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Today, we feature remarks from Heidi St. John, Founder of MomStrong International, where she explains the need for the church to get off the bench and on to the battlefield.
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In this video 0:00 Awakening Christians to the Education Battlefield13:51 Confronting Cultural Lies and Spiritual Fear24:33 Courageous Parenting, Politics, and Daily Bible Immersion
Awakening Christians to the Education Battlefield 0:01 From the heart of our nation's capital in Washington, DC, bringing compelling interviews, insightful analysis, taking you beyond the headlines and soundbites into conversations with our nation's leaders and0:12 newsmakers, all from a biblical worldview. Washington Watch with Tony Perkins starts now.0:19 Good afternoon, and welcome to this special edition of Washington Watch. I'm Jody Heiss, senior fellow here at the Family Research Council. An honor to be sitting in today for Tony and so glad to have you joining us as0:31 well. Alright. 20 26. It's almost here, folks. So today, we wanna bring you some special content from our most, recent Prevost Stand Summit that was held in Chino, California this past vote stand summit that was held in0:42 Chino, California this past October. And for those of you may not be aware of our pray vote stand summit, that's an annual event that we put on that draws, Christians and Christian0:53 leaders, voters from all across the country for an incredible time of inspiration and prayer and action points so that we can all get, direction from scripture1:05 in a biblical perspective and go out to wherever we live and make a difference. Absolutely outstanding event. And if you've missed it in the past, we wanna encourage you to, join us this next year.1:17 We'll get to that later on. But, with the new year, just a couple of days away, we wanna encourage you right now to make a resolution to read the word of God and to let
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2:52 And Christian voters from all over the country were there a powerful, powerful event. But among the speakers was best selling author and podcast host, former congressional candidate, Heidi Saint John. In her
3:04 address, Heidi talked about the need for the church to get off the bench and get onto the battlefield. So here's how Heidi started her address.
3:13 I have been, praying about this event for a long time. It is such an honor to be working with Tony Perkins and to be invited here today because we really are at a crossroads in the United States. I think we're at a
3:25 particular moment here in the country which we may never see again, And I'm gonna encourage you today with as much energy as the Lord has given me to get off the bench and onto the battlefield, to
3:37 engage in the fight for the next generation. And 1 of the major things that are happening in our country right now is the hostile takeover of our public education system. I've been talking about this for a long time.
3:49 It's interesting to note, Tony just said that Jay and I have 7 children and, it's interesting to note that we have been, Jay and I just celebrated our 30 sixth wedding anniversary a couple of days ago.
4:01 This incredible human being, it's no picnic being married to Heidi Saint John. I'm not gonna lie. And Jay and I, a long time ago, the Lord put it on our hearts that we should pull our daughter out of the public education
4:13 system when we lived in Oregon. And as I was watching what was happening with our daughter, it really wasn't anything in the school that was alarming me. It was the fact that she would come home from school and she would
4:24 be sort of disengaged from what was happening in the family. Some of you guys will be able to relate to this. The school bus would drop her off and her little sister would be excited to come and see her. And I would
4:33 notice that Savannah was tired because she had been on a school bus since 7 15 that morning. It was now 4 15 in the afternoon. And here's my second grade daughter coming home to her little kindergarten age sister who
4:44 wanted to play with her but Savannah was tired because I had given the best hours of her day to people that I did not know. And they were the ones who were influencing my daughter.
4:57 The bible teaches us that when a student in Luke 6 40, Jesus talking to the Pharisees said that when a student is fully trained, he'll be like his teacher. I would venture to guess that
5:08 most parents who have their children in the public school system do not know who's teaching their children. They do not know the spiritual language that teachers imparting to the children. They do not
5:20 understand the political ideologies that these teachers come from. And years ago, it was an unspoken rule that the teachers wouldn't share these things with children. But now what we're seeing has happened in the last 25
5:31 and 30 years in the United States is that we no longer have teachers as a general rule in our public school system. We have activists who are disguised as teachers.
5:44 Lennon said, give me just 1 generation of youth and I'll transform the world. When Jesus was talking to the Pharisees in Luke 6 40 and he said, when a student is fully trained, he'll be like
5:55 his teacher. We all should be leaning into this because the reality is we have generations now of young people who have been trained by people in ideologies that are opposed to God's word and in many places
6:08 opposed to the very foundations of the United States of America that are coming out of our public education system, both in the elementary and high school and obviously in our secular state universities.
