Mentoring is an essential part of TPBC’s ministry of edifying the saints, working alongside (or complementing) other essentials like CG (Cell Group), CW (Congregational Worship), CE (Christian Education) and CP (Community Participation).

A. The Purpose of Mentoring

1. Meeting Needs: We recognize that every member has different needs, at different stages of his or her life. These needs cannot be met by any one particular ministry in the church. To seek to help members in meeting some of these specific needs, we encourage members to enter into special mentoring relationship with one or a few other individuals, where a more in-depth opening and sharing of lives can take place.
   
   
2. Discipleship & Disciplemaking: The in-depth sharing of lives is for the purpose of mutual encouragement towards following Christ, both in character and lifestyle. This is part of the process of discipleship and disciplemaking, which is what the Great Commission is all about.
   

B. Forms of Mentoring
Mentoring in TPBC comes in different forms:

1. Vertical Mentoring:
	Personal Follow-up: More intensive; focus on foundation-laying Personal Support: For more matured believers, less-intensive, focus on life issues, special needs One-to-one or one-to a few
2. Horizontal Mentoring:
	Peer mentoring: mutual support, more informal, less intensive One-to-one or one-to a-few.

C. People in Mentoring

1. All the Pastors and Elders of the church are involved in one or more mentoring relationships with the cell leaders.
   
2. We are encouraging all other members to be involved in some kind of mentoring relationship with one or more in the church. Mutual support, encouragement and exhortation are the emphases. Such relationships can also be formed among individuals within the same cell group, and in some cases, during cell time.
   
3. We will also encourage all newcomers to the church, besides finding a cell he or she is comfortable with, to consider mentoring.
   
4. For new Christians, we would like to take them through a core curriculum which would lay important foundations for spiritual growth and victorious Christian living. This is done either in a one-to-one or one-to-a-few setting with another leader, outside the cell meetings.
   

Mentoring is part of fulfilling our vision of “Every member passionate for Christ and touching lives.”