As much as it annoys me to do anything remotely like this, it really is the best way we’ve found to help promote and fund The Mentoring Project. We’re about to send out a mass e-mail offering an autographed book when people sign up to support a mentor. It’s a great cause so I’m having to get over the “infomercial” connotation. Please forgive. Anyway, here’s a copy of the e-mail that is about to go out. Thanks…
Receive an autographed, limited-edition, hard-back edition of Blue Like Jazz well before Christmas!
Friends,
It’s been a long time since I’ve sent out an e-mail, but this one is important. And it may even lead to an autographed book or two arriving in your mailbox!
As you may already know, The Belmont Foundation has changed its name to The Mentoring Project, and in so doing we’ve launched our most ambitious campaign yet: To recruit ten-thousand mentors through one-thousand churches.
There are over twenty-seven million kids growing up without fathers, and yet there are over three-hundred thousand churches already in place to meet the need. The Mentoring Project is equipping churches to operate mentoring programs as an answer to the crisis of fatherlessness in America. We are the hope that so many kids have been waiting for.
While we are recruiting and training ten-thousand mentors, we are also recruiting donors like you to support a mentor. It takes $5 per month to support a mentor. That’s it. Just five bucks, and you will be part of the solution.
And if you respond to this e-mail, and donate at least $10 per month, we will send you an autographed copy of Jazz Notes, a special hardback edition of Blue Like Jazz. And if you donate $25, we will send two. In fact, you can pick up as many as you like, and they’ll come to you in the mail immediately, well before Christmas.
Click this link to visit our new donation page, and support a mentor today. We can’t thank you enough for partnering with us as, together, we provide a hopeful answer to the American crisis of fatherlessness.
Sincerely,
Donald Miller
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Cliff Carden said,
November 18, 2008 @ 11:33 am
I’m interested in learning more about becoming a mentor. I’m a former youth pastor and have a guy that I’m considering mentoring/entering into his life struggle. I’d like to know more about the training you offer. Grace and peace,
Cliff
Chris Stoddard said,
November 18, 2008 @ 12:56 pm
Don, thanks for doing this. I, too, am passionate about mentoring. Though you say that you are primarily working through churches, is there a possibility to partner with a para-church/non-profit? I am the youth director for an organization that helps single parent families recover from domestic violence and abuse. I can see The Mentoring Project fitting in well with what we do here. I’d love to hear back from you. Thanks.
Kate Miller said,
November 19, 2008 @ 1:17 am
Don,
I talked with you a bit this past weekend at the Lead Now Q&A dinner.
I have always thought that you were the kind of guy I could sit down and have coffee with and I was kind of nervous to actually meet you because I was worried I might be completely wrong and you’d be a smug jerk or something. But you were great and so gracious to entertain my ramblings about Romeo & Juliet and evangelism.
Thanks so much!
Let’s do coffee sometime
Warmly,
Kate
Mike said,
November 19, 2008 @ 11:37 am
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Donny Pauling said,
November 20, 2008 @ 12:36 pm
Well, this may come as a bit of a surprise to ya, but, well, I’m totally into something like that.
Hee Hee.
I’ll go look for the email.
Donny Pauling said,
November 20, 2008 @ 12:38 pm
Found it.
Tia said,
November 21, 2008 @ 5:12 pm
Hi Don-
This is a random question.. but I think that’s ok bc it seems like you enjoy random questions. When you sign your name “Donald Miller”, do you feel like you’re presenting yourself as Donald Miller the author? Because from the time I visited Imago Dei and heard you speak it seemed like you feel very comfortable being known to everyone as “Don”. Is there a difference in your mind? My name is short and doesn’t stand for anything longer, but I was trying to think if I would ever want to go by a different name one day in my professional life.
Anyway, totally random thought. I figured you may think about such things. Keep up the blog! It’s a great study break for grad school.
Tia