WHO IS A TEEN MINISTER, COACH OR MENTOR?

WHO IS A TEEN MINISTER, COACH, OR MENTOR?

2Tim 2:2, 4:2. Phil 4:6 (humility)

A Teen minister, coach or mentor is an adult who is more experience, more mature and is willing to help a teenager or teenagers to be like him/her or better than him/her through Christ. An adult who is willing to teach, guide, guard and lead a teenage is a teen coach. I say willing because it’s not every adult that is ready to go through the process of leading these young ones.

So Teen ministry is not about the adult but it’s about the Teenager. When we have the mind set, we act differently when we face challenges in Teen Ministry.

Mentoring somebody is disciplining the person, being there for the person either formally or informally.

Mentoring teenagers is demanding, we should know that we are not dealing with adults or children. They are special group of persons, we need to put in our resources in mentoring teenagers.

If, we are ready to “save the next generation”, we should check if we are ‘save’ ourselves. ‘Save’ here I mean if we have accepted the teachings others taught us and we are ready to pass it to the next generation like Paul told Timothy in 2 Tim 2:2.

We should not stay high there and say we are mentoring teenagers. Until we come to their level, we will not know and hear what challenges they are going through.

When a teenager sees and feels your love and concern on issues that bothers him or her, they will definitely believe in you. At that point, rules and instructions easily obeyed and followed.

Teen mentors should get to the point where your teenagers can cry and tell you that very silly act.

Olanari Ogregade

Teens Invasion Club, Director

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