In this webinar, we have a special guest, Pastor Tanya Ulan, founder of Action for Canada founder, who shares her vision for the future of education in Ontario. She shares some exciting news about the impending change in the education system in the province, as well as a story about a young girl who has been brainwashed in public school.
00:38:12.360it's it's in this wonderful tract to the german leaders on education i strongly uh recommend it
00:38:21.000um oh i have i have a second uh yeah i've got there's two quotes here i sometimes have from
00:38:27.640from from luther and and i've got the second one i don't have the one that i was just um
00:38:33.000just mentioning here i'll come i'll circle back to luther here in a second but essentially he was
00:38:38.120you know he was saying listen we we have to we are going to lose the nation if we do not educate
00:38:45.480our children and he urged uh church leaders and counselors state counselors to make to fund schools
00:38:53.800and to make sure the schools were priority and and that worked there was a revival in education around
00:38:59.640the time of the reformation and luther was a big part of that um his his warts notwithstanding um
00:39:07.720he uh he was he was a wonderful leader but uh he had some issues uh himself but the lord used him in a
00:39:13.960in a mighty mighty way um puritans and missionaries planted schools wherever they went um you know
00:39:21.640when the first puritans came to uh came to north america some of the first things they would do
00:39:26.120when they entered into a new area is that they would plant a school and they would educate and and uh
00:39:31.880you know missionaries there's there's people that have done work on sociologists who have done work
00:39:35.880on missionaries that have concluded that the the education of the world is um is because and in
00:39:46.600thanks to missionaries uh and this was a this was a a secular sociologist who who concluded this so
00:39:56.760i just want to i want to take all this history i mean i'm going through it very quickly but i just
00:40:01.080want to tell you church leaders and pastors that this is our heritage like we know how to do this
00:40:08.360this is who we are we we we do this we build we build schools this is this is the heritage of um of
00:40:17.800christianity throughout the generations um as we as we look and see the importance of the renewing of the mind
00:40:26.520um so um this is you know we need we need to do this um as pastors how do we do it well let me give you
00:40:40.040some suggestions first of all uh pastors you need to be involved in sharing the idea of vision and
00:40:49.000vocation you need to impart a vision and a vocational calling within your people um you need to emphasize
00:41:00.680the importance of education that it is the formation of the next generation um that it is how we will
00:41:11.480save our children it is how we will transform the world it is how we will save our nation indeed the
00:41:18.200nations of the entire world it is how we will bring the glory of god to bear on the world um then you
00:41:26.280need to communicate communicate the vision for parental responsibility as i very briefly laid it out um
00:41:33.800you know your your your parents need to understand that
00:41:38.440well you know perhaps it's not sin to to send your children to the public education system but
00:41:48.840they need to understand that um that they've got a lot of work to do a lot of work to do in discipleship
00:41:55.400and formation uh when it comes to their children and especially especially if um they feel like they
00:42:03.080you don't have any other choice but to but to keep their children in the secular education system
00:42:07.640um you need to warn your your families of what's taking place in the uh in you know in the secular
00:42:14.840education system and even in christian schools that's your job you're you're a prophet you're
00:42:19.000supposed to warn your people um so if if from the pulpit your your people never hear the warnings
00:42:25.720about what's going on in the world you're being derelict in your duty you are a shepherd you are supposed to be
00:42:30.040protecting your flock from those who would steal kill and destroy uh and certainly satan's got
00:42:39.080no end of henchmen in the world seemingly bent on doing that so your role really is in vision and
00:42:47.480vocation you need to you need to start with that if you're a pastor or leader uh second of all there's
00:42:53.080a strong role that i think that um we need to play in structural support so moving on from just kind
00:42:59.080of communicating the vision uh giving people uh um a blueprint for what it looks like to to
00:43:07.080spiritually disciple and form their children and give them education um what does it look like for
00:43:12.280us to structurally support these families if for instance our families feel like they cannot
00:43:19.240homeschool or they cannot put their children in a faithful christian school or we feel like we can't
00:43:23.800uh start something as a church uh why is that what are the obstacles figure out what the obstacles
00:43:30.360are and and figure out how you can support them uh you know i'm not a big fan there are other pastors
00:43:36.920that may lean more into this and god bless them if they do i'm not a big fan of uh essentially telling
00:43:44.360our church people what they need to do if it's not something that's like very clear in the word of god
00:43:50.200but at the same time you need to support them in in in what they're doing as they try to faithfully
00:43:57.640live out the word of god so if you're warning them listen there's all these troubles in this
00:44:00.920in the secular system and in the school christian school system okay let's not leave them there what
00:44:06.520does it look like to support them um so for instance here's a few ideas what does it look like for your
00:44:12.440church to uh host a homeschool collective where homeschoolers can come together under the support
