Be trained and supported.
Mentors receive YoungLives training and serve with the local coordinator and mentor community.
The heart of YoungLives
Share your life. Build trust. Show her Jesus.
A YoungLives mentor is a caring woman who walks alongside a young mother—not as a project, but as a friend.
Mentorship looks ordinary on purpose.
Coffee after school. Dinner on a hard day. Celebrating a baby's birthday. Attending club together. Answering the phone. Ordinary presence creates something extraordinary: trust.
YoungLives carries Young Life's relational model into the life of a young mother: go where she is, build a genuine relationship, and earn the opportunity to share the Good News of Jesus Christ.
What we ask of mentors
Consistency matters more than having all the answers.
Show up in her world.
The relationship grows because a mentor enters a young mother's actual life and remains present.
Commit to relationship.
Mentorship requires a steady, long-term rhythm—not a one-time volunteer event.
Lead with grace and truth.
Receive each mother with dignity while sharing the hope and new life offered in Christ.
Could you be that person?
“We don't begin with a program. We begin with a relationship.”
You need a growing relationship with Jesus, a willingness to be trained, and the capacity to love consistently.