Called to be Dad: Fatherhood System
Called to Be Dad is a practical, faith-based guide for first-time fathers who want to be more than providers. Who wants to be present. Connected. Confident. The kind of father their child will look back on and say, “My daddy was there.”
Written by a pastor and a counselling psychologist
Bevon R. Benjamin has walked alongside men through some of the most defining moments of their lives. Rhonda Thompson-Benjamin has spent her career understanding what children truly need from the fathers who raise them. When they became parents themselves, they looked for a book that combined both perspectives, biblical wisdom and psychological insight, spiritual grounding and practical tools, written specifically for the man stepping into fatherhood for the first time.
What you will find inside:
Every one of the 14 chapters is built around the questions real fathers ask, and the ones they are afraid to ask. You will find honest, warm, practical teaching that meets you exactly where you are.
- How to bond with your baby even when it’s awkward?
- How to support your partner through one of the most demanding seasons of her life?
- How to be emotionally present?
- How to build spiritual habits your family will grow up in?
- How to discipline with love and wisdom?
- How to communicate with your child in a way that builds lifelong trust?
- How to avoid the most common mistakes new fathers make?
- How to build a relationship with your child that still flourishes when they are thirty?
Each chapter ends with reflection questions that invite honest self-examination, action steps you can apply immediately, and space to bring it all before God in prayer.
This is Fatherhood System
Called to Be Dad comes with a companion workbook, 14 weeks of structured reflection, journaling space, and action step tracking designed for the father who apply what he learns. The workbook can be used individually or in a men’s small group, making it a powerful resource for churches, men’s ministries, and Father’s Day programmes.
“You were not given this child by accident. You were chosen for this. Now go be the dad they need.”
— Called to Be Dad
About the authors
Bevon R. Benjamin is a pastor based in Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago, with years of experience walking alongside men, families, and communities through life’s most significant transitions. He writes from both personal experience as a father and pastoral experience as a man who has sat with countless others in theirs.
Rhonda Thompson-Benjamin is a counselling psychologist whose professional work centers on families, children, and the emotional health of the people who raise them. She brings both clinical insight and the warmth of a mother and partner to everything written in these pages.
Together, they bring something that no other fatherhood book currently offers — the spiritual authority of pastoral ministry and the professional expertise of psychological practice, unified by a shared conviction that Tobago’s fathers — and fathers everywhere — deserve better resources than they have been given.