Faith Filled Family Magazine July 2016 | Page 55

Author Kent Evans Discusses the Manhood Journey By Walter Ellison K e n t Evans is the co-founder of Manhood Journey and the author of the newly released Wise Guys: Unlocking Hidden Wisdom from the Men Around You. Wise Guys discusses 12 men who brought key wisdom into Kent’s life and explains why and how all men should allow other men to be a resource in their lives as well as being a resource in the lives of other men. Reading Wise Guys and other information about Manhood Journey and Kent Evans, I was curious how he got started. He explained: “It’s an interesting story. There was a guy at our church who looked around and said ‘Hey we got stuff for men and stuff for boys, but we don’t have anything that puts guys and their sons together. What you guys think about that?’ And there were a dozen volunteers who said ‘yeah that’s interesting. Let’s go take a look.’ We went into this room and sat down at a whiteboard. We said, what we do here if we want to engage fathers and sons? And a few ideas came out of that. Advance monthly kind of ideas. And one was small groups. What if we put fathers and sons together in