July, 2007

             Bob Simonds, a servant, dear friend and birthright son of our Lord Jesus Christ, sends loving greetings to you and your beloved family. (Gal. 4:7, KJV).

             We Christians know that we cannot control all the secular, worldly matters we are surrounded by and often controlled by, even when we only slightly let our spiritual guard down. These are the profane things in our culture (as opposed to the sacred and good things); the worldly ( ‘without God’ things), such as our public schools, which are managed and totally controlled by secularism (a secular clergy), a religion if you will, of the secularists who believe that religious (Christian) influence should be tightly restricted in all education, morality, government and law.

             Yet, as Christians, we do have complete control of our individual efforts to influence the secular, and profane ungodliness in our public schools that have included our own and other’s children.  The secular educators and their primary tools (scientists) are committed secularists. For example: Dr. Steven Weinberg, Nobel Laureate in Physics and leading educator scientist, was quoted in the N.Y. Times (11-21-06) as follows:

“Anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion should be done and may in the end be our greatest contribution to civilization.”

             Dr. John Morris of the Institute for Creation Research (I.C.R.) quoted this revealing statement in his June letter.  If you would like a free subscription to the I.C.R. Newsletter on Creation vs. Evolutionary science, call (619) 448-0900; or, write to P.0. Box 2667, El Cajon, California, 92021.

             It is clearly evident the role of public schools is to stop and utterly destroy Christianity and K-12 children.  What battleground could they choose that would ever be more effective than that?  In their magazines and newsletters they constantly encourage all atheists and sexual perverts with statements like: “Johnny may not be able to read, but he most certainly is not burdened with the moralizing of the Christian faith.”  They think they have already won this battle for children’s souls.

             Have they?  For many years they have.  Not any more, however.  They have the money, the power to control, and most of all—the children, in their very own secular indoctrination centers (schools.)  “RESCUE 2010” Christian parents are changing all of that.  Gradually, slowly, methodically, one Christian church child at a time is being transferred OUT of our government schools INTO a Christian school, a private school or a home school.

             The numbers of Christian church children involved in these secular (God-removed) schools is staggering!  It was in 1998 that CEE gave up trying to reform public schools and re-organized to rescue every Christian child by getting them out, through “RESCUE 2010.” We had well-over 20 million Christian students involved, which were still in public school classrooms six hours a day, 276 days a year plus summer school, when we began the rescue in 1998.

             Today, CEE parents have reduced that number to 13 million—still staggering, but not nearly as many!  And all this very great work has been done quietly without a complaint, by all voluntary CEE groups.  Only God could do that, beloved.  We have seen with our own eyes what God’s blessing really means— definitely miraculous.  Also, non-Christian parents are leaving public schools in equal numbers.  Many are moving to voucher-assistance states—where a voucher pays for private school tuition.

             If anyone doubts this is being done, let me suggest that they carefully read any newspaper in any of the fifty states and begin cutting out articles on the financial collapse of your local school district.  With very few exceptions, you will see articles titled “Where have all the children gone?” Or, “District has lost 20% of the funding it had five years ago.”  It is now endemic to nearly all school districts—a mass EXODUS from public schools.  Schools are paid on A.D.A. ( average daily attendance)—no students, no money.  The average (ADA) money given the schools per student, per year is about $10,000.  If a medium or large school district loses 10,000 students—and many large school districts in big cities have lost even more per year—the money they would lose could be $100,000,000 dollars.

             If a smaller school district lost 5000 students it would lose $50,000,000.  How long could they stay in business-as-usual (buildings, staff, salaries, maintenance, etc.)?  If they only lost 1500 students, it would be a budget buster of $15,000,000.  If they only lost 200 students it would be a budget loss of $2,000,000.  Think of the chaos in these districts!  Yet, “people of faith” have no other choice, but to save their own children.

             Well, why would public schools self-destruct?  Answer: they are driven by money, high salaries, and political correctness (atheism, immorality, homo/lesbianism, pop psychology, a curriculum of atheistic humanism).  Their drive to destroy Christianity and Christian children to carry out their lust for power, control, money and unlimited licentiousness blindly drives them. Irrationality is their mind-set, where rational thinking used to be the generally accepted norm. No more!  Their method is intimidation and deceit.  Unknown to these many nice school people, they have fallen unto their own trap (Satan’s) of lying, and have become part of the powers of darkness (Satan’s).  God declares Satan to be the father of all lies (See John 8:44, KJV), and of those who are lying.  After 25 years of full-time ministry, with CEE in negotiation with the public school leaders in Washington D.C., every state and most of our 15,000 local unified school districts, I have seen from top to bottom nothing but lies and devious deceit.

             I know of no one else who has invested this much time in finding some kind of “common ground” between government schools and Christianity.  The national leaders of our schools have never , not once, yielded to even one Christian appeal to protect our children from immorality, atheism or classroom indoctrination into Islamic Muslimism (a religion who vows to kill all Christians, Jews and non- Muslims).  Irrational?  Yes!  These same secular leaders are pushing “hate-crimes” legislation.  A rubric title for only one purpose: to silence Christian free speech.

             The city of Oakland, California forced two women employees to take down an invitation on an employee bulletin board inviting anyone interested in free speech, marriage issues, and family values, to join their club.  At issue: Oakland supervisors said that “to allow their club would be allowing ‘hate- speech’ (Christian values) which may scare other workers.”

             Such literature on the marriage of a man and a woman, not same-sex marriage, or asking for parental rights, they say would be considered “homophobic” or “hate-speech.” Amazingly, the courts, including the atheistic San Francisco 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, said: “Municipalities have a right to dictate what form an employee’s speech may take, even if it is in regard to controversial public issues.  They are permitted to curtail employee speech rights as long as its ‘administrative interests’ outweigh the employee’s interest in free speech.  The court said: “the Christian’s speech rights are vanishingly small.” (Think of that statement, beloved).

