Our Mission

Finding other men who are restored—bonding with others who found their way through with hope to spare—is an energy we need. We’re here to share it.

In every event we host, podcast conversation we join, or connection we foster, here’s our roadmap.

HEALTHIER FAMILIES

We aim to counter fatherlessness and family alienation. We see men renewing their spirit and healing for the generational well-being of children.

SPIRITUAL RENEWAL

With biblical values, we’ll inspire conversations and personal practice, giving men access to their inherited lineage of strength, wisdom, and contrition.

A CALL TO VIRTUE

We’ll pass this flame: be intentional with your strength. Serve others over yourself. In a broken culture we’ll reignite responsibility and accountability.

MENTAL WELL-BEING

To better hear and serve what our children and loved ones need from us, we will make emotional and mental shifts. Together we’ll redirect our energy.

CONNECTEDNESS

In an age that has men disengaged and lost, we stand together for renewed capacity. In this spirit we draw from shared experiences to chart new paths forward.

Is this movement only for men?

Many of us have experienced divorce or familial alienation. Others have been raised without a loving or present father. With public policy and the legal system often stacked against men, we’ve suffered from depression, anxiety, and suicidal despair.

This kind of despair makes every day a struggle, and not only for us. For our kids, too. Finding other men who are restored—bonding with others who found their way through with hope to spare—is an energy we need. We’re here to share it.

As our partners and collaborators, women have counselled us and cheered us on. They want their fathers, husbands, brothers, and sons to thrive. But our purpose is informed by our experience as men. We’re here to walk with fathers like us.

Therefore, brethren, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, Abba, Father."

For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus."

Our Board of Directors

Jonathan LewisFounder

Jonathan Lewis / Founder

Jonathan Lewis is an entrepreneur and author of the books More Than Money (2021), on the good stewardship of our time, talent, and purpose; and Deep Water (2018), about his faith journey after witnessing the death of his father when Jonathan was a youth. His More Than Money podcast, inspired by his most recent book and his company Eastport Financial Group, charts the path for others to boost the mindsets, lives, and potential of those around us. A devoted husband and father whose own family alienation spurned the founding of Fathers for Fathers, Jonathan volunteers, raises funds, and advocates for charities and community ventures that model strong Christian values locally, nationally, and internationally.

Robert Beeson

After authoring Going Solo: Hope and Healing for the Single Mom or Dad, Robert launched Solo Parent Society in 2017 — a personal journey that followed an acclaimed professional life. He founded Essential Records and Senior VP of Sony/Provident, signing and developing Christian recording artists such as Jars of Clay, Third Day, Michael W Smith, and Casting Crowns. His work won 35 Dove Awards and 5 Grammy Awards, and was nominated for another 13 Grammys. He also founded iShine, the largest Christian Tween media company in the world, and has served with the Gospel Music Association, the WOW Partnership, and the ministry board for BEMA. Now remarried, Robert is a licensed minister.

Cale Dowell

After leaving Morgan Stanley seeking a paradigm shift in how wealth management serves and impacts people, he helped launch Arkos. A published thought leader in vulnerability analysis and risk mitigation, Cale is an engaging public speaker and has consulted with the many of the world’s largest corporations. He obtained his B.B.A in Entrepreneurship & Finance from Baylor University, and his expertise now spans technology, commercial real estate, O&G, private equity and startups. He is actively involved in his church and Young Life, where Cale has served for over a decade. He is a former Precinct Chair for Precinct 436, serves on several non-profit boards, and is a 7th generation Texan.

Erik Weir

Erik Weir is the principal of WCM Global Wealth LLC, a financial wealth advisory firm. As managing partner in WTA Media, a film and literary agency, he executive produced films such as Unbroken: Path to Redemption, Run the Race with Tim Tebow and Surprised by Oxford based on Carolyn Weber’s award-winning memoir; marketed the Erwin brothers’ I Can Only Imagine and I Still Believe, the Kendrick brothers’ War Room, the Fred Rogers documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Soul Surfer, the Bethany Hamilton story, and Heaven is for Real, based on the bestselling book; and he helped lead three WTA authors to New York Times bestselling status.

Trish Purdy

With 26 years of leading in the health and wellness industry plus serving as a Municipal Councillor in Nova Scotia, Trish is drawn by the link between healing and community. Ever-learning, she pursued a degree in Psychology followed by a master’s degree in Divinity, all while working and volunteering. Redirecting her energy towards ministry, Trish is committed to helping others who, like her, need support to break patterns of abuse stemming from absent or broken fathers. “When the family unravels, society unravels,” she says. “I know what it’s like to be on the receiving end of men who’ve underestimated the consequences of their actions on their wives and children, and to recover.”

Jordan Allen

In his early years, Jordan toured North America with his band The Contact, and released an album that was nominated for Rock Album of the Year at the ECMAs. He also earned an Honours degree in Communication Design from NSCAD University and established a celebrated career in agency work, winning 2005’s Gold ICE Award for Advertising in Atlantic Canada. He then founded his own successful design and communications house, and spent the next two decades delivering award-winning graphic design, content design, and website development to clients across a diverse range of industries. He joined Eastport Financial as VP Marketing in 2021.

Rev. Dr. Joseph BootSecretary

Rev. Dr. Joseph Boot

Rev. Dr. Joseph Boot (M.A., Ph.D.) is a Christian thinker and cultural apologist, Founder and President of the Ezra Institute for Contemporary Christianity. He is adjunct instructor for culture and apologetics at Bryan College, Tennessee. He also served as founding pastor of Westminster Chapel, Toronto for 14 years. Now resident home in Great Britain, Joseph has worked in the fields of Christian apologetics, worldview education and church leadership for over twenty-five years on both sides of the Atlantic. He has spoken and guest lectured globally at numerous university events, seminaries, churches, colleges, and conferences. He regularly addresses pastors and Christian leaders as well as academic, medical, legal, and political professionals and has publicly debated leading atheistic thinkers and philosophers in Canada and the United States.

Lisa KingSecretary

Lisa King / Secretary

With a long history of business administration for entrepreneurial retailers, financial advisors, HR consultants, and real estate investors, Lisa found herself rising to manage a winery. Seeking balance of her personal and professional goals, she joined Eastport Financial as their Controller & HR Manager, where she drives a new vision for automation, finds new efficiencies, and designs new systems and workflows for focus—all expertise indispensable as we grow Fathers for Fathers.

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