MARK YOUR CALENDARS

Call our office at 866-849-2536 to schedule a speaker from WFA or WFC for your next event!
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WFC's "2020 Vision: Contending for the Faith, Challenging the Culture"
TONIGHT! Thursday, Aug. 29 - Verona (Pizza Ranch)
Thursday, Sept. 12 – La Crosse (Black River Beach Neighborhood Center)
Thursday, Sept. 19 - Eau Claire (Pizza Ranch)
Thursday, Oct. 10 - Hudson (Pizza Ranch, Stillwater, MN)
Tuesday, Oct. 15 - West Bend (Pizza Ranch)
Thursday, Oct. 17 - Kenosha (Golden Corral)
Thursday, Oct. 24 - Waukesha (Machine Shed)
Thursday, Nov. 7 - Elkhorn (Pizza Ranch)
Click HERE for more information and to 
reserve your place today!
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Evangelical Child & Family Agency's (ECFA) 33rd Annual
Bike & Hike Fundraiser
September 7, 2019
9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Bethesda Park, Waukesha, WI

Click HERE for more information.
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Wednesday, September 25, 2019
7 a.m.
SEE YOU AT THE POLE!

It's about one simple thing—
STUDENTS in PRAYER. 
Around the globe students meet at flagpoles to pray for their schools.
Learn more HERE
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PARTNER WITH US!
It is the mission of Wisconsin Family Action to advance Judeo-Christian principles and values in Wisconsin by strengthening, preserving, and
promoting marriage, family, life and religious liberty. Our vision is a Wisconsin where God is honored, families thrive, human life is cherished and religious freedom flourishes.

CLICK here to invest in your family, faith, freedom and future!
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LEAVING A LEGACY

Because of our desire to serve and help families, our ministry is making resources available that can be useful in creating a wise giving plan.
Click HERE for more information on how you can significantly impact the Kingdom while strengthening and building families.

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Wisconsin's Cultural Indicators 2019

Click HERE to read more
Wisconsin's Cultural Indicators, 2019 Edition is
now available online HERE or
by contacting our office
at 608-268-5074
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Get To Know Your Elected Officials

Wisconsin's NEW 2019-2020
Legislative Directory
Now available for download
Click HERE to find out who your state and federal legislators are, along with their contact information.

Establish a relationship; let them know you are informed, interested, and involved.

Back to School: Don't Check Your Faith at the Door 

With school beginning soon, parents need to know their children don’t check their rights at the door the school door. US Department of Education guidelines delineate students’ religious freedom. These guidelines state that students can pray, read their Bibles or other religious materials and talk about their faith at school; can organize prayer groups and religious clubs and announce their meetings; can express their faith in their class work and homework; can go off campus to have religious studies during school hours and can express their faith at a school event.
 
Too many parents—and educators—think Christian students and teachers in public schools must just put up and shut up about their faith at school. That just isn’t true. Gateways to Better Education at gogateways.org has reliable information about this issue, including how important—and how legal—it is for schools to include religion as an academic asset.

Listen to this week's Wisconsin Family Connection radio program "Instructions in the Principles of Freedom: Whose Job?" HERE.

Know your rights. Access resources that help you understand what your rights are as a Christian in the public school setting. Click HERE for valuable information!

DID YOU KNOW? The annual "See You at the Pole" (SYATP) event is coming up on Wednesday, September 25, 2020. This is a time for student-led prayer across the nation. Help organize a SYATP event at your local school! Click HERE to learn more.

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Elimination of Waiting Period After Divorce On the Horizon?

Again this session, some Republican legislators are introducing a bill that will eliminate completely the state’s six-month waiting period after a divorce is finalized before a remarriage. Representative Cindi Duchow (R-Delafield) and Senator Alberta Darling (R-River Hills) are the bill’s authors and are currently seeking co-sponsors for the proposal. The authors argue that “it is not the government’s role to determine when a divorced person should be allowed to re-marry.” Last session the Assembly passed the bill on a voice vote but died in the Senate.
 
Wisconsin Family Action very much disagrees with the authors of this bill and the bill itself. This waiting period serves a very important purpose, especially when children are involved. It’s because children are so frequently involved in divorces that the state has this protection. Rushing into a marriage after the stress of divorce isn’t good for anyone—especially children. Government shouldn’t be interested in anyone’s love life, but it should care very much about the next generation.

Call your legislator today to voice your opinion on this bill. Find your legislator HERE. (Simply enter your address into the search box in the upper right-hand corner.)
 

Wisconsin Taxpayers Mandated To Cover Sex-change Treatments under Medicaid
 

From LifeSiteNews: "A federal judge ruled [last] Friday that Wisconsin cannot exclude so-called gender-reassignment treatments, including both surgery and hormones, from coverage under the Medicaid program, striking down a rule that’s been on the books for decades."

Wisconsin Family Action responds: Surgeries to supposedly change someone’s gender, which is biologically impossible, are no more required health care than is abortion; and taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay for them. The judge has yielded to cultural and political pressure, as has the Group Insurance Board. With Governor Evers now appointing people to this board, unfortunately, we don’t see things changing anytime soon. Elections really do have consequences.

Read the rest of the article HERE.
 

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The Religion of "Nones"

 

Roughly one-fifth of Americans and one-third of young Americans are what the Pew Research Center has dubbed “Nones,” people who claim no religious affiliation—and their numbers are growing. Nathaniel Peters, writing for Public Discourse, says the rise in these numbers reflects the emergence of a new faith rather than a loss of faith altogether. As America’s religious norm changes from Christianity to therapeutic deism and spiritualized progressivism, we will find more people challenging longstanding protections of human dignity and religious liberty.
 
However, while people may reject organized religion, they will practice some type of spirituality because that is a God-given drive. Unfortunately, in America many, if not most, of these self-proclaimed “nones” are practicing humanism, the worship of man. Godly parents who are living out biblical Christianity are the best safeguards children have from being sucked into this false religion.

Read more HERE.

IN THE MEDIA

WEEKLY RADIO COMMENTARY. "WISCONSIN FAMILY CONNECTION" -  Airing this week on over 20 stations statewide. Listen to "Instructions in the Principles of Freedom: Whose Job? ." HERE. Subscribe to our podcasts HERE!  Read the transcript HERE.

ARCHIVED:
Week of August 19, 2019 - Safe Haven Laws: A Better Option (Re-aired from April 22, 2019)
Week of August 12, 2019 - Electoral College: What We Don't Know Really Can Hurt Us
Week of August 5, 2019 - Children:Abuse or Protect (Re-aired from February, 2019)

"WISCONSIN FAMILY MINUTE" - A daily program for Christian radio stations! Click HERE for our daily program; listen or download! Click HERE to subscribe to your Wisconsin Family Minute podcasts! Find your local station HERE. If the Christian radio station you listen to isn't carrying "Wisconsin Family Minute," please encourage them to do so.  Contact us at 866-849-2536 or [email protected]. 

--WFA's president Julaine Appling is available to speak to your group, church, school, civic organization, and other events. Call 866-849-2536 to schedule.

--Dave Lingle, Wisconsin Family Council's Director of Church Relations, is available to speak in churches. Call 920-342-1928 for more information.