The Father Difference
This podcast is about helping dads become better fathers.
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When God the Father makes a difference in us, we can make the same difference in our children's lives.
Imagine being the father God desires you to be, actively contributing to your children's dreams and future. Being a dad in their life story is crucial, and I believe it’s your most important role in life.
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The Father Difference
Be The Man You Want Your Son To Follow
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What kind of father do you want to be—and what will your sons remember? Pastor Ed shares five clear practices that turn good intentions into daily habits.
The heart of the conversation is identity. We explore practical ways to normalize Scripture and prayer around the dinner table, bedtime, and car rides, making faith a living rhythm rather than a rulebook. Finally, we face hard seasons: prodigals, political divides, and long silences. Through the lens of the prodigal story, Pastor Ed shows how patience, compassion, and open doors make homecoming possible.
If you’re a dad, grandpa, stepfather, or a mom championing this journey, you’ll find simple steps you can try tonight and a hopeful vision you can carry for years. If this encouraged you, follow the show, share it with a friend who needs hope, and leave a review so more families can find their way home.
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Welcome And Mission
SPEAKER_00What kind of father do you want to be? What kind of man do you want to become for your family and for yourself? If you've ever wondered how to step into the fullness of your role as a father, husband, and man of God, then you're in the right place. Here at the Father Difference, our mission is to inspire and equip men to be the best fathers they can be. It's a powerful mission. And today, we're going to explore exactly how you can take steps toward that calling. Whether you're a father, a son, a husband, grandfather, single dad, stepfather, or just looking to grow, I believe God has something powerful for you in today's message. Whether you're tuning in live or watching this later, we are so excited to have you here. If this is what you're looking for, then subscribe so you can tune in each week to the Father Difference Live. You can sign up below. And now your host, a husband, father, grandfather, author, and former NFL player, Pastor Ed McGlass.
Five Principles Overview
Whispering Courage With Your Words
Planning Presence With Kids And Grandkids
Check The Temperature With Questions
Live The Legacy You Want Them To See
Humility, Repair, And Modeling Change
Guiding Your Child Into God’s Presence
Scripture In Everyday Family Life
Blessing Children With Identity And Love
Success, Failure, And Secure Identity
SPEAKER_01Well, hey, good day, my friend. Where you're coming from, I'd love to hear from you. If you want to throw a comment out there and let me know where you're coming, or maybe you got a question you would like to talk about tonight. As we kind of get into our session tonight, how top dads connect with their sons to be champions. That sounds like a lot of football talk, but that's the way guys think. Guys want their kids to be champions. Not only that, guys want to learn how to be good dads. You know, there's not a there's not a lot of great models out there. And so I gotta let you know that uh, you know, even in playing in a national football league, there were so many of my friends that I played with that didn't have a present dad in their story. Raised by courageous, they became world changers in the sport of football. And in their lives, yet so many of them had this heartache that they carried so much of their life and question marks because their dad wasn't really in their story. Except for the number of stories that come out when a son signs a big contract, and sometimes the father he's not seen in years shows up at the hotel going, hey, I'm your I'm your father. Well, that's not the kind of fatherhood that builds a champion. That may the kind of fatherhood that makes a lot of young men shrink back. And so I want to talk about five things that I try to stay focused on as a dad and as a grandpa now. Maybe you're watching this as a gal, and and the you can stay in these five things as well that'll make a big impact on your children really being able to discover who God has made them to be, because ultimately that's the power. When your children discover who God's made them to be, they're gonna be the kind of uh people and champions that uh really do change the world. And and so let's get right into it. So here's the first slide I want to share with you tonight, just to think about. Number one, whispering courage, speaking life into your son's heart. There's probably nothing more important for dad than to be close enough to where those those those moments of those moments of whispers and those moments where your son knows that my dad is is there for me. My my dad is in the stands, my my dad is present, my dad is paying attention. And you know, one of the tendencies that we have when we're in life and in everything else, it's so it's so easy for us to spend our entire life trying to figure out who we are, to where we make our kids invisible to us and the impact that we can really have. I'm I meet guys all the time, and many moms that are still trying to arrive in who they think God's called them to be, and yet their children are in that place where they don't know who they are. And and I mean, I went through seasons of that in my life as a father, and I was trying to, you know, discover who God had made me to be. And when I'm in that kind of place, in that kind of moment, who suffers? My kids did. My kids suffered, they they they missed