Advocacy
Listed below are faith, family and freedom advocates. Visit their websites to see how they are protecting your freedom.
Pastors and Laypersons! Make sure and look at the Family Research Council below! They have practical tools for pastors through their Watchmen on the Wall organization that you can join for free! Plus ideas for developing your church's Culture Impact Teams, under the direction of the pastor, for laypersons to engage! the political arena in a non-partisan spirit!
In addition to the listed advocacy groups below, The Bi-Partisan Policy Center shown below is located in Washington D.C. and works year round with both parties to develop public policy in the areas of health, security, and opportunity for all Americans. They have on-going free webcasts regarding public policy development.
Note: The views within these advocate groups are their organizational views, not necessarily the views of the engage! ministry.
Family Research Council
Vision Statement
Family Research Council's vision is a culture in which all human life is valued, families flourish, and religious liberty thrives.
Mission of Organization
Family Research Council's mission is to advance faith, family, and freedom in public policy and the culture from a Christian worldview.
Pastors and Laypersons!
Discover FRC resources for sermons to engage the civic culture. Pastors, we encourage you to join Watchmen on the Wall, sponsored by FRC that will give you a vast amount of information from legal parameters of what you can/cannot do as a 501c3 while also keeping you up to date on what is happening to religious liberty challenges in DC and actions your congregation can take.
Also take a glance at the practical, easy steps on how to develop a Culture Impact Team that can be designed just for your church's calling to engage the political culture in your local community!
Watch the Standing Firm CIT webcast that has CIT leaders nationwide talk about all the practical ways they are engaging their communities. The engage! co-leader for HCBC Austin is in this webcast talking about how to have a Voter Registration. Remember, every CIT team is under the authority of the pastor so each church's CIT is different, dependent upon their calling. YOU decide what is best for your church!
Texas Values
The Texas Values mission is to preserve and advance a culture of family values in the state of Texas.
The Texas Values vision is to stand for biblical, Judeo-Christian values by ensuring Texas is a state in which religious liberty flourishes, families prosper, and every human life is valued.
Texas Values promotes our core values of faith, family, and freedom in Texas through:
- Policy research
- Public education and standing for truth in the media
- Grassroots mobilization
- Voter education
- Reviewing legislation and providing legal analysis
- Testifying at the Texas Legislature, State Board of Education, and other governmental entities
CORE PRINCIPLES
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Human life, from fertilization until natural death, is sacred, and the right to life is fundamental to all other rights.
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Marriage, as a lifelong union between one man and one woman, is an institution of God and a foundation for civil society.
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Gender, beautifully expressed as either male or female according to God’s immutable design, is an important biological and social reality that must be respected by all.
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Parents are ultimately responsible for the care and well-being of their children and should therefore be free from intrusive government involvement.
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The right of conscience and the right to practice faith according to personal convictions are sacred and should not be denied or infringed.
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The role and jurisdiction of government is clearly prescribed by our Constitution and consequently should be restrained from excessive involvement in the lives of citizens.
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Human exploitation, in its various forms, is wrong, and governments have a legitimate and important role in curbing these abuses.
Jay Sekulow is Chief Counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), one of the most prestigious law firms in the country. He is an accomplished Supreme Court advocate, renowned expert on religious liberty, a number 1 New York Times-bestselling author, and a respected broadcaster.
Jay Sekulow is an attorney with a passion for protecting religious liberty - freedom - democracy. For nearly a quarter of a century, he's been on the front lines - working to protect religious and constitutional freedoms in the courts, in Congress, and in the public arena.
At the Supreme Court of the United States, Jay Sekulow has argued cases 12 times - including several landmark cases which have become part of the legal landscape in the area of religious liberty litigation.
ACLJ has resources regarding the latest news on religious liberty, petitions, videos, how to get legal advice regarding the first amendment and additional resources.
What is American Majority?
The Progressive Left is set on flipping states that have been reliably “red” into liberal-leaning “blue” states. This is done with permanent campaigning which does not cease. And only those who understand, anticipate, plan, and yes, spend, on the Right have hope of combating it.
We fight it. Every single day. We are American Majority.
