Summer of Mentorship 2019 Week Six Shontell Brewer

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Education, Leisure, Kids & Family, Parenting

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🗓️ 19 August 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

With the ability to connect with anyone, anywhere in the world, feels like we’re more isolated and ineffective than ever. But what if we worried less about making a big impact. And focused more on doing the things in front of us with quality and depth?

I’m a big fan of this week's mentor, Shontell Brewer. She’s a wise mom to five kiddos. And she has an excellent sense of humor. More than that, she has discipled her children well to love and serve others around them.

Discipleship can be organic. Keeping your ministry small enough. To be present wherever God has placed you.

In this episode, which originally aired as Episode 140 (Oct 2016), Shontell and I talk about discipleship during dinner conversations. She shares her method of asking really specific questions. And giving her kiddos a challenge for the day to love others in tangible ways (e.g., encouraging a 4 year old to compliment his preschool teacher).

My most favorite thing we talk about is Taco Tuesday. The last Tuesday of the month, the Brewer family serves up meat & tortillas. They invite coaches, teachers, friends, neighbors (any one who interacts regularly with their kids) into their home.

We love on our community one taco at a time.

I shared the idea with my boys and they wanted to do it the next night (“Taco Tuesday, but on a Monday”). I’ll let you know how that goes. We may go the Pizza Friday route (love our community one slice at a time).

Shontell also inspired me to help open my boys’ spiritual eyes. And to encourage them to fight over who is going to put the other one first.

What we chat about:

How women apologize for their carpet
Keeping your ministry small
Specific questions to ask during dinner time conversations
How Shontell helped her daughter minister to her Starbucks’ manager
Sending your kids to school with a basic challenge to bless someone
Setting the habit of conversation and other family “norms”
Learning to not be offended when our kids aren’t performing
Parenting small with intimate corrective conversations
The BEST idea to invite people into your home monthly–> Taco Tuesdays!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey y'all welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast. I'm your host, Heather McFadden,
0:12.2	and this is the place where I'm going to walk alongside you and connect you with people
0:15.4	and resources to remind you you don't mom alone. This is our sixth and final episode
0:22.9	of the Summer and Mentorship series. This episode originally aired in October of 2016.
0:29.0	It was episode 140 entitled Parenting Small with my friend, Shantel Brewer. Small is the
0:37.1	new big and as we're heading back to school and there's so many opportunities of things
0:42.8	we can do and places we can go, Shantel is preaching a message of go smaller and she gives
0:49.8	us some practical ideas on ways she equipped our kids to love people well right where they
0:54.2	were. And I love her intentional and yet super simple way to connect with the people in
1:00.0	our kids lives and it's all in an invitation once a month called Taco Tuesday and it took
1:07.2	me about two and a half years to finally try this which is so embarrassing and yet that gives
1:12.6	you the freedom you know take your time sometimes it takes a while to try these things out but we loved
1:19.1	it my kids loved it the teachers I invited loved it. So you hear about that in this episode
1:24.5	since we released the episode, Shantel has published a book it's called Missionary Mom. So if
1:30.2	you drive with Shantel since you humor and her heart then you should definitely check out
1:34.8	Missionary Mom I put links in the show notes. And as we think about Parenting Small I want
1:40.4	to give you a tool to help you do that and this month's sponsor for the Summer and Mentorship
1:45.6	is Cultivate What Matters and Cultivating What Matters is a child's heart and as we send
1:52.6	them out to ballet class or on the soccer field or just to play in the neighborhood I think
1:58.7	it's a valuable thing to plant God's word into those hearts and the one tool to do that is
2:04.5	the Cultivate What Matters write the word journal for kids and they have a new one that's so
2:10.0	cute that's fruit of the spirit. If you want to go check it out go to CultivateWhat Matters.com
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