I have been influenced by the Bible throughout my entire life. There has never been a time in my conscious awareness when I did not know about and believe in this amazing book. Paul’s words to Timothy in his second epistle to him apply to myself as well: “From a […]
Herb Reese
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I heard recently that the intersection of the 405 freeway with the Santa Monica freeway west of Los Angeles is the busiest in the entire U.S. That didn’t surprise me at all. Even forty-five years ago, when I was commuting as a student to UCLA just north of there, it […]
Even Small Churches can do Some Form of Men’s Team Ministry I get this a lot: “We’re a small church. We have less than fifty members. I don’t think men’s team ministry is going to work in our church.” True. Men’s team ministry as we normally describe it normally won’t […]
“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” I don’t know about everyone else, but I was really bad at loving my neighbor as myself. I give myself passing grades on husbandhood and fatherhood. But when it came to the neighborhood? Frankly, I could have cared less. In other words, I […]
Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow. Isaiah 1:17 People with long term needs need an advocate The person (or people) your men’s team ministry is serving is in a tough situation. Perhaps your care receiver is a single mother of two young children […]
The widowed and single parents in our churches have long term needs that, by definition, can last for years and even decades. Men’s team ministry meets those needs in a revolutionary way: by providing consistent and effective care that also lasts for years and decades. Why? We do this because […]
As a pastor, I shepherded two churches through two natural disasters: a hurricane and a once-in-500-year flood. Because I wasn’t prepared, I didn’t do well at all when hurricane Alicia hit Hitchcock, Texas in 1983. My ignorance and unpreparedness paralyzed me and kept me from providing any meaningful response. Ten […]
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Every now and then your team’s care receiver may tell you she (or he) has nothing for you to do at her home. For those of us who own homes, we all know that this is really never completely true. There’s always something to do. So it’s nice to have […]
A long term vision for long term ministry The goal of men’s team ministry to their widowed and single parents is to provide effective and consistent ministry to people in churches with long term needs. These people are most often the widowed and single parents, but can also be people […]