6:21 I'm gonna encourage you today with everything that's in me to engage in the fight for education reform in this nation because if we do not change education, I'm here to tell you right now and I want you to lean in and
6:32 listen to me because it's important. It will not matter if we have a wonderful a wonderful election 4 years from now or 3 years from now. It won't matter if we get JD Vance in there for 8 more years, and we can consider
6:43 that we had 12 years of a Republican in the White House because we are turning out of our public education system by the hundreds of thousands every single year kids who hate this country.
6:56 And very, very soon, we will simply be outnumbered. And so though we can win an election and maybe it's in And maybe we'll win an election in in 4 years and maybe we'll win a wonderful election again in 7
7:08 years, but I'm here to tell you, if we don't stem the bleeding, if someone doesn't put a tourniquet on the bleeding of communist and Marxist ideology that is coming out of our public school system and out
7:20 of our public universities, we will eventually lose the nation to this ideology because these are tomorrow's leaders. They're tomorrow's teachers. They're tomorrow's judges. They're
7:32 tomorrow's lawmakers. They're tomorrow's mothers and tomorrow's grandparents. This is a moment in our nation's history that calls for courage.
7:44 In Joshua one:nine, we read this, be strong and courageous for the Lord your God is with you. And I wanna remind you today of who you are. Every person sitting in this room, you need to know who you
7:56 are in Christ. You are sons and daughters of the most high God. You were literally born for this time in human history. God in his sovereignty determined
8:08 that you could have been born 100 years ago or 100 years from now, but in his sovereignty and in his great mercy and love for you, he is determined that 20 25 is your time to
8:19 engage. This is your time to get off the bench and onto the battlefield. This is your time to speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves. 1 of my favorite people on the planet, Katie Faust, is here
8:31 this weekend, and she's also from Washington State. Katie hails from Seattle. I was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, 2 cities which are literally on fire and being absolutely destroyed by leftist ideology, which
8:43 is why by the way, the both of us are William Wallacing all over the Pacific Northwest to try to wake up God's people. But Katie will say that we are called to do hard
8:55 things on behalf of children. We live in a country right now that for many many years has been hijacked by frankly people from pulpits who have said that it is not our job to engage in the political
9:07 conversation. And so when we retreated from the public square, when God's people retreated from the public square and we were told that we were not to engage in politics, evil filled the vacuum.
9:19 I was blessed to have been very heavily influenced by my grandfather. He took me campaigning for Ronald Reagan when I was about 10 years old.
9:28 So your girl
9:28 Heidi's been wearing, Ronald Reagan buttons, and I had the cowboy hat and the whole thing. What was interesting about my granddad was he was a pastor. My grandfather was a pastor at a little evangelical church just
9:40 outside of Portland, Oregon. And when I was very little, I wanna say I was 7 years old. I've watched every presidential debate from the time I could sit down in front of a television because my granddad made sure that I
9:51 engaged. He was like, Heidi, I don't care if you're 6 years old. It's good for you. Sit down. My grandfather from the pulpit of his little tiny church outside of Portland, Oregon over and over and over again
10:02 engaged his conversation, around the arena of politics and whether or not Christians should be involved in it. And yet at the Christian school that I went to by the way, it was also my grandparents who told me
10:14 that education wasn't neutral. They were the ones who paid for my brothers and sisters and I to be in a private Christian school from kindergarten all the way through twelfth grade. My parents didn't have the money and
10:24 my grandparents were like, you know what? Education's not neutral. Our grandkids are going to a Christian school because I want them to come out with a Christian, worldview. Did you know? We are sending our children, you
10:35 guys, think about this. It's mind blowing. We send our children to Rome to be educated. 9 months out of the year, 8 and a half to 9 hours every day. With just a few
10:47 weeks off for summer vacation, we send them to Rome to be educated and then we wonder why they come out as Romans. Understood this and so did my grandmother. From the time I was very little, they
10:59 determined that we would have a Christian education. And I remember my granddad telling the people in our church as I was growing up that Christians belong in the public square.
