Legacy Magazine
November 2025
It may be a gut-wrenching separation; it may be a celebration. However it feels, leaving one’s home and family is the first concrete step in adulthood. The nets, or portions of them, have been removed. We’re suddenly on our own, and we have to deal with it, somehow.
From a sojourn in Eretz Israel to a family set adrift in the South China Sea, this issue is dedicated to that first step, however painful, halting, splendid, or joyous it was.
Whatever form your own departure from the (relative) safety of your first home took, you’ll likely hear echoes in the stories herein.
It’s also time for the annual Legacy Magazine MDI Man of the Year nominations. It’s your chance to nominate a man who truly represents what MDI is all about. Do you know a man on fire? A man living the MDI Mission? The one who best exemplifies our Code of Honor? Inside this issue you can nominate that man, that we may celebrate him, and potentially crown him our MDI Man of the Year for 2025.
We also have another installment in our ongoing series, Why Men Leave. A long-time MDI man tells his tale.
And of course, cartoons; our columnist’s latest offering; and our MDI President’s November Firepit Chat.
Glad to have you along!
The Day You Left Home
It's Funny Because it's True.
A Firepit Chat with the President of MDI
Chris Christopher
Who Will be Legacy Magazine's 'MDI Man of the Year 2025'?
Since 2014, Legacy Magazine has crowned one man – a man deemed by his peers to be truly living the mission of MDI – as our MDI Man of the Year.
Nominated by you, this is our opportunity to honor and celebrate the best among us. The MDI Man of the Year is not just for men in top leadership, and it’s not about who has done more over the years.
This is about a Man Who is On Fire Right Now.
He’s with you in the trenches.
He’s playing a huge game in his life.
He’s operating with honesty and integrity.
And, he is giving the gift of MDI away, and truly living by the Code of Honor.
CRITERIA:
Is a current MDI Member
Lives our Mission
Playing a Huge Game
Offering MDI to others in some meaningful way
Previous “MDI MAN OF THE YEAR” Award Winners:
2024 Olaf Krop, Atlas
• 2023 Jonathan Lane, Atlas
• 2022 Erfan Ahmadi, Atlas
• 2021 “The Mature Masculine Leader“
• 2020 David Smith, Canada
• 2019 “The Man We Lost”
• 2018 Eric Mortimer, Canada
• 2017 Ian Kennard, Eastern Canada
• 2016 Brian Mumford, New England Region
• 2015 Jeff Lawrence, Western Canada Region
• 2014 Ashanti Branch, Western Region
Who Will Be Next?
Who Will Be the 2025
Legacy Magazine MDI Man of the Year?
Nominations Open
INSTRUCTIONS:
To nominate a man, include his name; team; division; region; and 1 – 3 paragraphs explaining why he should be the Legacy Magazine MDI Man of the Year.
Click the red button to send your nomination by e-mail:
Nominate your Man by FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2025.
The Man of the Year will be selected from all nominees based on merit by
the Legacy Magazine staff, regional scouts, and the MDI President. The Winner will be Announced in January.
All nominations will be made public.
