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You Can Mentor: A Christian Youth Mentoring Podcast

Zach Garza & You Can Mentor: Faith-Based Mentoring for Churches, Non-Profits, Youth Ministers, and Teachers

You Can Mentor is a network that equips and encourages mentors and mentoring leaders through resources and relationships to love God, love others, and make disciples in their own community. We want to see Christian mentors thrive. We want to hear from you! Send any mentoring questions to hello@youcanmentor.com, and we"ll answer them on our podcast. We want to help you become the best possible mentor you can be. Also, if you are a mentoring organization, church, or non-profit, connect with us to

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181. Unsung Heroes: Seven-Foot Banana with Gabriel...

You Can Mentor: A Christian Youth Mentoring Podcast ·

2023/04/27

“Mentorship is amazing; it’s discipleship at it’s finest.” More true words could not be spoken. If you look at Jesus’ ministry, it WAS mentorship with his disciples. He was teaching them a new way of life. He taught them new ways to approach old situations. He changed their perspective. When that’s done well, it impacts both people in a mentoring relationship. Gabriel Prusmack, a local artist in Galveston, TX speaks these words in this week’s episode of Unsung Heroes. He joins John

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45:34

180. Freedom From Pornography and The Healing Church...

You Can Mentor: A Christian Youth Mentoring Podcast ·

2023/04/20

70% of men and a third of women say they are currently struggling with unwanted sexual behavior. According to the Matrimonial Lawyers Association, in 56% of divorce cases a major contributing factor is one spouse's obsessive use of pornography. Even more sobering, the average age of first exposure to hard core pornography for a child is 11-12 years old, which means on average a child has been exposed to pornography before they've even reached junior high school. The sad reality is that

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179. Mentoring Retrospective

You Can Mentor: A Christian Youth Mentoring Podcast ·

2023/04/13

Stop right now and think about the most influential person in your life. Who is it? How did they impact you? What did they teach you? How long were you in a relationship with them? Do you still talk to them? Do they know how much of an impact they had on your life? Now think about the people you’re impacting now. Who are you guiding through life? How are you impacting them? Do you even realize the impact you’re having on somebody in your life? The simple truth is relationships

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28:57

178. The Value Of The Gap Year with Tammy from The...

You Can Mentor: A Christian Youth Mentoring Podcast ·

2023/04/06

One day, your mentee is going to turn 18 and graduate high school. Chances are, they’re going to go through a period as a new adult where they will have no idea what to do. There will be so many questions coming at them that they feel they need to have an answer for. Where are you going to college? What are you going to major in? How will you pay for that? What happens if it’s too difficult? Some of these questions come from other people. Some of them are questions your mentee is

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63:03

177. Unsung Heroes - Mike Herrera

You Can Mentor: A Christian Youth Mentoring Podcast ·

2023/03/30

Who is the most influential person in your life? For most people, the answer is one of their parents. For some people, it's a mentor who spent countless hours pouring into them and teaching them how to be the person that they are today. Maybe it's a friend. Everybody has somebody who's impacted their life in a significant way. It's inevitable given that we are by nature relational beings. So who influences the influencers? Who mentored the people who are now mentoring the next

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176. Unsung Heroes - Ross King

You Can Mentor: A Christian Youth Mentoring Podcast ·

2023/03/23

Who is the most influential person in your life? For most people, the answer is one of their parents. For some people, it's a mentor who spent countless hours pouring into them and teaching them how to be the person that they are today. Maybe it's a friend. Everybody has somebody who's impacted their life in a significant way. It's inevitable given that we are by nature relational beings. So who influences the influencers? Who mentored the people who are now mentoring the next

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40:09

175. The Write Stuff

You Can Mentor: A Christian Youth Mentoring Podcast ·

2023/03/16

Have you ever thought about writing a book? Do you ever wonder if somebody is going to want to read what you have to say? Do you feel like you're not eloquent enough to communicate your ideas? Believe it or not, so do most authors. Writing books, though, has been a primary form of communicating ideas for thousands of years. Anybody can write a book, but coming up with the idea can be the challenge. Having both recently just written books, Zach and John come together this week to talk

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174. Fruit of the Spirit: Love

You Can Mentor: A Christian Youth Mentoring Podcast ·

2023/03/09

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.Love never ends. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8.There are eight different greek words for love, and we experience each of them in a different way. The greek word for the love God has for us, or the love a

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44:51

173. How God Uses Broken People: Reframe, Redeem,...

You Can Mentor: A Christian Youth Mentoring Podcast ·

2023/03/02

If you feel like you're not good enough to mentor, you're in good company. So many of the Bible's characters had serious character flaws. Peter denied Jesus three times, even after adamantly telling the Lord that he would never do so. Moses was a murderer. David, a man after God's own heart, was a murderer and an adulterer. At the end of the day, we're all broken people; and yet God still can and does use us. Time and time again, both in the Bible and in our current time, God uses the

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172. The Dangers of Distraction

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2023/02/23

Distraction is all around us. Our phones, social media, television, news outlets....the list goes on and on. Our work productivity suffers and we don't invest our emotional capital into the relationships around us. Our society is centered around instant gratification, and the notifications from our phones constantly pull our attention away from the task at hand. These distractions can, and often do, impact our relationships with our mentees, and that can communicate to them that they

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171. Mentoring The Trafficked with Audrey Hood from...

