The ministry turning public school students into evangelists for Christ | Mark Hopson | Ep. 273
Kindled Podcast | Truth and Grace, Boldly
Haley Williams
4.5 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Public schools can be very dark places - but that means the light that is present in them shines all the brighter.
Since 2002, Decision Point has equipped Christian students as teen evangelists to reach their peers and classmates for Christ. For over 20 years they have seen young people give their lives to Christ through on-campus, student-led outreach events. The best part? These students now have the confidence to be evangelists for years to come. Listen in to how this movement is reaching students at high schools and middle schools, in big cities and small towns, across the nation and around the world... creating little revivals in some of the most unsuspecting places.
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| 0:26.9 | Click or tap the banner to shop now. Well, hello and welcome back to Kindled Podcast. I'm your host, Haley Williams. Today I'm excited to bring you a conversation that I had with Mark Hobson of Decision Point. This is an organization, a Christian nonprofit that equips Christian students as teen evangelists to reach their peers and classmates for Christ. To date, they have seen over 10,000 students from 500 schools give their lives to Christ |
| 1:14.0 | through on-campus student-led outreach events. |
| 1:17.0 | The best part is that these students now have the confidence to be evangelists for years to come. |
| 1:22.1 | I'll be honest, it can feel very discouraging when you look at the state of our public education |
| 1:26.5 | system and you see just how |
| 1:28.8 | the curriculum has shifted, the standards have shifted, we've got all kinds of garbage books |
| 1:34.8 | in the libraries. Children are just being force-fed lies through our government education system, |
| 1:39.8 | which many and most American students are in. |
| 1:45.0 | But Decision Point is an organization that is making a tangible and real difference in these schools. |
| 1:52.0 | Decision Point is an evangelical nonprofit that is proclaiming the gospel to the next generation inside these public schools. |
| 1:58.0 | You know, we talk a lot about the fact that persecution in this country for Christians |
| 2:03.9 | has never looked more possible and actually happened as much as it is today. That can feel scary. |
| 2:12.1 | Are we actually equipping the next generation to stand firm? And after talking with Mark Hobson, I can |
| 2:17.3 | decidedly say, |
| 2:18.6 | yeah, there are people doing that and there are students who are actually learning how to do that |
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