We are the nation’s premier conservative training organization, helping put in place a truly unique, separate political infrastructure—for use before, during and after election dates. As a 501c(3) non-partisan, nonprofit, American Majority continually trains, organizes, mobilizes, and equips new grassroots conservative leaders. We believe meaningful, lasting political change starts not in Washington, but at state and local levels, where most actual government decisions and spending occurs.
Bipartisan Policy Center is a non-profit organization that combines the best ideas from both parties to promote health, security, and opportunity for all Americans. BPC drives principled and politically viable policy solutions through the power of rigorous analysis, painstaking negotiation, and aggressive advocacy.
Click on their logo, go to the website, and sign up for their weekly podcasts--excellent source of bi-partisan research and discussion on a variety of political topics.
As a Washington, D.C.-based think tank that actively promotes bipartisanship, BPC works to address the key challenges facing the nation. Our policy solutions are the product of informed deliberations by former elected and appointed officials, business and labor leaders, and academics and advocates who represent both ends of the political spectrum. We are currently focused on health, energy, national security, the economy, financial regulatory reform, housing, immigration, infrastructure, and governance.
What We Do
We are the nation’s largest public policy women’s organization with a rich history of over three decades of helping our members across the country bring Biblical principles into all levels of public policy.
We help people focus on seven core issues, which we have determined need Biblical principles most and where we can have the greatest impact. At its root, each of these issues is a battle over worldviews.
Mission Statement
Concerned Women for America protects and promotes Biblical values and Constitutional principles through prayer, education, and advocacy.
Vision Statement
Concerned Women for America is leading a movement dedicated to impacting the culture for Christ through education and public policy.
Welcome to Family Policy Alliance. You may know us by our previous names, CitizenLink and Focus on the Family Action. We’re still a public policy partner of Focus on the Family. As a Christ-centered organization, our vision is a nation where God is honored, religious freedom flourishes, families thrive and life is cherished.
Our mission is to advance biblical citizenship, equip and elect statesmen, promote policy and serve an effective alliance, all committed to a common vision.
Gateways to Better Education is a nonprofit organization founded in 1991 to help public school educators, parents and school leaders foster faith-welcoming schools for students of all faiths as well as appropriately teach about the Bible and Christianity without mixing church and state. We show them how to do this legally within existing constitutional boundaries, current laws, and state academic standards.
We empower parents with tools to navigate the public schools to help their children graduate with their faith and values intact. We guide school leaders in establishing policies and practices that protect academic and religious freedom.
We envision public schools as places where students of all faiths know they have the freedom to express their beliefs and where all students gain an academic appreciation for the Bible and Christianity as it relates to history, culture, and values.
From immigration and healthcare to family values, religious liberty, and fiscal responsibility – iVoterGuide covers all the issues most important to you; and we back it with quantifiable research.
We believe actions speak louder than words, so we’ve gathered more than 56,000,000 donation records; candidate endorsements from 1,000+ organizations; legislative voting records from 100+ organizations; and we’ve combined them all into one data-driven, personalized voter guide.
With iVoterGuide, you can compare the candidates, side by side, and identify who mostly closely shares your values — and who has the record to back up their campaign promises.
iVoterGuide doesn’t tell you who to vote for;
instead, we give YOU the information so you can decide for yourself and educate others.
What We Do
We work for Judicial Renewal
Judicial Activism is when judges take sides in the cultural war, deciding cases based on public opinion instead of what is written in the Constitution. When judges re-appropriate legislative authority from Congress and make laws instead of interpreting laws and deciding cases.
Judicial Renewal is when judges return to their proper and noble role of simply deciding cases according to the laws of the land.
My Faith Votes is a non-partisan movement that motivates, equips and activates Christians in America to vote in every election, transforming our communities and influencing our nation with biblical truth.
We desire to see an America where God is honored in the public square and biblical truth is advanced in our culture.
My Faith Votes calls Christians to “Pray, Think and Vote” in order to protect four core pillars of faith which are religious freedom, the sanctity of life, strong families and marriages, and compassion and support for those in need. We reach Christians to stand boldly for these values in every election and in every community and city across our nation.
Patriot Academy has a bold mission:
to equip and educate a generation of citizen leaders to champion the cause of freedom and truth in every sector of society, as we help restore our Constitutional Republic and the Biblical principles that cause a Nation to thrive.
