Ministry to Fatherless Children

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.

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.

“Rejection is the defining characteristic of the fatherless generation.” William Pollack [Note: This post is taken from an article by Herb Reese entitled, “A Comprehensive Church-Based Ministry to Fatherless Boys.”] In this series of posts on fatherless boys, I now turn to the psychological aspects of fatherlessness. Repressed: Fatherless Boys […]

Fatherless boys represent a massive mission field in America that is just waiting for the church — and especially men’s ministry in the church — to address.