Today’s guest contribution comes to us from Kyle Reed, who has been eating, breathing, sleeping and dreaming about how mentoring can impact our Christian community and beyond. I asked Kyle to share with us a tidbit of his vision involving mentoring.

Check out what he has to say below and then head over to his project over at www.MentorMeProject.com. If you are as excited as I am about some of the groundwork Kyle is producing, please help encourage him and anyone else that can see the potential of his plans by leaving a comment with your reflections, frustrations, insights and feedback about this topic.

Did you know that when you search the word “Diets” on Google over 19,500, 000 pages return? Seems more then enough info for you to find what you are looking for or need. In a world saturated by information, often times it can be overwhelming rather then useful. Shane Hipps in his book “Flickering Pixels” says:

“If we are not alert, the info age may stunt our growth and create a permanent puberty of the mind.”

With so much information out there, where do you begin?

Now maybe you are not searching for diets or how to have 10,000 followers on twitter, but you might be looking for one thing, for one thing that you can do to impact others. Today, I would like to share with you one thing that I find very important for you, as a leader, to understand, the importance of influence. People are watching and learning from you, your influence reaches out to many. This could be a very scary thought or one that gives you great energy and passion. No matter how you view this, you are influencing others.

I have several conversations with people daily about mentoring. One thing they often tell me is there desire to have a mentor. I find this challenging and difficult.

Instead of being pursued, a generation is looking to be influenced and shaped.

I want to call you to be the influencers that are leading out mentoring relationship. A relationship that shares life together and learns from conversation, life experience, and the grace of God. Today, I would like to encourage you to be specific with your influencing, to go out of your way to notice, and to be one that calls others to lead.

How can you be an influencer?

Kyle Reed is a 20 Something that is blogging his way through life and looking to connect through community. He believes that everyone is looking to connect. He has this crazy dream that one day everyone will be connected and mentored. This idea keeps him up at night. You usually can find him somewhere in St Louis reading books, chatting on twitter or writing blog post about life. If you really want to know what Kyle is about, ask him what this whole mentormeproject.com is…you will get to know who Kyle is pretty quickly. No seriously, ask him, kyle@mentormeproject.com

LINKS:
Blog: http://thoughtsaboutnothing.com
Twitter: @kylelreed

MentorMeProject: http://mentormeproject.com
Twitter: @mentormeproject