TODAY'S LETTER OF ENCOURAGEMENT:
Dear friends,
Welcome to the new website for Guys For Life International® These are very
exciting and challenging days for our ministry. Here's a mental picture I would
like to share to illustrate my point.
Did you know that in playing basketball - the most important ability to play
the game effectively is in the ability to 'Pivot', and pivot well.
If you can not make a successful series of pivots in basketball game you're destined to be overtaken by the other team and eventually be defeated as you lose contact with the ball.
This season marks a key moment in the game of life when Guys For Life needs to 'pivot', adjust our shot and then take that shot for the King.
Leading us to this point in the game has been our tremendous work supporting America's first wave of defense when protecting the unborn - our support of pregnancy care centers. Through our training and equipping of over 179 pregnancy care centers we have sent over 550 male mentors into ripe fields of harvest fishing for men.
Yet, the demand of parents, pastors and like-minded ministries desperately wanting to come along side of men when life is on the line has pushed us - to examine ways to make our ministry model more accessible to where we may encounter men in their hour of need.
Over the next eighteen months our ministry will be focused on three key strategies to meet men in need
and we appreciate your prayer and support as:
1. Guys For Life Chapters - Now men in any given city will have the ability to duplicate the ministry model of Guys For Life in their home town and as a small group be free agents who meet with schools, churches, pregnancy care centers, youth ministries and more with certified Guys For Life mentors. Some men will become Guys For Life Apostles, raising their own funds to work the GFL ministry full time.
2. Mentoring Academy - Delivered to hundreds of students in the past two years the Guys For Life Mentoring Academy [delivered through Web-Ex and teleconference] will now be open to training and equipping parents, pastors and various other interest groups with our proven model for mentoring men.
3. There For Me Movie - Partnering with Advent Film Group, Guys For Life will produce and distribute the film
'There For Me' along with an extended after movie product line of tools that families, churches and youth ministries may use to support the value of life and precious appeal for the Gospel in young peoples lives.
God is doing some wonderful things through our Guys For Life family. We're going to continue reporting blessings and opportunities. For today, please know we’re grateful for your prayers and financial support
- you are a true blessing!
There is no substitute for you.
Sincerely,
Kurt Ramspott - Founder and president
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SEE THE WEB-EX GFL LEARNING AVAILABLE FOR ORGANIZATIONS, GROUPS, FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUAL SESSIONS:
Mentoring Men Academy
Staff and Volunteer Training
Leadership Training
Board Training
501c3 Accounting Skills and Legal Issues
Marketing Reach
Brand Development
Increasing Reach
Fundraising
Search Engine Optimization
Writing for the Web
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Pastoral Care
Small Group 101
Feast of The Heart
Youth Reach
Effective Men's Ministry
Life Teams
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Adoption Consideration
Family Counsel
Fathers Rights
Feast of The Heart
Bio-Ethics
Life Sciences
Recovery
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