To Rekindle and Establish the Spirit of Boys who have been abandoned by their fathers; mentoring them one-on-one in life skills through outdoor activities, and by sharing a Christian understanding of our Heavenly Father’s love and sacrifice for His children.
Fathers in the Field Works to Achieve 3 Important Goals:
Faith
Demonstrate to boys that they have a Father in Heaven who created, loves and cares for them, and will never forsake them.
Fatherhood
Demonstrate fatherly love and commitment, to repair broken spirits and prepare the foundation for future fatherhood.
Forgiveness
Share the need for boys to forgive the failings of their earthly fathers, as our Heavenly Father forgives His children in Christ.
Defend the cause of the Fatherless - ISAIAH 1:17
- Provide a complete turnkey resource to Churches
- Mentor the Fatherless
- Support single mothers
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These commandments that I give you today are to upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
DEUTERONOMY 6:6-7 NIV
As a Mentor Father to an abandoned boy, you have entered upon “holy ground” where God, your Heavenly Father, promises to be your Guide and Counselor. He will give you wisdom and understanding to impart to this young boy godly wisdom and life-changing strategies to overcome his difficult family situation.
The Life Journey curriculum that Fathers in the Field has developed will greatly assist you in this journey with your Field Buddy as you introduce him to his Heavenly Father.
The Diaconate
The Diaconate is the most natural oversight body for Fathers in the Field in the local church. This ministry will challenge the Diaconate to take an active mercy role in the local community.
If your Diaconate is too focused on looking inward, then it will need to be awakened to the crying needs of single moms and abandoned boys in your community. Sadly, the stereotypical role of the deacon is oversight of finances, setting up chairs, passing out bulletins, taking up offerings, and other property needs.
While these are necessary activities, they do not go to the biblical core rationale for the Office of the Diaconate. This office of the church was originally established as a servant ministry to take care of widows and orphans in their distress (Acts 6). Fathers in the Field is a wonderful way to renew the vision of the Deacons and return them to their biblical mandate.
Women's Ministry
Engaging the women in the church is a crucial aspect of Fathers in the Field. Due to the sensitive nature of a Mentor Father relating to a single mom, it is important to have a woman to liaise with the mom and guard against the potential pitfalls of impropriety. Not only that, but women also offer invaluable insights into the needs of a single mom and the challenges that she faces. They are “wired” differently than men and think of things that men would never come up with.
One example is that our women’s Bible study collected money to give to the Field Buddies (under the Mentor Father’s supervision) to buy their mothers flowers for Mother’s Day.
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As Christ’s Church, we must not stand idly by and let Satan destroy the next generation of our boys.
How does God require us, His people, to defend the cause of the fatherless and the widow? Has God changed His standard measurement of love for those of us who live in the New Testament Church Age? Does He still require us to show mercy and compassion to the fatherless and widow? How do the fatherless become part of the Church Family?
Jesus Himself answered these questions very loudly in the affirmative. He came proclaiming the truth of the Gospel through his teaching ministry and ministry of compassion to the sick and the disenfranchised. James, Jesus’ brother, also answers these questions unequivocally in James 1:27:
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after the orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
There is no wriggle room here-Christ’s Church must respond. If we don’t, God will judge us.
If we don’t, who will?
The development of an extended church family that will rally around the fatherless boy and his family is a vital component of the whole ministry. We desire to demonstrate to the single mother that she is not alone in her struggle to raise a family by herself and that the fatherless boy has many “uncles” and “grandfathers” who will model for him what it means to be a godly man in this world.
The deacons and women of the church will give support to the single mom as well as the boy. But this component of the ministry is not just for the abandoned boy and his mom. Because the negative impact upon abandoned girls is just as profound, we desire that the local church ministers to the whole family. Fathers in the Field mobilizes the local church into kingdom work and awakens it to the crying needs of abandoned boys and single moms in their community.
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I will be his Father, and he shall be my son. I will never take My love away from him...
1 CHRONICLES 17:13
Fathers in the Field leads boys outdoors, away from distractions, where they can relate one-to-one with a man they admire.
We reach them through single mothers, eager to give sons a father figure – a role they cannot fill alone.
Boys aged 7 to 17, who urgently need male role models.
We do require a three-year commitment (one year at a time) from participants, to provide constancy
We require that boys ‘earn’ the program’s blessings by serving others.
Above all, we strive to impart unshakable faith in a Heavenly Father who will never abandon His children.
Free of charge – we are funded by charitable sponsors and participating churches.