A Note from Wade
June 12th, 2007 by WadeIt occurs to me that some of you visiting this site and learning for the first time about the Belmont Foundation, might go away with the idea that this issue of fatherlessness is too big to get your arms around. Sometimes when we learn about social issues, it’s easy to become immobilized. It may be that we feel this way simply because we don’t know what to do.
So, in an effort to help us all along the path to mobilization, allow me to suggest a few things you might do in your community to help the fatherless.
1. Organize a prayer walk through an urban neighborhood. Pray for parents and kids as you go.
2. Be intentional about engaging children in conversation. Just letting kids in your neighborhood know you see them is a big deal.
3. Consider being a mentor, either with the Belmont Foundation or with an organization like Big Brothers Big Sisters.
4. Contact a community center or church and offer to provide free child care for a single mother. (We recommend this for women or married couples)
5. If you are raising school-aged kids, ask them if any of their friends are being raised by their mother only. I asked my son and now we have another 7 year old boy, Kyle, who hangs out with us a few times each week.
These are just a few things to consider. You might begin to dream of other ideas. I would just encourage you to keep it simple; just try to touch a few lives and let God work through you to bring healing and support to the fatherless.
July 10th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
I love the pursuit and the passion of the Belmont Foundation! This is definitely the kind of organization that I would love to be a part of some day. I read Don Miller’s “To Own a Dragon” a couple of months ago. I was deeply encouraged and challenged by his thoughts in relation to faith and manhood. Thank you for your leadership in this awesome and vital ministry.
Ben
August 13th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
Ben-
Thanks for your support and encouragement. We would love for you to be part of Belmont someday as well. Please keep in touch.
August 15th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
What you guys are trying to do is so awesome. I believe that fatherlessness is becoming a HUGE problem in our culture, and I’m so glad to see there is someone trying to do something about it. I would love to know how things are going to so far, and if there is any way I can help you guys out. This issue is truly the passion of my heart.
August 16th, 2007 at 1:18 am
Adam-
Thank you for your encouragement! The issue of fatherlessness has a tremendous affect on the communities we live in. If you have any ideas on ways you might help our efforts, please feel free to contact us.
-Wade
August 19th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Wade,
I tried to write an email to info@belmontfoundation.org, but it wouldn’t go through. I would love to get plugged in with guys and see if there’s any ways that I can help you fight fatherlessness! Please write to me, and let me know what’s going on with you guys!
-Adam
September 6th, 2007 at 6:37 am
Just before I discovered this site, I had an idea that I am planning to see manifest itself in October. We’re going to have a day at church, a Saturday, where the young boys are invited (fatherless or not). We’ll do some fun things which revolve around those activities that a dad should pass down to a son.
We’ll learn how to throw a spiral, change a tire, use a crescent wrench, build a fire, and play some chords on a guitar. Then we’ll cook something on the grill and have a little talk while we eat.
We’ll take what we learn, what works and what doesn’t, and make adjustments to a similar event in Spring, but the difference is that this one will be directed to the fatherless kids in our community. There are some lower-middle-class houses, as well as some govt-assisted apartments, nearby, so the audience is there.
I just posted this to say that coming across this site is confirmation that the plan in my head is what God wants. Of course, my hope is that Belmont will be much more than mere confirmation, but will be a living, vital ministry with measurable impact. I get giddy just thinking about this ministry!
James
Arlington, TX
http://www.middletree.net
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