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Become a Mentor

We hope to instill values, worth and sense of purpose into the youth of West Dallas. Our mentors play a vital role in that goal and help our children understand they are the future leaders of this community.

The Role of a Mentor:

  • Walk with a young person and develop an on-going, one-to one relationship
  • Serve as a role model, advocate, advisor and friend
  • Be a good listener
  • Be respectful of differences
  • Meet with your student face-to-face at least twice monthly
  • To communicate with your student via the phone, email, or letter at least twice monthly
  • Pray for your student on a regular basis
  • To walk along side your student until they finish high school

Requirements to Mentor:

  • Be at least 18 years old
  • Complete a Mercy Street Mentor application
  • Complete a DISD Volunteer Application Form
  • Complete a background check
  • Personal interview with a Mercy Street staff person
  • Provide three personal references
  • Attend one-hour mentor training

For more information about becoming a mentor, contact Sam Flores at 214-905-1042 x113 or Turn on JavaScript!; If you know you want to mentor, please fill out the Mentor Application below.

Mentor Application

You can return it one of three ways.

  1. Bring the paper copy to Sam at Mentoring 101 or
  2. Fax to (214) 905-1014 or
  3. Scan and Email to Turn on JavaScript!

Quotes From the Street

  • Oh, how can I give you up, Israel? How can I let you go? How can I destroy you like Admah or demolish you like Zeboiim? My heart is torn within me, and my compassion overflows.
    ~ Hosea 1:8

  • Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins and will raise up the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls, Restorer of Streets with dwellings.
    ~ Isaiah 58:12

  • If you spend yourselves on behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed then your light will rise in the darkness and your night will be like the noon day.
    ~ Isaiah 58:10

  • I want to see a mighty flood of justice, an endless river of righteous living.
    ~ Amos 5:24

  • but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure. This makes it clear that our great power is from God, not from ourselves.
    ~ 1 Corinthians 4:7

  • I have given them the glory you gave me, so they may be one as we are one. I am in them and you are in me. May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me.
    ~ John 17:22-23

  • Trust in the Lord, and do good; Dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.
    ~ Psalms 37:3

  • For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jews first and also to the Greeks.
    ~ Romans 1:16

  • "Gilberto helped me see that I grew up with privileges and wealth others simply don’t have."
    ~ Chris Clark

  • "Anthony and I love driving around listening to music. Sometimes we talk about the lyrics, sometimes we sit in silence just enjoying the harmonies together."
    ~ Greg Jenks

  • "I cannot describe the change I have seen in Wilmer. He is a different man and I am so excited about it."
    ~ Baxter Underwood

  • "Mentoring has grown us, our family needed to live outside the bounds of our family, our comfort and our convenience."
    ~ Sarah Stehlik

  • "If the people who are not following Christ are not intervening, who is going to intervene?"
    ~ Sarah Stehlik

  • "If you are waiting for a better time (to mentor) when you don't have things going on, you'll wait forever."
    ~ Sarah Stehlik

  • "Rodney has really become like part of the family. We love spending time with him."
    ~ Mickey Friedrich

  • "Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them."
    ~ Mother Teresa

  • "Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom"
    ~ George Washington Carver

  • "Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."
    ~ C. S. Lewis

  • "A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education."
    ~ Theodore Roosevelt

  • "A high school dropout is 8 times more likely to commit a violent crime than those who graduated from high school."

  • "A study by two prominent economists found that a 10 percentage point increase in graduation rates would reduce murder and assault rates by about 20 percent."

  • "Every Timothy needs a Paul; Every Ruth needs a Naomi."
    ~ Pastor Aaron Williams (Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Seattle WA)

  • "A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could."

  • "You really can change the world if you care enough."
    ~ Marion Wright Edelman

  • "Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them."
    ~ Lady Bird Johnson

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Dallas, TX 75212