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2020 VISION: CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH, CHALLENGING THE CULTURE

SAVE THE DATE!
Our event dates for early 2020 are here!
Thursday, January 16, Oconomowoc - Schwefel's Restaurant
Click HERE to reserve your place
Thursday, January 23, Janesville, The Italian House
Click HERE to reserve your place
Thursday, February 6, Oshkosh
Thursday, February 20, Wausau
Thursday, March 5, Appleton
Thursday, March 12, Plover
Thursday, March 26, Milwaukee
Thursday, April 2, Green Bay

More information on event location
and registration will be coming soon!
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DECEMBER 25, 2019

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Responding to the Transgender Issue:
Parent Resource Guide

This resource is fully researched and documented, defines terms,
explains the issue thoroughly and gives parents practical ways
to address the issue with their children and especially in schools.
A free pdf of the publication is available HERE. 
Call our WFC office at 888-378-7395 to obtain a print copy for a suggested donation of $5.
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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 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. PRAY for your elected officials!  (I Tim. 2:1-4)

—Click HERE to view in web browser—

Merry Christmas!

We extend our warmest Christmas greetings to you from the board and staff at Wisconsin Family Council and Wisconsin Family Action! We hope this is an especially meaningful time for you and your family as you reflect on the goodness and greatness of our God. We pray that this Christmas season will be a time of pronounced peace and genuine joy in your household as you celebrate the love of our Heavenly Father in the name and person of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.

 

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Green Bay Packers Foundation Punts to Planned Parenthood

 

From Lifenews.com:
"The Green Bay Packers are one of the most storied franchises in the NFL. The football team has the distinction of winning the first-ever Super Bowl decades ago, but now the Packers are gaining attention for a more dubious reason.
 

"To the consternation of pro-life Packers fans in Green Bay, Wisconsin and across the nation, the NFL team’s foundation has decided to fund Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion business that annually kills more than 330,000 babies in abortions. 
Read the rest of the article HERE.

Julaine Appling, WFA president, says, "The Green Bay Packers Foundation just gave a boost to an organization whose main reason for existence is to kill unborn babies. For those of us who are unabashedly pro-life--and that position way supersedes our support for the Packers--this is very disappointing. The GB Packers Foundation either bought a lie or has core beliefs that make abortion ok."
Wisconsin Family Action is 100% pro-life, from conception to natural death. CLICK HERE to partner with us for LIFE today!

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Madison School District Put on Notice

From the Wisconsin State Journal:
"A conservative legal group is giving the Madison School District 45 days to change a policy the organization says unconstitutionally bars parents from finding out from school staff if their child is transitioning genders or it will sue the district.

"The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, or WILL, sent a letter Wednesday to the district laying out its legal arguments against portions of a 'guidance document' for working with transgender and non-binary students, which prohibits staff from revealing to parents if their child is transitioning genders unless the student gives permission.
Read more HERE.

“The Madison School District has been put on notice: they cannot trounce on the rights of parents," says Julaine Appling, WFA president, "Issuing and enforcing guidelines that keep critical information about their children from parents is patently wrong and is harmful to the well-being of the children. Thank you to Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty for this letter and for being willing, if necessary, to bring a lawsuit.”

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Presidential Impeachment: How the Process Works

Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump. The Wisconsin delegation vote was along party lines, with Democrats Mark Pocan, Ron Kind, and Gwen Moore voting to impeach; and Republicans Bryan Steil, Jim Sensenbrenner, Glenn Grothman and Mike Gallagher voting against impeachment. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is now saying she isn’t going to release the impeachment articles to the Senate until she is satisfied that the rules the Senate establishes for how that body will handle the impeachment trial are “fair.” The Constitution requires that the House send the articles of impeachment to the Senate, but does not specify when that must be done.
 
Much confusion exists about the next steps and about whether or not the House vote means the president is removed from office. To be clear, the House voting to impeach the president, does not mean he is removed from office.  The Constitution requires that after the House votes to impeach, the next step is, once the Senate receives the articles of impeachment, that the Senate acts as a kind of court, conducting some type of trial to determine whether the president would be removed from office.

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Snowflakes: Fascinating Masterpieces of God's Creation
 

If you've never read the story of Wilson (Willie) Bentley, now would be a great time to do so as winter rolls into Wisconsin. This fascinating story is shared from the Institute for Creation Research:

While [Bentley] was still a boy, his mother, a school teacher, gave him a microscope that he used to observe everything from flowers to snow—and snow especially fascinated him.One of his inspirations to study snow was the Bible verses in Job 38 about the “treasures of the snow.”5 When asked why he took an interest in snow, he answered that "...snowflakes were miracles of beauty; and it seemed a shame that this beauty should not be seen and appreciated by others. Every crystal was a masterpiece of design; and no one design was ever repeated. When a snowflake melted, that design was forever lost. Just that much beauty was gone, without leaving any record behind. I became possessed with a great desire to show people something of this wonderful loveliness, an ambition to become, in some measure, its preserver."

Read the rest of Bentley's story and look at some of his impressive photos of snowflakes HERE.

In 2013, photographer Alexey Kljatov showcased some of his macro photography of snowflakes (see photo, left). You can view his spectacular photos in the article "Macro photos of snowflakes show impossibly perfect designs" HERE.

WFA president Julaine Appling comments, "Even the author, who is from all evidence not a Christian and strongly believes in 'natural science,' says snowflakes are 'impossibly perfect.' Only a perfect, all wise, all knowing, all powerful Creator could do this impossible thing!"

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Family E-Connection on Break
 

The WFA Family E-Connection newsletter is going on Christmas break. No edition will be published Thursday, December 26 or Thursday, January 2, in order to allow both you and our staff time to reflect on the Christmas season and enjoy celebrating with family and friends. We will resume the regular weekly Family E-Connection on Thursday, January 9. See you in 2020!

IN THE MEDIA

WEEKLY RADIO COMMENTARY. "WISCONSIN FAMILY CONNECTION" -  Airing this week on over 20 stations statewide. Listen to "Wishing for a Christmas Truce" HERE. Subscribe to our podcasts HERE! 

ARCHIVED:
Week of December 9, 2019 - Dot Connecting on Disturbing Statistics & Trends
Week of December 2, 2019 - Who's Sitting in Those Decision-Making Seats?

"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]. 

HOME FRONT - VCY AMERICA
WFC President Julaine Appling hosts VCY America's "Home Front" program every Wednesday afternoon (Sept.-May) at 3:15 p.m. On this last Home Front program before Christmas and New Year's, Julaine gets people ready to think about a busy election year in 2020, including how to register to vote, election dates, good resources and more. She also discusses another attempt in our state legislature to prohibit the trade and use of the body parts of aborted babies. Tune in HERE to hear this week's program. Click HERE to subscribe to your future Home Front podcasts!

VCY AMERICA TV30 "InFocus"

--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.