Well, Father's Day is coming upon us soon. If you are thinking about a gift, other than one of those great ties with Mickey or Donald on it, I have a great idea for.
Donald Miller, who is a Christian author and many more things, started an organization called the Mentoring Project. In this project, they are working to fight for the fatherless generation that is growing up within our world today. More and more kids are without a father, and that can be such a difficult childhood for those kids. Through this mentoring project, they train mentors to simply be a positive presence within the childs' life.
The goal is to 10,000 mentors through 1,000 churches. He is challenging, us, the church, to get involved and be the positive presence to these kids.
How the gift works is, you can sponsor the project with $10 a month and by giving this, you get an autographed copy of a book/CD by a popular author. Check it out in the link above. I know that my father would love something signed by Tony Dungy or Max Lucado.
Even further, though I don't know if this ministry is something for our church, it challenges us to rethink how we are engaging the youth within our neighborhoods. In all of our communities, kids are growing up without fathers. Almost all of the studies point to how this can be quite a challenging issue to reconcile as a youth and this struggle feeds deeply into their adult life as well.
This project is definitely making me rethink how we can be the Body of Christ for those in our community without fathers and I hope that it challenges you as well. I know that my father grew up without a "present" father, and he speaks even today about how hard that was. Simply being a positive presence with a youth or young adult for an hour a week can be powerful.
Grace and Peace!
Micah
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