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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.
 1. NC VALUES VOICE: Live with Dr. Andrew Brunson and his Carolina Values Summit 2020 speechEarlier this week we had another episode
of “The NC Values Voice”, a weekly 30-minute interview by Executive
Director, Tami Fitzgerald, with a special guest. The NC Values Voice
aired on Facebook Live and www.ncvalues.org/voice
on Wednesday night at 7:30pm. Our goal with these programs is to
inform and motivate our statewide coalition members with current,
relevant information.
At this week's program we streamed Dr.
Andrew Brunson's Carolina Values Summit 2020 speech about how during
his time serving as a missionary pastor, Brunson was falsely accused
and imprisoned for his faith in Turkey for over two years. After his
Summit speech, we also have an exclusive sit-down interview between
Andrew and Norine Brunson and Tami Fitzgerald.
Watch live and past episodes at: www.ncvalues.org/voice. You can also watch the other Carolina Values Summit 2020 speakers as well as the event in its entirety at www.carolinavaluessummit.com.
 2. ONE NEWS NOW: Homeschooling wave temporarily wipes out website"Tami Fitzgerald of the North Carolina Family Values Coalition
says because of the uncertainty of when schools will reopen because of
the pandemic, many Tar Heel State parents are choosing to
homeschool.
"Parents who were wanting to register to homeschool their
children were unable to do so because the site was down," she tells
OneNewsNow. 'And that just shows you what an overwhelming response
there's been to homeschooling.'
In
the evening hours of July 1st, the online system for filing a Notice
of Intent to Establish a Home School explained, 'The system is not
currently available due to an overwhelming submission of Notices of
Intent (NOI).'"
 
3. THE DAILY SIGNAL: Religious liberty is important but it’s not enough"The past two weeks brought welcome rulings from the Supreme
Court on religious liberty. We should celebrate these victories,
because religious liberty is an authentic natural and human right. But
it’s not enough. And even the best of religious liberty wins can’t
adequately contend in a proxy war over substantive issues.
We must do more politically to protect human flourishing and the
authentic common good. This is particularly true with respect to the
court’s Bostock ruling, which read progressive gender ideology into
our nation’s civil rights laws. A good ruling on the ministerial
exception in Our Lady of Guadalupe, while important, does not even
begin to address the many concerns there.
Religious liberty, after all, doesn’t protect people who aren’t
religious but reject progressive gender ideology. It doesn’t protect
other goods and interests threatened by progressive gender ideology.
And it doesn’t respond on the merits to the underlying disputed
questions of truth.
We need a more holistic response in terms of legislation and
litigation to protect all people and all the various goods and
interests at stake. We need to contend about the truth of the
matter."
4. SENATOR BERGER: Private schools are open. here’s how to apply for an Opportunity Scholarship."Gov. Roy Cooper’s orders permit well-off families to send
their children to private schools for in-class instruction, while
children from less fortunate families receive no in-person
education.
Parents can change that by applying for an Opportunity
Scholarship. The program provides low- and middle-income families with
up to $4,200 in scholarship funding to attend a private
school.
Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) said, 'The public school
establishment is failing the very children it is supposed to serve.
At-risk kids may be out of school from March 2020 through September
2021 — many of them don’t have a chance of catching up.'
Berger continued, 'Meanwhile, children from well-off families can
learn in-person at private school. I urge concerned parents to take
advantage of the Opportunity Scholarship program so their kids can get
the same private school education as other children.'”
5. NORTH STATE JOURNAL: N.C.’s largest district to begin year with online learning"Leaders of North Carolina’s largest public school district
agreed Tuesday to stick with only online student learning to start the
academic year, marking another system refusing to return to classrooms
next month due to COVID-19.
The school board for the Wake County system, which has more than
160,000 students, unanimously approved a schedule different from the
one it approved three weeks ago. Board members had earlier committed
to a rotational plan in which students would return by receiving
in-person teaching one week out of every three."
 WEEKLY PRAYER: OFFICIALSLORD, you have instructed us to pray for our governing
officials, and we come to you in the spirit of this petition. We pray
for our national 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 pay for public servants across our state and 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. Between
the COVID-19 pandemic, the civic unrest, the hostile political
climate, and the opposition of international opponents such as China,
they are much in need of your incalculable wisdom. May they plead with
you to give it to them, and may your grace respond in
kind.
Sincerely, North Carolina Values Coalition
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