Masonic
Mentoring Newsletter
Spring 2009
Welcome to our Newsletter written particularly for those of you who have volunteered to be Mentors.
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Provincial Mentor (Hint)
I have delivered a short talk on Mentoring and the importance of appointing a Lodge Mentor to Lodge Secretaries at the Provincial Grand Secretary´s forum.
It has been my privilege also, having attended a number of Lodges, to deliver a presentation on the “Practical Application of Mentoring”
The majority of Lodges in this Province have appointed a Lodge Mentor and it is my hope to meet them at a “Workshop” environment sometime during the close season.
To those Lodges that have not to date appointed a Mentor I urge you to do so. The Order must retain its new and existing members by making Freemasonry a rewarding and lifelong experience.
It is envisaged that the success of this scheme will be measured by the reduction in the number of members resigning and that as many Candidates as possible enjoy a lifelong association of the Order.
There are three stages to consider when contemplating new members, which are :-
Recruitment; Retention; Retrieval.
The Mentoring scheme consists of two parts.
Local Delivery backed up by Central Support.
The Lodge is to implement the system and appoint a Lodge Mentor.
The role of the Province is pivotal to the success of the scheme. Its role is to manage the system locally.
The role of Grand Lodge would be to provide continuing sponsorship of the system.
It is often said that everyone in the Lodge is an Almoner. It can also be said that everyone in the Lodge is a Mentor.
The role of a Mentor is to ensure that the new brother becomes “engaged” into the ideas and aims of our Order.
Being “engaged” we mean someone who is committed to their Freemasonry; regularly attends Lodge and takes an active role in Lodge life.
“…it calls on you to afford assistance and instruction
to the Brethren in the inferior Degrees. ”
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