Here's the Pledge Mason and I shared.

I, Mason Cornelius, promise God and this fellowship of Men,
To honor and obey the Lord.
To keep him first in my life.
To honor God in my speech.
To honor God's House, the Church, by being an active part through serving and giving of myself.
I promise to honor my parents and all other authority
I promise to respect others.
I promise to be pure out of respect for my future wife, honoring her by waiting to have sex until I am married.
I promise to respect other people's stuff.
I promise to be honest.
I promise to be grateful for what I have and work hard to earn whatever I want in life.

Let's pray.  You just committed to the ten commandments, the God Code of real, Biblical manhood.”

Then I declared over my son that tonight he has become a man!  After this, I prayed over my son while weeping, and then I told that the pledge was the biblical code of manhood, which is actually the Ten Commandments.  Then I talked about Exodus 20:4 mentioning God’s blessing extending generations, and I asked my dad (Mason’s grandfather) to pray for Mason while all the men laid hands on him.  When the prayer was finished, we all cheered and hugged Mason, and I thanked everyone for coming.  Several men finished their wisdom walks with Mason, and we packed up and went home. 

When it was all over, Mason told me it was the greatest day of his life.  He will never forget it, and neither will the men who were with him.   Late last night, before Mason went to bed (after scrubbing paint off his face in the shower), he came downstairs to ask if he could pray with us.  Then he said in his prayer “I feel like tonight was the appetizer,” referring to the rest of his life being something to really look forward to.   What happened last night is really simple:  we, as men, placed destiny in the heart of a boy, and he accepted it to become a man.