Our 2022 Forerunner Fundraising Dinner
Fulfillment: to bring to completion or reality; achieve or realize something desired, promised, or predicted.
That word sums up how I have felt this week. Fulfillment. Fulfilled at the work God is orchestrating through our organization. Fulfilled at the story He is writing in the lives of our boys and their families. Fulfilled at the call being responded to by our mentors and fellow comrades in
Lake Highlands.
On Tuesday, March 8th we had our 2022 Forerunner Fundraising Dinner. Months of storyboarding, planning, creating, and organizing all came to fruition that night. We saw about 400 people attend and gather around tables to share a meal together, to hear stories of men stepping into lives of boys in our community as mentors and father-figures. Stories of boys being shown what it looks like to be a man of God.
Narratives that shifted all because men in our community chose to walk alongside a boy who needed a father-figure in his life, someone whom he could trust to show him the way and never leave. As a creative, I’m constantly reminded that people and stories are everything and some- times you don’t realize the story you are living in until you take a moment to pause and look around. When I looked around the room that night, I saw future mentors, father-figures, coaches, and tutors. I saw future forerunners.
Psalm 78:3-7 says “things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might, and the wonders that he has done. He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children, that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children, so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God,”
It’s easy to get caught up in the “now” moment. To get locked into day-to-day thinking and creative processes. But during the Fundraising Dinner I realized that the stories told were not just for now, or in the past. They are for the future generations, for the generation after us. They are for the future families our forerunners will father, for their children’s children. The story God is writing with our lives is not to be hidden, but to be told to the next generation. Whether you’re a mentor, a volunteer, a stay-at-home mom of four, or a kindergarten teacher, you have a story to tell.
Thank you for helping make a way for the stories of our forerunners to be told.