Man Up

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Man-Up
is an Urban Mission Project.
Man-Up is
envisioned to be an Evangelistic and Service
focused Movement in Urban America.
It is evangelistic in that it will
minister to and bring healing to the hurts and
the trauma in the souls of our men. To see
their lives transformed and healed from the
deeply buried wounds.
It is service oriented in that it will
encourage our men to be more of a presence,
empowered and engaged as they bring themselves
to bear in voluntary or paid service in the
inner workings in their neighborhoods, their
communities and their cities.
Once this healing and transformation has taken
place, our men will feel good about themselves
and be positive role models and influencers in
the cities where they live. The result will be
healthier and safer families, homes,
neighborhoods, communities and cities.
The Problem:
Too many of our men are falling through the
gaps in our society
What can we do about that?
Man-Up
is a movement that will minister to men and
boys, especially African-American men and boys.
It is our hope that this ministry will also
carry over and see healing come to the women who
care about these men and boys.
This movement is a
vision that God has given me to begin to engage
the conversations that men generally avoid.
Often times we will act out our emotions through
anger, violence, drugs and alcohol, aggression,
depression, lack of concern for our personal
health, risky behavior, and many other ways that
we act out and demonstrate the emptiness, the
loneliness, the low self-esteem, the hurt, the
depression, and other traumas that we experience
through the course of our lives. And as
African-American men, we cannot forget about the
residuals of slavery, and the results of bigotry
and racism that still exist today. This has left
many men feeling like they have nowhere to go.
They still have
their manhood and need to exert or demonstrate
their manhood in some manner, but in so many
ways because of society and the racism that
exists, there is much pressure put on African
American men to not be the men God made them to
be.
We
African-American men still have our sense of
pride, male egos, need for hunter-animal
instinct to be expressed, need for significance
and accomplishments in life. We have and take
pride in our responsibilities as men, provider,
fathers, husbands, mentors and leaders in our
communities.
Man-Up
will engage in conversations to begin the
healing process in men, especially
African-American men to address the
hopelessness, the acting out, the aggression,
the anger so that we will see our men being the
progressive, productive, and vibrant citizens in
our country.
Let us reverse
this epidemic onslaught against the
African-American man and walk with pride and
dignity as we Man-Up to change our world,
present and future. Men, the time has come to
Man-Up
for change |