What Daniel does ...

My name is Greg Porter and, as the Daniel Foundation, all I undertake is intended to encourage civic, personal and spiritual renewal both in the men with whom I meet and
the community in which I am situated. Namely, the community of Phoenixville.

While I help run some programs, I am not about programs. I am about relationships. I befriend men from all walks of life and from every place on the racial, political, cultural
and religious spectrum. The only thing these men have in common is that they are
looking for someone to assist them in some way.

• Some want someone to think out loud with them about their career and/or vocational concerns.
• Others want to confide in someone about personal issues or marital struggles that they dare not disclose to anyone in their regular circles.
• Others are not sure what they want, other than a friend with whom to discuss whatever is of concern or interest to them.
• Still others want someone with whom to either explore, perhaps for the first time, the life and teaching of Christ.


The problem is that they are afraid to bring up spiritual questions in any sort of religious or institutional setting. They are afraid, with some justification, that their spiritual inquiry will be treated like a sales opportunity rather than an occasion to deliberate together over those questions without fear, embarrassment or unstated religious obligations. What I offer is a friendship who will not impose, but who will accompany men on their respective and unique spiritual journeys, dealing with their dilemmas and corresponding questions as they arise.

Those who attend church often are programmed out. They have tried almost every program in the book but find that nothing quite fits. They grow weary of platitudes, longing for honest deliberation over how to as they more thoughtfully and creatively enact their faith in their particular, and unique, context.

One of the reasons I love my work is because no two days are alike.

• On Monday I may be visiting a man from the local homeless shelter who just needs assistance on how to budget his time and manage what little money he has.
• On Tuesday I am sitting down with the owner of a local company over a sandwich who needs someone to think out loud with about to live a life of greater faithfulness and integrity.
• The next day I am helping someone who struggles with an addiction of some sort.
• Thursday may find me running a program designed to help high school kids, exploring with them about what the
  book, Season of Life calls, the “three lies of manhood” that, if unaddressed and uncorrected, will leave them perpetually insecure and prone to destructive habits.
• On Friday I may be having breakfast with a local man who needs a safe person to address his religious questions without fear of obligation or embarrassment.
• Saturday may find me talking with the owner of another local business about the possibility of giving a man who is recommended by the staff at the local homeless shelter, the opportunity for employment.

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