GALION — In the wake of Father’s Day, last week citizens in the area attended a panel discussion to address the issue of fatherhood in society-or lack thereof.
“The meeting went well, each presentation during the forum provided a different angle on the issue of fatherhood,” said Carol Kable, Co-Director of Citizen to Patriot, lead sponsor of the event.
“The general consensus was that the marginalization of masculinity has been observed on a generational basis,” said Kable. “This has opened the door to gender confusion and other social dysfunctions in society.”
According to one of the panelists, Galion native Reverend J.C. Church, sometimes it takes one lost generation to bring a people back to their senses.
“There is a crisis in manhood, masculinity is under attack and men do not know their Biblical role GOD gave them as sacrificial providers for their families. As a father of three and a grandfather of four, my goal is to provide their generation a Supreme Christ and a Supreme Court that can pose as a firewall to protect our Constitutional liberties. It is my sincere hope this will allow time for my children’s’ generation to become the leaders we never became.”
“As a father of three and a grandfather of four, my goal is to provide their generation a Supreme Christ and a Supreme Court that can pose as a firewall to protect our Constitutional liberties. It is my sincere hope this will allow time for my children’s’ generation to become the leaders we never became.”
Reverend J.C. Church
Time is exactly what fathers are not giving their children says Steve Grover, Biblical Counselor with Come to the Well Biblical Counseling, who has three children and twenty grandchildren.
“As central figure in the home, the father helps determines the identity of his children by showing acceptance or rejection. When fathers do not take time to mentor and shepherd their children, it communicates rejection to the child. This is why paternal absence for children often leads to substance abuse, poverty and crime.”
Mentoring is the fundamental approach Aaron Cleveland from Cardington, takes with his five children. Cleveland incorporates his family with his ministry and activities.
“My wife and I take our children with us to events across the county with the purpose of abolishing abortion. We are home school parents and have served as foster parents to fifteen different children. It is my observation that there can be a lot of selfishness by parents in the system who do not care for their children. Parents and fathers in particular have got to stop outsourcing their duties to their children. Spend time with your children and raise them or else someone else will.”
Church mentioned during the forum how the library systems throughout the nation are no longer educating children but indoctrinating children to the LGBT agenda in order to recruit their next victims. He cited recent successes in Ohio on this issue occurred because men spoke up.
Church works with the Family Research Council (FRC) which has assembled a network of one-thousand Ohio pastors and fifteen thousand nationwide.
“In the coming months FRC will begin implementing a national campaign assembling men’s conferences to teach men how to become fathers and warriors.”
“This is the real antidote to the fatherless age: men mentoring the next generation,” says Grover. “We can blame bad policies like the Equality Act, no-fault divorces, evolution-based public education, or the Great Society all we want. The crux of the matter is we replace the false teaching of “toxic masculinity” by going directly to the beginning chapters of the Book of Genesis to seek GOD’s opinion on these moral issues. There truly is no other solutions outside of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”
Did you know? What do sixty-three percent of suicides, ninety-percent of homeless, eighty- percent of rapists, seventy-one percent of high school dropouts, and eight-nine percent of prisoners have in common? The answer is: fatherlessness. Click on the image below for more.
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The fiber of our society is under attack and the man is the main target. If we can’t fix that then everything else is irrelevant. I grew up fatherless and was forced into becoming a father and this happened back in the mid-’80s. This has continued to occur and needs to be concentrated on more.