Specialized support for pastors of small churches, congregations of color, and church plants. These leaders and churches face unique challenges. LFM’s Mentoring American Pastors is focused on providing safe times, safe places, and safe friends to support these often isolated and under-resourced pastors through mentoring communities.
Mentoring American Pastors equips experienced pastors to serve as mentors, partners with them to launch new mentoring communities serving these specific groups of pastors, and can provide three years of start-up support.
Lilly Endowment Inc provides initial funding and research for Mentoring American Pastors.
Are you an experienced pastor or ministry leader with a heart for mentoring? What is unique about LFM mentoring is that it is more “friend on the journey” than “master and pupil”. Click here to learn more about our Mentor Leader Training and review the application.
Thriving in Ministry is open to pastors of small churches (less than 300 average weekly attendance), congregations of color, and church plants. If you are interested in whole-life mentoring and are willing to regularly withdraw for time away with your mentoring community, Click Here to review the application.
At the core of each LFM mentoring community is a commitment to prayer and attention to you as an individual. We focus on three vital aspects of spiritual mentoring:
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