6.02.2011

From Life Coaches to Father's Light

We just finished the process of choosing a new ministry name!  It was a little bit bigger of an undertaking than expected.  A name communicates a lot of information... some good, some not so helpful.  It takes a while to sift through a variety of good options.  After quite a bit of discussion we chose the name Father's Light Mentors for a variety of reasons.  

 
 1.  Our ministry addresses father absence head-on, and our ultimate desire is that God would use each mentor to lead children to Himself as their true Heavenly Father.  


2.  If you do a concordance search on "light," you'll see it is a familiar image associated with God's presence, favor, protection, revelation of truth, wisdom, goodness, life and His glory.  And it's not only God who gets associated with these things, but we become His "children of the light" and "light of the world" in Christ. It's hard to find a better constellation of traits that we want to embody as mentors to the kids we serve!



3.  Our name upholds the fact that it is the Father who is the source of anything good in our lives and our mentoring.  The light doesn't come from us. 


4.  Last, we wanted to be sure people knew we're a mentoring ministry.  So what better way to do that than put Mentors in the name :)  And of course, we liked the way Father's Light Mentors sounds -- even if it's a bit of a tongue-twister!

In some ways it feels like starting a new chapter as we announce the new name, and move on to work on a new logo and hopefully our own web page.  But, of course, these are just the window dressings of the ministry.  The flesh and blood, real life-changing work of mentoring the father-absent goes on just the same as it has for almost five years now.  We'd love to have you pray for the small changes we're working on, but we especially would love prayer for the 16 of us who are mentoring and our kids.  Also, please remember the 40+ kids we are hoping to serve at Bethlehem and Hope Academy.  God bless!

Note:  If you're wondering why we had to find a new ministry name, check out the post below.  

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