out on my attention because my attention was on myself. So, how do we do that? Well, you know, I write about this in in my books. Your words hold immense power. The way you speak them, the inflection that you have. You can say things in angry ways and they're interpreted differently. They can either uplift or devastate your children. You know that already. So you fill their lives with empowering affirmations like, do you know what dad absolutely loves about you? Ask that question sometime of your children. And to see if they can fill in the blanks. Because if they can't fill in the blanks, either they're not paying attention when you're talking to them or they're not really sure what you think about them. Or maybe your mom, we got a mom here. Can you, you know, ask that question? Do you know what your mom really loves about you? See, your children's ability to fill that question in is built by the way you speak life into them every single day, the way you spend time with them, the way you play with them. That's why playtime is so powerful for your children and now your grandchildren. And I got a whole bunch of grandkids. We got fly 14 now. My kids have been reproducing. And I've learned something about grandkids recently that's been kind of a breakthrough for me. And yes, yours truly does not have all the answers, that is for sure. I am learning them every single day. But if I don't plan out kind of time with my grandkids on things we're gonna do, even spontaneous things that we do, they they end up turning into rascals and and driving me crazy. And that's that's what happened here recently on a vacation. You know, you know, we had 10 at a time in our house, which is awesome. And yet they want things to do. And if we just leave them around to to watch, you know, Disney Channel or something else, they get totally bored. And so I realize, and you know, I got to get a whole lot better in planning out my energy, planning out my time, planning out my focus. It's the same with being a dad with your children, to where you might be exhausted coming home from work, and yet your son or your daughter is waiting for what you think about them. It's it's so important. So your words hold immense power. And I meet guys all the time who don't think that's true. And but when you begin to frame your conversation around, do you know what dad really loves about you? And then you speak life into them and you highlight something. This comes right out of the Bible, you know, in Ephesians, you know, 4, verse 29, it says, let no, you know, corrupt, you know, uncorrupting talk come out of your mouth, you know, but only that which is good for building up. This is in relationship to other people, but especially your children. And corrupting, you know, conversation can also be teasing, where you're sort of making fun of them, which none of our kids like and you don't like in your own life. And so part of this is learning how to use the incredible gift you have in your voice to speak life and to your children. It's powerful, powerful stuff. But but but as it fits the the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. And this is not only for your children, this is also with your neighbors you don't like or with somebody you don't like at work. And the the principle behind all of this is the power of the voice that we have as we speak it over people that we have relationships with, especially our children. So, here, question: if you were to ask your son or daughter this question, what do you think that your dad thinks about you right now? It's a great way to check the temperature of your relationship with your children, saying, What do you what what do you think your dad thinks about you right now? And I tell you what, when I've asked that question of my children, I find out what I have sewed in this last season into them in their story. And I had a number of those conversations. Well, I just don't think you're very happy with me, Dad. What do you mean? Well, you know, it's like you're always pushing me to do better, but you don't you don't celebrate me. I don't feel like I'm ever gonna be good enough. Have you ever heard those words? Boy, I boy, I learned so much when you ask questions. See, I really believe that inside of every one of your children's hearts is a built-in parenting manual. And when you learn how to turn the pages by asking questions, you can discover how to reach them in powerful ways. So many times we're reacting to our children's hurts or problems or issues and things, and we don't really use questions in the way that really have great power for us in our life to use. We want to give bold statements or give them the truth or fix them, you know, in this season in their life, instead of learning to hear from them how they're really doing. And this takes time to build that kind of confidence with your children. And you and guess what? You can blow it and you can hurt them, but it's never too late to to fix that. So here's uh next point number two is you know about the whole idea of live leaving living a legacy. Be uh the hero your son follows. Now if you hear if you want to hear one thing from me tonight, I want you to hear this. Be the kind of man that you want your son to be. Live that kind of heroic life in the Lord. And and I'm not talking in like heroes on football fields. And you know, there was some measure of respect you know that I get from people sometimes when they realize I used to play football and they they treat me like a sports hero, or you got to play, you know, some kind of thing. Achievement, you know, has that kind of moniker. But be that kind of man or father that lives by faith and leaves no question in the lives of your children of where you where the source of your values are, where the source of who you are, and the real secret to what moves you in your