11:11 Teenage years, I noticed that the conversation in the church was changing from Christian should be involved in the public square to Christian should really stay out of politics because politics is just dirty. And we
11:22 don't belong in politics because it's just the gospel. Well, if the gospel is not influencing your politics, tell me what are you doing with it? You see, politics determines policy and policy shapes the
11:34 nation. God's people should be in the policy shaping business. This is why the work of, Tony Perkins and the Family Research Council is critically important in this moment in
11:45 history. Our public schools have been captured by ideology. Gender ideology, gender confusion, critical race theory. Our kids are being told that they are victims based on the color of their
11:57 skin. I thought we'd moved past all that, and yet our churches have not been standing in the gap for our young people, and we have watched as our public universities have enforced the lie that took root in the hearts and
12:09 minds of our children when they were as young as 5 years old, in kindergarten, in our public education system. I had the privilege several years ago of speaking at a women's conference just outside of Portland, and I met
12:20 a nurse there. She was working for Kaiser Permanente just outside of downtown Portland, Oregon, which by the way, don't listen to the governor of Oregon when she tells you everything's fine in Portland. It's
12:32 not. I was just in downtown Portland the other day on my way to speak at a conference and I can tell you right now that the streets of Portland are literally littered with drugs and people bent over
12:43 in a fentanyl stupor. And while the governor of Oregon wants to walk around and tell you that everything's fine, I'm here to tell you if God's people would stand in the gap, things would begin to turn around again
12:53 because truth is necessary in the culture right now. We have to tell the truth. We have to tell the truth. You've gotta be committed to it, and it takes courage. And I'm speaking at this conference just
13:05 outside of Portland. I meet this young woman who's worked for Kaiser Permanente in their gender pathways clinic. And with tears in her eyes after hearing me speak about the necessity of truth in the culture By the way,
13:16 the only answer you guys should write this down all you bold warriors note taking people. The only answer to a bold lie is bold truth. If you're gonna have an impact in the culture right now, it will require
13:28 boldness. It will require courage. It will require resolve. It will require an understanding of the issues that are shaping the culture in which we live.
13:36 That was best selling author and podcast host and former congressional candidate, Heidi St. John, took place. She was speaking at our 20 25 Prevost Stand Summit, and you're tuned in to
13:48 Washington Watch in this very special edition. Alright. Stay tuned. After the break, we're gonna continue more with Heidi's address, so stick with us.
Confronting Cultural Lies and Spiritual Fear
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17:02 Good afternoon, and welcome back to Washington Watch. I'm Jody Heiss filling in today for Tony, and thank you for joining us as well. Alright. Today, we're broadcasting special content from our 20 25
17:14 Prevost Stand Summit. And at the conclusion of the last segment, best selling author and podcast host and former congressional candidate, Heidi St. John, was working her way toward a story
17:26 about a nurse that she met at a women's conference that she was speaking out, just outside of Portland, Oregon. When this next part, Heidi recalls that encounter, and here's what she shared.
17:37 And this young woman came up to me tears streaming down her eyes, and she said, Heidi, I have to tell you something. I've never said this out loud to anyone outside of my clinic. But at Kaiser Permanente in the Gender
17:48 Pathways Clinic, every single week we're watching young young girls come in and we are giving them radical mastectomies. As young as 14 years old. The worst case that she told
18:00 me about is she continued just to sit down. She finally couldn't stand anymore and she sat down and continued to sob and she said, 1 of the worst cases that she saw was an autistic girl who came in for a mastectomy.
18:14 Men and women, this is evil. This is spiritual. The battle that we are facing in our nation right now, the battle for truth is a spiritual battle and spiritual battles require
18:25 spiritual weapons and yet over and over and over again, we send people to the highest positions of authority in this land, to the front lines of spiritual battles who cannot wield spiritual weapons. And
18:37 then we wonder, what are we gonna do? Well, I'm here to tell you right now, it matters who's running for your city council. It matters who sits on your school board. It matters who's in charge of of parks and rec. I used
18:48 to think it didn't matter until the director of parks and recs in Vancouver, Washington brought a drag queen to a family festival at our local park who proceeded to practically strip in front of little 3 year old
19:00 children who were there for the face painting exhibit. It matters who's in charge of parks and rec, and we should know who it is. We should engage.
19:12 I've had the opportunity for many years now to follow the career of this young nurse who worked for Kaiser, the very first thing she did shortly after that, just a few weeks after that. At the risk of her own
19:23 financial future and her financial security, she left that job. And she said, I'm not gonna take I'm not gonna participate in evil anymore. She stood for righteousness in her workplace.
