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Personal Narrative: Mentoring Young Men At Middle School

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While being on fall break, and now having the freedom of being on Sabbatical from the daunting task of Church Administration, I took the opportunity to return to one of my all-time favorite activities, Mentoring Young Men at Middle School. As completed a 90-minute session with four young men, I realized that many kids today grow up with absentee fathers. There father’s s are never home, always gone, never there for important dates. Even when their fathers are home, they really are not there. They are detached, surfing the internet or on Facebook, watching television, playing video games or working. They may be physically there but they are not mentally or emotionally at home.
All throughout the session, I could not help but notice how often

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