life. And I write this in my book, The Devonta Father makes. You know, remember that values are caught by your children, they're not taught, or maybe not just taught. It's so much easier for us to teach that value than to live that value. Oh, I think I heard an amen out there. See, the most influential lessons aren't spoken, they're lived. They're a lead by example and watch and follow them. And so I remember as a young dad, I began to understand even some of the bad behavior of my children's relationships with one another, some of that I had modeled to them, and they were doing the same things to one another that I was doing to them. For instance, the kind of the just kidding thing that was around, you know, years ago. I don't know how prevalent it is in these days, but you know, you tease somebody and you just go, just kidding. I'll never forget that the moment where the Lord let me hear that in the other room, is my kids were fighting and making fun of one another and saying, just kidding. And he put two and two together inside of me and showed me that I was the one who modeled that, and it crushed me. I was so grateful the Lord showed me that. And so I went into the other room and asked my kids, is that what I do to you guys? Yeah, dad. Oh man, that is such a golden moment. You know, I wish I could tell you that my golden moments where I got this golden tablet from the Lord, and he deposited the truth that passes all understanding deep inside of me, and I was instantly changed. No, I was changed in those moment-by-moment encounters with my children as a father, to where God granted me the gift of humility, and and who the way I was doing the broken way I was doing things was exposed, and I had the opportunity to ask for forgiveness and learn a whole new way, and then blow it and then ask forgiveness again, where you know, incrementally you learn this as a father. Because sometimes you blow, you get tired, you blame it on being tired, but you're just being selfish, it's just part of the human nature that none of us will shake until one day we're gonna be just like Christ. And so remember, your your children are following you, and so you got you gotta realize that if you get really mad at them, like overly mad, like way over the top mad, and your reaction is way bigger than the crime, could it be that you're using some of that your own self-hatred that you have towards yourself when you blow it, towards your kids, plus what they followed you and modeled and did the same thing you did? Oh, I know. I just moved from from I'm preaching to Madeline. Well, that's how God grabs us. God doesn't grab us so much in the great victories we have. God grabs us by the way we learn to deal with those things that we blow, those things that we're broken in. And so that that was a powerful, powerful moment for me. And and so here's here's the scripture about you know that, and that is you know, Paul's writing, be imitators of me as I am of Christ. So God's called us to be imitators of of Christ, and and yet as a dad, imagine saying this to your children be imitators of me as I follow Christ. I'm not perfect yet. I need him just as much as you, probably more so. But when I blow it, let me know so that I can ask for forgiveness. So important. And so part of being a dad is this aspect of you building your children after what you follow. And what you follow will determine how they learn about how they grab the identity that God's made for them. Here's the next slide: guiding to grace, lead your son into God's presence. Boy, this is such an important thing. I didn't know how to do this in the early days of being a dad, and I I still, you know, we make these assumptions as fathers and as moms that basically all we got to do is get them to church or the right youth group or the right friends, or they keep the right rules in our house, they're gonna be okay. But what really impacts you and me in our lives is when we encounter God's presence for ourselves. When we encounter His His Word and His holy presence begins to change us. So you need to instill in your children a love for God's word to pass on an eternal legacy. And and the way you do that is that you share with them the things that you're learning, and make sure you're careful not to use it as a sermon to confront something you know about them that's broken, because they'll pick that up just like that and get instant deafness. See, I remember when Edward was uh three years old and interrupted my quiet time and he knocks on my door and and he asks me the question, he said, What are you doing? I said, Well, I'm spending time with God and he looks at me and because kind of the rule of the house is when dad's in the studio, you know, he's working, so give him some space. And then he said, Can I spend some time with God too? Three years old. And I sat him here at my desk, and I'm at right now, and I I passed a Bible to him that was actually upside down to him, and it turned around. He didn't turn around, and he was looking at me, reading, and he was doing the same thing, moving his lips and using his finger on the page. And it just hit me. I'm doing more about teaching my g son about spending time with God than all the Sunday school classes of what you should do if you're a good Christian. And it just struck me. And so I'm I am grateful for those things that my children have caught me doing as I follow Jesus. How about you? So grateful for those things. I mean, think about the way Jesus taught his disciples to pray. He modeled it and went out, and they didn't know where he went half the time. And then one day he said, You know, and when you pray, let me let me show you my Father who art in heaven. Hallowed be thy name. A kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Forgive us our debts as we forgive those who sin against us and lead us