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people later for help with pro-family issues.<br />

4) Build membership and support for your group by holding regular meetings and inviting all of those<br />

whom you have identified in the petition drive as allies. Bring in speakers from the local community<br />

with a story to tell or information about the schools. Maintain your database of supporters and keep<br />

in communication with them.<br />

E. Transform the School District through Strength and Service<br />

1) Establish a plan of action with short-term, mid-term and long-term goals. One of the short-term<br />

goals might be to make an initial show of strength at the school board. Send a contingent of articulate<br />

parents into a meeting after you have gathered a respectable number of signatures on your petition.<br />

Schedule a time to present it to the school board. Send notice to all of the signers. Then show up in<br />

a group and have the representatives of your group present the petition to the board. Ask for the<br />

board to schedule a time when it will vote on the action requested in the petition.<br />

2) If you have identified one or more sympathetic school board members, coordinate your strategy<br />

with them. If the school has already taken sides with the “gay” movement, the school board members<br />

will probably not want to cooperate with you. That’s OK. If they were on your side you probably<br />

wouldn’t have a problem in the district. Your goal is not necessarily to win quickly, it is (a) to<br />

identify the anti-family board members so you know who needs to be replaced, and (b) to identify<br />

and organize all the pro-family people in your district (this will take a long time).<br />

4) Circulate the petition throughout the larger community. Keep the petition circulating so that you<br />

identify as many allies in the community as possible.<br />

5) Continue to hold regular meetings.<br />

7) Identify candidates to replace anti-family members of the school board and support their candidacies<br />

(as individuals, not through your group unless you form a political action committee with the<br />

help of an experienced attorney or CPA).<br />

2. The Church-Based Mission-to-the-Schools Approach<br />

This approach requires the formation of a Booster Club of parents, grandparents and other<br />

church members whose purpose is to promote local schools as an essential mission field of the church,<br />

by<br />

1) sponsoring, supporting and equipping Christian and/or pro-family student clubs in the schools.<br />

2) changing the emphasis of the church youth group from “fun and games” to missionary training,<br />

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