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Fighting For The Fatherless: Changing Lives, Transforming Churches

05.08.2013
By Megan Fowler
(Published in byFaith Magazine)

John Smithbaker knows firsthand the devastating effects fatherlessness has on a young boy. He also understands today’s societal blight resulting from millions of children growing up without fathers. But he burns to see churches embrace the biblical mandate to defend the cause of the fatherless; and when churches do, it electrifies the body of Christ.

In 2007 Smithbaker and his pastor, Scott MacNaughton, founded Fathers in the Field (FITF), a church-based program that pairs men in the church with fatherless boys to teach the boys outdoor skills, introduce them to the love of their Heavenly Father, and help them learn to forgive their earthly fathers.

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