CASSELBERRY, Fla. (WordNews.org) Jan. 26, 2012 – Patrick Morley remains grateful some four decades later to some men who reached out to him early in his adulthood.
Unlike his father, Morley attended a church that had a vision to disciple men like him.
“I’m just so grateful that almost 40 years from now these men saw this young struggling father, came around him—and they discipled me. So I was able to fully break the cycle in a way my dad was not,” Morley tells WordNews.org.
Morley is the head of the Man in the Mirror ministry and is launching a major initiative to hire 330 men nationwide who will oversee a total of 330,000 churches—one man per 1,000 churches.
At the time, Morley wasn’t even familiar with the term “born-again” Christian. He said two couples had taken him and his wife under their wings and he remembers being asked by someone in their group: Are you a ‘Borneo’ Christian.
“I said, ‘What? A ‘Borneo Christian.’ [The person] said, ‘No, no. A born-again Christian. That’s how green I was,” Morley laughs.
Morley notes that discipling men does not have to be done with a men-only group.
“The issue is not getting men into men’s only things. It’s getting men into a discipleship situation.”
A lot has happened since that first small group. Morley said his organization has gathered the best practices from thousands of churches across the country as it prepares to launch this national discipleship ministry.
“There’s really very few situations that a leader will find himself in that we haven’t seen several other leaders have,” Morley says.
The area directors that he is in the midst of hiring will be trained.
“The value of having these area directors and having boots on the ground is they’ll be trained,” Morley said. “But they won’t know as much in the first year as they’ll know in the fifth year. But there will be this beautiful network of guys.”

Come back tomorrow to hear how Morley’s calling was confirmed.