00:44:19.880of the church and to uh to offer a place for them to gather say once a week so that mothers can talk
00:44:27.000and and and you know all parents fathers as well where children can have some uh some interaction um
00:44:35.400so you know a homeschool collective what would it look like to build a school so i'll talk some more
00:44:41.480about that what would it look like to provide financial support um some of the reformed uh
00:44:48.040churches have a history of this in some of the reformed um traditions there is this strong
00:44:55.720emphasis on christian education now that doesn't mean that all the reformed schools are are safe
00:45:02.040christian schools sadly that's not completely the case you have to you have to be careful even when
00:45:07.160it comes to some of the reformed schools uh but they they at least have that heritage where if uh
00:45:13.480in many in many churches if a family cannot afford to send their their children to a christian school
00:45:19.800the church will help them financially in order to be able to do that so what does it look like for
00:45:26.280your church to provide structural support so that uh we don't lose our next generation and and
00:45:33.880parents can faithfully disciple and and form their children so structural support is again i'm there's
00:45:42.280a lot of different ideas but i think one of the great places to start is to say okay why aren't more
00:45:46.760of our families doing homeschooling or why don't you know why aren't we starting christian schools and
00:45:52.680then to figure out what the obstacles are and then tackle those it may be slightly different in different
00:45:57.480places um i know for myself i've got a large portion of my church are immigrants uh and in some
00:46:04.120cases new immigrants that are they're they're educated people that they're just getting their feet
00:46:09.240settled here and so they're working multiple jobs they're trying to get into an educational
00:46:13.640stream where they can better provide for their family uh they're not they feel like they're not
00:46:19.160able to pull their children out of the public school system in many cases okay so that's the obstacle
00:46:24.280how can we help what's what's the support uh but i also want to mention that for the pastor there is
00:46:31.880some educational expertise that you can offer you may not be trained for instance and i know for myself
00:46:38.120i i i cap out this is this is maybe not not such a good thing i'm not boasting but when it comes to math
00:46:44.840i cap out at about grade six i i can't teach anything beyond grade six math like i'm i love i actually
00:46:52.600i'm fascinating in mathematics from a philosophical standpoint i find mathematics um intriguing but
00:46:59.720when it comes to actually teaching i i just i'm brutal so thankfully my wife is better um so you know
00:47:08.440we understand that as pastors there are going to be certain fields in which we don't have expertise
00:47:12.680but i want you to think significantly about the fields in which you do have expertise and especially
00:47:18.520how foundational those areas of expertise may be uh so for instance you have some expertise in
00:47:24.920apologetics at least you should to some degree be able to help children think through the implications
00:47:32.600of the gospel and how to give an answer to those who are asking you about the hope that which lies
00:47:38.760within um how do you defend the faith uh i mean this is something that educationally our children
00:47:46.360need and they're not going to get it um in a lot of places and frankly they're not going to get it in
00:47:50.600a lot of christian schools either um but it's it's important that your children be able to defend
00:47:55.720the faith and in fact let me suggest not just defend it but go on the offensive and uh and uh persuade
00:48:01.960this world that has no answers without god no answers um we need to provide those answers when
00:48:08.040it comes to world view uh you know you're as a pastor you'll know more than most parents about
00:48:15.480world view and how the the world view of the world is is paganism and how the various ideologies
00:48:23.800and isms are impacting your world you're the kids need to know this they desperately need to know
00:48:29.960this uh and and you can give that to them as a pastor you probably know more about history
00:48:35.720than most um than most parents um and you know whether or not you could teach a grade 11 or 12
00:48:42.920history course specifically maybe some of you pastors could maybe some of you couldn't but
00:48:47.800just even your grasp of biblical history and christianity how it's been worked out throughout
00:48:53.480throughout um you know uh the time of christ and and and afterwards throughout the last couple of
00:48:58.680millennia will give you a wonderful uh starting point because apart from um from the education
00:49:05.080that you may be able to offer them certainly in the in the secular system your children are going
00:49:09.320to get extremely little history uh and that's intentional it's intentional because if you don't
00:49:14.520know your history then you know you're you're ripe for indoctrination you can um you know you see this
00:49:20.200in or both 1984 and other places um so you know history you know theology in the bible man do our
00:49:27.720children need rich theology so i have the great privilege at our compass school of teaching
00:49:35.640grade four to sevens theology i teach them systematic theology now we touch on biblical theology in other
00:49:41.320ways as well um but i i teach systematic theology and what a tremendous opportunity that is let me tell
00:49:49.320you that grade fours to sevens are capable of sustained contemplative deep thought on theological issues
00:49:59.800and um it is such a a blessing to be able to work with them at this stage and i just think man if i'm
00:50:05.400if they're thinking this way at grades four to seven they're they're going to be theologians by the time
