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.
When I realized as a pastor that my congregational care was lacking, God led me to better address our long term pressing needs.

Congregational Care and Long Term Pressing Needs

What is unique about New Commandment Men’s Ministries is that it addresses long term needs by providing teams of men for practical and relational support over years and sometimes even decades.

Some churches form teams of men for their widows.

What Churches Do for Widows and Widowers

“Not much.” If you are a widow or widower and have had any experience with churches, that is probably what you thought when you saw the title for this post. And you are right. For the most part, churches focus on families and, contrary to what the Bible teaches, ignore […]

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O the Joys of SEO

SEO is simply telling people online who you are and what you do. Therefore, SEO is vital to any online ministry’s success.

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Is Retirement Biblical?

In our last New Commandment board meeting I was discussing whether or not I will retire when one of my board members mentioned that he doesn’t believe that Christians should retire. Wow! That was a new thought. But after I mulled it over later I realized that the concept of […]