in. Not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Just imagine being there and hearing that. But realizing that you've seen him pray before as a disciple. And now you knew what was happening with him and his father. He was connecting. He was talking to the Father. He was opening himself. He was pre-forgiving people that are going to sin against him, as we give those who sin against us, right? He is teaching them how to live this life through the Lord's Prayer. And what a powerful thing. And the power is not in saying the right words, the power is in having the same kind of relationship that Jesus had with his father. And when your children have the same kind of relationship you have with the Father through Christ, you've now planted a legacy root into the life of your children and your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren one day. Powerful stuff, guys. Powerful stuff. Next slide here. So they've got a revelation, you know, from Moses to write right from God through Moses writing this book. And he said, You shall teach them to your children and talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. And it was just this amazing revelation of God's voice to the people of Israel. And so it's just a you know, when God said, and and they they talked about how he spoke from the mountain, they they talked about the the Ten Commandments and why they were given. And it was something that was just kind of in their heart. They were not only chewing on God's word every day, they're sharing them and talking about them. It's like the home life was about the revelation of the things that God is speaking into you as a mom and a dad. That's really meaningful for your children. Because it's not in your ability to recite scripture that they get impressed by, or in you reciting scripture that they're not quite living up to. But it's how you talk about what you've learned and what you've listened to as you've opened God's word for yourself. Who's gonna teach your children to do that? You are my friend. Your quiet time has way more power than you think. And if you want to take it to the next level, then start writing down those things that God shows you and share your journals with your kids in the future. It'll be golden for them. It'll be golden for them. Next thing, number four, two more points here. It's it's whole the whole concept about blessing them with love. So crown your son with God's affirmation. I mean, that's what happened when you know Jesus was baptized, right? He heard and behold, a voice comes from heaven. This is my beloved son, and in whom I'm well pleased. And I love the message translation that says, This is my son, marked by my love, the focus of my delight. Imagine hearing that from God the Father for yourself. See, when you realize, and and you know, when I realized that I was a beloved son of my heavenly father, it it revolutionized my life and my approach to fathering. Because I got my core identity taken care of. And where father struggle and mom struggle the most is when your core identity is still forming, you're not sure about who you are. And so you make all of your life and even your kids about discovering who you are. And when you're doing that, guess what? They're not learning to receive it for themselves. And so when you learn how to receive that core identity, who God says that you are, and that thing is is is is you know that deeply inside of your heart, then you can be present with your children because you don't need their performance to be good, so you feel good about being a father. You can just be with them because you love them and you know who you are in Christ. And that identity that God has given you as a beloved son or a beloved daughter, if you're a mom, will be the rudder that helps you steer that ship through troubled waters as a mom or dad. And that changed me. And then learning how to live like a beloved son of God the Father secured my identity. It moved me from being a football player or a preacher or a pastor or whatever your moniker is or name aim is or what you've achieved in your life. All those are temporary on earth. But when your core identity comes from your sonship, from your adoption as a beloved son, or if you're a gal watching and you're a beloved daughter because you've been adopted by God the Father, you have an identity that you can't lose through success or failure. It won't matter about the job you have and how much money you make. You'll be secure about who God has called you to be, especially in those times when it's hard and there's sufferings, and we all have to go through those times. So learning to live like a beloved son secured something inside of me. And that searching, and you know what had happened? It it happened when I was 40 years old. I spent all those years trying to discover my identity as an NFL football player, only to come up with that and then lose that name, being cut off a team after five years, hurting my knee so I couldn't play anymore. And then now being an ex-NFL football player, and so you know, it's kind of like, you know, it's it's like, oh yeah, I was married, but I I got divorced, so I got an ex now. It's like, you know, that's that's an identity that we can, or a moniker that we can put on, because when you you don't get to play all the years you wanted to play in the National Football League or whatever your job is, or your marriage, and you lose that, that it it's it's like, man, what's wrong with me? How come I wasn't smarter? Why did I make better decisions? And so you're still stuck in this broken identity. But when you learn how to receive that, you're a beloved son, or if you're a gal, a beloved daughter of a father who sent his son to die for you so that you could receive that sonship, that that daughtership, that that blessing that comes from God when He