Be a mentor.
Begin Anew
Meet a student one time for introductions at a Begin Anew site location. Call or text this student once a week sharing scripture and encouragement. Pray for this student daily. Commitment is for 6 months. Contact [email protected]
Hope Clinic for Women
Hope Clinic for Women is a faith-based safe and confidential place equipping women, men and families dealing with: unplanned pregnancies, access to women’s healthcare, prevention education, pregnancy loss (miscarriage, stillbirth, infant death, failed IVF/failed adoption, abortion) and postpartum depression. They provide medical care, professional counseling, education classes, case management, mentorship and practical support regardless of age, race, religion or ability to pay. During this time of social distancing due to COVID-19, many of their services are moving to a virtual platform. They are always in need of volunteer mentors to walk with women/men/families, but especially during this time.
BECOME A MENTOR
Mentors at Hope Clinic serve as supportive friends and encouragers to clients who have chosen life and have chosen to parent. The mentor is paired with a client around the beginning of the 2nd trimester, through birth and up through the baby’s first year. A mentor will be trained to provide the ‘mentoring and spiritual’ support needed to help the client take advantage of free resources Hope Clinic offers through the Bridge program. The Bridge program provides case management, professional counseling, education classes, and practical support through maternity and needed baby items.
Training: Step 1: attend virtual introduction class held monthly (sign up at www.hopeclinicforwomen.org/intro). Additional training will be required after a volunteer application is submitted, sign-ups will be made available from Hope Clinic directly.
Time Commitment: Typically a one-hour session every other week
Need: Females AND males
Virtual mentoring takes place over a HIPAA-compliant video call platform, and/or through texting/voice calls if both parties are interested.
Contact Shanera Williamson: Direct 615.627.2790 | Mobile 615.390.5484 | swilliamson@
Men of Valor
God is significantly increasing the outreach of Men of Valor, which has been discipling men in Tennessee prisons since 1997, and they need your help to mentor virtually men in prison
In 2019, Men of Valor was working in five prisons in Tennessee and supervising about 30 mentors who visited prisoners weekly in person. Men of Valor was also holding Valor Life Program meetings with men in those five prisons. After March 1, 2020, all that stopped. No visits. No meetings. The leadership said, “It’s clear what we cannot do. So what can we do?”
The Valor Life Programs are now video recorded and they are made available to the men in ten of the 14 prisons in Tennessee – one broadcasting the Valor Life Program internally 24 hours a day.
The mentoring program has gone virtual. Where it used to need 30 mentors, Men of Valor now needs 100 virtual mentors. If you are interested in making a difference in the life of a man who needs a friend, contact J.R. Davis, Recruiter and Men’s Minister with Men of Valor, at [email protected].