Provide your son with a definitive rite of passage experience, escorting him into manhood!
Provide your son with a definitive rite of passage experience, escorting him into manhood!
I’m Dan Smith, founder of Voyage Rites. It has been a wild ride to get here.
As a teenager, I spent many dark years without direction and purpose. God changed my life, provided me purpose, and guided my steps through adulthood. After a fourteen year career in law enforcement and an incredible journey of growth and discovery, I'm following God's purpose for my life and living out my calling to spark a movement of rites of passage, equipping fathers and mentors with faith-based tools to guide boys into biblical manhood. Through scalable curricula, personal coaching, and powerful partnerships, we empower communities - churches, school, businesses, and families - to raise mighty men.
I am honored you are here as I fulfill my life’s mission and purpose, to provide YOU with the tools necessary to be an intentional father. For YOU to provide your son with memorable experiences that will INITIATE him into manhood.
I’m Dan Smith, founder of Voyage Rites.
It has been a wild ride to get here.
As a teenager, I spent many dark years without direction and purpose. God changed my life, provided me purpose, and guided my steps through adulthood. After a fourteen year career in law enforcement and an incredible journey of growth and discovery, I'm following God's purpose for my life and living out my calling to provide adolescent boys with clarity, vision, and direction through a rite of passage experience with their fathers.
I am honored you are here as I fulfill my life’s mission and purpose, to provide YOU with the tools necessary to be an intentional father. For YOU to provide your son with memorable experiences that will INITIATE him into manhood.
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT US
"Humans have what I call 'factory settings'. These are the traits and characteristics that are baked into our design. When we work to keep those in play, we tend to thrive.
Cultures have this, too. Rites of passage that are passed down from father to son are very much a factory setting that’s been missing, and Voyage Rites is going to right that wrong."
- Matt Beaudreau
"When a boy is given a rite of passage by his father or other male mentors, he does not have to 'prove himself' through things like reckless stunts, violence, binge drinking or the sexual conquest of women. Instead, his masculinity is bestowed upon him by men who he looks up to.
Voyage Rites has detailed rite of passage programs that properly initiates boys into manhood and makes it easy to organize a rite of passage for your son"
- Steven Arms
"Young men today are growing up in a world where they're confused, they feel isolated, they feel alone in their journey to hitting that next level and becoming a man.
The rites of passages from Voyage Rites solves that problem. As a child develops there are stages to the developmental process and so rites of passage allow the child to close the door to one chapter of his life and open the door to the next chapter and in his mind be able to logically compartmentalize his life."
- Sean Briscombe
What is culture telling your son about how to be a
man?
Do you want your son to grow up only having this definition of manhood? Through a rite of passage, YOU can provide your son with the proper vision of what it means to be a man, and in so doing, providing him with direction and purpose for his life.
Are you going to let culture initiate your son into
manhood?
Is this all you have to offer your son? Don’t pass up this opportunity to provide your son with a deeply meaningful and memorable experience, an initiation into manhood by his father. Rest assured, your son will not spend his life chasing these meaningless culture examples if you step up as his father.
But why does my son need a rite of passage?
Do you want your son to grow up in the same way?
I didn’t think so. Ancient cultures around the world have used rites of passage to initiate their sons into adulthood, welcoming them back into the tribe as men and as warriors, prepared to do what is needed, to protect, and to provide for those closest to them. Our society has lacked this, and it is time for that to change.
What is culture telling your son about how to
be a man?
Do you want your son to grow up only having this definition of manhood? Through a rite of passage, YOU can provide your son with the proper vision of what it means to be a man, and in so doing, providing him with direction and purpose for his life.
Are you going to let
culture initiate your son into manhood?
Is this all you have to offer your son? Don’t pass up this opportunity to provide your son with a deeply meaningful and memorable experience, an initiation into manhood by his father. Rest assured, your son will not spend his life chasing these meaningless culture examples if you step up as his father.
But why does my son
need a rite of passage?
Do you want your son to grow up in the same way?
I didn’t think so. Ancient cultures around the world have used rites of passage to initiate their sons into adulthood, welcoming them back into the tribe as men and as warriors, prepared to do what is needed, to protect, and to provide for those closest to them. Our society has lacked this, and it is time for that to change.
In partnership with incredible schools, churches, and organizations across the nation, we are bringing to your community an impactful one day father and son event.
This event empowers the boys to learn and grow shoulder to shoulder with their father and other male mentors while participating in fun, intentionally designed activities and discussions. This is an unforgettable experience!
Interested in hosting this event and having an impact on your community? View 2026 opportunities below!
Choose a downloadable guide and craft a powerful, meaningful, and unforgettable experience with your son. We'll give you the tools necessary to be intentional for your son and to escort him into manhood!
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