According to Warren Farrell and John Gray in The Boy Crisis, fathers are critical for the wellbeing of their sons and daughters.
Herb Reese
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How about this for a great men’s ministry idea? Provide a garage-like Men’s Shed just for men, especially for retired or unemployed men struggling with loneliness and depression. Then stock it with tools and a pot of hot coffee so men can hang out, do hands on projects at their own pace, drink coffee, and talk.
One of the best ways to reach unchurched fatherless boys is to focus on ministries that draw the fatherless into churches. I’ll start with the most obvious.
Proper male role models for fatherless boys, both husbands and single men, should figure prominently in your CE ministry and especially in your youth ministry.
Given the pervasiveness of the need, every men’s ministry in the country should have an emphasis on ministry to fatherless boys.
By systematically approaching the individual needs of each of the widows in your church you should eventually be able to say, “There is no needy person among us.”
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.
Without an understanding of the importance of a widows ministry, your church will not be able to address their needs appropriately.
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 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.