An open letter from our Executive Director
Your faith should make you more skeptical of the people you agree with, more generous toward the people you don’t, and more difficult for political operatives to manipulate into anger and fear.
For nearly seven years, the Center for Christian Civics has been promoting this simple message at churches, conferences and classes around the country. And everywhere we’ve gone, we’ve found men and women of faith eager to think, speak and act differently in the public square.
But our classes have always had high barriers to entry. Can you help us remove those barriers?
When we started, we were limited by how many churches Rev. Drew and I could visit in person. The only way to go through our 101-level curriculum was for your pastor to reach out to us, form a relationship with our organization, and then be able to afford to bring one of us in to lead a class.
Last year, the Christian Civics board encouraged me to start offering a new version of our 101-level class that anyone could sign up for online. This has let us reach people whose churches could not afford a Christian Civics class in the past, but participants still had to pay a registration fee and then be willing to dedicate six weeks to discussing fraught issues with total strangers.
Those have been very real obstacles standing between our work and the people who need it most. I want to eliminate those obstacles by launching a new video series and discussion guide based on our Christian Civics Foundations class—and making that material absolutely free.
Each month, the need for our work seems to grow even more urgent, and this is the best way to make the resources we’ve developed available to the churches, small groups and heavy-laden Christians who need it most. We want to begin releasing the first wave of this material in January of 2023, but we’ll need your help. Can you donate $23 to help us get this new project off the ground?
Thank you for your encouragement and support in this work. It is absolutely crucial for our witness to the next generation of believers.
In Christ,
Rick Barry