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From the Mailbag 2018 - For Praise, Prayer and Action

THANK YOU very much for all your prayers, encouragement and support.

Your practical participation, generous support and fervent prayers are essential for CHRISTIAN ACTION. We wish all our friends, intercessors and supporters a Christ-centred Christmas and a hope-filled New Year.

Pro-Life and Pro-Family Action
“Well done on the awareness about trafficking you brought during your Women’s Day outreaches. Sounds really impactful and it’s wonderful that the community engaged so well.” C Viljoen, A21 Campaign, Cape Town

Education or Indoctrination?

“When I look at a child, I see a living, breathing person, made in God's image, for whom God has a plan. As parent educators, we need to embrace a new notion of learning...we need to engage the heart in order to effectively educate the child. Our vision of a well-educated child is a child who has a heart for learning, a child who has the tools he needs to continue to learn for a lifetime and a child who has the love to want to do it.” - Elizabeth Foss

Fleeting Youth
15 000 hours, 900 000 minutes, 54 000 000 seconds. What could we do with this time? Fly around the world 333 times, read more than a 1000 books, hike to the summit of Mount Everest 10 times… or go to school once. This is the average amount of time, a child will spend in school. Who are we giving this time to? Who are we allowing to shape the minds of our children? And whose interests do they have at heart? The Bible clearly states that a child’s education is the responsibility of the parents. Why are we giving this responsibility away? Because the state can do a better job? Because we feel we aren’t competent? Because the responsibility is too much pressure? Because we’re too lazy? Because it’s the status quo? None of these are good enough reasons to let someone else influence the development of your child’s precious mind. Proverbs 22:6 clearly states that how a child’s mind is shaped in his youth, determines his behaviour and ideologies in his future: “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6

The Deliberate Dumbing Down of Education – The New World Order’s Agenda to Enslave Your Children

In this summary of Samuel Blumenfeld’s important book Revolution via Education, I attempt to capture the key points that will help you understand and fight back against the New World Order’s agenda to use government schools to hijack your children. Secondly, I will examine the dismal dysfunctionality of government schools in South Africa, then I will question whether the same destructive methods that are being used to dumb down children in America, are also being used in South African schools (Teachers! I need your help in documenting examples of this!) Lastly, I will show how the case for home education has never been stronger.

Why Most Youth Did Not Vote in the 2014 Election and How We Can Change That for 2019

Disillusioned and Disinterested
According to the IEC 2014 National Election Report, only a staggering 39% of youth between the ages of 20 and 29 years old (out of about just over 10 million people of this age group) actually voted in the 2014 national elections! The IEC Voter Population Survey conducted nationally in 2013 found that 71% of South Africans that were not intending to vote said their main reason for not intending to vote in the 2014 election was “disinterest and disillusionment”. The next main reason given by 49% was “not interested/don’t care about politics”, followed by 8% who said “my vote would not make a difference”. Actually, as most people eligible to vote either do not register to vote, or do not turn up to vote, if they registered and voted they could make a big difference!

You Can Make a Difference
These statistics may seem discouraging, yet there are many ways you can change these results for the 2019 elections. In 2019, South Africans who have registered to vote will have the responsibility of electing a party to represent their interests in Parliament and in their Provincial legislature. How you exercise this right and responsibility of voting will have far reaching consequences for almost every area of your life. What can be done to inspire Christian youth to register to vote, then actually vote on Election Day and to be salt and light in the political arena?