December 31, 2025
HIM dba Biblical Mentoring (biblicalmentoring.org)
Ron Lively, M.Div., M.A. ▪ HIM ▪ 2750 Hanover Drive, Thompson Station, TN 37179 ▪ 615-238-4035 ▪ ronwlively@gmail.com
Thank you for your financial and prayer support this past year. We are grateful since both are needed to keep moving Biblical Mentoring and our mission of “Training Reproducing Disciples” forward.
BiblicalMentoring.org encourages and equips mentors and mentees (trainers and trainees) who are actively engaged in 30–40-minute weekly phone training sessions which are centered on memorizing a key verse plus reading and interpreting the Bible as we apply its teachings to our daily lives. The Spirit is our teacher, i.e., the trainer, while the participants are students.
You can read some testimonials on our Testimonial webpage. What matters most is what they have to testify of the benefits.
Please go to BiblicalMentoring.org to learn more about our ministry. I have an Updates webpage to help keep intercessors, donors, friends and family keep up-to-date with our progress and needs.
The emphasis of Biblical Mentoring is on training participants for lifelong discipleship thus prioritizing multiplication in addition to developing spiritual growth. The mentorship nurtures individuals responding to Jesus’ call, guiding them to become disciples who reproduce trained disciple-makers as we are instructed to be in Matthew 28. Thus, we revised our mission recently to focus on training and reproduction or the training of others. It is now Training Reproductive Disciples.
We share God’s Truth from the Bible to reconcile others to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit within an active and ongoing personal ministry context. This model has worked well for several years. Praying for each other’s personal needs at the end of the phone session proves to be more valuable than we realized as we seek to offer relational support to each other. We are helping with the pandemic of loneliness.
The ultimate goal is to teach, model, and multiply the craft of being a lifelong student who mentors, trains, and coaches disciple-making disciples. With the help of WhatsApp, we can even do this globally.
We have worked with 70 or more participants so far adding a few more each year. Only some of these would be considered trained to train others. About 15 individuals are currently active either weekly or monthly. A few of these are training a trainee whom they recruit. This is obviously the ultimate goal for everyone we mentor. We are adding two or three more trainees each month. My personal goal is to see 100 trained disciple-makers actively reproducing themselves by the time I turn in my badge.
We use the life-to-life model of discipleship training which is simple and effective. There is usually no curriculum other than the Scriptures. We have decided to start each new trainee in the study titled: Training Disciples to Train using Scriptures plus a book titled The Making of a Disciple by Keith Philips written when he was the President of World Impact, Inc.
Two popular sets of memory verses/studies are the Gospel of John and Romans. We now offer twelve completed sets of memory verses as you can see on our Memory Verses webpage and are adding several new sets such as Top Fifty Psalms; Acts; Hebrews; The Prison Epistles and The Cost of Discipleship.
To support our mission, please use @ronlively for Venmo or ron@medicalmobilizers.org for PayPal. Checks payable to HIM or Biblical Mentoring can be mailed to: 2750 Hanover Drive | Thompsons Station, TN, 37179.
Gratefully Yours in Christ,
Ron
Ron Lively, M.Div.; M.A.-M&F
Founder / Director
615-238-4035