00:50:11.240they're in grade 12 and uh they'll be ready to impact the world for christ in a tremendous way
00:50:16.840um theology is is needed and and you can you can teach them that you can teach them
00:50:23.080the bible the storyline of the bible i hope you know as a as a as a pastor and a teacher
00:50:29.000of the richness the tapestry of the story of the scripture you could teach you could teach through
00:50:36.120the scriptures you could take a different theme and you could teach through the storyline of the bible
00:50:40.600in 12 different ways it would be fresh each time they're there and and and are it is the it is a
00:50:46.680story that is better than any other story that that our world can can offer uh that can guide our
00:50:51.960children's lives they need that and pastors you can offer that to them um the presumptional the
00:50:57.720presuppositional groundwork of how to interact with the world the fact that the scriptures here better
00:51:04.440this side the scriptures are are our presupposition for everything this is where we start and yes we
00:51:12.280can look empirically at the world and we can and even our conscience i actually teach a tri-perspectival
00:51:18.520way of epistemology the fact that that we we see the world this outer perspective of of the empirical uh
00:51:26.120this inner perspective of our conscience that god gives us so that we know what is right and wrong
00:51:31.160uh we have an intuitive sense of things in our world but guess where things start the normative
00:51:36.840perspective that you can always test against against is the word of god that presupposition
00:51:42.360you need to give to your children so that if the world is telling them something different and maybe
00:51:47.080they're asking the right questions that they can trust this uh so that as they look at the empirical
00:51:52.360and go oh now i can see how it matches what's what's in this word so you have educational expertise to
00:52:00.120offer um what kind of what kind of education do we need i've touched on this a little bit but i i just
00:52:06.520want to emphasize some things so first of all you need to prioritize the word of god everything begins
00:52:14.040and ends with the word of god and this is not the case in even many christian schools where there is a
00:52:21.560thin veneer of scripture over top of the world's education teach whether it's homeschooling
00:52:29.800whether it's a christian school that you're starting whether uh whether you do a church school
00:52:34.760teach the scriptures in everything in everything if you're teaching science
00:52:42.120teach the scriptures if you're teaching history teach the scriptures if you're teaching philosophy
00:52:47.480teach the scriptures uh it is your starting point for everything and when you have that basis you are able
00:52:54.840to think deeply about everything else in a way that would not be the case if you started apart from
00:53:02.440the word of god let me read to you from martin luther he says this i am much afraid that the universities
00:53:10.760will prove to be the great gates of hell unless they diligently labor in explaining the holy scriptures
00:53:18.760and engraving them in the hearts of youth i advise no one to place his child where the scriptures do not
00:53:25.640reign paramount is that a good line or what i advise no one to place his child where the scriptures do not
00:53:33.560reign paramount every institution in which men are not unceasingly occupied with the word of god must
00:53:41.800become corrupt so if you are going to teach if you're going to start a school a home school
00:53:47.960collective you make sure that the scriptures reign paramount um that the implications of the gospel
00:53:56.040are worked out and that's where uh this is something that i think is really important as well
00:54:01.800that yes we want our children it is our utmost desire that our children be saved from death from sin
00:54:10.840from the devil from an eternal lake of fire and placed into the kingdom of god uh to to be forever
00:54:18.280in heaven with the lord glorifying him imagine us having us in our generations our children gathered
00:54:24.040about us what a beautiful picture that is but listen but listen the gospel the word of god is not
00:54:33.320just for piety just for piety and personal salvation all right it is for all of the gospel implications for all of life
00:54:45.960that means what that means that means education that means the justice system that means the health system
00:54:55.800that means government that means the sciences all right everything we want the glory of god and the glory of christ to fill canada from sea to sea and from shore to shore
00:55:12.360we want christ to reign here and that starts with our children and teaching them
00:55:18.760from the bible from the bible from the scriptures onward that the gospel has implications for everything
00:55:25.880for everything and i have let me just let me just share my heart for a second i've got some blessed brothers
00:55:32.920in the lord who are gospel centered and understand the truth of of of the gospel and preach it
00:55:41.240in a sense extremely faithfully and yet i think are are are missing the boat because they they say things
00:55:50.840like some of my friends they say listen i just i just just want to preach the gospel and i say yes you
00:55:57.800need to start with the gospel but here's the problem the gospel has implications because jesus is lord
00:56:04.840is actually a political statement jesus is lord is a political statement it means that christ lays claim
00:56:13.240to everything to everything and so if you're not teaching your children that christ lays claim to
00:56:20.920everything then then you're missing the boat all right not just piety and personal salvation
00:56:26.360and then lastly uh prioritize an education that builds on the christianized past all right um that
00:56:36.280that looks throughout history and and you know some people hate the word christendom okay um i'll use
