9/10/24 5 O’Clock Report
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Tuesday 9/10/2024
A Missionary to Our Politicians – The Word on the Hill – 9/10/24
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A Missionary to Our Politicians
A special Family Life Interview
Steve Amerson and his wife traveled to Washington D.C. as weekly worship services returned to the halls of Congress. Since 2014, he has gone to Capitol Hill twice a month to meet with Senators, Representatives and Congressional staffers. Each time, he brings 200 handwritten notes with Scriptural encouragement and words of hope — that adds up to 37,000 handwritten notes across ten years.
His “The Word on the Hill” Ministries offers signs of spiritual renewal among all who work on Capitol Hill. Democrats, Republicans and Independents all get visits, prayers, and caring attention for the realities of their lives — amid the loneliness and stress of their government work, and the everyday crises and problems of their personal lives. While the ministry to elected Members of Congress has great value, this interview also includes the story of a young woman who works in a Capitol Hill
Bob Price asked Amerson to talk about his evangelistic and pastoral work, and the spiritual state of our Seat of Government. Tap the podcast player button to hear our interview.
You can discover more about Steve Amerson and the mission successes of The Word on the Hill Ministries from their website and in this video.
“Of all the voices in government, God’s voice should be the loudest”
9/9/24 5 O ‘Clock Report
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Issues in Education – Back to School edition – 9/09/24
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“Issues in Education” is back, for back to school
This Family Life News Feature gets analysis and commentary on big issues for local schools, families, students and educators. Retired school administrator Dr. Ralph Kerr joins Bob Price for that important practical conversation.
As this program returns from its summer break, here are the topics for this podcast:
- What are we doing right and what are we doing wrong when it comes to Public Education?
- Cellphones in School
- Is Homework necessary any longer?
Dr. Ralph Kerr founded the Teaching and Learning Institute which seeks to motivate people of faith to advocate in their home school district. Resources for potential school board candidates are on their website WhyRun.org, as are Kerr’s commentaries on other educational matters in Pennsylvania and New York.
“Issues in Education“ is one of our Monday news features in the Noon Report and 5 O’Clock Report. You can hear these newscasts on the radio, on our live stream, and from our podcast feeds. All of our features and extended interviews also are posted to www.FamilyLife.org/newspodcasts.
Kid’s Corner – Meekness Is Not Weakness
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When it comes to being a strong follower of God, being meek isn’t usually the first thing we think of. Today we learn about what meekness has to do with real strength.
Bible verses: Matthew 5:5, 2nd Timothy 1:7, Matthew 26, 1st Peter 3:4, Colossians 3:12, Ephesians 4:2,
Capital Connection – the Big Issues in PA, NY, and the USA – 9/06/24
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“Capital Connection” on Family Life
It’s the “season premiere”, as our roundtable with resident experts about the happenings in Albany and Harrisburg are back
The Capital Connection Crew is back and discussing politics, with just two months to go until the election.
Jason McGuire is the executive director of the New York Families Foundation [NewYorkFamilies.org]
Michael Geer is the founding president of the Pennsylvania Family Institute [PAFamily.org]
Among our topics today, they’re talking about a new initiative to get more people of faith to the polls on November 5.
Now that the summer break is over, Capital Connection resumes our Friday broadcasts during the Family Life Noon Report, on air, on app, and via multiple streaming platforms. We also podcast these conversations at FamilyLife.org/newspodcasts.
Resources, links and info about subjects covered in this podcast:
- “Capital Connection Live”, two public events in NY and PA, with Michael Geer, Jason McGuire and Bob Price on stage for a full evening of discussion and analysis — FamilyLife.org/events
- The March for Life in Pennsylvania, Monday, September 23 — MarchForLife.org/Pennsylvania/
- Take the Pledge to register to vote (Christians at the ballot box, and in early voting) — National Family Policy Alliance and the Christians Engaged organization
- Voter registration deadlines are October 21 in Pennsylvania, and October 26 in New York State. Registration — and updating your name, address or political party (important, if those apply) — can be done at your local country election office, when you apply for or renew your driver’s license, or online through the state government website. Links from many advocacy groups also connect you with this process. Mailed-in applications in both states must be received on or before the deadline date.
