Fellowship – Westchester Men's Ministry

Looking For a Job? Join us!

January 16, 2013 by nymensministry 2 Comments

Update: Next Meeting is February 13th!

Are you looking for a new job, out of work, or know someone who is? We created a transition group in October that now meets every month. Our goal is to provide support, connection and prepare you for the job search. Our tagline is Together, Let’s Get Back to Work!

We meet every second Wednesday at Community Bible Church of Northern Westchester

Due to a scheduled event this month, we are meeting TONIGHT! Please feel free to join us at 6:30pm for coffee and encouragement. You don’t have to go through your job search alone.

For directions, see CBC’s website at: http://www.communitybiblechurch.org/

Tonight’s Discussion: Preparing for an interview

Please don’t forget to bring a notebook and business cards if you have them.

Feel free to forward this to anyone you feel would benefit. All our invited. Thanks!

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Annual Christmas Dinner

December 14, 2012 by nymensministry 2 Comments

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Please join us for our annual Christmas dinner next Tuesday, December 18th at Community Bible Church in Yorktown, NY. Please RSVP by going to our evite page at: Westchester Men’s Ministry 2012 Christmas Dinner

I hope you can join us. Merry Christmas!!

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2012 Men’s Retreat!

September 9, 2012 by nymensministry 1 Comment

The Retreat is here! This coming weekend.

Thursday, September 13th – Sunday, September 16th

Lake Champion, NY (Glen Spey, NY)

If you haven’t signed up yet, it isn’t too late. But you better hurry.

Learn more and register here: http://www.priorityone.org/index.php?option=com_lc_register&Itemid=80

Price discount if you are part of the work team. Scholarships also available.

Logistics: The weekend starts with dinner on Thursday night at 7pm. Then Stephen Beck will give his first talk of the weekend.

Some people plan to come up on Friday which is perfectly fine. Please be aware that there is a program (breakfast, speaker, etc) from 8am until noon. Then we have the afternoon (after lunch until 5:30pm) free.

Car pooling is available. Just let me know when you plan to leave and I can team you up with someone. Thanks!

Questions: Contact us (NYMensMinistry@yahoo.com) or Bill Freeman at bfreeman@priorityone.org

We hope you can join us for this fun and God filled weekend!

Filed Under: Bible Study, brothers, Christ, Christian Fathers, Christian friends, Christian Men, Christianity, Fellowship, ministry, Retreat, sabbath, Westchester NY Tagged With: bill freeman, Fellowship, friends, Fun, glen spey, lake champion, men, ministry, ny, priority one, Retreat, sabbath, stephen beck, vacation

Small Group Men’s Bible Studies Forming!!

November 12, 2011 by nymensministry 2 Comments

Have you desired to just be around a few good friends that know you? You might share a joke, or something your kids are going through, or anything in between. Then you’ve come to the right place.

We are establishing small groups for the new year. Small groups are the essence of this ministry and they are what allows us to ‘do life together’. The setting might be different but we always spend some time in fellowship, Bible study, and prayer.

Interested? Well, let us know by adding a comment to this post!

Image courtesy of: http://www.clovisevfree.org/

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Westchester Men’s Ministry Annual BBQ

July 1, 2011 by nymensministry Leave a Comment

Filed Under: encouragement, Fellowship, Friends, mens ministry, Westchester, Westchester NY

Keeping it silly! Common greeting at our small group

April 7, 2011 by nymensministry Leave a Comment

Keeping it Silly from Westchester Men’s Ministry on Vimeo.

Filed Under: Christ, Christian friends, Christian Men, Fellowship Tagged With: Christian, Fellowship, friends, funny, men, silly

>Lent: Don’t Give Up!

March 10, 2011 by nymensministry Leave a Comment

>(Sorry for the long delay between posts)

Hey guys! I know that’s a weird subject for this blog entry but it was inspired!

Did you guys make a resolution for lent? Something you will either stop or start doing for the next 40 (now 39 days). If you were thinking of something but didn’t do it (or stop doing it) yesterday, don’t give up. Why not start today. We are imperfect, we know that (and guess what – so does God). So why not start today?!

I’ve decided to meditate/journal every day through Lent. I’m hoping I can build discipline and start to enjoy it. To let you know how much of a stretch this is for me, I’ve been journaling about once a month. And I’ve been satisfied with that because that was once more than I was doing before.

Why not share your resolution so we can pray for you and cheer you on!

Filed Under: Christian Men, encouragement, Fellowship, Lent, mens ministry, Persistence, Prayer

Mondays with Dad

November 24, 2010 by nymensministry 1 Comment

My father passed away last Thursday. He shared his heart for his family with me during our weekly discussions. I’m so thankful that he was my dad!

Mondays with Dad

(Borrowed from Tuesdays with Morrie)

As Long as You Are Under this Roof…

It is great to see so many people here today. Dad always loved this church and did a lot to fill it. Although I can’t say he had those high intentions in mind when he had 12 children … but we can’t say for sure.

It is sure that he did his best to get his children to church. I remember hearing more than once “as long as you are under this roof you will go to church”. …Father (referring to Ft. Morris), I think it is appropriate … on behalf of my brothers and sisters; we have a confession to make. We would often come to church pick up a bulletin and get scarce for an hour. When dad asked later, “Did you go to church?” we could say “I went to the 10 (holding up the bulletin) and I see the youth group is meeting again this Tuesday”

Personally, I was very closed minded about God. I would go to church to please dad. But I would go to the late service because than, I reasoned, I could at least practice my Spanish.