ultimately becomes your father. It changed everything for me. I wasn't healed overnight. I had so much to learn. I had so much I had to learn to do differently. Because I built my whole life on being successful as a professional athlete. And then I built a big part of my life on being successful in the ministry as a senior pastor and church planner and and all that. And if you if you are gonna get your core identity from how your church is doing, you're toast. Because one week you preach the greatest sermon anyone has ever heard. The next week you got people that are leaving the church because they don't like your humor. I mean, it's it's it's the craziest job, and it's a perfect job for God to break the illusion in me that I could do it right and be respected and honored by people. Now I'm a son, so if they love me, it's a bonus. If they don't love me, that hurts me, but it doesn't change who I am. You can have great victories or you can have big failures, but you're not going to be named by either one of those things because it's a slippery slope. Success has a way of getting you into a place where you don't think you need God, you you got it handled, or defeat makes you feel like what's wrong with me? And I meet dads and moms and families in both those kind of situations, and they're they're kind of stuck in the middle, they're waiting for their spouse to change so they can be happy. They're stuck, and the way out of those places is it's connecting to the incredible core identity that God's made for you and for me to be his beloved son or daughter. And so, you know, when God when Jesus heard those words in that river that day, it was not just for him, it's for you and me too. Because when we're in him, we get the same father and the Holy Spirit. Okay, here's my last point: relentless pursuit. Say that with me. Relentless pursuit, okay? And so what that's all about is as long as you breathe, never surrender as long as you breathe. It's never too late to become extraordinary father kids deserve. Don't quit. Don't let the enemy cut you out, don't let psychologists try to dox you away from your children. Don't let modern psychology get you. Don't ever quit pursuing, praying for, and waiting for that son or daughter to come home. That's the picture of the prodigal son story in the Bible. The father was on the porch waiting, looking at the horizon, waiting for that day for a son to come home. And I know there's a lot of families right now that have been blown apart by politics. Children have cut off their parents because they were conservative or liberal or progressive. And by the way, those three identities aren't good identities. Because if your identity is being a son, you might be able to be one of those three, though I think it probably leans more to a certain one or two, or partial one or two, and not going to get political on you. But when you're I've seen whole families completely disintegrate because somebody voted for somebody. Well, if your identity is politics, you're you're in serious trouble. And chances are really high you'll probably lose your family even quicker. Because is that what you want to transfer into your children? I don't. I have my opinions and I have the people that I vote for, but they're not my identity. It's it's a slippery slope. Because if your guy wins, then you pump your chest out. You miss those neighbors that are broken and angry. And you use and we're called to be light in the world. Light to the only king that we have. And so you gotta never surrender, right? As long as you breathe, my friend, it's never too late to become extraordinary. Your kids deserve. You can shower them with blessing and heal any rift in your relationship. I know that to be true. Does it take time? Yes. Are there some people who are trying, and their kids are saying, I don't ever want you to see you, talk to you? And I work with them, and we've seen numbers of them break through, and we have some that are still waiting for that day. I believe that day is gonna come because God is faithful to his word. And Luke said, and he rose and and he comes to his father while he was still a long way off. This is part of the prodigal son story. The son comes to his senses, and that's what we pray for when families are broken apart, that children will come to their senses. And they're coming to your senses because he the prodigal son realized that he had sinned against God and he sinned against his father. That's the moment of great breakthrough. And he was a long way off. His father saw him, felt compassion on him, embraced him, kissed him, killed the fatted calf, brought a ring, put on a family robe, restored his inheritance before he had time to make it right. That's the gospel. That's the gospel. Now the caveat in that great story there in Luke and John was the older brother was angry because he thought that if he did it right, that his father would automatically give him the inheritance. But that's not the way of the kingdom. The way of the kingdom is when we come to that place of repentance and we realize no matter we if we've been good or we've been bad in our own measurement systems, it's ultimately the mercy of God that comes and gives us a brand new beginning. As a matter of fact, the father said to the older son in that story, you know, why are you upset? Didn't you know that all I have is yours? Basically, you all you but you never asked me for it. It's like you're almost in competition against your brother, because he was so bad that you just assumed it's just gonna be yours. The father wasn't saying there's no inheritance for you. He was saying the inheritance that your brother lost, he gets back. And there's still some for you too, if you stop making it about yourself and how good you are. So the next step, I have uh an online course as part of our Fatherhood Academy