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June 19, 2009
Happy Fathers Day
Thank you to everybody who donated through our Fathers Day Campaign. By now, you or your fathers should have received your packages. Because of you, we increased our monthly recurring donations by 20%. And because of you, several more church programs will be created through The Mentoring Project and those programs will mentor many, many more young men growing up without fathers. Our communications director will keep you posted via your e-mail. We are very grateful for our partnership with you to
June 17, 2009
Sorry for not filling out your survey. I had a brain tumor.
My friend David Wenzel, who is inspiring all of us who know him right now, found out just last week that he has a tumor in his brain. He hit his head while at a conference in San Francisco, and was later taken to the hospital, where they discovered the tumor. Had he not hit his head, the tumor would most likely have gone undetected. Dave is a special guy. Everybody who meets him loves him. He’s remarkably creative and has probably been involved in some of your favorite media productions. So it s
June 16, 2009
June 12, 2009
The New List, A Few Song Suggestions
(click on the image and it will explode)
June 10, 2009
In response to The Weekly Standard and Emerging Church Questions
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For several years now I’ve been asked questions about the emerging church and my feelings about the movement that I am a part of. These questions have always been confusing to me, because I’m not really part of the emerging church. I’m not a pastor, have never been a pastor, and don’t know very much about church or how to do church. I leave church to smarter, more gifted men and women. I honestly don’t think about how people should do church.
I have friends who are strongly associated with the em
June 9, 2009
Thoughts on the First Three Chapters
So I’m still polishing the book, even though the press is, today, receiving their copies for review. The way a book starts is crucial, and I’ve written and rewritten the first few chapters about fifty times. Still, I’d love your opinion about the way this book starts. It’s a slow start, actually. It takes about three chapters. But if you have time, would you mind taking a look at these three chapters and commenting your thoughts. I can seriously polish the thing for the next week or so. THANKS.
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Fathers Day Campaign, Funny Video #2
We will ship your dad a gift for Fathers Day. Its only a couple weekends away, so sign up today and your Fathers Day shopping will be done!
The Mentoring Project is a non-profit based in Portland that resources and equips churches to start and run mentoring programs. Our goal is to recruit ten-thousand mentors through one-thousand church-based programs as an answer to the American crisis of fatherlessness. All donations are tax deductible.
June 8, 2009
Regarding My Time in Prison
While in Texas last week I visited my friend Catherine Rohr at the prison where she runs Prison entrepreneurship Program.
Catherine and I met years ago but connected again recently in Austin and she told me a bit more about what she does. Her program works with mostly violent criminals who are in the last years of their sentencing, and who have passed strenuous testing to be accepted into PEP. These are prisoners who were running gangs or small businesses behind bars, and are thus proven to have
June 4, 2009
Get Your Fathers Day Gift Here
If you haven’t picked up your Fathers Day gift yet, we can help.
Potential gifts for your dad include:
Autographed copies of The Shack by Paul Young
Autographed copies of The Long Fall Back to Earth by Jars of Clay
Autographed Randy Alcorn books
Autographed Joshua Harris books
Autographed Brian Homell books (Chaplain for the Arizona Diamondbacks)
LET US SHIP YOUR DAD HIS FATHERS DAY GIFT TODAY!
Thanks for thinking of your dad, and for
May 21, 2009
Father’s Day Gift Ideas
Before you go buying that Bar-be-Cue accessory kit from Wal Mart, know that The Mentoring Project is working on a gift/donation campaign for this coming Fathers Day. We’ve already got many authors and musicians who are donating autographed books and CD’s as we are creating a catalog of stuff you can ship directly to your dad. And for every gift, I am going to write a personal thank you card to your dad, thanking him for being in your life. No kidding. What a blessing he is to you for sticking ar
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