Site Lee Valley Ranch   

Description Peer Ministry helps participants discover that every day relationships, combined with skills and a caring attitude, is a ministry essential to life.

Leader Lyle Griner

Why Take This Learning Track? Has anyone ever told you that you were a good listener? Have you ever been unsure of how to help someone? Peer Ministers develop communications skills that allow them to reach out beyond themselves to affectively help those around them. Skills include listening, questioning, nonverbal communications, welcoming a stranger, and values and decision making: all in the context of a Christian faith.

Prerequisites - Things you must do to take this track: Identify your mentor and get to him/her. You will be required to provide your mentor’s contact info during the online registration process. FOR GRADES 9-ADULT

To-Do Before You Come

1.Meet with your mentor at least one time before coming. Ask him/her who or what has influenced his/her faith life. Swap stories about your faith journey.

2.Discuss the different ways you have both cared for people in your life so far.

3.Pray together

To Be A Successful Leader

1.Meet with your mentor to develop a plan of how you will use your new skills in the congregation and community.

2.Draw on your shared passions to initiate a peer ministry in your congregation.