19:37 And my response as an employer myself was to remove our organization from Kaiser Permanente and never give them my money again. When
19:49 people masquerade around as health care providers and they are willing to remove the breasts of healthy young girls, something is terribly wrong, and God's people need to stand in the gap. And at the very
20:00 least, we can stop giving our money to these wicked organizations. At the very least, that's what we should be doing. The consequences of what's happening in our nation right now are generational.
20:12 They're legacy stealing. The things that we are dealing with right now in our culture have resulted in children that are confused. Proverbs 22 6 says this, if we don't train our children in God's ways, the world is
20:24 gonna do it for us. A generation who is confused about morality, confused about God, confused about the issues of of male and female. I never thought, 10 and a half years ago, I started
20:36 speaking out about transgenderism. This will blow your mind. I was in Indianapolis speaking for a pretty large convention about what was happening in the public in the public square, and I put a picture up on the screen
20:48 of Time magazine, and the image was of a black man dressed as a woman who said he was a woman, and the headline of of Newsweek magazine that year said transgender tipping point.
21:00 This was 10 years ago, you guys. And I remember reading the headline and looking at my husband and saying, nobody's gonna believe this. Everybody knows that's a dude in a dress. Oh no, I was wrong. Because we have been
21:11 literally hijacked in this nation be with by the spirit of the age. And we believe that up is up up is down and down is up and right is wrong. And as I began to talk about transgenderism and
21:23 the lie of transgenderism, a woman who was about 3 quarters of the way back in a in a room filled with about maybe 4000 people stood up and began barreling toward me. I watched the police come in on this side of the
21:34 room. I watched, the the board of directors from the organization I was there to speak for and I was sitting there, look, everyone's standing up to watch me get executed. I really thought I was gonna die that day. It
21:44 takes courage to speak the truth. This woman began to barrel toward the front. I was on a very high platform. She walked right up to to my feet and she said, give me your microphone. I I
21:56 speak all over the country. I've never had this happen before. I was very aware in that moment that what I was dealing with was a spirit. It was a spirit. And the Bible teaches us over and over again that we
22:08 must be filled with the Holy Spirit. The apostle Paul, in talking to young Timothy as he was getting ready to take his place out on the battlefield, by the way, Timothy had very real reasons to be afraid. The Roman
22:19 emperors were killing Christians for sport. And I would imagine that his knees were knocking and he was starting to really question, maybe I shouldn't get into this line of work. It's not going very good for the apostle
22:30 Paul. You look a little beat up. And I imagine he's starting to feel a little bit nervous, a little bit anxious. I wonder if I'm also gonna be killed for my faith. And I can just imagine the tone
22:42 in the apostle Paul's voice as he leaned in to young Timothy, and he said to him, with all of the power of heaven's armies, Timothy, God didn't give you this spirit.
22:54 God didn't give you the spirit of fear, but of power and love and a sound mind. You see men and women, fear is not an emotion, it's a spirit. It's a spirit. And we
23:06 watched the spirit of fear, didn't we, descend on this nation like a cold wet blanket at the beginning of COVID. You guys remember there's 2 weeks to flatten the curve. It's just 2. You guys stay home for 2 weeks.
23:18 Well, in 2 after 2 weeks, Heidi Saint John and Jay Saint John had had enough. I knew something was wrong from the very beginning. And at the end of the 2 weeks, we opened up our nonprofit organization and we never closed
23:27 the doors again. And we saw our organization grow in leaps and bounds as we rescued children out of the public school. You see, when God's people submit to the spirit of fear, 3 things happen. They're the
23:39 same things that happen that the apostle Paul told Timothy would happen. You lose your love, you lose your power, and you lose your soundness of mind. This is why you saw people standing on dots in the middle of Walmart,
23:51 bang like sheep. We were told, stand 6 feet apart. We didn't know why. We just did it. We're just a bunch of sheep. Listen to the Holy Spirit. If the holy
24:03 spirit tells you something is wrong, then you have an opportunity and in fact an obligation to speak the truth into that void.
24:09 What a powerful, powerful story. That was best selling author and podcast host and former congressional candidate, Heidi Saint John. She was speaking at our 20 25 Pray Vote Stand Summit.
24:22 You're tuned in today to Washington Watch, and we're broadcasting this special content from that summit that was held back in October in the Calvary Chapel, Chino Hills, California.Show more
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