Welcome to OBC Men's Ministry

For those of you who know how technology-challanged I am, this is an exciting time for me. I am excited to have finally created this blog for the men of Ogletown Baptist Church as well as others who strive to be men of God. This blog is the result of many hours of prayer, many hours of trial and error and the wonderful patience of my wife Cheryl and my daughter Amanda.

The purpose of this blog is to help the men grow in their relationship with our Lord and Savior, to provide resources to encourage men in their daily walk, to help men fulfill their God-given roles as servant-leaders, husbands and fathers in their homes, to help men get connected to other men who desire to lead godly lives and to help keep men up to date on upcoming men's ministry events at OBC.

I accepted Christ as my Lord and Savior on June 2, 1998 at a funeral. Pastor Gary Hayden (Senior Pastor at Midway Baptist Church in Rehoboth, DE) preached at the funeral, shared the Gospel and gave the invitation that changed my life for good. God had been working on my heart for years as I tried to continually do things in my own strength, never realizing that anything done apart from a relationship with Him is meaningless. Like millions of other men, I always believed in God, but I didn't know Jesus Christ. I believed that if I did enough good things and didn't commit any of the BIG sins, I would someday be able to convince God to let me in Heaven. It wasn't until I finally put all of the pieces together and realized that I was a hopeless sinner who could only be saved by believing that Christ lived a perfect sinless life and died on the cross to pay for my sins and accepted his sacrificial death as payment for my sin debt that I could be forgiven and accept His free gift of everlasting life. What an awesome Savior!!

My involvement in men's ministry is the result of an alter call response I made at a Promise Keepers event in 2005. My family and I had just started coming to OBC and I had been prayerfully seeking His will in where He would have me serve and use my spiritual gifts and talents. It was during this event that I realized that there were many challanges facing Christian men in our world and these challanges could never be met apart from a strong personal relationship with Christ and a connection with other godly men who were seeking to grow in their faith. The Lord laid on my heart the reality that the world does everything possible to distance and distract men from leading God-honoring lives and pursuing His Kingdom and His righteousness. It was then and there that I committed my life to helping men fulfill their God-given roles to love and lead their families.

There isn't a day that goes by in my personal devotional time with God that I don't ask him to speak to me as to what He wants me to do to serve Him. I praise Him for giving me a passion for serving the men of our church and a passion for reaching out and helping men outside of our church as well.

I pray that God will use me through this ministry and through this blog to minister to the men of Ogletown Baptist Church in a way that brings Him honor and glory!