Regi Campbell - Mentor Like Jesus

Regi Campbell is a gift to leaders; especially those that want to make a real difference and leave a lasting legacy. Mentor Like Jesus is packed full of vision and practical helps for investing your life in others. But what makes it so different is not that it's small group friendly, but that it's small group dependent. It's a helpful mentoring strategy for any small group ministry.

Bill Willits
Director of Group Life
North Point Community Church

Regi Campbell is a wise man of God and when he talks, I listen. I have watched him have an incredible impact on many young men in the Atlanta area through his mentoring process; and finally he has put to paper the principles that he uses that were modeled after Christ's own methods. This is the best mentoring book I have read and I highly recommend it to anyone who feels a nudge or calling to mentor others; or to those who want to be mentored.

Joel Manby
President and CEO
Herschend Family Entertainment

Mentor Like Jesus is Regi's best yet and a powerful reminder of God's call to live as a discipling leader who is bearing much fruit. This is the best I've seen yet on how to live out the responsibility of making disciples of Jesus Christ in an intentional way. Be prepared to be challenged to pay it forward and to be motivated to get in the game in your important role as a mentoring leader.

Steve Wood
Senior Pastor
Mount Pisgah United Methodist Church

I was new to mentoring a year ago and now I'm sold-out. Investing in the next generation of Christian leaders is the best use of my time. They are hungry to learn from my successes, my failures and my lessons learned. Next Generation Mentoring provided me the tools I needed to be an effective mentor right from the start.

Charlie Paparelli
President of Paparelli Ventures
Chairman of High Tech Ministries

I've never heard of a more meaningful mentoring ministry than the one Regi Campbell practices. So many young men in our church have been the direct beneficiaries of someone who seeks to mentor like Jesus. I hope this insight by Regi will challenge manyespecially those in the Boomer Generationto the really great opportunity of mentoring the next generation.

G. Bryant Wright
Senior Pastor
Johnson Ferry Baptist Church

One of the biggest challenges for young leaders is their inability to recognize what they don't know. Regi's relational approach to trans-generational mentoring solves this ignorance gap through the practical work of life on life mentoring.

Gabe Lyons
FounderFermi Project
Coauthor of unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks
about Christianity

In the manner that Jesus' mentoring ministry turned regular fisherman and tax collectors into apostles, so Regi Campbell's mentoring ministry has turned regular business people into disciples and evangelists. I have seen the results and have firsthand knowledge of people who will spend an eternity with Jesus because they were reached by the mentors developed through the program described in Mentor Like Jesus.

Price Harding
Founding Partner
CarterBaldwin Executive Search Services

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T here isn't a close second when it comes to my biggest champion and cheerleader. Miriam, you're the love of my life, and your support through this writing effort is just like everything else you've done for meunselfish and empowering. You're the best!

I have to give credit to my kids, Ross and Erin. If wisdom comes from experience, and experience comes from mistakes, then you guys were the victims of a lot of my learning. Thanks for hanging in there with me. I'm proud of you!

While this is my first book with B&H Publishing, I can already tell that Tom Walters, Kim Stanford, Craig Featherstone, Julie Gwinn, and John Thompson are going to be great team members. Thanks for all you do for him!

And importantly, I want to acknowledge the guinea pigs who have taught me what I've learned about mentoring. These are the men who have been my mentorees. Most have been through one of my groups, but there are a few with whom I connected long before next-generation mentoring groups came into existence. Thanks for inviting me into your lives and for helping me learn what mentoring is all about.