The Idea Camp

Dr. John Sowers

Dr. John Sowers is president of The Mentoring Project, a movement that exists to inspire and equip the faith community to provide mentors for fatherless boys. Under John’s leadership, The Mentoring Project is rewriting the story of the fatherless generation.  He is a founding member of the Formosa Theory and has been apart of the White House Task Force on Fatherhood and Healthy Families.

John is the author of the recently release book “Fatherless Generation” from Zondervan.

John grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas, and attended college at Ouachita Baptist University. From there, he received his Masters of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and attended Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, where wrote his doctoral thesis on the crisis of fatherlessness.

Having grown up in a home without a father, he is the product of faithful mentoring. John and his wife, Kari, currently reside in Portland, Oregon.

Twitter:  @JohnSowers