It is important to remember that mentors are not trained counselors. However, mentors are husbands and wives who care enough about another couple to invest some of their time, energy, and emotions for up to one year into the life of another couple. Considering the mentoring relationship may go on for one year, it is important for the mentors to be able to chart their journey as well.

Unlike their mentee couple, mentors only receive one journal between the two of them. Typically, just one spouse of the mentor couple is responsible for taking notes during the session. Usually the other spouse is the one who leads the conversation. Mentor journals keep an account of blessings exchanged, time in the Word, the amount of time mentee couple prays with each other, and individually.

Mentor journals also record specific notes of the mentoring session, past homework assignments and exercises to be completed, as well as keeps weekly records of the progress or lack of progress in the workbook Devoted-Foundations.

We at Marriage Mentors believe success is not success unless it can be measured. Obviously the true success of a mentoring ministry is whether the mentee adequately receives the guidance from the mentor in such a way that it reshapes or changes how the mentee thinks and lives. Then, hopefully that mentee couple will become a mentor to someone else in need. Obviously, this type of success does not occur in a short period. This type of change requires time and effort.

When the journals are used on a consistent basis, not only does it make mentors better at mentoring because they are certain where they are at in the mentoring relationship at all times. It also helps expedite the time it takes for the mentee couple to enrich or restore their relationship.