Friendship - the gift of time and acceptance

so what the gals were doing last night belongs to the E part of what I learnt during IDT last night; engineering and enjoying time together.

Yesterday's session was on Mentoring the new community. Pastor Chung Kai, the pastor with the best sense of humour in Covenant, told us that the key word in yesterday's session is friendship, that a fruitful mentoring relationship boils down to the friendship. It starts on the basis of friendship and continues to build on that.

the 5 vital ingredients for fruitful mentoring in community:

A - Accountability (Setting a culture of keeping one another accountable in a gracious yet growing environment and that includes sms-ing someone to notify them about your absence and why you are absent)

B - Belief (People who goes for CG must believe that God wants and is able to change us, else we will just be going through the motion of going for CG)

C- Critical Mass of a "certain" kind (We need a core group of people to create a certain kind of culture. I am looking at people whose hearts are after the things of God and who wants to make a positive change firstly in their own lives, and then in the lives of others)

D- Divine Appointments (there are no accidents! Everything that happens in the CG members' lives are there as an opportunity for the CG to show love, care and grace)

E- Engineering and enjoying time together (which is what we have been doing in PLUSH) :)

I guess my desire and prayer for PLUSH is that over time, we will come to know one another beyond the superficial things of life and open up on a deeper level where we can help support one another, love and care for one another, growing in grace and godliness.
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