Some Try to Reach Many...You Should at Least Try to Touch One...

This Saturday I had a chance to meet a young lady who will be my mentee, hopefully for a long time. I went into the program on Saturday with butterfly's, eager to to meet a young lady that I could motivate and inspire to pull out the greatness inside of her. I was nervous that I would meet someone that I would not be able to connect with, let alone inspire. It was a good thing that God answers prayers, and puts the right people in your life to help you reach your highest potential. I was matched with a young lady who appears to be just like myself on the inside, but is just looking for someone to pull it out of her. I am honored that God has blessed me with the opportunity to attempt to be the one to try.

I felt it necessary to share my experience on Saturday, and to remind people of the importance of mentoring to our youth. Below I will give you a few reasons why you should drop everything you are doing and find a youth or mentoring program that you can volunteer your time to, or maybe find someone in your neighborhood who could use your guidance.

It takes a village to raise a child: It is not enough to depend on a mother and father to help a child reach it's full potential. There are so many things that people in the community could offer a child that a parent may not be able to. You could be someone that is in a career field the child wants to be in. You could have went to college, and the parents did not. Also, sometimes children ignore the advice from their parents, because they write it off as "they are just trying to control me." It takes a village to raise a child, and you are apart of that village!

To much is given, much much more is required: If you have been blessed in anyway, there is no reason that you should not be returning the favor to someone else. There are lessons you have learned throughout your life; why would you not be willing to share that with someone younger than you? The moment you think that blessings stop with you, is the moment your blessings will be taken away. Help someone today.

Our Future is in their hands: When we get older the generation under us will be running the world we live in. If we do not help to guide them in the right direction, what will our future look like? It is our duty to train the leaders of tomorrow.

Today's issues:

1. Children are still in gangs
2. We are still losing our youth to violence
3. The amount of black males in college is still lagging behind the rest...
4. A large percent of our black children will live in poverty
5. The school systems are not living up to their potential
6. There are still single parent homes
7. Our youth only sees sports and entertainment as their escape
8. Their role-models are on television
9. The majority of them will never see outside of their home towns
10. Their goals don't go beyond living to see the next day...


For every moment you sit waiting to volunteer your time, is one more moment where a child is lost to the system. A second of your time to one child, is worth so much more to a child than a second. If you do not help a child today, it could be too late tomorrow. A child is shaped, and the person that contributes to how they are shaped could be you. If we don't start with our youth, it could be too hard to reach them when they hit 18.

Who will you help today? If you still push off helping after this....well, I hope that child you were suppose to help makes it to see another day.