Comments on: The Mentoring Project goes Live

By: Jacob F.

Jacob F. — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:52:36 +0000

If the Mentoring Project isn’t around, try Big Brothers Big Sisters. They have been around for over 100 years!

By: Kryss

Kryss — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:40:21 +0000

Hey hey Don!
Every word I read from your writings make me want to meet you more. It’s like I’m sitting down with you, just listening to who you are. I like listening.

And thanks so much for taking your idea and sharing it with someone who understands how important mentors are in a young person’s life.

So here’s my mentoring story…
My dad left my Mom, siblings, and I when I was eight. The cool thing was, even though I didn’t have my dad around, God came swooping down and was there for me. He was my Dad. Of course I thought it sucked that my dad pretty much could care less about me and my siblings, but it didn’t matter because God literally took care of us, with finances, food, jobs, and opportunities to grow. He didn’t leave, He just loved. He helped me forgive my dad, and eventually lead my brother, sister, and I to try and restore a relationship with our dad. It hasn’t been a smooth ride, but it’s God’s deal.

I can’t thank Jesus enough for providing me with an awesome mentor, who is now a UIM Missionary. She wasn’t like a youth leader, or another authority, she was a friend; she actually cared about the person God created me to be, even though she had her own kids and busy life. Have you thought about helping churches mentor fatherless girls?

Hey, well have a beautiful Fall,
and Thanks again!
Kryss

By: Adam Berman

Adam Berman — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:31:20 +0000

correction: that’s arbermanator@aol.com. sorry.

By: Adam Berman

Adam Berman — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:29:37 +0000

First off, I think what you guys are doing is phenomenal. I love how God knows exactly what each and every one of us needs…and then provides it!
I am having a book published called, “A Year For Dad: Thoughts & Experiences of Living 1st Century Faith in the 21st Century”. In the Thank you/ Acknowledgment part, I mention your organizationfor two reasons. The first being that I wish I still qualified to be mentored at age 48, and out of deference to Don Miller, a man whose writings have helped clear away alot of stubborn cobwebs in my head, and inspired me to find new joy in my minute-by-minute relationship with Jesus.
When I get the proofs in a few weeks, I would like to re-word your mention. Is there anything specifically that you would like said about The Mentoring Project? A line art elephant perhaps?
You are more than welcome to sample some or all of the manuscript at: http://arberman.bravehost.com/writings.htm. Several essays are posted and there is a link to open the full (partially edited) PDF version.
You can contact me at armermanator@aol.com.
Thanks to you all.
~Adam

By: The Mentoring Project « Experiencing the Journey…Rindy Walton

The Mentoring Project « Experiencing the Journey…Rindy Walton — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:13:14 +0000

[...] The Mentoring Project (and this “official” site too) was started by Donald Miller to partner with and resource churches to do exactly what we had experienced with “mentoring”! Through some blogging connections, I’ve connected with 3 of the board/directors/developers…Larry Shallenberger, Hannah Harrod and Wade Trimmer. We have emailed and chatted and I’m excited to see the vision and be a part of it all! In addition to equipping churches to begin mentoring young men, the vision also includes developing resources for single moms. This part is only just beginning and I can’t wait to see where it all goes! [...]

By: Brunettekoala

Brunettekoala — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:06:57 +0000

I’ve had some pretty awful father figures in my life. I’ve never had an official ‘mentor’, but I have had people that have been there, guiding me through so much at different sstages of my life. Friends and leaders who stuck by me while I tried to process so much pain from my past, and encouraged me in my gifts and the ministry God had for me. They held me accountable, and gave so much wise counsel!

To all of them I’m truly grateful. I don’t know where I’d be without any of them.

Now a few years on, I’m a mentor, mentoring some of the young people in my church…and I hope that it will make a difference (a positive one)

By: Shawn Hoffarth

Shawn Hoffarth — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:06:21 +0000

When I was 14 years old I was heading in the wrong direction, I had a loving father who lived far away. My day to day was getting worse and worse. I met a man named Randy Wheeler who was a new youth pastor in town. I had never been to church and didn’t know who Christ was. Randy started to get to know me. He spent time with me, picked me up for school prayer meetings, youth group breakfasts and introduced me to Jesus. Over the next 12 years he let me shadow him in ministry, do life with him and was a friend. My life would not be the same if Randy had not been willing to be a friend.

By: Sara

Sara — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:59:34 +0000

I am growing up with a father, but it’s a far cry from the relationship that is speacil between a father and daughter. He’s an alcholic and that above everything else has damaged our relationship the most. He has caused me a lot of pain, and a result of the relationship we don’t have….has messed up my view on life and on God. About a year ago God decided to intervine and place a mentor in my life. He was my youth leader, and he was really the first adult outside of my family that actually cared about me and what I’m going through. Talking with him, and being able to see him every week has provided me with a father-like relationship, though it can’t replace the non-existing with my dad, it has given me a relationship very very close to that and having that kind of influnce in my life has greatly increased my hope and understanding of God as my Father. Then for some amazing reason God decided to bless me with another mentor, a woman this time, and she and my first mentor are the ones who lead me to Christ, and who prayed with me that night when I accepted Him. God wasn’t finished….He blessed me with another mentor, and along with my first, these two men have given me the best gift ever…. father-figures in my life. Having mentors or even just a mentor can make a world of difference to a teen…it did to me, just to have someone to talk to and love you like your father never did…it saved my life. And I will be forever grateful, and never stop thanking God for my mentors.

By: Tonya

Tonya — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:17:46 +0000

God has used many women to fill in the gaps in my life, but I’m especially grateful for Kuni Garrison Cross. Before she went to be with the Lord, she taught she more about what it meant to know Jesus than any one person in my life. I have never known another person who walked as intimately with Him as she did. Even though she’s been gone for more than a decade, I still find myself quoting her on a regular basis. So much of the mentoring I do now, with other women, is based on what she taught me. She touched so many people in her 46 years, and I count it a real gift from the Lord she invested in me.

By: rsjm

rsjm — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:26:22 +0000

Powerful stuff. Love what you are doing.

Not to be cheese-ball but I think that Josh White gave you a manuscript of mine?

Thanks for all you do man!