An invitation from Buck Griffith, President of Family Upreach, Inc. (dba: NewLife Behavior Ministries) to read this collection

Dr. H. M. Motsinger, Founder of NLBM and NLBI, asked me to personally invite you to read these “Success Stories.” You will discover some of the most amazing accounts of men and women engaged in this fruitful ministry.

These are unique accounts of students, instructors, regional directors, trainers, chaplains, schoolteachers, principals, and others. You find them utilizing the NLB curriculum and personalized teaching model.

While you will learn to appreciate the history of NLBM, that is not the primary purpose of the profiles. First, we want to introduce you to the people involved. Second, we want to encourage you to become actively engaged in using the NLB curriculum and do the same, only . . . better.

H. M. was asked by the late Wes Whitt to author a 39-lesson curriculum and teach it in Texas prisons. After teaching the material one year in Dallas County Jail and three years at the Wynne prison unit in Huntsville (Texas), H. M. was asked by the prison system to stop teaching and start training others to teach. In 1985, TDCJ Chaplain Emmett Solomon, desired to see all 35 prisons benefitting from the NLB curriculum.

A student learns not by listening and writing only. He also learns by having his questions answered respectfully. The focus of the Responsive Teaching Model (RTM) positions the student in an active learning role by allowing him to share his thoughts and questions in small and large group settings. This teaches him that he is of great value, not based on his athletic and academic prowess (nor due to good looks or social skills), but because he is created in the image of God. The student learns that the best way to change his behavior is to focus not so much on self as on using what he is learning to help someone else in need.

The RTM model was first used in male prisons with great success. Then it was used in female units. It was successful in both settings. H. M. was invited to Russia to put it into their prison system, but then the Russian system declined. Brethren who had made efforts to introduce it in the Russian prisons decided to use it in local congregations. They did so successfully and are still using it – eighteen years later.

As Americans taught this material in this nation’s prisons, they began to see how it also met the needs of members in home congregations. They discovered people who were not involved in any religious body were still experiencing spiritual and social problems. It was easy to see how perfectly Christians Against Substance Abuse (CASA) fulfilled one such need so, NLBM formed a partnership with CASA and it became a part of the NLB curriculum.

Among the stories you will find profiles of extraordinary prisoners – male and female. You will see accounts from gifted male and female instructors. Those whose stories appear on the NLBM website will primarily be of those teaching the curriculum inside the USA.

You can locate stories of those teaching the NLB curriculum in foreign countries on the NLBI website (www.nlbi.net). There, H. M. will reveal how this same material has found a welcoming non-prison audience in schools and colleges. Some Bible colleges have added it to their academic offerings. Public and private high schools invite our trainers to come in and teach their schoolteachers and students to use NLB concepts. Initially, we were amazed at the interest in teachers and students who asked to be baptized at the end of seminars. Then it became a normal occurrence.

I am pleased to invite you to seize this opportunity to be inspired again and again. If you are in the USA, I hope you will contact at NLBM for more information on how you can become involved in this life-changing ministry. However, I must warn you . . . most who get involved with us find it so fulfilling and rewarding that after many years (35+ years for some)… they remain involved!

Now, click onto the profile stories and enjoy one journey after another.

Cordially,
Buck Griffith
President, Family Upreach, Inc.
(dba: NewLife Behavior Ministries)