Posted on 01/13/2009 8:10:34 AM PST by achilles2000
COLUMBIA, SC, Jan. 13 /Christian Newswire/ -- Because of the comprehensive and accelerating failure of the government school system, Exodus Mandate has launched "The Call to Dunkirk", a new initiative calling upon churches and ministries to reorder their priorities so that they can assist parents in rescuing their children from the public schools.
A key stumbling block preventing some Christian leaders from openly calling for the long overdue exodus of Christian families from government education has been the mistaken belief that traditional Christian schools and homeschooling are the only alternatives to government schools.
Consequently, a central focus of "The Call to Dunkirk" message is helping parents and pastors understand that, in addition to the excellent choices of Christian schools and homeschooling, technology now makes inexpensive Christian education alternatives readily available. Theses options are spiritually, morally, and academically superior to government schools and any church, large or small, can easily implement them.
Exodus Mandate recently launched "The Call to Dunkirk" with a short video now available on YouTube that already has received tens of thousands of viewings. In addition, "The Call to Dunkirk" has begun to generate media interest through numerous stories, including headline stories on One News Now and in World Net Daily, and radio appearances on network programs such as Moody Broadcasting Network's popular "Prime Time America" broadcast.
Many small Christian ministries and organizations support the K-12 Christian education or home schooling agenda for renewal of family, church and culture. In the past, however, some of the larger Christian organizations, denominations, and pro-family ministries have mistakenly supported public school reform rather than calling for an exodus of Christian families from the rapidly disintegrating public school system. Fortunately, these ministries are beginning to see that school reform efforts are futile given the manifest failure of school reform and the continued cultural deterioration.
Dr. Bruce Shortt commented saying, "A lot of time has been wasted on school reform. You can no more reform the government school system than you could reform the Soviet collective farm system. The model is a mistake. Conservative school reformers are a lot like Civil War re-enactors who specialize in Pickett's Charge. They never take the high ground; they never really win. What we need today is new leadership."
Dr. Voddie Baucham challenges African-American families saying, "Black families ask me, 'Why should we leave the public schools after our forefathers fought, marched and sometimes died for us to have the right to attend.' My response is simple, our forefathers fought, marched and died so we wouldn't have to settle for the kind of education inflicted on minority children today. We need to march some more. And the first place is out of the front door of these Christ-dishonoring, academically inferior, soul-killing government indoctrination centers."
Dr. Bruce Shortt added, "The Left has always understood that whoever controls the children owns the future. This is why so many of the 60's radicals like Bill Ayers went into education. Now they effectively control the government school system. But worse, we give them our children."
Chaplain E. Ray Moore points out that the 2008 elections conclusively show the failure of the "lobbying, voting and legislative model" most of the pro-family movement have relied on to slow down and reverse the cultural and spiritual slide in the US. Moore further notes, "Christian and pro-family organizations are fighting in the right war but often use the wrong weapons and misdiagnose the real problems. We believe "The Call to Dunkirk" will help large Christian ministries, denominations, pro-family organizations, and families bring the true problem into focus and better understand the many available, practical solutions.
E. Ray Moore, Chaplain (Lt.Col.) USAR Ret., Director of the Exodus Mandate Project; Dr. Bruce Shortt, lawyer and author of THE HARSH TRUTH ABOUT PUBLIC SCHOOLS; Dr. Voddie Baucham, Southern Baptist pastor, conference speaker on family and home education and author of FAMILY DRIVEN FAITH will serve as the principal spokesmen for this special one year emergency rescue plan.
To arrange an interview or speaking opportunity with Dr's Bruce Shortt, Voddie Baucham or Chaplain E. Ray Moore, contact Exodus Mandate at www.exodusmandate.org or by phone at 803-714-1744 (wk).
46% of Mass attending Catholics voted for the Death Eater Obama.
Perhaps if Catholic children had been removed from government schools, we would not have had this massive number of Catholics voting for an abortion and infanticide supporting presidential candidate.
Kansas City offers every Catholic child in its diocese a tuition **FREE** Catholic education. All Christians ( Catholic and Protestant) could learn from this example.
I’m not saying that anyone has to send their kids to public schools. I’m saying that they should ALSO try to mend the public schools.
There are several reasons.
1. We should be concerned about how our neighbors’ kids are being educated, as well as our own.
2. We should be concerned about the culture. Sure, Christians sometimes have to deal with unfriendly cultures and even persecution. But this used to be a Christian nation. Should we just sit on our hands while it is turned into something evil?
3. The more our neighbors’ kids are miseducated, the more they will vote for leftist politicians determined to drive Christianity out of the public sphere.
4. If this is a free country, then we need a certain mass of religious training and belief among the voters to keep our freedoms. Otherwise, we will descend into some sort of evil totalitarian state. Will we then be given the choice to homeschool our kids? If we pass a certain tipping point, the politicians might just take that right to educate our kids away from us. Then the fat will really be in the fire.
It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if Obama outlawed homeschooling. The teachers union would love it.
1) Close down government schooling within a year.
2) Offer the opportunity for a tuition **free** Christian education to every child in the nation. ( Maybe even the world!)
We need leadership, belief in God's Providence, and the willingness to make it happen.
Harvard alone has a $35 BILLION dollar endowment. Universities across the nation have endowments in the BILLIONS and multi-millions. Surely Christians could endow Christian K-12 education to the same extent.
Christians need to do 4 things:
1) Endow **conservative** Christian education foundations that would issue grants to individual teachers. The teachers could open mini-schools, micro-schools, one room school houses, and homeschool cooperatives. The foundations would certify the teacher and the curriculum, and test the students for progress.
2) Abandon the brick and mortar Prussian style school. It is expensive and fraught with too many zoning issues.
3) Lobby to have all sports, music, theater, and arts programs moved to the county parks and recreation departments. In many communities these programs generate a tremendous amount of “rah rah” support for the government schools in the voting booth. Get them out of the government schools and community support for the government school is lessened.
4) Set up systems so that the Marxists can never gain control of these education foundations in the way they took over other philanthropic organizations ( for example the Ford Foundation).
“We should be concerned about how our neighbors’ kids are being educated, as well as our own.”
Parents have only to be concerned about their own children’s education, not their neighbor’s children down the street, that’s their parents’ responsibility. Shared blame of public schools is a favorite cop-out from public school officials who want everyone to embrace public schools and their failures.
Obama isn’t going to outlaw homeschooling. It’s a state matter, not a federal matter. If he is stupid enough to do that, he can kiss his presidency goodbye. Homeschooling survived and thrived even in Clinton’s and the Hildebeast’s regime. It’s grown too large now, with more adherents — conservative, liberal, religious, nonreligious — it’s not going to go away — all sorts of people are unhappy with public education for one reason or another. I wish conservatives would realize that.
Agree 100%. When we told people in our former church that we were homeschooling our children, they responded by saying they wanted their children to be salt and light. I told them that I wasn't willing to sacrifice my children on the altar of salt and light. Of course they have made a huge impact to people they do come in contact with. They are a joy to be around and that is in large part because they have been kept away from negative influence.
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