You Can Mentor: A Christian Youth Mentoring Podcast ·

2023/02/16

According to the US Department of Homeland Security, human trafficking generated an estimated $150 billion in profits globally. An estimated 25 million people are victimized by traffickers; 20% of whom are trafficked into the commercial sex industry. Law enforcement does a lot to find and prosecute these traffickers, but what happens to the victims? Trafficking results in an intense trauma for the victim that not a lot of people are adequately prepared to help with. Allies Inc, however,

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24:08

170. The Power of Projects

You Can Mentor: A Christian Youth Mentoring Podcast ·

2023/02/09

“With is greater than for.” That’s a quote that has a lot of meanings, but in this case, it carries the idea that doing life WITH God is greater than doing life FOR God. Our most meaningful interactions with God, whether a quiet time, fasting, silence, prayer, or any other spiritual discipline, tend to occur when we’re doing them with God instead of for God. So what does this have to do with mentoring? Well, everything. Just like our relationships with God are built stronger when we’re

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20:51

169. Big Words, Bigger Meaning

You Can Mentor: A Christian Youth Mentoring Podcast ·

2023/02/02

Omniscience, Omnipresent, Omnipotence. These are big words that describe three characteristics of God. He is omniscient. He is omnipresent. He is omnipotent. But do we actually know what these words mean? Moreover, where do we find these specific words in the Bible? Truth is, the terms "omniscient", "omnipresent", and "omnipotent" don't actually occur anywhere in the Bible, yet we know that God is all three. The Bible DOES describe these three terms, even if it doesn't use them

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33:09

168. The Simplicity of Mentoring

You Can Mentor: A Christian Youth Mentoring Podcast ·

2023/01/19

It's the middle of January, which means we've had a chance to make (and fail at) some New Year's Resolutions. But the reality of life is that we make time for the things that are truly important to us. So how does that play into mentoring relationships? Well, maybe we've recognized towards the end of last year that our relationship with our mentee isn't going as well as we hoped or thought is would. Maybe we're starting to think that we need to do these grand gestures to win over our

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167. Person, Program, Place

You Can Mentor: A Christian Youth Mentoring Podcast ·

2023/01/12

The life of a mentoring organization involves implementing programs. Maybe it’s as simple as a mentoring program where individual mentors are connected with individual mentees. Maybe it’s an after school program where a group of mentees show up and work through a curriculum. Maybe it’s getting a sweet old muscle car and working with the students to restore it to its former glory. Whatever the program is, it first needs to gain some traction. Our newest host, John Barnard, is flying

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166. The Four R's of Christmas Break

You Can Mentor: A Christian Youth Mentoring Podcast ·

2022/12/22

More and more, Americans are stating that they feel burned out. With the holiday season in full swing, and Christmas right around the corner, those feelings of burnout are even more prevalent. There's traveling, gift purchasing and wrapping, parties, school concerts, and any number of other commitments in each week. But that burnout can negatively impact your relationship with your mentee. After all, if you're exhausted all the time, you're less likely to be attentive to the needs of

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165. Broken Bones: When Mentees Make Mistakes

You Can Mentor: A Christian Youth Mentoring Podcast ·

2022/12/15

When a bone breaks, the recovery process goes through three stages: reactive, reparative, and remodeling. It takes a while for each of these stages to occur, but the bone ultimately heals back stronger than it was before. Interestingly, the healing of a bone after a break is the perfect metaphor for when a mistake is made in the mentoring relationship. The relationship experiences the same stages of reacting, repairing, and remodeling. John Barnard takes over the podcast as our newest

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164. What Different Cultures Can Teach Us / Zach...

You Can Mentor: A Christian Youth Mentoring Podcast ·

2022/11/03

The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural. This quote by Ruth Benedict proves to be true time and time again. Society is determined by how that group of people operate. Each person belongs to at least one culture, and often belong to several subcultures at the same time. And yet, with all of these different cultures out there, people tend not to know how a person from another culture operates. Cultures can teach us

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163. God's Timing Is Greater Than Our Timing

You Can Mentor: A Christian Youth Mentoring Podcast ·

2022/10/13

One of the core values at Forerunner Mentoring is "trust the process". It's this idea that as a mentor, you're not always going to see the fruit of your mentoring relationship. You may be sowing seeds that won't blossom until years after your official mentoring relationship with your mentee ends, and that can be discouraging. But what you can do is operate in faith, knowing that God's in control of the relationship and that all of those negatives that you see are being worked together

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162. Old is Gold with John Barnard from Middleman...

You Can Mentor: A Christian Youth Mentoring Podcast ·

2022/10/06

Growing old is a fact of life. It’s inevitable and unavoidable. Most people hate growing old and do everything in their power to avoid it. But what if growing old isn’t a curse? What if it’s a blessing?Zach and John Barnard from Middleman Ministries are hosting this week to talk through the benefits of growing old and how that can benefit your mentoring relationship. Tune in to also hear what how basketball and the 2002 All Stars game has to do with growing old.Reach out to

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