Family Life 5 O’Clock Report – 09/05/24
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Vote Your Faith – Chris Leader on an effort to boost Christian turnout at the ballot box – 9/05/24
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A Christian leader, named Chris Leader, is on a 100-day countdown to encourage evangelical Christians to register to vote this fall.
The “separation of church and state” isn’t in the U.S. Constitution, not in that form anyway. But Chris Leader says many people of faith separate themselves from political and social involvement. His effort “Vote Your Faith” is trying to change that.
In this conversation with Family Life’s Greg Gillispie, Leader explains how some Christians are being intimidated, so they avoid voting, politicking, or even speaking out on the issues in the nation and in the local community. He points to Biblical motivation to get registered, plus how a better turnout of Christian voters could quickly solve many of the current problems in our culture.
Vote Your Faith offers inspiration, resources and tools to help improve the ratio of faithful Christians who participate in campaigns and elections. (Some surveys show that 25 to 33 percent of evangelicals stay away from the polls on Election Day).
As of the date of this Family Life Newsmaker Interview (9/05/2024), Chris Leader is about one-third of the way through his 100 Day Countdown to November 5th . He posts a new commentary each day.
Here are links to those (soon to be) 100 commentaries and the Vote Your Faith website.
Family Life 5 O’Clock Report – 9/04/24
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Missions Pulse – Let’s go to Paris – 9/04/24
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987 medals awarded at the Paris Olympics
Another 1,647 medals this week at the Paralympic games
10.500 athletes last month, and another 4,400 this week from 169 nations
700,000 New Testaments and Scripture books distributed!
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Yes, all of these statistics as the sports world has been focusing on Paris. Yes, 700,000 Bible books have been given out, in connection with the Paris Games over the past 6 weeks.
Once every 4 years, the 2 versions of the Summer Games bring about a gathering of athletes, officials, families, dignitaries and fans from nearly every nation on the planet.
A network of evangelical Christian groups has been working for the past 18 months to coordinate a massive outreach to share Jesus with the people in the region which hosts the Games, and with all those people who come from all over to attend. Some of these people have never had an encounter with Christianity, even though they are citizens of some nations that the friendly to this faith. Some of the volunteer evangelists are sharing Good News with people from places and cultures where, back home, Christianity is banned.
Tom Hawkins is with Greater Europe Mission who is among the coordinating team for Ensemble 2024, a massive faith-sharing effort by a combined group of European and global Christians from a wide and diverse swath of the theological spectrum.It ranges from local congregations to large denominations to members of little house churches.
This Family Life exclusive takes you to Paris. Hawkins talks about some of the life-changing stories from these efforts and connections. As otherwise-disabled athletes are thriving in their athletic events this week, they see many Paralympic competitors (and fans with handicaps) who have dealt with physical setbacks are ripe to hear the Gospel.
He also provides hopeful insight about a potential transformation in Europe, where across the past 30 years, cultures have diminished their faith practices. He says though, that he sees signs that a continent which has increasing become defined as “post-Christian”, the culture appears to be, in any places, entering a “pre-Rivival” mode.
Bonus factoid: The group of groups chose the name “Ensemble” to show how they are united across cultural and historical and theological distinctives — and because the same spelling of the same word has the same meaning, across multiple languages.
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Tom Hawkins spoke to Family Life News Producer Greg Gillispie this week, via Zoom, from Paris. The Paralympics Games continue there through Sunday, September 8.
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Tom Hawkins works with Greater Europe Mission (GEM), which carries out extensive envangelization outreaches, during and beyond the Olympics.
Tom and his wife Bev met at Nyack College in New York. They have been mission workers in France since 1994.