Mondays with Dad

It was many years later, actually only 2 or 3 years ago, that dad and I started sitting at the kitchen table each Monday. We would discuss God, Jesus and Heaven. Typically the conversation would turn to Scripture and we would have to pull out dad’s big Bible, possible a remnant from his days selling Bibles in the Bronx. One day I remember holding the Bible with only one hand and the bulk of the Bible fell on the floor, leaving me with only the cover. Dad quickly said, “you know before you started coming over here that Bible was in great shape.”

Workers in the Vineyard

On one of those Mondays we actually talked about today’s Gospel reading (Matt 20:1-16. I remembered telling dad how I used to struggle with it. I understood that the parable indicates that some will accept Jesus when they are children and others while they are on their deathbed. And some will resent the offer and never accept Him. I just didn’t understand why those that have lived, sacrificed and suffered for God for a long time wouldn’t be acknowledged in some way.

I told him that I was praying about it and God said, “I’m in the vineyard, you are with Me. The vineyard is heaven.”

Guided by God

It was probably this reference to prayer that dad still had in mind the next time we met. When I told him I was praying for something, he quickly stopped me and said, “Terence, God isn’t bothered with trivial things like that. God is like a landlord; you call him only when you have a big problem. He doesn’t have time for such small and daily issues.

“Well dad”, I said, “the Bible does say that God cares about the small details in our lives. It says that He counts the hairs on our head (which is a moment by moment activity for some of us) and he has his eye on the sparrow…and we are worth many sparrows.”

Dad paused; it looked like he was thinking even before I started talking. He then started to share a story but he seemed to be talking more to himself than me.

“When I was a kid, I was often in trouble for pitching toss. (An Irish game where you gamble on the results of a tossed coin) My father (Dad’s dad) told me more than once that I should be studying instead.

One day, my father thinking of my future, bought me an Irish pub. On the way home, he saw me pitching toss. Without even telling me, he went and sold the pub. He later told me that I wasn’t mature enough.”

Dad looked at me, “it was probably for the best, I was so easy going that I likely would have given most of the drinks away for free and forgotten to charge for the rest, going bankrupt. I would have shared in the drinking myself too, possible getting hooked.”

He continued and turned to me, “Did you know that when I first came to the U.S. I had my heart set on becoming a NY city police officer?” I never knew that. “Yea, when I got here it turned out that I required a number of months of training and that training would put me over the maximum age allowed. I would have just missed the cutoff.

That too, was for the best, when I was young I was brazen and I likely wouldn’t have lived long with a gun in the rough streets of New York City.”

He continued with more examples of disappointments that were blessings in disguise. And finally said, as if to himself, I guess God IS watching my way and focused on the small things.

Destined for Heaven

Throughout our discussions, dad never questioned whether he would be going to heaven. He once said, “I know two things. I’m a great sinner and I have a great Savior. I know I’m going to heaven. You might make it too but I’ll probably have to travel to see you.” He was always ribbing me. Mom quickly responded, “Dad, just because you go to Heaven doesn’t mean they will open the pearly gates and let you in!”

Intercessory Prayer

The prayer dad copied down, that Patrick read, is what is called an intercessory prayer. It’s a prayer that asks for nothing for yourself but is on behalf of someone else. Using the Gospel analogy, I imagine dad (t-shirt wet from sweat after a hard day’s work) going to the vineyard owner, God, and saying I know it is late … but would it be possible for you to go out one more time… there are still a few missing.

Dad did desire to see this church full but what he really had on his heart was that we would all be in heaven together. Let’s pray.

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Filed Under: Christian Fathers, Christian Men, communing with God, dad, Fellowship, God in control, Heaven, Loss

The Importance of Fellowship

July 17, 2010 by nymensministry Leave a Comment

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barefootwithjesus.blogspot.com

We were never meant to do it alone guys. We need each other.

The New Canaan Society, a local men’s ministry that understands this, lost a member recently to suicide. Here is a blog entry about it and the touching sermon shared at his funeral.

We’re sorry to re-direct you but this is a really important topic and this eulogy is really good:

http://newcanaansociety.org/Get-Involved/NCS-Blog/Message-from-NCS/June-2010/Why-We-really-Need-Energy-Groups.aspx

Filed Under: Fellowship, trials Tagged With: depression, despair, faith, God, help, hopeless, Jesus, perseverance, sad, suicide

Walk and Talk

June 1, 2010 by nymensministry Leave a Comment

Men’s Fellowship: Walk and Talk

This Saturday, June 5, 7:30 am

Rockwood Park (7:30 am) and Eldorado West, Tarrytown (9 am)

Come for a stroll by the Hudson and through the woods! Afterwards, meet for breakfast at the diner. Or come just to walk, or just to breakfast!

Directions: Rockwood Park is near Phelps Hospital. Take 117 west from Pleasantville or from its intersection with 9A or Taconic State Parkway north. After about 2 miles from 9A, you will see the exit for route 9. Do not take this exit, but stay left and begin to slow down. You will soon come to a crossroads, with Phelps Hospital on your left. Go straight through the crossroad, and park in the small parking lot immediately on your left.
Eldorado West is a diner on route 9, near the entrance ramp for I87 south. From Rockwood Park, we return east on 117, and immediately take 9 south all the way through Tarrytown. Then look for the diner on the left, after the ramp for I87 north and the Tappanzee Bridge.
Hope to see you there!