The #iMentor Initiative was started to honor the investment of mentors all over the world, and to encourage potential mentors to take the initiative in starting an intentional relationship with a college student today.

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Why do I mentor? Because I simply must.

I have been shaped and formed through the investment of so many others — who wanted nothing more than to see me succeed in life — by becoming the man who God desires for me to be.

When I was a college student, and young in my faith, two individuals sought me out. They pursued me. They wanted to spend time with me.

They saw something within me that I would not see in myself until many years later.

These were busy people. Important people. People who had families, more than enough work to do, and plenty of people they were already investing in.

But they made time for me.

And God used them to model for me what it meant to be a follower of Jesus, a person of character and integrity, and a mentor to others.

They exemplified for me what it meant to live a congruent life — one where your words and your actions line up.

They challenged me to do hard work, not cut corners, and believe that faithfulness would lead to the best kind of fruitfulness.

And it was one of them that first identified a possible calling to work with college students within me.

It’s hard to say where I would be today without the gifts of time, love, prayer, and support, that these two — and so many others — have offered along the way.

Which is why I feel called to invest in the generations behind me in this same way.

#iMentor >> Do you?

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Mentors are just ordinary people, who avail themselves to being used by God — in the life of another — in extraordinary ways. Check out the #iMentor page and consider how God might want to intentionally use you in the life of another. I bet you’ve got a story to share!