Why Wait Well? and How?

Possible New Year’s resolutions for the GLORY of God….

Commit to pray for your mentee EVERY day

Take a look in the back of your mentor handbook and choose one thing each quarter to do NEW with your mentee

Share the gospel

Make a point to meet with your mentor coordinator to brainstorm

Create your own New Year's resolution...

Take your mentee’s guardian out to lunch or sit in the house for an extended period of time to get to know him/her better

Be at the mentor training Jan 14. “It takes a Village” – with the guardian - 9am to noon

Read a book off the Mercy Street recommended reading list

Visit your mentee’s school for lunch or to meet teachers

Surrender your plan for your mentee's life for His plan...  

Garrett and Jill would like to say THANK YOU for....

• challenging us in our personal walks with Christ!
• taking time to value the comradery with the staff at Mercy Street
• loving the whole family of your mentee
• seeing your mentorship as not "just another volunteer opportunity", but an important part of your life to which you give your full devotion
• your consistency week after week
• being willing to step up to take the challenge to mentor
• a "whatever it takes" attitude to help
• your generosity with your own money to help Mercy Street
• being creative and thinking diligently on ways you can love, serve, and challenge your mentee
• the ways you include your mentee in your other personal relationships
• the way you invite others to be a part of what God is doing in West Dallas
• your determination to have lasted this long... to weather the storms you have faced
• being flexible
• the ways you are available to help in any way at Mercy Street
• the times we have showed up to an event in the community and you are already there supporting a cheering on your mentee
• volunteering to help lead bible study each week
• collaborating with others at mentor trainings
• spreading the word about Mercy Street
• the seriousness you take to live a life that screams to your mentee... follow me as I follow Christ...
• surrendering your own plan for your mentee's life... for HIS plan!

Connecting the dots... choices I make today (good & bad) affect my personal and career future!

At the beginning of October, many middle schoolers along with their mentors gathered at Mercy Street to hear from eight loving and passionate adults to learn about different career options.  It was incredible to watch how engaged the students were in listening to the adults share their testimony of what they do on a daily basis in their job, the course of schooling they took to be successful in their career, and what they intentionally denied their flesh with the things of this world, in order to achieve their dreams in their occupation.

Euraiya and Staci in front of Mercy Street



Garrett giving a charge to think beyond today



John brought his fireman uniform for others to try on

Peter, current teacher in West Dallas, discussing with some possible future teachers



Ex pro football player, Derrick (on right), who graduated from Edison Middle School, with Ike and mentee Keith



Interactive Job Fair THIS Saturday, Oct 8th

Our next middle school only event is right around the corner ... please RSVP on the Evite below…Every young person needs to have dreams of their future?And every young person needs help connecting the choices they make today to that future.

We have designed a morning for you to help your mentee make that connection.  We are calling it, an “interactive career fair,” which means on October 8th from 9am-Noon we will host men and women of different occupations in different rooms of the Mercy Street campus. You and your mentee are invited to come and learn from each professional, during sets of 15 minute interactive presentations.

We believe this event can be a time God uses to spark conversation about your mentee’s future. The overall hope is to help kids see that their choices today (both bad & good) affect the opportunities they will have tomorrow, yet also helping them see the amazing potential they have!

If you are interested in attending please click here to sign up via Evite or shoot Garrett or Jill an email and reserve a complimentary lunch of delicious authentic Mexican food included for you and your student.

We can’t wait to see you there!

Our side is krunker than krunker than your side!

We had a blast at Outback Pine Cove in the beginning of August!  We took about fifty middle school kids near Columbus, Texas to enjoy some fun adventures... horse back riding, basketball, archery, BB guns, blobbing, paintball, kayaking, zip line, climbing wall, and the all important P-O-O-L!

Click Here to check out MANY MORE pictures posted on Pine Cove's page: Outback - Week 11

Oh where did the summer go?

Camp is Sunday and school is right around the corner.  The summer has slipped right through our fingers.  I must say I am a little glad to see it go with the type of heat North Texas has had recently.  I am just ready for some rain.  Thanks to everyone who attended the mentor training!  Our next one is right around the bend on September 17th.  We ask all mentors to show for at least 1 training a year.   If your student is going to camp we encourage you to meet with them upon their return and help process their experience and all they have learned.  Just bombard them with questions. Lastly we are bringing on a new staff member here at Mercy Street.  Mindy is passing the baton to Jill Harmeyer as soon as camp wraps up.  Jill will introduce herself personally to all female mentors when she arrives.

Here is a pic of Jill!