be someone like that for others. Mentoring is a mixed bag. It comes with the joy of walking through life with others, but it also comes with the responsibility of guarding those relationships and stories others share with you well.  Recently, I’ve had several conversations with women who were walking through a painful place or facing difficult challenges. …

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