Mentoring - Our Hope for the Future

What do you do if you have a colt that only wants to play and eat chocolate? That colt isn’t worth much to you or anyone else! In this demonstration, Lew Sterrett steps patiently through failure after failure with his fearful, ignorant, young trainee.

While astride a palomino, Lew Sterrett demonstrates the use of the bit, one of the smallest forms of horse tack. Bits have various sizes, shapes, and weights for varying degrees of effectiveness. But what if there is more to horse training than controlling the head and the mouth?

“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” (Mark 8:36). When Lew Sterrett first heard these words preached, he was in Chicago as a delegate to the 50th National 4-H Congress.

It's a horse trainer's dream: a horse so responsive that no use of the reins is needed. To this end, what would you use? Limitations or freedoms? Or both? As a parent who sees the striking parallels between raising colts and fillies, sons and daughters, Lew Sterret knows the way to the heart.