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Mentoring for effective clergy leadership

As a seminarian, I served as a student pastor in a very large church for three years. There were several full-time “real” pastors on that staff, and one of them became a mentor for me. He was there to listen when I was unsure about some aspect of my ministry, he provided suggestions about how to move ministry forward, he encouraged me, and he taught me a lot of important lessons that I still apply in my ministry today.   Good mentoring is vital in the journey toward becoming...