159: Why Every Christian Should Homeschool With Retired Navy Seal and Father of 7, Bill Rapier

Now That We're A Family

Elisha and Katie Voetberg

Kids & Family, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2022

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Bill Rapier is recently retired after twenty years in the Navy, where his duty assignments included several years at SEAL Team 3 and over 14 years at Naval Special Warfare Development Group. Positions held include assaulter, breacher, sniper, team leader, troop chief and military working dog department senior enlisted adviser. He is a blackbelt in bjj, a practitioner of the Sayoc Kali knife fighting system, and trains in both western and Thai boxing. He and his wife live in the mountains of North Idaho where they homeschool their 7 children and are heavily involved in their local church through leading worship as a family, father/son ministry, and all around discipleship.

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0:00.0	Howdy folks, welcome back to the podcast. In today's episode, I am excited to share with you an
0:06.4	interview I just concluded with Bill Rapier of Amtac shooting. Who is Bill Rapier? I'll tell you
0:14.0	and by telling you, I mean, I'm going to read a brief bio. Bill Rapier is recently retired after
0:20.1	20 years in the Navy, where his duty assignments included several years at SEAL Team 3 and over 14
0:27.6	years at Naval Special Warfare Development Group, also known as DevGrew, also known as SEAL Team 6.
0:35.2	The positions that he held there included Assolter, Breacher, Sniper, Team Leader,
0:40.4	Troop Chief, and Military Working Dog Department Senior Enlisted Advisor. He is a black belt in
0:46.8	Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, a practitioner of the site called Knife Fighting System, and trains in both
0:52.4	Western and Thai Boxing. He and his wife live in the mountains of North Idaho, where they home
0:58.3	school their seven children and are heavily involved in the local church through leading
1:02.9	worship as a family, father-son ministry, and all around discipleship. Bill's company Amtac
1:09.4	shooting, as well as Amtac Blades, you're able to find those online at amtacshooting.com. You can
1:16.0	also follow him on Instagram at Amtac Shooting. You can also find them on Facebook at American Tactical
1:23.2	Shooting Instruction LLC. Yeah, so many good things to learn from Bill, not just how to protect
1:30.4	yourself and how to fight, which he is literally a master of, but also just how to be a better Christian
1:37.0	and a better leader of your home, a better husband, a better all-around Christian person. So please
1:43.2	enjoy this interview, this conversation with Bill Rapier. Oh, one more thing I need to tell you
1:51.2	that the growth initiative is now open for the waiting list is now open for the growth initiative.
1:57.2	So I'm going to link now that we're family.com forward slash growth initiative and you can
2:02.5	join the growth initiative waiting list. What is the growth initiative? Well, let me tell you
2:07.2	real quickly, the growth initiative is a six-week live training program for men that are fathers,
2:14.4	Christian husbands, eager to grow, not only in their faith and in their marriage and in their
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