SD Band of Brothers Outreach

About This Cause

We are a group of 10 that have come together to make a significant impact in the world. We started as friends who attended a 4 day Mens retreat together. The retreat is based on the book "Wild at Heart" by John Eldredge



The website for our first experience can be seen here http://bofbbootcamp.com/san-diego-bootcamp-registration/



The impact was phenomenal! Over the course of the following year we grew together as Men of purpose. We raised funds to give food and clothes to the homeless. We started a group with a purpose of helping the community and those around us.



The group now wants to bring our experience to our home town of San Diego, California. Our original retreat took place 300 miles away. We have taken action to bring that same experience to our hometown.



You can see our webpage here http://bofbbootcamp.com/san-diego-bootcamp-registration/

God is up to something with men – something mythic, profound, powerful, and beautiful. He’s after the hearts of men, freeing us to be what we are – men made in God’s image. Passionate, alive, free, living from the heart, not from the list of “shoulds” and “ought tos” that has left so many of us tired, bored, and in a spiritual malaise. God is pursuing, rescuing, and unalterably changing the lives and hearts of men around the world.



Why is it that most messages and ministries for men ultimately fail? The reason is simple: They ignore what is deep and true in a man’s heart, his real passions, and simply try to shape him up through various forms of pressure. Verbally or non-verbally they say, “This is the man you ought to be. This is what a good husband/father/Christian/churchgoer ought to do.”



Fill in the blanks from there. He is supposed to be responsible, sensitive, disciplined, faithful, diligent, dutiful, etc. These are good qualities. But, men need something more, something deeper. They need a change that emanates from their hearts.



Written on every man’s heart is a yearning for adventure and battle and a beauty. A man needs a deeper understanding of why these longings govern him – and why it is that God made him just like that. And he needs a deeper understanding of why women long to be fought for, to be swept up into adventure, and to be the beauty.



What if? What if those deep desires in our hearts are telling us the truth, revealing to us the life we were meant to live? God gave us eyes so that we might see; he gave us hearts that we might live. The way we handle the heart is everything. A man must know he is powerful; he must know he has what it takes.

(Wild at Heart, p.18)



The Wild at Heart Boot Camp experience is designed with one primary objective; to restore the hearts of man through a real encounter with God.



When we take folks through a discipleship program whereby they master any number of Christian precepts, they miss the most important thing of all, the very thing for which we were created; intimacy with God. There are, after all, those troubling words Jesus spoke to those who were doing all the “right” things:



“Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you.’” (Matt 7:23)



Knowing God. That’s the point. After all- aren’t we “followers of Christ?” Then by all means, let’s actually follow him. Not ideas about him. Not just his principles. Him. Now. Today. (Waking the Dead, p.96)



Our hope is that such an encounter with God will:



• Give a man back his heart • Show him his place in the battle • Begin to teach him how to live



And so, The Wild at Heart Boot Camp is not a retreat about the seven things a man ought to do to be a nicer guy. It is a four-day quest into the recovery of a man’s masculine soul, the release of a mans heart – his passions, and his true nature – all of which has been given him by God. It’s an invitation to rush the fields at Bannockburn, to go West, to leap from the falls and save the beauty. For if a man is going to know who he truly is as a man, if he is going to find a life worth living, love a woman deeply, and not pass on his confusion to his children, he simply must get his heart back.



Based on John Eldredge’s book, Wild at Heart, the retreat is hosted in a setting of beauty and adventure, and includes teaching sessions, films, guided periods of reflection, and journaling. We have designed something far more than a retreat – it’s an expedition of the heart. The men attending will never be the same.

Right now our bootcamp requires all attendees to pay a significant amount of $225. With donations we want to offer this experience free of charge with better facilities and food.



Our audio/visual equipment is nothing more than our own person computers and projectors. We need dedicated resources to use for the bootcamp. Also backup components in case something breaks.



Right now our boot camp can accommodate 60 Men at the most. We will need funding in the future to expand our facilities to allow for a gathering of over 200 men.





Our group has been established as a non-profit under the name SD Band of Brothers Outreach.



Unlike other charities and non-profits we have a strict policy that 100% of all donations will go to help others. We have no employees to pay, and are made of 100% volunteers.



Every dollar contributed to us will go to help others and the community.



Thank you so much!