Mentoring Group: An EAST unique life-on-life experience

A unique aspect of life at EAST is participation in a Mentoring Group (MG). All students are assigned to a MG which are led by faculty members. Not only is the leader a mentor for those in the group, but each member of the group also becomes a peer mentor for others in the group.

The MGs provide an environment for developing community, encouragement, prayer, fellowship, spiritual formation, integration, and character development. The desired outcome of the MG experience is life change, spiritual growth, mutual support and accountability.

This MG (pictured above), for instance, is co-facilitated by EAST faculty, Dr. Lewis Winkler and Mr. Nelson Lo. It is life-on-life, multi-cultural, and inter-generational. Members from this MG are from 8 countries, in their 20’s to 60’s, singles to granddads, fresh graduates to ministers to second-halfers. Yet all these MG members have one goal: whilst in a safe community of fellow brothers, to help each other be better followers of Jesus and thus be a more effective minister in their family and for the harvest.