About Lion
This is about more than good intentions. It's about a generation of fathers choosing, deliberately, to lead their homes with the gospel at the center.
Jeremy Stiffler
Lexington, Kentucky
A Dad Who Decided
to Get Serious
It started simply: a handful of guys, meeting over lunch, talking about what it actually means to lead your family when the world is pulling your kids in a hundred directions.
Jeremy Stiffler isn't a professional counselor or a seminary professor. He's a dad. A worship leader at Man of War Church in Lexington, KY. A multi-instrumentalist and songwriter who's spent years helping churches encounter God through music. And a father of two boys, ages 8 and 11, who knows firsthand that loving your kids well is the hardest, holy work you'll ever do.
“I kept running into guys who loved their families but had no one holding them accountable. No brotherhood. No one asking, ‘How are you really doing as a father?’ I knew that had to change.”
So Lion was born — not as a program, but as a commitment. A small group of men who decided they would rather be intentional fathers than accidental ones.
15 Years From Now
The vision isn't small. Over the next 15 years, Lion aims to see a network of fathers and young men across communities — men who were discipled as dads, who disciple their sons, who then disciple the next generation.
It's a multiplication model. One father impacts his household. His sons learn to lead. And the cycle breaks: generations of passive, disengaged fatherhood replaced by men who lead with courage and humility.
What We're Building Toward
Weekly lunch brotherhoods. Church small groups. First weekend camp (20 men, May 2027).
Multiple small groups running concurrently. Annual camps scaling to 50+ men. Youth mentorship pilot.
Regional expansion. Father-son retreats. Emerging men's ministry for young adults.
A generation of fathers who were fathered well, now fathering the next. The vision compounds.
Not Self-Help.
Scripture.
Lion is not a motivational seminar. We don't believe there's a 5-step system to being a great dad. We believe there's a God who designed fatherhood, and that His Word is sufficient.
Our approach is simple: gather men around Scripture, make space for honest conversation, and hold each other accountable to live what we read.
What We Believe
- ✝The Bible is the authoritative guide for fatherhood and family.
- ✝Fathers are called to lead — not with tyranny, but with sacrificial love, the way Christ leads the Church.
- ✝Children are a heritage from the Lord — a sacred trust, not an accident.
- ✝Accountability is not optional for the man of God.
- ✝Brotherhood is biblical: iron sharpens iron.
- ✝The local church is central — we do this inside the body, not apart from it.