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Mentoring/Task Force

The Best Sermon I Ever Heard. Remembering David Gentiles.

December 30, 2009

This evening hundreds of people gathered in a baseball field just outside Austin Texas to remember our friend David Gentiles. It was an honor to present the eulogy. Blue Like Jazz was dedicated to David Gentiles, because David is the reason I am a writer. He was a remarkable human being, and there will never [...]

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Update on The Mentoring Project and the Fatherhood Task Force

September 21, 2009

As I’ve wrapped up the book and started the book tour, I’ve definitely been wearing two hats. Publicly it’s been getting the word out about the new book, but behind the scenes the locomotive that is The Mentoring Project has moved forward at a dramatic pace. In the past six months or so, we’ve hired a [...]

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A Great Video on the Power of Mentoring

August 27, 2009

Mentoring Spotlight – Ben and Dennis from The Mentoring Project on Vimeo.
The Mentoring Project is providing mentors for fatherless boys through local churches. We have programs in about seven churches in Portland, but around 200 on a waiting list. Besides being a blast, mentoring changes lives. The infrastructure is there, and the mentors are there, [...]

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Our Mentoring Project Commercial

August 25, 2009

Hey, would you mind posting this video on your Facebook page or blog? It’s our commercial for The Mentoring Project. Things are going well, to say the least. We continue to add mentors, and are hiring staff that will take us national. Exciting stuff. But the more we seed the idea that the church can [...]

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The Mentoring Project announces new President, Dr. John Sowers.

May 11, 2009

For the last few months we have been interviewing candidates for the position of Executive Director of The Mentoring Project. We are pleased to announce we have found our man! Our vision of mentoring ten-thousand kids through one-thousand church-based programs is underway but it just got a shot in the arm. We will also be [...]

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Help us Mentor a Fatherless America

April 14, 2009

 

As I’ve mentioned, this week we launched the new Mentoring Project website at www.thementoringproject.org. Thanks to all of you who have visited the site and told your friends about it. We are recruiting ten-thousand mentors through one-thousand church based programs. We already have eighty mentors, seven churches and over 300 people are giving small [...]

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The Church is Providing Fathers to the Fatherless

April 8, 2009

My roomate, Justin, teaches at a school in a rough neighborhood here in Portland, and it happens to be a school that partners with The Mentoring Project, a mentoring program I started a couple years ago. We are now mentoring 65 kids and are rapidly expanding our reach. We provide mentors to kids through church-based [...]

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The Center for Faith-based and Community Initiatives

March 26, 2009

Took part in a conference call this week with the Center for Faith-based and Community Initiatives in D.C. This government organization was started by George W. Bush and has been continued by President Obama. The program is being run by Joshua Dubois, a friend who worked as a liaison to the religious community for Barack [...]

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An Autographed Book and a Chance to Support a Mentor

November 18, 2008

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 [...]

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The Mentoring Project goes Live

October 21, 2008

Share our donation page with your friends, and join us as we rewrite the story of the fatherless generation!
(You may have to pause it for a second to let it load.)
Also, use the comment section below to thank a mentor in your life. We are collecting stories for our site. And if you are a [...]

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