In 1988, I (Jeff)  left a promising military career to respond to a call to ministry.  That work became Salt and Light Ministries and is still in existence today.  During those years, I raised my family of two boys along with my wife Debbie.  I was always looking for ways to infuse adventure into their lives and promote their manhood.   Early in their lives, we went on camping trips with other men and their boys.  This expanded into a larger group and eventually, I saw it as an opportunity to mark their journey into manhood, especially with rites of passage.  These fall retreats became a priority on our calendars and gave all our boys a loosely organized path to manhood.

Now, my oldest son (Ben) has sons and the burden to see this process promoted in our manhood-deprived culture has become a call to arms.  Our response has been to study, pray, examine the problem, and consider our philosophy of ministry.  The result is our ministry to boys called “Treign Up”.   We hope that you will join us in this much needed endeavor.   Like Jordan Peterson said in his call to Christian churches,  “…Young men have a woman to find, a garden to walk in, a family to nurture, an ark to build, a land to conquer, a ladder to heaven to build, and the utter, terrible catastrophe of life to face stalwartly in truth, devoted to love and without fear.”  We hope to be a part of that.