The Belmont Foundation

It 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.