             This same bulletin board was allowed to use the term “niggers.”  That was okay¸ but not “family values” or “marriage,” or “unnatural marriage.”  These rationales are the same used by our public schools, and the NEA teachers’ union—“to weaken the hold of religion on mankind” – not all religions, only the one true religion of the Creator God—Christianity.

             Our schools use these persecutions against Christian parents and try to put-down Christians as radicals and as terrorists!  That’s going too far?  Well, for example: In Murfreesboro, Tennessee, a principal and teacher allowed faculty members to stage a phony gun attack—repeatedly telling the students it was not a drill—causing fear and crying of 69 innocent students to dive under the tables at Scales Elementary school in Murfreesboro.  The school said it was a “learning experience,” a “teaching opportunity.”

             The recent uproar in another community was about a school that put on a mock terrorist attack.  Christians were depicted as the “Terrorists.” It was the Christians we must fear, not Muslims.  The school’s reaction: “It was just a joke, no harm meant.”  Not to the students!  They said it was a “reality” play to enlighten students on the facts of terrorism and who they were.  Not funny!  It’s a weekly horror show across the nation, promoted with materials that are often supplied by the teachers’ union, the National Education Association (NEA).

             Another lawsuit was filed by parents of a Chicago School District for showing the openly gross homosexual film “Brokeback Mountain,” of two cowboys’ secret homo-affair. Twelve-year-old eighth graders suffered through this explicitly perverse film and were so traumatized some required psychological treatment and on-going counseling.  This is another illustration of daily occurrences across America, destroying the morals and family values of marriage, decency, and common rationality.  The homo/lesbian movement has complete freedom to pervert students’ minds, making the abhorrent normal.

             Even in prisons, California is continuing to tear down the fabric of a godly marriage by recognizing homosexuals as “married partners” and giving prisoners access to homo/lesbian visitors, and thus establishing the states’ right to state-sponsored sodomy, CNS News.com reports.  These unsupervised sex visits take place in trailers and prison rooms where guards are not even allowed to go.  Guards say this privilege is merely used to smuggle in drugs and other contraband and to further spread HIV/ AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.  The gays control California prison rules, the guards say.

             California’s people passed Proposition 22 in 2004, which only allows the state to recognize “one man and one woman” to be accepted as a lawful marriage.  Yet the legislature’s assembly voted 42-34 to allow homosexual marriage!  This is a law-making body who arbitrarily said the people who voted for Prop 22 were ill-informed, flaunting the laws of their own state.  I don’t believe this has ever been done before.  Irrational?  Without a doubt, and it is most certainly unconstitutional.

             Well, beloved of God, at least the Bush-appointed U.S. Supreme Court has brought some rational thinking back into this great abortion battle.  They passed a judgment upholding the former Republican U.S. Congress statute that clearly outlines that it is illegal to perform the inhumane and senseless procedure of killing partially-born babies as they are being born.  This murderous procedure dismembers babies when half-born and/or punctures the brain to cause death.  The U.S. was guilty of allowing this heinous crime against innocent children for many years.  Thank our Lord, dear ones, for stopping this genocide, after years of Christians battling for such a law.  Our perseverance has again paid off.  Support your pro-life group fighting to end all the abortion slaughters of any kind at any time, once and for all.  We can now do that!  I sincerely believe this.

             The solution to this terrible abortion blight on America’s history is to get all Christian children OUT of the classrooms of homo/lesbian and “promiscuous” teaching on sex acceptance and get them INTO a godly Christian or home school education, where right and wrong are clearly taught and the Ten Commandments of God are taught and memorized.  Our own little grandchildren, down to the second grade, can quote the Ten Commandments; the Lord’s Prayer; the 23rd Psalm; and numerous other scriptures—a result of Christian schooling and homeschooling.

             This is God’s plan and commandment to all Christian parents.  It’s not easy!  Most of us certainly did not do it.  I know I didn’t.  However, it is God’s immutable law (incapable of being changed).  We will be judged by it, dear Christians.  Jesus said: “Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life and few there be that find it ” (Mt. 7:14 KJV).

             Christianity is not a social or cultural game; it is a life of faith in our Creator God, Jesus Christ, and the inerrant God-breathed commandments of the Way, the Truth and the Life, that prepares us—you and I—to meet God, without regrets, but through repentance (asking God to forgive us).  Jesus’ shed blood on Calvary has covered all our sins including our sins of omission (things we wish we had done).  We still have breath and can have good fruit in our lives.  It’s never too late.  Jesus said: “Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid” (Mt. 14:27, KJV).

             “Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these “little ones” should perish” (Mt. 18:14, KJV).  We have it within our personal power to rescue each of these children in our depraved and thoroughly wicked public schools.  It takes all of us, according to our own ability, to partner in “RESCUE 2010.”  That elusive wealthy large donor has not surfaced yet, dear friend.  So do as I do, beloved.  Work hard to save each and every one of them.  Don’t leave earth with a big bank account to be used by … whom?

             Let us change our nation—yes—and our world, by saving God’s children to ‘live the life’ for Him.  “Give and it shall be given unto you” (Luke 6:38, KJV).  Please remember dearest friends, June, July, August and September are our lowest income–sometimes almost shutting us down.  Your compassion during this summer slump will be deeply appreciated.  God bless!  We truly love you as ourselves.

                                                    My life for Jesus’ “little ones,”

 

                                                    Bob Simonds, Th.D.