Presented by Rev. Barry Steiner Ball: In all of our communities, people are addicted to pain medications and heroin. Those who are addicted struggle to survive, families fall apart, jobs are lost, communities suffer from the rise in crime and cost of health care and law enforcement. Often forgotten in this epidemic are the children of the addicted. Very often they are born addicted, but studies show that they can overcome this addiction by the time they reach the age of 5 or 6. What these children cannot overcome, without help, is living in a home that is in turmoil from addiction, where their health, their academic success, their knowledge of God is not part of their addicted parent's day to day concern. Studies do show that a few hours of mentoring each week by a caring adult can dramatically change a "drug endangered child's" future. We have in all our communities a generation that if left alone will be a larger group of addicted persons and will not be atheists by choice, but out of ignorance. How can an United Methodist Man not want to offer Christ to a drug endangered child?  Please join us Rev. Barry Steiner Ball leads us in this important discussion.

Barry Steiner Ball is an ordained United Methodist Minister.  Barry served three different charges on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.  In 1998 Barry was offered a position with the Maryland Natural Resources Police (NRP), working with Talbot and Caroline counties.  In 2008 Barry was moved into the investigative unit for NRP and worked boating and hunting accidents and larger commercial fishing cases.  In 2012 Barry’s wife, Sandra, also a United Methodist Minister, was elected into the office of Bishop and moved to West Virginia.  With the move west, Barry was offered a position on a Drug Enforcement Administration’s Task Force in Hagerstown, MD.  In this position Barry works larger drug cases in Western Maryland and the Eastern panhandle of West Virginia.  During this assignment Barry has been exposed to the plight of drug endangered children and has begun working with local United Methodist Churches on how they can support these children.

Simple Life Changing Ministry PDF Slides

One of the most essential partners of the General Commission on United Methodist Men is also the least known to most of our constituents: the United Methodist Men Foundation.  The purpose of this webinar will be to inform you about YOUR foundation. The President of the Foundation, Glenn Wintemberg will explain where funds come from, how those funds are used, and the ministries that are supported.  Glenn will also describe the products of the Foundation that can are used at local, district and conference levels.

The slides are available for this Webinar also:  Your Investment at Work

Intro to the GCUMM and promise to provide local churches with men's ministry resources.

Stories of transformation and growth from the 11th Gathering with an invitation to attend the 12th National Gathering to be held July 7-8 in Indianapolis, IN.  

Video that describes the Wesley class meeting and how men can use this model to have weekly intentional gatherings for spiritual development, both in person and via video conferencing.  

Webinar presented on October 26, 2017.