called How to Become the Husband and Father Your Family Needs. And it's all about this receiving thing that we've been talking about. And maybe that's something that you're saying, boy, I'd like to know more about that. And I'm gonna share another banner with you. If you're interested in that, we have actually part of what we do is I have an online coaching program and that you can connect to if you go to my website, hook daily devotional. Just go to my website right here. Just go to the father you've always wondered. My assistants are en route in traveling, they're not with me tonight. And so yours truly is running all these. Oh, here it is. Go to my website at thefatherdifference.com. And it'll be self-explanatory. If you want to learn more about what our program is all about, if you'd like to know about the Fatherhood Academy, click on the link there and set up a free coaching session with me. And I'd love to talk to you about our program and what we do, and if it's a good fit for you and your family. You got it? So, anyway, I hope this has been a blessing to you. I'm so grateful to share with you and so many things out of those broken places in my own life. And I am so grateful that God turned my story around and and restored the relationship of my children back to me. I'm so grateful for my kids. And my kids aren't better than anybody else's kids, but yours truly had to learn how to open their heart up to not only me as their dad, but to God as her father. And that's kind of what we teach guys to do and gals. We got moms in our programs as well. Maybe that'd be something that would be a benefit to you. But I'd like to pray for you and your family. And if you get a prayer request, I would love it if you just uh shared that with me in the comments. You can throw it in there or on Instagram, YouTube, both Facebook pages, Rumble, X. If you got a question, if you just put it in there and send it to me, we'll either get back to you right now, if you got one right now, or we'll get back to you after the show's over. And this also will replay live on all those platforms after this show is done. So I'd love an opportunity to pray with you and your family. Father, I thank you for all these different people that have that are connecting from so many different places, many outside the country, many in this country, those who are going to watch this during the next uh couple of days. I pray you'd be with them. And you'd reveal to them the things that every dad does that helps to recapture the heart of his children. And so, Lord, they could ultimately be champions for you, Lord, one day and make an incredible difference. And I pray for every dad who feels like he blew it too much, that he'd take those steps we talked about tonight on how to re-establish relationship with your children and how to model asking for forgiveness and how to model being a present, living testimony of what that life should look like. I pray for my brothers that are watching and my sisters that you'd be with them, you touch their families, and you bring them the healing that you promise in your word to each one of us. And Father, we give you all these things. In the matchless name of Jesus, we pray. And all God's people said, Amen. So grateful to be with you. We got a little outro video that plays, and uh, we're during in the summertime, and maybe in your place you'd like to support us monthly or with a one-time gift for the year. I'd that would be a blessing to us right now, as August is always a slower time in the year as we get ready for the fall and all the different people we're reaching through our social media campaigns. Well, the Lord bless you and be with you. And remember, it's never too late, beloved, to be the man, the husband and father that God's called you to be. God bless you. Check this out.
SPEAKER_00Dear friends, imagine a world where every father feels equipped to lead with faith, love, and purpose. A world where families thrive and communities grow stronger because of devoted, Christ-centered fathers.
SPEAKER_01You know, beloved, that is the vision that God's put in my heart for every single family. You know, he is on the move, I believe. He promises in Malachi that before the great and coming day of the Lord, he's gonna do something profound. He's gonna turn the hearts of fathers back towards their children. So the hearts of their children will turn back to their father. That's what God is doing. I meet dads daily who want to learn to be better fathers. Yet many have never been shown how. Too many families are being fractured through bitterness and with parents and grandparents even being canceled. That's why we're launching an online community to quit and to be the fathers that God has called them to be. It's more than a program, it's a part of a a movement that God is already doing to reshape fatherhood. It's a sacred calling rooted in the teachings of Christ. And we're calling this the Fatherhood Academy, where men will embark on a journey of healing and spiritual restoration that helps them transform their family relief. Relationship. And to make this vision a reality, would you consider partnering with us financially as we continue to reach and disciple every man, dad, and grandpa that comes our way? Your donation will help create a ripple across the neighborhoods, communities, you know, and ultimately our nation, anchoring each child here's a vision, in the unwavering love and guidance of a devoted dad.
SPEAKER_00Will you partner with us? Your gift, whether a one-time donation or ongoing monthly support, will help to transform lives. Together, we can equip fathers and grandfathers to lead with faith and create a brighter, hope filled future for generations to come. Click the link to donate today. Thank you for believing in this mission and joining us on this transformative journey.