Men’s Team Ministry

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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.

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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.

Christ’s Love as a Guarantee of Well-Being

We live in a love-saturated culture. People everywhere talk about, write about (as I am now), sing about, make movies about, paint about…love. All. The. Time. But what we don’t live in is a Christian-love-saturated culture. Jesus tells us that there is a qualitative difference between Christian love and all […]

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In Men’s Ministry, Teamwork Makes the Dream Work

As I’ve mentioned in a recent post, Patti and I love watching the home remodeling channel, HGTV. One of our favorite shows is Good Bones, where Mina Starsiak and her mom, Karen Lane, remodel dilapidated homes in the southeastern suburbs of Indianapolis. At the beginning of each show Mina’s husky […]

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Don’t You Read Your Bible?

The late Dr. John G. Mitchell, a well known and much loved pastor and Bible teacher in the Pacific Northwest, would tease his students when they couldn’t answer a biblical question during his lectures. He’d lean over his lectern, smile, and ask, “Don’t you read your Bible?” Over the past […]

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Outdoor Projects Your Care Receiver may have Overlooked

My team met together to serve our care receiver for the first time during the COVID-19 pandemic last Saturday. We maintained our six feet of distance as we ate breakfast burritos out on her back deck. Then we did various outdoor projects for the rest of the time. Our need […]