New Commandment Men’s Ministries helps churches recruit, train, organize and deploy teams of men that permanently adopt the widowed, single parents and others with long term needs in their church and community.
Teams are normally comprised of four men each and each man is asked to donate three hours of time, one Saturday morning a month, from seven to ten a.m. On a typical service day, all the teams meet at the church for prayer and bible study from seven to eight a.m. Then the men break up into their pre-assigned teams and go out and work in the home of their care receiver from eight to ten a.m. The men do basic chores around the home such as fix leaky faucets, clean windows, haul trash, etc. At the end of their time, the men gather around their care receiver and pray with him or her.
Each month, the team returns to the same care receiver, so their ministry to him or her extends over months and years. The men are asked to pray for the street they are working on and to make their services available to other widowed or single parents on the street. In this way, their ministry often extends into the community.
New Commandment Men’s Ministries typically sees ten to thirty per cent of all the men in a church become involved in this ministry.