The national Home-School Basketball Tournament is back and sporting a new name: The National Home-Schoo1 Sports Tournament. Though the majority of participants will be playing basketball, track events will once again be offered. The tournament seems to get better every year, balancing athletic events with devotional time and seminars taught by an all-star line up that includes Michael Farris, Richard Wheeler, and Jim Ryun. If you’re looking for a vacation for the whole family, this is it!
Summit’s Seminars For
Parents
Summit Ministries is well known for their work in training young people to think with a Christian world view. Each year close to 1,200 students attend their leadership training camp in Colorado.
But this spring they’re taking some time to make sure the adults are up to speed as well. Two week-long seminars will be held for Christian educators. “ Our goal for the seminars, “ says Curriculum Director, Connie Willems, “is to train school administrators, pastors, and homeschool parents to think with a Christian worldview themselves so they can transfer that skill to the students they affect.”
“Save Sex” Ad Campaign
Funky is probably not the word that comes to mind when you think of the Family Research Council headed up by Gary Bauer in Washington, DC, but that’s the feel FRC is attempting to generate with their new “Save Sex for Marriage” ad/poster campaign. With titles like “Virtuous Reality” and “The New Revolution,” the series of five ad/posters have been created to appeal especially to unchurched youth. The bright ads feature attractive “real people” in occupations ranging from youth pastor to model and clerk who have committed themselves to sexual purity.
Each ad/poster has a different theme that reinforces abstinence until marriage. One ad features people who have had sex, regret it, and are now waiting until marriage. Another shows married couples ranging from newlyweds to grandparents who proudly proclaim that the best (well, you know) comes to those who wait. The most exciting part of the campaign is the solid research that backs up each of the statements and is available in the form of “fact sheets” from FRC.
Mike Farris, president of Home School Legal Defense, has announced that he will not seek the nomination for the Virginia Senate in 1996. His bid for the Lieutenant Governor’s position in 1994, though unsuccessful, gained national attention because of the intense attack Mr. Farris received for his Christian faith.
Using the momentum created by his campaign, Farris has started the Madison Project, a nonprofit organization which seeks to identify conservative Republican candidates and then to fund their campaigns by asking Madison Members to contribute $10 (for a single member) or $20 (per couple) to a number of those candidates identified.
The Madison Project is gearing up to launch a national membership recruitment program so that they can help many more Republican challenger candidates. If they can recruit 40,000 members in the next two years, that would translate into $2 million in bundled political contributions.
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