Go Beyond

In 2019, Kingsland’s missions ministry and men’s ministry collaborated on a global initiative to call men to embrace God’s vision for biblical manhood. That collaboration resulted in writing Men of Courage, the first of five devotional guides for use by men in small groups.

We held our first Men of Courage Summit in 2019 in Uganda with more than 300 men in attendance. We then scheduled summits in Nepal, Cambodia, India, and Brazil for 2020. However, Covid caused us to postpone our 2020 summits.

So, we set our sights on a new goal — to distribute Men of Courage to men through our local and global partners. We gave away more than 2,000 copies for men to use locally in their small groups. With the help of our global partners, we had our Men of Courage Devotional Guide translated into more than ten languages with thousands of copies distributed free of charge to men around the globe.

Finally, in May of this year, we held our Men of Courage Summit in Brazil with 650 men in attendance. We challenged the men to make a commitment to shared study, shared service, and shared adventure — essentially to do life in community with other men because alone is dangerous.

We will hold our next Men of Courage Summit in Nepal in January. Our first summit will be in Kathmandu and then we will travel to Jiri to do the second summit. Jiri is the place where Sir Edmund Hillary started his trek to Mount Everest in 1953, the year he and Tenzing Norgay became the first men to stand at the top of the world.

Last Fall we introduced Men of Character, the second devotional guide in our series — calling men to show the world that biblical manhood is the antithesis of toxic masculinity. This guide calls men to make wise choices, build strong friendships, stand firm in the midst of a confused culture, serve others compassionately, and live adventurously.

Tonight at our Fall men’s event, we will introduce our hot-off-the-press Men of Conviction Devotional Guide — a call for men to have a biblical backbone in a world tossed about by the winds of subjective truth and cultural chaos. Like our other guides, this guide features six months worth of lessons for small group discussion.

In the works are our two remaining devotional guides — Men of Compassion and Men of Commitment. Our five study guides challenge men to embrace biblical manhood and to advance the interests of God’s kingdom in the midst of a generation that denies His very existence.

We believe that it is imperative for men of God to take responsibility for their lives, their choices, their homes, and the geographical and historical context in which they live. Our world needs men who will live courageously, have integrity and character, develop and stand firm on sound biblical convictions, serve compassionately, and show the world the difference commitment to God can make.

In the words of the old hymn. It is time to…

Rise up, O men of God!
Have done with lesser things;
Give heart and soul and mind and strength
To serve the King of kings.