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In today's bonus episode, Shelby and I are joined by Chris McKenna, who is the founder of Protect Young Eyes.

Chris is a former middle school youth director and author of multiple resources for families and churches, including parenting, the Internet generation, and ready, how to heal and protect your misery from pornography.

His 2019 US Synodry Deshiri Committee testimony was the catalyst for new online child protection laws and earned Protect Young Eyes the Dignity Defense Alert Award in 2020.

His team performs hundreds of presentations at churches, schools, and nonprofits. They receive over a million visits to their popular website annually. Have a committed social media following.

We're featured in the childhood 2.0 movie. Chris is married to Andrea and is the father to four children ages 10 to 17.

We enjoyed getting to know Chris and hearing his heart to equip families in this area. We get really practical in this episode, including tips on having these conversations with your kids and principles to help protect your kids from exposure to pornography.

We hope that you will be encouraged and challenged to think deeply about how to engage with your children on this very important topic.

Come join us in this conversation as we chat with Chris McKenna about pornography and how to prepare and protect our children.

Hey everybody, thank you so much for joining us for another episode of the Daily Grace Podcast. This is Crystal and I am joined today by my co-host Shelby.

Hey everyone, glad to be back with you today. And we are so excited to welcome Chris McKenna to our podcast. Thanks so much for joining us today, Chris.

Hey, Crystal, glad to be here. I shall be. We are so thankful that you're here because as we've been preparing this series on pornography, a big question that has come up over and over is, how do I protect my children?

I think it's a scary topic to think about and it could be really intimidating to figure out how to have this conversation with our kids.

Obviously we asked you to be here because that's part of your job to equip parents and families. But also you are a parent yourself, which means you're having to navigate these same kinds of conversations.

Before we jump in, can you just tell us a little bit about yourself and about your family?

Sure. So yeah, I'm in the spot where I have an elementary, middle and high schooler right now. So the trifecta, I have a 17 year old daughter and then twin sons who are 12, who are in sixth and fifth grade respectively. And then a fourth grader Blake.

So Blake Cole, great and Lauren. And so I'm in it. I am in the trenches, bumbling and stumbling through the digital age.

Just like all of those who are listening and maybe you know going to watch this later. So I'm right there with you. Yeah, absolutely. So obviously you just shared about your family.

But you've also started to protect young eyes. And so I'm wondering if you can tell us just a little bit about what protect young eyes is and what is that you do there?

Yeah, so I didn't expect to be doing this. I can tell you that for sure. I'm a CPA, right? How did that happen? I'm a business veteran and the Lord called me into the local church chapter about 12 years in business and from being a CPA and a consultant.

I moved into middle school ministry because it's such a natural progression. Right? They fit so well together from spreadsheets to silly string.

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