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| Greetings, my husband asked me to seek advice from my board buddies. We are a smaller church and the men's breakfasts are getting tired and the numbers are shrinking. He has been searching for a new ministry that does not always involve work projects, or extended retreats.
Any men/leaders out there know of a cool men's ministry that he may look into? Thanks so much!
Donna NH
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| | Hi I know our churches mens ministry was having the same problem. What is it with us men? hehe Anyway, one thing we have switched to is rather than do a once a week breakfast and a yearly retreat, is that we do a once a month get together with a theme. It varies, but one was talking about our struggles, particularly in spiritual warfare. They did a goofy skit based on WWF and had some guys fake the wrestling. Then we talked about it in small groups. We're not a large church and it was a fairly small gathering, but it was impactful, and people felt more connected than just doing a breakfast. It was different and stuck in our heads as a result. So have your men get together and find out what you are interested in doing, what do they like to do? Then find something along those lines. If they are into basketball, you could even get together at a eating establishment, buy some wings, and talk about how the 64 college basketball teams get selected into the NCAA tournament and how is that like or unlike God 'choosing us'. You can pretty much make a connection point with anything. I know it's hard. ;-)
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| | Hello there, We are also a small church, around 130 members. I am in charge of our Men's Group. We currently meet just once a month. We start out having right around 6 men show up, but after they found out what we do we now have about 20. We start off at 6:00 PM having a small meal, "potluck" style, then we have a "MAN" presentation at 7:00 PM that goes usually till about 8:00 PM. When I mean "MAN" I mean things then MEN like, not saying women don't like it, but you know what I mean. Here's what we have done so far..... October - Fire Prevention -- I am a Fire fighter and did the presentation. November - Venison meal -- Hunting stories December - Wife's were invited for Hand Bell Concert January - Ice Fishing February - Your Favorite Hobby - talk about your favorite hobby March - Build a Rocket April - Launch the Rocket / Car Maintenance May - Woodworking You get the idea...It's been going great so far for us. Good luck with your group, we will be praying for ya.
Jason Allen
Lydia United Methodist Church
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| I did a Men's ministry for four years, years ago, as an ambassador for Promise Keepers. I got three other guys to join me as a leadership team. We used the Promise Keepers "Funnel" model. Maybe they have some info about that on their web site. It took a while to get going but was strong and steady.
Quarterly we did area-wide events to acquaint our guys with guys in other churches. We'd get a good speaker and either have a dinner or a snack. It was great to then see these guys during our normal work days and know we were not alone on our job sites. It grew to 600 men attending from about 20 different churches. From these events many weekly Bible studies and support groups were started in the area.
Often time men's groups revolve around an activity because guys open up when they spend time together. We plan activities together: go camping; shoot guns; play golf; build a youth garage; go to breakfast. Build relationships and talk about our issues. Guys need to perceive a value or benefit to themselves to carve time from their busy schedules to attend.
One cool thing is that really spiritually hungry guys will perceive great value to a seminary quality Bible course. Another course that did well was, "Valiant Man" by Careforce Ministries.
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| | Have you read "Why Men Hate Going to Church" by David Murrow? I think it's the best book written so far in dealing with men & believe it has lots of ideas you could use for a Men's Ministry! |
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