I would like to extend an invitation to you (and a friend!) to participate in “33″!  Watch a short promotional video for “33 The Series” or watch Dr. Lewis provide an introduction to “33″.

The group will meet at the Clive YMCA Healthy Living Center on Wednesday mornings at 6:20 am and adjourn at 7:30 to get men off to work.  The format is a group setting to watch a 30 minute DVD, followed by small-group discussion and workbook questions.   The cost is $20 for the Series, which covers the workbook.  The start date is Wednesday, April 25th.  As you already know, it’s really the small-group structure that makes Men’s Fraternity so valuable.  Bring a friend who could benefit… these 6 weeks may change their life!

If you are interested, “Reply” to this email or call me at: (515) 422-0960, and I’ll get you signed up.  Register

Jim Henscheid

Location is Clive Healthy Living Center at 12493 University Ave Clive, IA 50325.

Mens Fraternity – Des Moines  had another successful year presenting ‘The Quest for Authentic Manhood’, ‘The Great Adventure’, and ‘Raising a Modern Day Knight’ series.  In line with M/F tradition, we mark every important goal attainment in our life with a Celebration!  In addition to a great dinner, we will have a couple presentations that are bound to be enlightening and thought-provoking!  The Celebration Dinner will be catered by Chef – John Weiler and Hy-Vee at the Clive HLC, starting at 6:30 PM on Friday March 30th, offering a full dinner consisting of beef, chicken or pasta.  We expect to wrap up between 8:30 – 9:00 PM.  Spouses and children are welcome.

Dress is ‘business casual’, and a free-will offering will be collected at the door (suggested offering – $25/person, $50/couple, and $10 for kids (little ones are ‘free’).  Any excess funds collected will go into the M/F account to promote M/F programs later this year.  Please consider coming out to renew some friendships and stay in touch with some exciting programming changes by Dr. Lewis and his M/F Team!  (What is the “33 – The Series” – come and see!

Lastly, if you plan to attend the Celebration Dinner, please RSVP to by emailing us here!

In 2005, a group of men started a Men’s Fraternity group at Point of Grace Church in Waukee.  Over 300 men attended those three years of teaching and growth and we have experienced a strong result of godly men who are ready to serve and lead in this local church.  These men are now able to give a succinct and passionate answer to the questions:

• “What is a man?”
• “What am I living to be and become?”
• “How can I develop my own personal “Manhood Plan?”

 In 2008, several of the Lead Team from Point of Grace, along with others who joined them, took the Men’s Fraternity teaching out into the community through the YMCA.  With the full support of the YMCA, several hundred more men, representing over a dozen local churches, have experienced the benefits of the truths taught so clearly and effectively through Men’s Fraternity’s three semesters of learning.

 I can’t begin to express, as a pastor of a local church, how thankful I am for this most effective Men’s Ministry experience and for the life-changing and long-lasting results I have seen in my life and the lives of so many in our church.

 Men, experience, as I have, the most effective men’s ministry I have ever known.

Pastor Tom Allen