Hi, everybody. This is Heidi St. John. I'm glad you guys have joined me here at my little corner at the internet yesterday.

I had Jennifer Haini with the and Keith Adams on the show. They are representing parents rights in education and the Family Policy Institute of Washington.

The two of them to come together. These two awesome organizations are like the wonder twin. Some of you guys grew up in the 70s. You remember wonder Twin power activate.

That's what's happening today. We're going to give you guys some tools that you can use to make a difference right where you are.

So whether you're listening from your kitchen table in Nebraska or Kentucky or Ohio or Indiana, we're going to give you some tools you can use.

And we're also going to talk about how churches can get involved in making a difference in the culture. Stick around. I think you're going to be encouraged.

Welcome to the show today. I'm going to jump right into this because it's so important and I don't want to waste a moment with these two wonderful people.

Keith Adams is here representing the Family Policy Institute of Washington, Jennifer Haini with the as I said in the introduction is with parents rights in education.

These two organizations have very similar missions in that they're both they're both geared at helping students, Family Policy Institute of Washington, been around for a long time working legislatively at a lot at a level in Olympia.

And they have turned some of their focus to the crisis in education because it really is a crisis. So as we start today, Keith, I want to start with you because yesterday when we ended, you said something that I told you you were ruining my good segue.

Because we want to start today by talking about the churches and you know, you know, 25 years ago, or it's been longer than that now, 27 years ago, J and I saw the handwriting on the wall.

We knew that the education system was beginning to crumble. Now we're looking at a full bone crisis like what you were saying yesterday, Jennifer, that the barn is on fire.

What point do we say get the horses out right at what point do parents just start withdrawing their kids. Well, we started planting homeschool cooperatives and we planted, we eventually planted over 60 of them around the United States, a couple of them in Canada, we did a couple of them in Germany.

And it sounds great on its face right. Oh, wow, you planted 60 homeschool cooperatives, which by the way, we're still doing and if for those of you who are listening or watching today.

If you go to a friendly planted family, you can click on those resources and find out how you can start a homeschool cooperative. That's different than the homeschool resource center.

But it's an awesome opportunity for churches to really get involved. And we planted over 60 of them. It sounds great until you realize that we talked over 1200 pastors.

So out of 1200 pastors and these are churches and frankly, it makes me angry. These are churches that are sitting empty.

Monday through Saturday, typically, Monday through Friday for sure. Nothing's going on in these buildings.

And we tried to tell a parent pastors open up your doors during the week so that parents who are fleeing the public school system can get together. They can teach classes. They can have camaraderie. They can build community.

And out of that over 1200, we only got 60.

That to me is a tragedy. And you're noticing the same thing, which is what you were saying yesterday. You know, you talked to this mayor who reached out to our pastors and was like, hey, come to these school board meetings and how many showed up?

One retired school pastor and did speak at school board being. Yeah, didn't do it.

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