Welcome to the Friday Five! Every Friday we share our top five
articles, stories, and quotes for you to read and share with your
friends and church families.
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1. CAROLINA JOURNAL: First early
voting weekend sees turnout uptick over 2020 primary
“The first Saturday of early voting for North Carolina’s 2024
primary elections saw a slight increase in turnout over the 2020
primaries, with more unaffiliated voters opting to take Republican
ballots over Democrat, according to NCSBE data collected by
carolinaelections.com. Early voting kicked off this past Thursday,
Feb. 15 and will continue until March 2. There are 360 early voting
sites across the state’s 100 counties.”
Read more: https://www.carolinajournal.com/first-early-voting-weekend-sees-turnout-uptick-over-2020-primary/
There is only about one week left of early voting!
Will you go out TODAY and vote for conservative candidates who reflect
your pro-life, pro-family, and pro-religious freedom values? To access
your voter guide
and view which candidates share your values, click here.
Also, if you haven’t already, would
you consider watching the Lt. Governor Candidate Forum we
held the other week to learn more about your Lt. Governor primary
candidates. Carolina
Journal also
recently wrote this great article about it.
2. N&O: Wake school board
backs LGBTQ, diverse books grants. But the vote comes after a
fight.
"A split Wake County school board approved grant proposals this
week allowing teachers to apply for money for LGBTQ projects and to
purchase diverse books for their schools. The Wake school board
generally approves without discussion the grants that the district and
individual schools can apply for. But the board’s two Republican
members pushed this week for public discussion about a pair of grants
— leading to accusations at the board table about agendas being
pushed."
Read more: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article285733156.html
3. DAILY SIGNAL: Alabama Supreme
Court Rules in Favor of Embryonic Human Life
"In a landmark decision, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled Friday in
favor of protecting embryonic human life from wrongful death.
Embryos are created routinely through in vitro fertilization, a
process by which ova are fertilized with sperm in a laboratory rather
than in a woman’s body.
The process of creating and cryopreserving embryos can be dangerous
for embryonic children, who often are destroyed intentionally or
through neglect."
Read more: https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/02/20/alabama-supreme-court-rules-in-favor-of-embryonic-human-life/
4. SBA PROLIFE AMERICA: Release of
updated online directory of life-affirming medical, social, and
material support providers
"Her PLAN just announced the official release of their refreshed
custom, online directory of life-affirming medical, social and
material support providers that are empowering moms and babies with
support as an alternative to abortion.
With over 3,200 vetted listings in 25 states across the country,
the Her PLAN directory is a comprehensive online resource designed to
help the life-affirming providers who are serving moms and babies each
day. The directory software makes it simple to search for and filter
local providers that span seven categories of care. You can also sign
up to access additional features such as saving searches, quizzes, and
lists."
Read more: https://herplan.org
5. DAILY SIGNAL: How Many More
Female Athletes Will Be Injured by Trans Players Before Biden Gives Up
Trying to Rewrite Title IX?
"An injury on a high school girls basketball team is another
reminder of why Title IX exists and why the definition of 'sex' is not
up for interpretation. A high school girls basketball team decided to
forfeit a game earlier this month after a male athlete playing for the
other team injured one of the young women."
Read more: https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/02/22/another-female-athlete-injured-man-how-many-more-until-biden-gives-up-rewriting-title-ix/
Weekly Prayer: NC Officials
LORD, you also have instructed us to pray for our governing
officials, and we come to you in the spirit of this petition. We pray
for our state government and its executive, legislative, and judicial
servants. May they indeed be servants unto the people, and govern in a
manner that protects liberty and virtue. In the same spirit, we pray
for public servants across our local governments. May they all heed
your mandate in Romans 13:4 to be in positions of authority as "God's
servant" and for the "good" of the public. They govern in what we
confess are difficult times. May they plead with you to give them
wisdom, and may your grace to govern wisely be poured out on
them.
Protect us from the oppression and loss of freedoms that other
countries have experienced, and help us to value and preserve freedom,
which we know comes only from You.
"I have indeed seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I
have heard their groaning and have come down to set them free." Acts
7:34
Amen
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Sincerely,
Tami & Team
NC Values
