HIM PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE: PASTOR SIMON ENG
Greetings HIM Family,
Mentoring as a lifestyle
I'm glad and so happy to be able to communicate with you once again. Let me share certain aspects of what I have upon my heart as I pray and as I travel, as I look at our churches and our pastors. I'd like to communicate with us this message about mentoring or as we have shared over these many years, about shepherding our people. As God has given us responsibilities over leaders or some of us over pastors, some of us over different regions, I believe it is essential and absolutely important that we maintain regular and constant contact with our pastors and our leaders. There is so much benefit and such great value when regularly mentor our people. What do I mean? Mentoring requires us to maintain regular contact. For some of us it is bi-weekly, for some of us it is once a month, but at a minimum it is once a month. We must continue to keep this regular contact. It could be in a group sense, or importantly, one on one. That is the most effective.
Mentoring on personal life skills
Secondly, as you travel and visit, you also need to look at their personal life skills and personal life disciplines. What are the areas in their personal being, what are the areas in their personal skill that you are able to lift them up in and share with then? For example, by adjusting certain areas or by incorporating certain disciplines into their lives, they can expand themselves further. Some of our pastors are not good at organizing their day, organizing their week, some of our leaders are not good at personal discipline and need management skills to be able to manage so many different things that happen in their leadership life, personal life, and even in ministering. I'd like to encourage us to really look at how you can help them in their ministering and in their personal skills.
Mentoring to see positive changes
One thing that I need to remind all of us as we are mentoring our people regularly is to write down what you are sharing with them in their ministering, in their ministry, in their personal area - write it down, because it is impossible for us to remember so many things. It's impossible for us to remember even what we shared with them two weeks ago, one month ago. It's important that we record it and get them to record what you've shared with them. So that they work on those areas, they improve in those areas. I think it is absolutely essential. Keep to some of these simple practices, keep to some of these simple things that need to be done, and I believe we can easily upgrade the ministering skill, ministry anointing, personal anointing, personal walk with God and personal skills of our leaders. It can apply from the top right down to our members as well. All of us should concentrate and focus on mentoring our people. Time spent with them, advice given to them, observations that are pointed out, and helping them to lift the level of their life and their ministering. I think it will go a long way. I'd like to encourage all of our people, all of our leaders, all around the world, to not forget this essential and highly important aspect of mentoring our people.
May God be with you. May God continue to strengthen each one of us. Take this advice and encouragement upon yourself and I think we are going to help our people go a long way. God bless you all. Amen.
Pastor Simon Eng
President of HIM
www.byhim.org
Mentoring as a lifestyle I'm glad and so happy to be able to communicate with you once again. Let me share certain aspects of what I have upon my heart as I pray and as I travel, as I look at our churches and our pastors. I'd like to communicate with us this message about mentoring or as we have shared over these many years, about shepherding our people. As God has given us responsibilities over leaders or some of us over pastors, some of us over different regions, I believe it is essential and absolutely important that we maintain regular and constant contact with our pastors and our leaders. There is so much benefit and such great value when regularly mentor our people. What do I mean? Mentoring requires us to maintain regular contact. For some of us it is bi-weekly, for some of us it is once a month, but at a minimum it is once a month. We must continue to keep this regular contact. It could be in a group sense, or importantly, one on one. That is the most effective.
As we mentor people, we should not just teach and visit. In that teaching and in that visitation, we should observe how our leaders or our pastors are ministering. Look at their ministry skills. Look at their ministering. Are they able to minister effectively? Are there some things that you are able to impart to them or lift their level of ministering?
Mentoring on personal life skills
Secondly, as you travel and visit, you also need to look at their personal life skills and personal life disciplines. What are the areas in their personal being, what are the areas in their personal skill that you are able to lift them up in and share with then? For example, by adjusting certain areas or by incorporating certain disciplines into their lives, they can expand themselves further. Some of our pastors are not good at organizing their day, organizing their week, some of our leaders are not good at personal discipline and need management skills to be able to manage so many different things that happen in their leadership life, personal life, and even in ministering. I'd like to encourage us to really look at how you can help them in their ministering and in their personal skills.
Mentoring to see positive changes
One thing that I need to remind all of us as we are mentoring our people regularly is to write down what you are sharing with them in their ministering, in their ministry, in their personal area - write it down, because it is impossible for us to remember so many things. It's impossible for us to remember even what we shared with them two weeks ago, one month ago. It's important that we record it and get them to record what you've shared with them. So that they work on those areas, they improve in those areas. I think it is absolutely essential. Keep to some of these simple practices, keep to some of these simple things that need to be done, and I believe we can easily upgrade the ministering skill, ministry anointing, personal anointing, personal walk with God and personal skills of our leaders. It can apply from the top right down to our members as well. All of us should concentrate and focus on mentoring our people. Time spent with them, advice given to them, observations that are pointed out, and helping them to lift the level of their life and their ministering. I think it will go a long way. I'd like to encourage all of our people, all of our leaders, all around the world, to not forget this essential and highly important aspect of mentoring our people.
May God be with you. May God continue to strengthen each one of us. Take this advice and encouragement upon yourself and I think we are going to help our people go a long way. God bless you all. Amen.
Pastor Simon Eng
President of HIM
www.byhim.org
