WHAT IS MENS MINISTRY?
Steve Sonderman One night in June 1944, General Dwight Eisenhower walked the beaches of England, deep in thought. Occasionally he stopped and stared across the dark waters of the English Channel toward the coast of France, where the Nazi armies had built a military fortress. The next dawn would see hundreds of Allied ships and thousands of soldiers storm that coast, and Eisenhower knew that for many of those soldiers, it would be their last morning. As he walked along, he came across an American private, standing by himself, also staring across the ocean. The general asked him what he was thinking. “Home,” came the reply. Then the supreme commander of the allied forces suggested they walk together, that perhaps they would draw confidence from each other’s company. So the two men walked on-one older, one younger; one experienced in the ways of war, the other inexperienced; but each man drawing strength from the other. That is exactly what many men need today-others to walk with them, of
