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Wednesday, August 04, 2004
Men's Life
Friend of mine, Rick Riley, has served for the past seven years in full-time ministry at "Young Life" in Newburgh. He's the guy who started the "Wild at Heart" study at CFC which was very successful and definitely helpful in my life. He has started a men's ministry called Men's Life and is looking to hold men's conferences, bible studies, seminars, retreats, mission trips full-time.
Starting September 7th, a class will be offered at CFC starting at 6:00 going through John Elldredge's book "Waking the Dead." I'm looking forward to it. Rick also plans to offer "Wild at Heart" again on Thursday evenings, starting September 9th - this time for single men only. Information on that should be in the bulletin this week at CFC. It's all free of course - other than the fact that you need to buy the book and workbook (could get book at library).
In addition to those classes, Rick and a friend of his have organized a mission trip to an all boys orphanage in Jamaica where they will be building some bunkhouses for future mission trips. It's my understanding that in Jamaican society, the men see it almost as a badge of honor to see how many children they can produce (but they don't marry the women and take care of the children.) The orphanage is run by two Catholic nuns who, according to Rick, are tough as nails. They teach the boys a trade like butcher or cook or some other trades. They raise chickens and hogs at the orphanage and sell them to help support themselves.
Rick has really felt that this is what God wants him doing full-time, but currently the money just isn't there. He's holding on, depending on God (through His people) to provide support for this ministry, but I can tell he is starting to doubt whether he has really made the decision that God wanted him to make because of the financial crunch. Rick is married and has two? daughters, one who is 19 and the other 22ish in college. Yikes.
8/04/2004 08:26:00 AM by Todd Bacon
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