Fatherless
FATHERLESS
A cell group for fatherless men of all ages...
This came to me in church today...
I had a father at home as long as he lived, and I have raised my children as a present-father.
The same is true of fatherless men stumbling through adulthood, marriage and parenthood.
This idea is all about using the cell group concept
to especially
minister to those of any age...
who grew up fatherless.
It would be a hybrid
of a support group and a cell group.
There is an old
saying attributed to people from Mark Twain to Benjamin Franklin,
that says in effect, “He who is
self-taught has a fool for a teacher.”
This is how I am learning the banjo, and it shows.
I had a father at home as long as he lived, and I have raised my children as a present-father.
(Too-present at
times, according to them.) But there are a lot
of men who grew up without a father to teach them how to be a boy, a man, or a husband and a father.
Some of these fatherless males become
husbands and fathers and kind of go through the motions, hoping they are
doing things correctly, but are not really sure.
As a tradesman,
working on my own properties, I learned to mud and finish drywall by
reading books, and experimentation.
It was truthfully 25
years before I was confident in my ability to finish drywall, to give
a quality-finished product, though I’m sure there are many still
tricks of the trade
I am ignorant of.
I could have done
better, faster if I had had a mentor.
The same is true of fatherless men stumbling through adulthood, marriage and parenthood.
Update, August 2024: I have written a website to be used in such a cell group. See the photo.