Mentoring and Nurturing Transformative Relationships (MNTR) equips communities to build intentional relationships toward discovering and embracing each person’s place in the body of Christ.

Your community is invited to begin MNTR with an intensive and interactive workshop followed by quarterly engagements of continuing enrichment and service learning. Mentor matches will be equipped through relationship-building workshop exercises. Then, mentor-match relationships are cultivated with monthly one-on-one connections and mutual projects. MNTR provides a 9-12 month framework for meaningful relationships with your mentor-match.

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"The MNTR program offers an excellent opportunity to create and structure deep and meaningful relationships within communities. It can strengthen any intergenerational Orthodox community, whether a parish, OCF group, or youth ministry. My mentor-match has been a light in my life and an inspiration to live my faith more deeply."
- Catie Golitzin DeCarlo, Youth Equipped to Serve

• MNTR fosters a sense of belonging and purpose in your community through mindful and meaningful relationships. 
• Through intentional development, MNTR challenges people to move beyond their comfort zones, growing in and through the body of Christ.
• MNTR is a great way to unite and strengthen your community from the impact of the pandemic through transformative relationships. 

• Through MNTR, young people are intentionally invited into active participation in the life and work of the church and your community.
• MNTR strengthens relationships within your community and establishes a foundation for multi-generational work and ministry.
• MNTR can help bring us back to our calling to love our neighbor by being more present in the lives of others.

"Being vulnerable is not something that is easy, but this program and the amazing mentors made it feel like such a safe space. I feel like within a day I learned so much about others and more about myself as well. MNTR was a great opportunity to learn how to make deep connections with Orthodox peers and take what we learned  from the workshop to connecting with others outside the Orthodox community."
- OCF Students at University of Minnesota

For Your Community: 

• Greater engagement and involvement across multiple generations
• Collaborative and meaningful work and ministry
• Succession planning for leadership roles
• Clarity of purpose, mission, and vision for your community  

For Each and Every Participant: 

• Realizing your unique place in the body of Christ and fulfilling the call to serve
• Confidence to share the faith with others through word and action to “Go and baptize all nations…” (Matthew 28:16-20)
• Personal and professional development
• Clarity of purpose, mission, and vision for your life

​Anyone from your community age 16 to 106 who desires to participate in a mentoring relationship can apply. The application and vetting process ensures positive and fruitful mentor-matching of pairs or triplets within your local MNTR community. 

COMMUNITY Expectations​

What's expected if your parish, school, or organization participates in MNTR?

• A 9-12 month program commitment
• Compliance with the enrollment process
• One full-day workshop with brief quarterly activities 
• ​Designate a local coordinator who can work with MNTR 
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Program Structure

select a local coordinator

Designate a local coordinator who can: ​​

• Serve as point-person between your community and MNTR staff
• Help coordinate workshop and quarterly logistics with MNTR staff
• Help guide the mentor-matching process
• Check-in regularly with each participant​
• Help facilitate feedback & surveys
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Coordinator Role

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​participants

What's expected of MNTR participants?

• A 9-12 month program commitment
• Compliance with the enrollment process
• One full-day workshop with brief quarterly activities
• Meet with your mentor-match (1 or 2 people) monthly
• Respond to infrequent surveys and check-ins
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MNTR Participants

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Meet the mntr development team!

Designed by youth directors, teachers, and those with doctorate-level research in mentoring programs.

MNTR TEAM

MNTR is pleased to partner with YES - Youth Equipped to Serve of FOCUS North America!