News from our organization
Wanted: mentors for WhatsApp
News from our organization
Wanted: mentors for WhatsApp
News from our organization
Wanted: mentors for WhatsApp
GlobalRize now offers students the opportunity to follow the Bible course ‘The Life of Jesus’ in WhatsApp. We urgently need people who want to guide students in this way. One of our mentors, Harry Raaphorst, says: “I have such great conversations. Not occasionally, but every single day!”
For years we have been offering our Bible courses via the Learnnn platform. It is an excellent platform, where the students can read the lessons and create questions, and where the mentors can comment and engage in conversation.
However, there is a major drawback. Many students drop out quickly. They get reminders to move on, but often that doesn’t do much. We have often been puzzled over how to get people back together. What if we don’t send the reminders via email, but via WhatsApp?, we thought. No sooner said than done. But that also met with little success.
Until the bright idea was born to put the course in WhatsApp itself. The course ‘The Life of Jesus’ is particularly suitable for this. This consists of short film fragments from the famous Jesus film, which are followed by a number of questions. The mentor simply places the link of the film fragment in the WhatsApp contact with the student. Once the student has viewed it, the mentor will post a corresponding question.
This appears to work well: it is much easier and more natural to discuss the questions and people also appear to lose weight less quickly!
The disadvantage is that this method is intensive. The mentor must forward question by question and respond quickly. If we want to accommodate the dropouts in the regular course environment, we need 80-100 new mentors who want to guide people in this new way! Harry Raaphorst: “I don’t understand why not all mentors want to become WhatsApp mentors! It’s great to do.”
Are you interested? Mail to: [email protected].
