When I was growing up as a boy in the Taylor Memorial church in Anderson, SC, there was no Royal Rangers or any other structured boys\u2019 ministries for us.\u00a0 However, there were three men who saw the need to do something for the boys in their church; so they started a ministry called Christian Boys Club. We played all the sports that boys love\u2013 baseball, football, basketball\u2013 the only rule was that to play, you had to be there on time for the devotion. We sat through what seemed like endless devotions.\u00a0 I could not tell you today one single devotion that we had, but if you asked me who was important in my life as a boy, I would tell you it was Guy Davis, Bobby Baxter, and Bobby Smith. Why? Because they spent time with us and prayed with us and for us.<\/p>\n
I remember sitting in the back seat of Bobby Smith\u2019s car as he took several of us home after the weekly Monday night meeting.\u00a0 Bobby was leading one of the new boys who came that night as he asked Jesus to come into his life.\u00a0 That moment impacted my life to this very day, resulting in my having the opportunity to do the same for many other boys.\u00a0 Guy Davis, Bobby Smith, and Bobby Baxter are my top three mentoring heroes. They taught me that to impact the life of a boy you did not have to be fancy, just consistent.\u00a0 From that group of boys, there have been two missionaries, at least five ordained ministers, many great local church leaders, a Navy Chaplain, and the National Director for Boys\u2019 Ministries.<\/p>\n
Another one of my mentoring heroes is my good friend, Clyde Nichols. Clyde is a quiet and faithful man of God. He has been consistently involved in Royal Rangers since 1985, 26 of those years working in the Franklin Springs PHC every Wednesday night.\u00a0 Clyde is now mentoring the second generation of boys; the sons of the boys we started with 26 years ago. It has been said that when you impact a boy\u2019s life you are actually impacting the next three generations\u2013 the boy, his future children, and then his grandchildren.<\/p>\n
Mentoring boys and making disciples does not have to be complicated, but it does have to be intentional. The late Dan Erickson said that \u201cto expect someone to become a disciple of Christ makes about as much sense as putting a bunch of car parts in a box, shaking them up, and then expecting a car to fall out.\u201d It also must be consistent. It is a matter of priorities. In my office, I have a picture of a small boy standing and looking out at the ocean. The caption underneath reads, \u201cA hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove \u2026 but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a boy.\u201d<\/p>\n
IPHC Boys’ Ministries has many resources that we can recommend to help you be important in the life of a boy. Call or email us today, and see how we can help you provide your boys with a picture of and a process for becoming a Christ-like man.<\/p>\n
You can contact David Moore, the National Director of IPHC Boys\u2019 Ministries, the following ways.<\/p>\n
Email: dmoore@lifesprings.net<\/p>\n
Cell phone: 706-498-3341<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":8820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1],"tags":[1093,1082,1051,365,1103,1094],"class_list":{"0":"post-4874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boys-ministries","8":"category-general","9":"tag-discipleship-stories","10":"tag-boys-ministries","11":"tag-iphc-discipleship-ministries","12":"tag-mentoring","13":"tag-rocket-science","14":"tag-stories-of-discipleship","15":"entry"},"title_es":"Mentoring 101 (No es Rocket Science)","content_es":"Cuando crec\u00eda de ni\u00f1o en la iglesia Taylor Memorial en Anderson, Carolina del Sur, no hab\u00eda Royal Rangers ni ning\u00fan otro ministerio de ni\u00f1os estructurado para nosotros. Sin embargo, hubo tres hombres que vieron la necesidad de hacer algo por los ni\u00f1os en su iglesia; Entonces comenzaron un ministerio llamado Christian Boys Club. Jugamos todos los deportes que los ni\u00f1os aman: b\u00e9isbol, f\u00fatbol, baloncesto. La \u00fanica regla era que para jugar, ten\u00edas que estar all\u00ed a tiempo para la devoci\u00f3n. Nos sentamos a trav\u00e9s de lo que parec\u00edan infinitas devociones. No podr\u00eda decirles hoy una sola devoci\u00f3n que ten\u00edamos, pero si me preguntaran qui\u00e9n era importante en mi vida de ni\u00f1o, les dir\u00eda que fueron Guy Davis, Bobby Baxter y Bobby Smith. \u00bfPor qu\u00e9? Porque pasaron un tiempo con nosotros y oraron con nosotros y por nosotros. Recuerdo estar sentado en el asiento trasero del auto de Bobby Smith cuando nos llev\u00f3 a varios de nosotros a casa despu\u00e9s de la reuni\u00f3n semanal del lunes por la noche. Bobby estaba liderando a uno de los nuevos muchachos que llegaron esa noche cuando le pidi\u00f3 a Jes\u00fas que entrara en su vida. Ese momento impact\u00f3 mi vida hasta el d\u00eda de hoy, lo que me dio la oportunidad de hacer lo mismo con muchos otros ni\u00f1os. Guy Davis, Bobby Smith y Bobby Baxter son mis tres mejores h\u00e9roes mentores. Me ense\u00f1aron que para impactar la vida de un ni\u00f1o, no ten\u00eda que ser elegante, solo coherente. De ese grupo de muchachos, ha habido dos misioneros, al menos cinco ministros ordenados, muchos l\u00edderes de grandes iglesias locales, un capell\u00e1n de la Armada y el Director Nacional para los Ministerios de Ni\u00f1os. Otro de mis h\u00e9roes mentores es mi buen amigo, Clyde Nichols. Clyde es un hombre de Dios tranquilo y fiel. Ha estado involucrado constantemente en Royal Rangers desde 1985, 26 de esos a\u00f1os trabajando en el PHC de Franklin Springs todos los mi\u00e9rcoles por la noche. Clyde ahora es mentora de la segunda generaci\u00f3n de ni\u00f1os; Los hijos de los chicos con los que empezamos hace 26 a\u00f1os. Se ha dicho que cuando afecta a la vida de un ni\u00f1o, en realidad est\u00e1 afectando a las pr\u00f3ximas tres generaciones: el ni\u00f1o, sus futuros hijos y luego sus nietos. Ser mentor de ni\u00f1os y hacer disc\u00edpulos no tiene por qu\u00e9 ser complicado, pero s\u00ed tiene que ser intencional. El difunto Dan Erickson dijo que \"esperar que alguien se convierta en un disc\u00edpulo de Cristo tiene tanto sentido como poner un mont\u00f3n de piezas de autom\u00f3viles en una caja, sacudirlas y luego esperar que se caiga un autom\u00f3vil\". consistente. Es una cuesti\u00f3n de prioridades. En mi oficina, tengo una foto de un ni\u00f1o peque\u00f1o de pie y mirando el oc\u00e9ano. La leyenda debajo dice: \"Dentro de cien a\u00f1os, no importar\u00e1 cu\u00e1l sea mi cuenta bancaria, el tipo de casa en la que viv\u00eda o el tipo de autom\u00f3vil que manej\u00e9 ... pero el mundo puede ser diferente porque yo era importante en la vida\". de un ni\u00f1o \u201d. IPHC Boy's Ministries tiene muchos recursos que podemos recomendar para ayudarlo a ser importante en la vida de un ni\u00f1o. Ll\u00e1menos o env\u00edenos un correo electr\u00f3nico hoy mismo y descubra c\u00f3mo podemos ayudarlo a brindarles a sus hijos una imagen y un proceso para convertirse en un hombre como Cristo. Puede comunicarse con David Moore, el Director Nacional de Ministerios de Ni\u00f1os de IPHC, de las siguientes maneras. 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