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.

Jesus, Friend of Women

Dear Women: Welcome to the modern world and its secular, godless men. In this new world, men have been taught all their lives that they are the end product of millions of years of evolution: the fittest of the fit. They believe they are mere animals with huge sex drives […]

Through Love Serve One Another

Maybe it was because my mother wasn’t Norwegian. I don’t know. But the reality was that Grandma Reese never thought Mom was good enough for her beloved firstborn son, Bernhard. No matter what she did, Mom couldn’t cook well enough, keep house well enough, or raise five children well enough […]

Do You Hate Your Wife Enough?

?If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters?yes, even their own life?such a person cannot be my disciple.” – Jesus I once quoted the above verse to a girl I was dating. I was just trying to explain my understanding […]

Has Your Church Conducted a Pressing Needs Audit?

“Our people must also learn to engage in good deeds to meet pressing needs, so that they will not be unfruitful.” Titus 3:14 Ignoring the pressing needs of fellow believers is a violation of the love of God We are told in scripture that one of the worst things we […]

The Neediest of All? Single Care Givers of Disabled Loved Ones

Photo courtesy Honza Soukup We focus men’s team ministry primarily on the needs of their widowed and single parents in our congregations, but there is a subgoup of people in our churches who often need special attention: single care givers of disabled loved ones. Over the past twenty years, I’ve […]

5 More Men’s Ministries You Should Know About

As I’ve said before, men’s team ministry to their widowed and single parents is not the be-all and end-all of men’s ministry. There are many different aspects to men’s ministry besides serving the widowed and single parents. If you’re using men’s team ministry to begin a men’s ministry in your […]

Meeting to Meet Needs trans teams of men to serve widows, single moms, and fatherless children.

Evaluating Your Men’s Team Ministry

The goal The goal in men’s team ministry is to practice the love of Christ as it applies to people with long term needs in our churches – such as their widowed and single parents – so that our churches can say, “There is not a needy person among us.” […]

A National Men’s Ministry Leadership Conference You Shouldn’t Miss

My post today is about an upcoming men’s ministry leadership conference that is dear to my heart. I discovered National Coalition of Ministries to Men (NCMM.org) by accident while researching men’s ministry on the Internet fifteen years ago. At the time, their next men’s ministry leadership conference was one month […]