After twenty-five years of experience with men’s team ministry, I can quickly discern when a church’s men’s team ministry is doing something right. It’s simple: it has “the wow factor.”
The wow factor is hard to define. You just know it when you see it. Below are some examples.
You know your men’s team ministry to the widowed and single parents is doing something right when:
- Your men eagerly talk about their service day when asked the following Monday at work what they did that weekend.
- You have teams that have been faithfully serving their care receiver for over ten years.
- You have men move away and ask how they can start a men’s team ministry in their new church.
- Other churches in your community see what your church is doing with your men, your widows, and your single moms, and they copy your ministry.
- Your widows start calling their team members “sons” and your single moms start calling their team members “brothers.”
- The children of your single moms grow up and marry godly spouses because of the example of her team.
- You have a care receiver who brags about her team to her hairdresser.
- The neighbor of your care receiver comes over while you are working and says, “Now this is the way Christians should act!”
- The local welfare department hears about your men’s team ministry and calls you up and asks you for help.
- Three physicians form their own team, adopt a widow in their church, and make a “house call” to her once a month.
- Your men’s ministry becomes the strongest ministry in your church.
- A care receiver dies and her team serves as her pall bearers–and it makes the front page of the local paper.
- The entire extended family of a single mom comes to the Lord and they fill up two rows of pews on Sunday morning–all because of the testimony of the single mom’s team.
- Your pastor is able to say, “Because of our men’s team ministry, there is not a needy person among us.”
This post first appeared in NewCommandment.org.
Since 2003 New Commandment Men’s Ministries has helped hundreds of churches throughout North American and around the world recruit teams of men who permanently adopt their widowed and single parents in their congregations for the purpose of donating two hours of service to them one Saturday morning each month. We accomplish this with a free training site called New Commandment Men’s Ministry
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