2025 March Man-ness Men's Conference: TIME TO REBUILD

2025 March Man-ness Men's Conference: TIME TO REBUILD

Join us for the March Man-ness Men's Conference in Hamilton, NJ—a one-day event designed to inspire and empower men. Featuring dynamic speakers, uplifting worship, and meaningful fellowship, this conference is a chance to renew your faith, strengthen your commitment, and connect with other men seeking to live spirit-filled lives. Come and be encouraged to lead boldly in your families, churches, and communities. This is your time to grow, worship, and stand together as men of faith.

This isn’t just a conference—it’s a conference with a cause, honoring the loving memory of Barry "Macho" Vazquez II by inspiring men to live with purpose, faith, and strength.

Barry Vazquez II was the embodiment of the spirit of excellence. From an early age, he showed signs of strong character and a unique drive to excel. His integrity was far beyond his years and he held himself to a high level of commitment, and diligence in all areas of his young life. He was after God’s heart and a true disciple. A dedicated student, he earned straight A’s every year through his final year in sixth grade.

Barry was a great athlete. At three, he first picked up a basketball, and by the age of 5 was already playing at local recreation centers. Before long, people began to take notice of his natural talent and passion for basketball. He was invited to play in a more challenging environment at various centers such as The Boys and Girls Club, The Martin House and the West Ward Recreation Center.

Heartbreak visited the Vazquez family February 2007, as they learned that young Barry was diagnosed with Leukemia at the age of twelve. However tragic the news, his family firmly believed that regardless of the circumstances, God’s Grace was going to give them the strength to endure. Over the course of seven months, the Vazquez Family traveled from the New Brunswick Cancer Center to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia for a Bone Marrow Transplant. On September 16, 2007, Barry’s body shut down and he went home to be with the Lord just shy of his thirteenth birthday.

Join us in raising $5,000 to donate Embrace Kids Foundation!

Embrace Kids Foundation exists to lighten the burden, maintain normalcy and improve the quality of life for families whose children are facing cancer, sickle cell and other serious health challenges. Embrace Kids addresses the spiritual, emotional and financial needs of patient families in the New Jersey/New York City metropolitan area.

A partial list of the programs and services offered by the foundation includes Family Services, the Embrace Kids Education Program, Emergency Financial Assistance & Transportation, Tackle Sickle Cell Programs, The Edith and Martin Stein Building of Hope, Social Services and Counseling, the David E. Zullo Pediatric Palliative Care Program (PACCT) and Inspirational Events.

Embrace Kids Foundation
121 Somerset Street,
New Brunswick, NJ 08901