- Ted

Thanks for the comment – you and Donovan were making a similar point. You are correct, in noting that "Creators and Cultivators" are similar to what I suggest. I do think, though, that the idea of RISK is what jazzes men most.

- Ted

We could talk sometime about our experience with college funding for our boys (and now, girl).

More importantly, the style of education favors girls over boys, particularly in the K-12 realm.

What do you mean by "…we continue to provide women with affirmative action style placement preferences. Boys are forced into a female mold in school…"?

I remember a male colleague throwing down a copy of a popular, Christian, how-to-be-a-real-man book and exclaiming what a waste it was that Christian men would be off having masculine adventures hunting, fishing, climbing, and riding horses through the mountains – completely ignoring the task/risk/challenge/adventure of world evangelization.

A young Cam Townsend was in college when America was about to enter WWI. He was part of the Student Volunteer Movement and applied to go to Latin America to sell Bibles. But he was also in the National Guard and he might have gone to war instead, had not a spunky single woman missionary, home on furlough, rebuked him. She told him he would be a coward for “going to war where a million other men will go and leaving us women to do the Lord’s work alone.”

I would add this. You yourself had a career and family before your missions career. Most likely, this matured and equipped you (as well as providing credentials) to be the exceptional team leader your were and leader which you are now. There's nothing wrong with guys moving from prolonged adolescence into creative and cultivating careers like entrepreneurism, medicine, social work, law, graphics design, IT, or even farming. Many of today's "young bucks" (that one's for Robi) are too immature to be prepared and equipped for overseas missions.