Do you want to move your career forward? Would you like to develop your leadership skills as well as help others learn, grow, and improve their skills? Or would you like to find someone who can help you do these things?

You can. Through a mentoring partnership.

More professionals these days are actively pursuing mentoring to advance their careers. And whether you're on the giving or receiving end, these types of partnerships can benefit your career.

A mentoring partnership can be rewarding to both people, personally and professionally. It's an opportunity to develop communication skills, expand your viewpoints, and consider new ways of approaching situations. And both partners can advance their careers in the process.

In this article, we'll look at what mentoring is, and discuss the reasons why you might enter into a mentoring partnership. Should you offer to help others, or ask for help from someone – or both? We'll also explain how mentoring differs from other types of professional career development relationships.

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By Pastor Calvary Callender

Have you ever had your love rejected? Her name was Courtney. I met Courtney for the first time when I was in 9th grade. I will never forget the first time she walked through the doors and all the guys stopped to stare and the conversation started about who was going to ask her out first. My methods were subtle but were most often effective.

I befriended Courtney and we became great friends. We did a lot of things together, talked on the phone all the time, hung out together, ate together. Finally, one day I decided to ask her to be my girlfriend. I took it as a foregone conclusion that she couldn't say anything but yes. I will never forget the way I felt when she laughed and said, "Silly, we are just friends." Oh how my heart broke.

Truth be told, God had bigger and better plans for my life and brought me and my wife Ceresa together. The best way to say it is that I believe I have punted outside my coverage. But, oh, the pain of rejected love! I think this must have been how Jesus felt sometimes. Luke records Jesus as saying, "Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!" It pains me to think that we have, at times, rejected Jesus' love. Today, Jesus invites you to run under his wings of safety and warmth.

There is a perception in society today that who you've been determines if God loves you or not. This is one of the greatest misconceptions around today. No matter who you are or what you've done, He has never stopped loving you.

DRILL PIPE DISLODGED FROM PIPE BIN DURING DRIFTING OPERATIONS

What Happened:

While using a drift mandrel to determine the inside diameter of the drill pipe and check for obstructions (rabbiting), a joint of drill pipe was knocked out of a vertical storage bin. To assist in the drifting operations, an employee was suspended in a man-cage above the pipe racks. The top of the joint of pipe came in contact with the cage-suspended employee's foot. The contact dislodged the pipe from the vertical pipe storage bin and it fell outward towards the cab of the crane below where it entered the front of the windscreen and landed between the legs of the crane operator. The crane operator was unable to exit the crane cab prior to impact and sustained slight abrasions to his left calf.

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