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.

3 Classic OT Examples of Christ’s Love

They were precursors, forerunners, exemplars. Hundreds of years before Jesus Christ invaded our earth and left us his command to love each other as he has loved us, they actually did it. Three Old Testament saints loved someone else the way Christ tells us to. In doing so, they changed […]

An Intergenerational Orphanage and Retirement Community

I’ve often thought that combining a retirement home with an orphanage, foster care facility, preschool, or even an elementary school, would be super cool. The resulting interaction would develop a symbiotic relationship where older adults help with childcare and share their wisdom, while the children give purpose and joy to […]

Are You Serving a Widow with a Deadbeat Son?

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 […]

"No task too small" should be our motto when serving others."

No Task Too Small

Serving others may be humiliating, but such humiliation is necessary. Humility is a prerequisite Christian virtue. “No task too small” should our motto.

The Last Thing Pastors Need is One More Guilt Trip

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This post is a follow up on a recent one entitled, “Are Seminaries the Reason why Churches Ignore their Widowed and Single Parents?” I was going to title this one, “Are Pastors the Reason why Churches Ignore their Widowed and Single Parents?” But most pastors are already overburdened and stressed […]

The Life and Times of Theodorus Eby

I’m sitting in Corner Coffee Shop in Intercourse, Pennsylvania – Amish country – watching traffic go by while I write this post. A constant stream of cars and semis whiz along the narrow, two lane road running through town. Sometimes black buggies pulled by beautiful black or brown horses driven […]

My Harrowing Experience as a Mediator

“Helen” had a worried look on her face. “I need you to go to the hospital and talk to someone on behalf of my husband.” Her husband had just broadsided a car and severely injured two young boys in the back seat. Their father, who was driving, became irate and […]

Homelessness as Poverty of Relationship

Over the last couple of years I’ve had a number of fascinating conversations with homeless people. One frequent theme I hear is the problem of broken relationships. When I ask the homeless person I’m talking to whether or not they have family, they often respond that they do, but that […]