Years ago, Focus on the Family promoted a noble ministry to “the least of these.”

That’s when they asked their supporters to send new Mother’s Day cards to incarcerated individuals around the country to send to their mothers for Mother’s Day. It was a tremendous hit. Prisoners requested more cards than could be provided on short notice. It seemed that every prisoner wanted to wish his mother a happy Mother’s Day.

Buoyed by such a successful ministry, they planned the same kind of ministry for Father’s Day. It fell flat. It seems that prisoners want to care for their moms but not their dads.

Either many people do not know their fathers or their fathers never made any meaningful difference in their lives. They had no reason to send a Father’s Day card.

Every person is different. Children have free will and get to make their own decisions–about whether or not they will accept the example of their fathers.

But this is what we know generally. Most prisoners in America’s prisons have a father problem–most were raised without a positive male example.

Talk to chaplains and wardens in prisoners and you will hear about the absence of males in these men’s lives.

It’s hard to imagine a day more significant than this one–Father’s Day 2015.

We need fathers to step up and make a difference in the lives of their children.

This Father’s Day should be a day of honor for fathers as the Bible indicates; it should also be a day of commitment to train children in the way they should go. In order to train, a father has to be involved at every level of a child’s life–both infants and young adults and boys and girls.

While no one could diminish the impact of mothers, fathers leave indelible prints on their children.

May God bless you this weekend and may you bless your family by your noble character and loving concern. No man is perfect, but we can love our families as God commanded.

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