Teachable Moments

About a year into their relationship Joanne* began to end her meetings with Tonya* with a simple prayer. Over time they began a short devotional while they waited for their meal or while sitting in the car. Eventually, Joanne invited Tonya to her church. As the relationship grew conversations about faith were easily woven [...]

Geo* and Lewis* were only a few weeks into their match when I received a call from Geo. “I checked out the game room where I was going to take Lewis later today, but I didn’t like the feel of the place. Do you have any last-minute ideas of things we could do instead? [...]

Billy* loved basketball but was not very good at it. His mentor, Tom, had played on his high school team. They would practice together for a little each week. One day they were challenged to a game by two teenagers who were pretty good. The game went back and forth, and finally, Billy and [...]

Sue* took her mentee, Joan*, out east to visit a small museum. Apparently, the museum was horrible. It was dimly lit, not terribly clean, and had a lot of exhibits of stuffed cats. Sue felt terrible. However, she decided to make the best of it and had a contest with Joan to see who [...]