Mentoring is one of today's hot words. Growing up I never heard the word. Yet, ironically, there was a great deal of mentoring going on in my life back then, and there seems to be a dearth of mentoring in peoples' lives today. I am not even sure that the people who mentored me would have even been able to put a name or a description to what they were doing - they were just living out the Christian life as they understood it from Scripture. There were the pastors such as Gordon Rendle and Victor Cornish, who gave me and other young men opportunities for service. There was Les and Ruthann Snook who took me along as a teenager to speak at their nursing home service each month. There were the dear senior ladies like Miss Schrag, Mrs. Erb and Mrs. Eckstein who supported and prayed for me in summer missions enterprises. There were innumerable others - Sunday School teachers, Boys' Brigade leaders, church friends - who each encouraged, challenged, and someti...