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Project ONE: Are You One of 10,000? by AMY MORGAN, Beacon Content Director amy@saBeacon.com
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Members of the San Antonio Mentoring Collaborative (SAMC) met with more than 100 San Antonio city leaders, including Mayor Ivy Taylor, May 19, to develop a framework to help connect San Antonians with others who need a mentor, according to Keith Leslie, Beacon owner, who attended the meeting in support of the endeavor and to better understand how to devote Beacon resources to its successful implementation. The group hopes to recruit 10,000 mentors from the city’s faith community. San Antonio Christian Leaders’ Forum (SACLF), founded under the umbrella of City Reachers, hosts a monthly meeting to bring together leaders in different areas around the city. Participants at the forum met to discuss how to engage volunteers from the Christian community with the San Antonio community. Out of their discussion, a plan called Project ONE was formed. Michael Payne, General Manager of Salem Communications KLUP/KSLR Radio,
has dedicated the communication services of his stations and website to connect those willing to mentor with people of all ages in need, not just schoolchildren, but anyone who would benefit from someone coming alongside in support. Project ONE has initially enlisted the following organizations to coordinate mentor matching: San Antonio Youth For Christ, Each One Teach One, San Antonio Marriage Initiative and Life Choices Medical Clinic. The partner list and links can be found at www.kslr.com/projectone. A potential mentor can visit the site, click on an area of Natalie Hardy, interest, and be condirector, City Reachers nected immediately to the organization doing good work, which will train them in everything they’ll need before matching with an individual.
“You don’t have to be degreed, don’t have to be a teacher, you just have to have a big heart.”
“We’re getting people to partner with organizations that are already working in the various areas: adults who need to learn to read, school children who need a friend and adult role model, women who find themselves in a crisis pregnancy,” said Natalie Hardy, Director of City Reachers. “What mentors do will be different at each organization. If you want to help adults who don’t know how to read, there’s a ministry called Each One Teach One. You’ll teach a person how to read one on one. You don’t have to be degreed, don’t have to be a teacher, you just have to have a big heart,” Hardy added. “The organization will put together the instruction and materials you need to show you how to do that. “I think this is going to have a positive impact in the city overall and individual lives of the mentor and the mentee. I’ve heard recently of a pastor whose church has started – he has been blown away about its impact on him. Whether mentor or mentee – we will all be blessed as we give ourselves away,” she added. Project ONE will “bring change and godly influence in the areas that sorely need it,” Hardy said.