New Commandment Men's Ministries
Using teams of men to serve widows, single moms, and fatherless children
New Commandment Men's Ministries
Using teams of men to serve widows, single moms, and fatherless children

Are You Serving a Widow with a Deadbeat Son?

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I’ve had it.

Up to here.

I’m currently working with three widows, each of whom have an adult son who is not pulling his weight when it comes to helping his mother. And the problem is, the mothers are too timid to call them on it. It’s not like the sons can’t help. They just don’t. So instead, their mothers expect me to fill the gap.

I’ve decided this has to stop. I’m going to insist that either they confront their sons about helping them, or that they allow me to. Otherwise, I’m out of the picture.

I’m wondering if anyone else is struggling with this same problem. If so, leave a comment.

This post first appeared in NewCommandment.org.

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AUTHOR

Herb Reese
Herb Reese is an author, public speaker and President of New Commandment Men's Ministries. Herb has a B.A. in History from UCLA and a Th.M. in Pastoral Ministries from Dallas Theological Seminary. He has done post graduate work in The History of Ideas at University of Texas, Dallas and in Church Administration at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. After serving as a pastor over a period of twenty years, Herb founded New Commandment Men's Ministries, a ministry dedicated to helping churches recruit, train, organize and deploy teams of men who permanently adopt their widowed and single parents. Herb has served as President of New Commandment since 2003 and has helped 1,000 churches develop men's team ministries in all 50 states and eight foreign countries. Herb and his wife, Patti, live in Arvada, Colorado, and have three adult children.

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