News & Updates September 15, 2008

Greetings!

The new video series “The Quest for Authentic Manhood” has begun at both locations and is being well attended. See the front page of our website for details, time & locations. This weeks topic is “The First Step to Authentic Manhood: ‘Looking Back’”, the good, noble and missed moments in my life…”There’s always room for one or two more and you can always pick up on the day’s topics with each showing.
Disaster Preparedness, Relief & Recovery activity has subsided pretty much. We have been getting some calls from folks that have needed trees removed or some repairs made to keep the weather out, we’ve responded to them as we could. Unfortunately, some have been more than we’ve been able to take care of. I would remind you for reasons of safety & security it is necessary for volunteers to be registered before we can send them out from Volunteer Wakulla or in some cases through Men’s Fraternity of Wakulla. Forms are available through our website or Volunteer Wakulla’s website.
Men’s Ministry Activities are also coming in as word gets out that there are men willing to be neighbor’s helping neighbors. This is a great ministry for us to share the love of God through service to our community while fellowshipping with each other. We are on the edge of connecting with other men in the community to join this effort, please keep this in your prayers each day. We are going to try to get these on our Ark-Almighty link on our website as they come in and are completed.
An important Excerpt from All Pro Dad: So many young boys today grow up in an atmosphere of little to no male influence. Many boys are raised in a single-mother household, spend their infancy in daycare run by women, and in schools with a majority of female teachers. They don’t have a man in their life to teach them manhood apart from an occasional coach. They have no one other than peers to ask why their sexual drive is so high or why they have a violent tendency. They’re more likely to drop out of school, develop a drug habit, be incarcerated end even murdered. There is a hole in their heart that only a father (loving male influence) can fill.
All Pro Dad and the PTA is something we’re looking at very hard. I am more than excited when I look at what is available through that program for our kids and our community. I want to invite, dare, instruct, and even challenge you to take a look at “All Pro Dads” on our website, click on the All Pro Dads + PTA=involved fathers on the top of their webpage. Browse the website and then tell me you don’t get excited. Think of the impact it could have on this community if we had an All-Pro Dads chapter in each of our elementary or middle schools sponsored by Men’s Fraternity of Wakulla. Please check it out, pray over it and get back to me to see how we might be able to start simultaneous All-Pro Dads programs in our school system.
Wakulla County Domestic and Sexual Violence Task Force has asked for men to step up to the plate and join in the effort to prevent this violence against women & children in our community. Bill Lytle has agreed to be our Liaison to the Task Force but will need other men to join him in promoting that effort. Domestic and Sexual Violence affects many in our community, many who would never utter a word. Education and support will go a long way to eradicate this problem. See Bill for more details on the “CALLING ALL MEN” event October 28th.

News & Up-dates are only reports of future or current activities of Men’s Fraternity of Wakulla. It takes our ‘hands on’ participation to make things happen. Not everything is for everyone, but as we come together we can participate in area’s we enjoy. The ministry exists to “Serve God, Family & Community, one man at a time”, we can’t do that if men don’t participate in the activities. The pay might not be good, but the rewards are ‘out of this world’.

Partnering together in HIS service.

Steve Smith, Coordinator
Men’s Fraternity of Wakulla
“Serving God, Family & Community, one man at a time”
P.O. Box 1024
Crawfordville, FL 32326
850-926-3018 (H)
850-508-2560 (C)
www.byHISgrace.cc/MensFraternityofWakulla

These updates originally published on September 18, 2008.

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