My Upcoming Article on Single Moms

Men’s team ministry fascinates me for many reasons. One of them is the way it involves several different kinds of ministry. It involves men’s ministry, of course. But it also involves ministries to widows, widowers, single moms and dads, fatherless and motherless children, the disabled, and anyone else with long term needs.

Recently I spent about sixty hours writing an in depth article on church-based widows ministries. I sent it to you as one of my posts last Saturday. Now I am turning my attention to single mothers. I am writing an article with this working title: “The Church’s Responsibility to Single Mothers.”

I have had plenty of exposure to single mothers over the years. My grandmother was a widow and single mother of five children. My sister is a widow and single mother of two daughters. My family is close to a young widow and single mother whose husband died suddenly the day before their first and only child was born. I’m on the advisory board of The Life of a Single Mom, the leading single mom ministry in the United States. There were also a number of single mothers in my three pastorates, and currently men’s team ministries are serving thousands of single mothers around the world.

So far, I will be covering the following topics:

• What the Bible says about single moms
• Single motherhood in America
• The current state of church-based single mom ministries
• The different types of single moms
• Single moms and their children
• Single moms and their schedules
• Single moms and their futures
• Why single moms are important to the church
• The spiritual, emotional, social, and financial needs of single moms
• How a church can address these needs
• What an effective single moms ministry can look like

If you are a single mom or have experience with single moms, what do you think about this list? What would you add to it? What would you like me to emphasize? And what has been your experience with your church as a single mom? Leave a comment or respond to this email.

This post first appeared in NewCommandment.org.