WACMen Meeting Update

Our first official WACMEN meeting began at the Freo church on Saturday the 28th of June at 3pm. Six men in all attended (see photo below) and all had what was described as a good time in discussion. After a few inaugural red frogs and some Ginger beer the meeting launched into top gear. It was a planning and ideas meeting at which a basic mission model was presented. The model was discussed and refined to reflect a two pronged approach.

The model goes like this:


1. To reach out and minister the Gospel to all Men be they churched or non churched. Ways of doing this would be through;

• Annual WACMEN Camps which provide outdoor elements of interest along with a Spiritual theme that is relevant to Men.
• Personal invitations to non-churched men giving them the opportunity to rub shoulders with Christian guys breaking down popular false notions of Church.
• Getting church men out of their comfort zones and challenging them to be real and authentic for Christ.
• Providing a social environment for church men to get to know each other who statistically do not have many friends in the church. An interdenominational study said that 75% of women said they had a best friend in church while only 35% of men said they had a best mate in the church.

2. To assist churches in reclaiming and retaining their Men so that they become partakers of the community of faith and not just spectators. Worldwide statistics for the SDA church have been reported to say that male attendance on any given Sabbath is on average around 30% while women have a whopping 70% attendance. A prominent thought at the meeting was that WACMEN could by invitation educate local churches in how they can set the thermometer of their church to suit Men's needs which interestingly are the same for Youth.

Also, what came out of the meeting was the idea that WACMEN would be better off being a Network rather than a group. A network allows us to become big without alot of effort, where as a group would require more work and planning and we don't have the resources to do that just yet. Our ideal would be to have a WACMEN rep in each local church in WA. Networking suits us too because we can build up for our one main event each year which will give maximum attendance.

We didn’t get around to discussing much about the Tent at Camp and will schedule a meeting later so we can have something to submit to the camp committee. All in all it was an excellent time and so plan to be at our next one and keep the dream alive.



The attached photo shows the WACMEN meeting core attendees. From left to right they are; Kurt van Zwol, Danny Bell, Brad Flynn, Pr Andrew Skeggs, Murray Dunstan and not seen is Wayne Mc Faull on camera.