The Urgent Need for Mentorship in Ministry

Jun 24, 2025

Rev Raymond L. Bukenya, a theologian and founding member of Tru Tangazo Uganda, passionately discusses the urgent need for mentorship in ministry. He emphasizes that without mentors, the health of the church and gospel clarity are at risk. Drawing from personal experiences, he shares memorable analogies, including heartwarming barbecue memories that tie mentorship to family connections. Raymond advocates for intentional relationships, thorough Bible study, and the vital role of mentoring in fostering the next generation of preachers.

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ANECDOTE

Barbecue as Mentoring Analogy

Raymond uses his family barbecue tradition to illustrate passing on skills and responsibilities.
He emphasizes mentoring as passing a valuable life skill to the next generation sustainably.

INSIGHT

Mentorship Scarcity in Uganda

Mentorship in Ugandan churches is scarce due to many preachers not being mentored themselves.
This lack of mentorship leads to inexperienced preachers starting without guidance, which harms the church's health.

ADVICE

Principles of Effective Mentorship

Mentorship should be relational, intentional, and purposeful.
It must produce growth and has an end goal to be effective and worth the time invested.

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What happens when a generation of preachers rises up without mentors? In this energising and deeply personal talk, Rev Raymond L. Bukenya challenges pastors and leaders to take the biblical call to mentoring preachers seriously—for the health of the church today and the sake of gospel clarity tomorrow.

Drawing from Scripture, history, and personal experience, Raymond argues that preaching mentorship is not optional—it is essential. He diagnoses why mentoring is often lacking in African church contexts, explains what faithful mentoring should look like, and calls preachers to pass on both sound doctrine and godly character.

Along the way, Raymond shares colourful and memorable analogies—including one involving barbecues and pig ears—that bring this vital message to life. His passion for raising up the next generation of faithful preachers comes through every moment of this talk. Recorded in September 2024, Kampala, Uganda

Rev Raymond L. Bukenya is the team leader and a founding member of Tru Tangazo Uganda. He is passionate about proclaiming, clarifying, and affirming the truth claims of the Christian faith in an increasingly sceptical world amidst alternative worldviews, and trains and mentors others to do the same. He is a theologian, Christian apologist, and missiologist with training from Wycliffe Hall College (University of Oxford) and the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics (OCCA), and holds a Masters in Missions from the University of Winchester. Raymond serves as a Theology Tutor with Calvary Chapel Bible College Kampala and The Shepherds Academy (an online theological college), where he teaches pastors, pastoral apprentices, and church planters. He is a family man, married to Lynn, and together they are raising seven children—four boys and three girls.

If you care about faithful preaching—whether you’ve stood behind a pulpit once or a thousand times—you’ll be challenged to pursue the kind of mentoring that shapes both the messenger and the message.

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