Today in our LIVE YM Talk Aaron Giesler led us in a conversation about mentoring teenagers. He did his seminary thesis on mentoring and is currently working with people like Mark Mattlock to develop a mentoring program for teenagers. He also is one of the youth ministry mentors right here at Life In Student Ministry.

Some of the issues we talked about:

• What is mentoring?
• “Structured spontaneity”
• People who mentored us
• How to start a mentoring program
• How mentoring works
• What kids looks for in a mentor
• A lot more…

You can listen to the whole conversation below or grab it in iTunes.

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Next week’s discussion

April 10: Next week’s featured guest is Ryan Neilson, the youth ministry veteran behind pastor2youth.com. He’ll lead us in a discussion about collaborating with other youth pastors/ministries. Join the conversation LIVE next week!

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