Restoring Connections

The ministry of Restoring Connections is just a vehicle. A tool. Like any good framework, it will serve a greater purpose for a while and then go into the ground like fertiliser for new initiatives. For now, it’s absolutely pumping, which is of course incredibly exciting. It started out as a response to people in our own network of relationships needing discipleship and great tools for healing and strengthening their relationships. Now, increasingly our focus is helping people to grow in their own ability to be a source of healing to others.  

The training framework of Restoring Connections is how we fast-track people all over the world into being effective in the ministry of reconciliation within their own communities. We train people to be effective in Personal Mentoring, Team Mentoring, and facilitating mediations in any kind of context. The amazing thing is that it works. The gospel calls each of us to humble ourselves before each other, actively care for each other, and be reconciled to each other. We have the incredible joy of seeing relationships healed on a weekly, if not daily basis. My goodness, what a privilege! We are determined to give away what we’ve learned to as many others as possible. 

Here are some headlines from 2024 so far:

Personal Mentoring
Once again the Personal Mentoring programme was at max capacity this year with a wonderful group of people from France, Aotearoa NZ, Norway, Australia, USA, and Canada. It’s been such a joy and a privilege to support them as they do the hard work to deepen and strengthen their most important relationships. This just NEVER gets old!

New Online Platform
We launched the new online Personal Mentoring application that we partnered with Creative Q to develop. It’s been so awesome having this tool as it streamlines so much and helps the mentors and mentees spend far less time sorting through papers and emails and far more time actually being actively mentored. Naturally, we already have lots of upgrades that we’d like to roll out and are trusting God for the funds to be able to do so.

Mediation Programme Launch
For the last couple years we have been developing a framework for helping people who are in an acute crisis and in need of mediation. We officially launched this programme this year, and the results have been incredibly positive. We’re really excited about training others to be able to run this mediation programme for people in need within their own networks.

Restructuring the team for growth
As we now expand the vision of Restoring Connections to being focused primarily on training Mentors to run the programmes we’ve developed, we’ve needed to restructure and grow the team. Fortunately, God has surrounded us with who we consider to basically be the most awesome and wonderful people on the planet, so it couldn’t be more exciting to see team members stepping up into greater levels of responsibility and leadership.

Restoring Connections Foundations Course

Restoring Connections Podcast