There are several resources available at the mentoring office to help you begin your mentoring relationship.
- Sharing Our Stories
- This discussion booklet provides a simple starting point. Mentors and students commit to meeting together six times. Our booklet provides a topic and discussion questions for each week's conversation--walking you through your childhood, your journey toward independence, your faith, and your sense of calling. The final week encourages you to discuss where to go next--whether to end here or continue the mentoring relationship.
- Life Beyond Calvin: A Booklet for Seniors and their Mentors
- This resource promotes helpful dialogue for mentors and mentees as students anticipate the changes that graduation will bring. Includes topics such as dealing with senioritis, navigating changes in relationships, and facing new responsibilities.
- Heart to Heart: Discussions for Women
- This booklet covers topics such as self-image, relationships with family and friends, finding balance among varied demands, romantic relationships, faith and the future.
Book Recommendations for students and mentors to discuss:
Faith
- Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God Francis Chan
- What's So Amazing About Grace Phillip Yancey
- A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss Jerry Sittser
- Your God Is Too Small: A Guide for Believers and Skeptics Alike J.B. Phillips
- If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat John Ortberg
- Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World Henri Nouwen
- Dear Church: Letters from a Disillusioned Generation Sarah Cunningham
- Facing Giants Max Lucado
- Spiritual Disciplines Bible Studies Jan Johnson
- Searching for Home Spirituality for Restless Souls M. Craig Barnes
Evangelism
- Just A Walk Across the Room Bill Hybels
Relating
- Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them John Ortberg
Dating/Love
- The Thrill of the Chaste: Finding Fulfillment while Keeping Your Clothes On Dawn Eden
- First Comes Love, Then What? Challenging Your Assumptions on Dating, Love and Commitment Kimberly Beiar
- Unauthorized Guide to Sex and the Church Carmen Renee Berry
- Real Sex: The Naked Truth about Chastity Lauren Winner
- Loves Me, Loves Me Not: The Ethics of Unrequited Love Laura Smit
- The Ten Commandments of Marriage Ed Young and Beth Moore
- As For Me And My House: Crafting Your Marriage To Last Walter Wangerin
- Sacred Marriage: What if God Designed Marriage to Make us Holy More Than to Make us Happy Gary Thomas
Social Justice
- Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical Shane Claiborne
- The Revolution: A Field Manual for Changing Your World Jim Wallis, et al. Relevant Publishing
- What Every Church Member Should Know about Poverty Bill Ehlig and Ruby K. Payne
- 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess Jen Hatmaker
- Money, Possessiongs and Eternity Randy Alcorn
Vocation
- Understanding God's Will Kyle Lake
- twentysomething: Surviving and Thriving in the Real World Margaret Feinberg and Bebo Norman
- The Will of God as a Way of Life Jerry Sittser
- The Power of a Whisper: Hearing God, Having the Guts to Respond Bill Hybels
Other
- An Earth-Careful Way of Life: Christian Stewardship and the Environmental Crisis Lionel Basney
- Money, Possessions, and Eternity Randy Alcorn
- Ordering Your Private World Gordon MacDonald
- Becoming a Woman of Influence: Making a Lasting Impact on Others Carol Kent
- Disciplines of a Godly Man R. Kent Hughes
- Ruby Slippers: How the Soul of a Woman Brings Her Home Jonalyn Fincher
Books about Mentoring
- Big Questions, Worthy Dreams: Mentoring Young Adults in Their Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Faith Sharon Daloz Parks
- The Potter's Rib: Mentoring for Pastoral Formation Brian Williams
- The Elements of Mentoring W. Brad Johnson
- The Fabric of Faithfulness: Weaving Together Belief and Behavior During the University Years Steven Garber
- Coach Anyone About Anything: How to Help People Succeed in Business and Life Germaine Porche
