Mission Update: June 2022

A brief recap of the Authentic Manhood Initiative and the launch of Good Feed Media.

By Tierce Green

We’re closing in on completing four years of a mission that began in September 2018. Here’s a brief recap:

The Authentic Manhood content, starting with Men's Fraternity and now 33 The Series, has reached about three million men worldwide! That's incredible, but there are over 100 million men in America alone, and most of them have never heard these principles of biblical manhood. We still have a lot of work to do. Over the past four years, our mission—Authentic Manhood Initiative—has helped launch over 100 gatherings in 32 states that meet in churches, businesses, and marketplace venues. I have also coached leaders in South Africa, Australia, Hong Kong, Kenya, and Canada.

Authentic Manhood Initiative continues to provide resources to prison ministries, recovery centers, and military environments, either through outright donations of materials or by extending discounts to those who need a little financial assistance. That means we're putting hundreds of 33 The Series Training Guides into the hands of inmates, military veterans, and men on the road to recovery from addictions. With our connections, we could easily double the impact from hundreds of Training Guides to thousands in just one year with designated donations.

In the Spring of 2020, the pandemic shut down most public gatherings. Prisons and recovery centers were closed to outside teams. My speaking events at conferences and retreats were canceled. However, we leveraged technology to help men stay connected virtually. I've been able to teach men and train leaders from South Jersey to South Africa from my patio in South Texas! Using technology to help men stay connected virtually when they can't be in the room physically is one of the things I hope we'll continue as we emerge from this pandemic.

POST-PANDEMIC RESET

I'm excited about crisscrossing the country again to speak at retreats and conferences. I'm scheduling more in-person events as the world opens up again. Last Fall and this Spring, I taught Volumes 1 & 2 of 33 The Series live at a gathering for men here in The Woodlands, TX. I’m scheduled to teach Volume 3: A Man and His Traps this Fall. Pray that these events will create a ripple effect that impacts families, churches, and communities beyond the gatherings.

As prisons and recovery centers allow outside mission teams to come back in, I have more opportunities to provide coaching and resources. I'm scheduling days to go with some of these teams and encourage the inmates in person. The need is huge. I'd love to provide more resources to support these groups.

GOOD FEED MEDIA: FREE APP. FREE CONTENT.

A big good thing that came out of the pandemic lock-down for me was more time to create and produce new content. We launched the Good Feed Media app earlier this year. All of the content is FREE. There is no obligation to pay anything, just the opportunity to pay it forward and help us keep it free.

The first featured series is called Essentials For Life. This 8-session series lays out the right foundation and framework to experience a full and meaningful life as promised by Jesus. It’s a great next step for new believers and an effective disciple-making tool for veterans of the faith. Essentials For Life is for everyone—men, women, and students. It's already being used in churches, small groups, prisons, and marketplace environments.

We also remastered a series called Fight Club: Some Things Are Worth Fighting For and added it to the Good Feed Media Series Channel. Fight Club was created several years ago for a seasonal gathering of men called The Quest. We filmed the content at Chad Robichaux’s Gracie Baja Jiu-Jitsu studio in The Woodlands. Chad became the President & Founder of Mighty Oaks Warrior Programs and the Director of Veteran Affairs for Serving California, two non-profit organizations dedicated to helping our combat heroes suffering from the unseen wounds of combat stress and PTSD. The Mighty Oaks Edition of Fight Club was highly effective in helping many combat heroes find their way home.

We continue to receive requests from men around the world for Fight Club. As we were editing and remastering the original videos for this version, it became clear that this series is still relevant and important to help men today build a strong and active faith.

Each series we create for Good Feed Media will contain teaching session videos plus digital outlines with note-taking and shareable features all within the app. For public gatherings, we're offering Video Bundle downloads and a license to print physical workbooks.

Working titles for the next three series:

  • Life Interrupted: Finding Peace in the Midst of Trouble

  • High Anxiety: Updating Your Operating System

  • Pendulum: The Danger of Over-Correcting

Learn more at goodfeedmedia.com. Download the app from the Apple App Store, Google Play, or Amazon.

A BIG QUESTION

How do we create quality content like this and give it all away? We can’t without your help! Production costs average $25,000 for each series and take about six months to complete. I want to create and produce three new series over the next twenty-four months.

Would you pray about partnering with us? Go to tiercegreen.com/give for options. You can make general donations to support the overall operating budget for our mission or designated donations to Good Feed Media or Authentic Manhood Initiative.

I love questions and ideas that can keep this mission moving forward. Contact me: tierce@tiercegreen.com. If you live in the Houston area, let's get together and talk about it over breakfast, coffee, or lunch.

Thank you for your prayers, support, and encouragement.

— Tierce

Tierce Green