The Ohio Christian Alliance Board and Advisors are pleased to present at the OCA Spring Freedom Banquet Attorney General Dave Yost with the OCA Freedom Award for his work in defense of religious liberty while serving as Ohio's 51st State Attorney General.

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The Ohio Christian Alliance Board and Advisors are also pleased to present State Rep. Melanie Miller with the OCA Life Award for her excellent work on the Never Alone Act H.B. 236 that assures that Ohioans will never again be locked away alone without an advocate during a public health emergency, and for her directorship of the Ashland Pregnancy Services Center that encourages women contemplating abortion to choose life by keeping their babies or by choosing adoption as a viable life option.
  

OCA Freedom and Life Award Recipients Over the Years - Click here to view the list

A SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT - INTRODUCING LIFEREAD VOLUNTEER TUTORING INITIATIVE - A new literacy program from the Ohio Christian Alliance Educational Fund. Click on the video below to hear our special announcement of this exciting new program.

The Project: Mobilizing an army of volunteers helping Ohio read, tackling Ohio’s literacy challenge for students and adults. Click here to print the flyer

Statement of Purpose: To mobilize a network of volunteers, matching them with students and adults to help them improve their reading competency.

The Need: In his State of the State 2023 Address, Governor DeWine highlighted the need to focus on Ohio schoolchildren’s reading proficiency. Due to the covid shutdown, Ohio students are at least one grade level behind in their reading proficiency. He stated that 40% of Ohio third grade students are not proficient in reading. He said, “reading unlocks the door for all future learning and truly provides a lifetime of opportunity.” 

Ohio’s 2023 assessments indicated 38% of students were not proficient in reading. Among economically disadvantaged students, 55% were not proficient in English language arts. Here are some examples from six Ohio school districts: Akron, Barberton, Columbus, Dayton, Dennison (Cleveland city schools), and Medina.

Adult Literacy: According to the National Literacy Institute, 21% of adults in the U.S. are illiterate (2022), 54% of adults have literacy below sixth grade level, 45 million are illiterate and read below the fifth-grade level, and 44% of the American adults do not read a book in a year. Illiteracy affects a person’s employment opportunities, their general outlook, and often leads to homelessness. Other findings from literacy data indicate that teacher disposition changes drastically during reading instruction with poor readers, and student disposition changes when they are made to feel inadequate. Struggling readers suffer socially and emotionally.  

The key to tutoring success is to give the student small successes along the way that they can build upon that will encourage them in their progress. Our volunteers are encouraging people and look forward to the challenge.

The Mission: To mobilize hundreds of volunteers through the Ohio Christian Alliance network and match them with students, young adults, and adults who desire to improve their reading skills throughout Ohio’s 88 counties.

The Ohio Christian Alliance has a wealth of human resource, individuals who are recently retired school administrators, teachers, business men and women, and others who are eager to help tackle Ohio’s literacy challenge by giving back to their communities.

LifeRead Volunteer Tutoring Initiative has a built-in advantage of a statewide referral system through the thousands of churches that Ohio Christian Alliance has worked with over the years on public policy. 

LifeRead Tutoring Initiative will receive no government funding, but will depend on individual and corporate donations to fund the administrative and material needs that will launch and facilitate the program.

LifeRead will work with Christian schools, charter schools, public schools, community groups, churches, and existing literacy organizations with reciprocal referral services. Like the old evangelist once said, “Find a need and fill it.”  The challenge is great to tackle Ohio’s illiteracy problem, but our plan is to make a major difference.

If you are interested in being a volunteer tutor with LifeRead, visit the website at LifeRead.org to contact us.

If you or someone you know is in need of tutoring services, visit the website at LifeRead.org to contact us.

The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple. Psalm 119:130

The Mind once stretched by a new idea never goes back to its original dimension. Oliver Wendell Holmes.

www.LifeRead.org

LifeRead Volunteer Tutoring Initiative is a project of the

Ohio Christian Alliance Educational Fund 

Chris@LifeRead.org P.O. Box 5156 Fairlawn, Ohio 44334
 

For Their Honor - How the D-Day Prayer was added to the World War II Memorial in Washington D.C. 

Introduction For Their Honor - How the D-Day Prayer was added to the World War II Memorial in Washington D.C.

This book was written to tell the eleven-year journey of how one of the largest mass prayers in history was added to the World War II Memorial. The D-Day Prayer was one of FDR’s fireside chats, but it stands alone as an incredible moment in American history. The date was June 6th, 1944. Operation Overlord, the D-Day invasion of western France, was already underway by the Allied nations. News reports throughout the day were released from General Eisenhower’s headquarters with short statements, but with few details of what was happening with the landings and on the beaches of France. The American public anxiously awaited throughout the day to hear from President Roosevelt for more details on the historic invasion. What they heard that evening was a President inviting them to join him in prayer. This book tells the story of how this wonderful historic presidential prayer was added to the National Mall in Washington as a permanent addition to an already magnificent monument that was dedicated in the honor and for the memory of the Greatest Generation, the 16 million Americans who served us in World War II. In the book, you will notice themes that run through the storyline of Ohioans who played a key role in the creation of the World War II Memorial, and another Ohioan who launched the Honor Flights in 2005 that brought veterans from across the country to visit the memorial that was erected in their honor. You will learn of yet another Ohioan who was one of two medics with the 101st Airborne who were dropped into France and set up a med station in a 700-year-old Chapel in Angoville France, demonstrating the western ethic of unbiased compassion as they cared for both German and American wounded troops. This book details the storyline of the hand of Providence that guided us as we worked through both the legislative and fundraising efforts to see this prayer become a permanent addition to the Memorial. It is a story worth telling as it pays honor to the Greatest Generation in acknowledgment of their sacrifice and service for the cause of freedom and gives glory to the God who answers prayer. It is also written to inspire others to work to advance those same principles and values espoused by the Greatest Generation, and to keep telling their story for generations to come.

The book is available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Books A Million also at DDayPrayerProject.org

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The Asbury Revival- Is this the beginning of a major move of God in our day? 

On February 8th, a regular weekly chapel service at Asbury University turned into something much more. Unscripted and unplanned, a young man began to confess his sins openly, and the whole student congregation began to pray, confess, fill the altars, and enter into worship that continued night and day for more than two weeks. The little town of  Wilmore, Kentucky of 6,000 residents was inundated with over 55,000 visitors since February 8th. People are coming from all over the country and from other nations.  

On this week's News in Focus, we cover the Asbury Revival and how it is spreading to multiple campuses across the country. We will have eyewitness reports and a pastors panel with Tim Throckmorton and Pastor Rodney Lord to discuss the historical revivals and what this current move of God among our young people might indicate. Don't miss this special broadcast, and please share it with family and friends. It is filled with powerful information about the revival. #revival #asbury #prayer 

Click here to see the video of the Veterans Day D-Day Prayer Addition Celebration

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE PHOTOS OF THE Veterans Day Event!

D-Day Prayer Addition Celebration 11-11-22 In Washington D.C Program.

Chris Long, OCA President, said "This issue is not a partisan battle. It is, however, a direct threat to individual freedoms of every American to participate, engage, and question candidates and office holders on a variety of subjects. The issue simply stated is, ‘Does the state government have the right to investigate private citizens simply because they ask questions of candidates and/or office holders?"

Ohio Christian Alliance Urges Up or Down Vote on S.B. 174 Ohio's Ban on Human Cloning