"This generation will never believe our gospel that God can be their father unless we are willing to step into their fatherlessness with the same intimacy that Christ stepped into our world at the incarnation" - Dr. John Sowers

TMP President Dr. John Sowers is at the Q Conference in Chicago sharing about the power of mentoring. The Q Conference features 600 participants and dynamic leaders from all different sectors.

Dr. Sowers was joined on a panel with Gabe Lyons (author of UnChristian), Roland Warren (President of the National Fatherhood Initiative), and representatives from Focus on the Family and the Bethany Adoption Agency. TMP was honored to have a voice on the Fatherless panel.

To continue the conversation, The Mentoring Project is hosting a breakfast on Friday April 30th, 7am CST  at the Corner Bakery. (1205 LaSalle between Adams & Monroe, behind the W Hotel)

If you're in the Chicago area, please join Dr. Sowers and TMP or this special breakfast to dialogue about mentoring and the fatherless generation. 

See you there!

In preparation for our national expansion next fall, we are proud to introduce The Mentoring Project National Impact Model.

Click the model below to view it larger and see our long-term plan to impact the lives of fatherless youth. 

We're on our way to 1000 mentors here in Portland. Soon after, we're working on 10,000 across the country, and 25 yrs from now 1 Million mentors. Will you join us?

Out of 30+ submissions, below are the top 10 designs for the TMP T-Shirt Contest.

Please choose your favorite by selecting the button on the left and clicking the orange "Vote" at the bottom.

While the voting will influence our decision, ultimately, The Mentoring Project staff will make the final decision on which shirt we choose to print.

The TMP T-Shirt voting will last for one week from April 8th - April 15th. All votes after the 15th will be null and void.

The winner(s) will have their t-shirt printed by The Mentoring Project and sold in our store, promoted by Donald Miller, and receive a signed copy of Don's new re-release Father Fiction.

Vote, Vote, Vote and tell your friends!

Rewriting the Story: The TMP Mini-Documentary

Featuring Donald Miller and three mentor/mentee pairs, Rewriting the Story the new TMP mini-documentary is a great introduction to our work and the transformative power of mentoring. 

Please share this video with your friends and family. 

Want to get involved with The Mentoring Project?

Join us, donate, or become a church partner. 

It's a great one, we love it, and there are people all over the country sporting this classic design.

But it's 2010, time for some new TMP T-Shirts, maybe something a bit more creative, and we want you to design the new one!

Here are the details:

Get Creative:

1. By April 1st, submit your coolest TMP T-shirt design that you think embodies our mission in the best way.

Our mission:

The Mentoring Project seeks to respond to the American crisis of fatherlessness by inspiring and equipping faith communities to mentor fatherless youth.

Through dynamic church trainings, national mentor recruitment, and the creation of sustainable mentoring communities, we are rewriting the story of the fatherless generation. 

*We're really looking for designs more about our work than simply our logo. Be creative, break the mold, and take a risk conveying our mission on a t-shirt. 

Requirements:

2. The shirt has to say "The Mentoring Project" somewhere on it and feature our Elephants logo in some way, big or small, simply for branding purposes. Please don't make the elephants logo the focal point of the shirt. (We already made that shirt!)

Use any font you like, but our default logo font is "Bell Gothic Black"

Get the elephant logo as a jpg.

Email justin@thementoringproject.org for an Vector/AI/EPS or other file format.

Next steps:

3. In early April, we're going to choose our favorite 10 designs and then give the TMP community the opportunity to vote on the ones we choose to print.

The prize:

4. The winning designs will be featured in our store, worn by our supporters, and highlight the talented artist who created them.

5. As a special incentive the winning artists will get signed copies of Donald Miller's new re-release Father Fiction. 

Good luck:

6. Submit your designs by April 1st to Marketing Director Justin Zoradi: justin@thementoringproject.org in both pdf and jpg form.  We'll get back to you about other formats (vector or illustrator if your shirt goes to print)