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Provincial

PATHWAY Provincial Mentor

W.Bro. Pierre Waddoups

was delighted to have received a letter a few weeks ago from the Deputy Provincial Grand Master in
C
I harge, V.W.Bro. Paul Reeves, in which it stated that ‘he wished to re-appoint me to the Office of Provincial
Grand Mentor’. I was and indeed still am, absolutely delighted with this and I accepted that offer without a
moment’s hesitation and for which I thank him.
There are a few initiatives that I would like to implement once Freemasonry returns to a new normality and one of these
is to have a Mentors’ Association. Briefly it could be run on the following lines; it will be informal, meeting three times
per year, at lunch time at a weekend, with wives and partners invited to the lunch. After the meal there will be a Guest
Speaker for the wives and partners entertainment, while we members retire to another room and discuss any issues or
topics relating to mentoring, including the occasional Key Note Speaker. We could have a President, Secretary and a
Treasurer, with an open invitation to the Provincial Executive to attend as our guest. It is work in progress, but this is
the synopsis and you will be pleased to hear, that it will be as cheap as we can make it. I will be pleased to receive your
feedback and comments.

In July of last year, Solomon launched Share and Encourage: Mentor’s Corner, a module that has been providing Lodges
and Chapters with material for on-line gatherings and methods on how best to present that material and I must remark
on the way in Lodges and Lodge mentors have embraced this new approach. They have also included prospective
members, keeping them updated and maintaining their interest and ready to join us when the time is right.
We now have a Facebook Group for mentors; I have made it a closed group and it just needs a request from mentors
to join. If you are not a Facebook user, then please consider becoming one and you can do what I do with Facebook,
restricting it solely for my Freemasonry.

I would like to expand the existing Mentoring Team and ask if you would consider becoming a Group Mentor, or Deputy
Group Mentor. The role is simply to look after a number of Lodges at any one of the centres and making sure that the
Lodge and personal mentors have all that they need in terms of information and help, so that they can continue with
the sterling work that they are doing currently. Group Mentors and their Deputies will work closely with the Assistant
Provincial Grand Master who has been appointed to look after those Lodges in the centres and feeding back to the
Provincial Deputy Mentor and ultimately to me.
If you have any comments about the Mentors’ Association, the Facebook Group, joining the existing Mentors Team or any other
matter concerning The Members’ Pathway or Solomon, please do get in touch, my details are below.

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