Herb Reese

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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.

Refocus Your Deacon Ministry on Ministry to Widows

Like the apostles, the church today is also doing a poor job ministering to its widows. The solution to this problem is the same as it was two thousand years ago: make meeting the pressing needs of widows in the church the sole function of deacons.

One way to minister to fatherless boys is to provide transportation for them to youth group.

Providing Guidance for Fatherless Boys in Your Church

Over the years, every time I reached out to a fatherless boy, he responded positively. The few hours I spent taking fatherless boys to church youth groups were well worth my time. Taking a fatherless boy to your church’s youth group will be worth your time as well.

The gospel is pure gold for any fatherless boy because it tells him how God the Father can become his father.

Restoring Hope: The Christian World View and Fatherless Boys

The biblical view of God as a Father who can also become our Father is pure gold for every fatherless child, especially for every fatherless boy. Because in God that fatherless boy can have a Father, and in God he can also find a model of whom he, too, can become: someone who begets and then loves, protects and nourishes his begotten.

Fatherless boys often find it difficult to express their emotions about feelings of rejection.

Repressed, Alone, Betrayed, Rudderless and Hopeless: How it Feels to be a Fatherless Boy

“Rejection is the defining characteristic of the fatherless generation.” William Pollack [Note: This post is taken from an article by Herb Reese entitled, “A Comprehensive Church-Based Ministry to Fatherless Boys.”] In this series of posts on fatherless boys, I now turn to the psychological aspects of fatherlessness. Repressed: Fatherless Boys […]

There is a correlation between the number of fatherless boys and church attendance in America.

Fatherless Boys in Perspective

Fatherless boys represent a massive mission field in America that is just waiting for the church — and especially men’s ministry in the church — to address.