00:56:44.600i'll use the word christianized past okay if you hate the word christendom but here's the deal
00:56:49.240here's the deal is that throughout western history there has been enough christian thought and culture
00:57:01.560that there has been some pinnacles of culture in literature in science in government in which there has
00:57:12.760been no equal in all of the history of the world that should not surprise you why well because it's
00:57:20.760based it was based on god's word that however fumbling and however we may say well these institutions
00:57:26.920these certain things were not perfect yeah well you know the only time it's going to become perfect is
00:57:32.040when christ returns all right but we need to build on these great thinkers great books great thoughts
00:57:39.480in the past now please keep in mind i'm not saying that there are no great thoughts or thinkers in you
00:57:47.080know throughout other cultural traditions but what i'm saying is that you need to take the best
00:57:53.880from the past that is built on uh you know the the christianized past i'm thinking of especially
00:58:00.840about times like the reformation the puritans uh there are some other kind of pinnacles
00:58:06.040um and to say listen there are some amazing things that that took place uh in in different
00:58:11.720fields even i'm just even i mean throw this out there even even architecture things like gothic
00:58:17.000architecture i mean architecture these days is so ugly it's so it's so despicable almost purposefully
00:58:25.720so right where's the beauty that existed throughout uh throughout you know um the christianized past when
00:58:33.320it came to art so build on the christianized past so let's talk about some faithful models about about
00:58:40.440how to do this um first of all a faithful model would be homeschooling um oh that's not where i
00:58:48.360started okay i started faithful christian schools i'll get to homeschooling i thought i put homeschooling
00:58:52.440church uh homeschooling first let me mention faithful christian schools um there are some faithful
00:58:59.000christian schools and they are doing a wonderful job in the midst of some very difficult uh pressures
00:59:05.880that they face from the world there are there are schools that are holding the line and i am so
00:59:10.920thankful for them i'll mention a couple and and please this is not an exhaustive list please there
00:59:16.200there are probably some other schools i don't know of but bc christian academy they're doing a great job
00:59:21.960um their their principles i know i know all their principles they are extremely godly people that
00:59:28.600understand what's going on in the culture uh they are trying to prepare their children uh committed to
00:59:34.360scripture um i hear very good things out of the king's school in langley i don't know that school
00:59:39.800quite as well but from those i trust they say that they're that they're doing a good a good job
00:59:44.840holding the line um so there are faithful christian schools that are worth supporting and uh bless bless
00:59:53.480them uh for that homeschooling is a faithful christian model and uh as churches we ought to be talking about
01:00:01.960homeschooling um we ought to be uh again providing structural support for for homeschoolers that's so
01:00:11.240important um and so you know let's let's do that in every way we can um and then an area that i've
01:00:18.680been involved in is is church schools and especially with our uh school uh compass schools um our our
01:00:27.240mandate and again there are church schools that have uh i've got my friend up in kamloops um
01:00:35.480joshua clay camp and their school kamus first baptist is the is the church they started they
01:00:40.520went through all of the work to um uh to build a christian school amazing uh let me tell you it's
01:00:46.680a lot of work and this is why we've uh we've built compass schools because we want to help churches
01:00:52.360build schools because it because it's so much work to do so uh now it's not insurmountable it's
01:00:58.280it can be done i encourage if there is a church that wants to you know doesn't want to partner with
01:01:03.400compass and wants to build their own school listen i am a hundred percent for you a hundred percent for
01:01:09.160you i will be your biggest cheerleader go do it uh praise god for that uh but i also want to help
01:01:16.200churches do it because i know the amount of work it is so our just very briefly i'm not here to sort of
01:01:22.920do an entire promotional piece on compass schools but uh with compass schools uh we are um
01:01:32.040there it is there that's where a website started sort of look like if you go there compass clc.com
01:01:37.160um but our goal uh you can see it there is to educate the whole child in the whole truth
01:01:44.040reclaiming our culture for christ's kingdom uh there are there are some people that think our um
01:01:49.480our statement is a little too triumphalistic uh my guess is that the action for canada people won't
01:01:53.800think that um but we're uh we're we're committed to um partnering with churches to build schools where
01:02:02.840they are you might think what do we what do we need to do that well essentially to start you need
01:02:08.680at least a couple classrooms that you could hive off monday to friday uh you need a parent a group of 10
01:02:15.400um children which probably for a lot of schools not that for a lot of churches is not that hard you
01:02:20.120would need a parents council you know those 10 children would need to represent at least three
01:02:24.680probably better four families um of of parents that are willing to work together because
01:02:30.200uh our model is that we work closely together with the parents because again it's actually the
01:02:36.920parents who are the primary educators we want to support them in what they're doing we don't want
01:02:41.400to just take it over uh and for churches we want to work together with churches as well there's some
01:02:46.360flexibility built into our system so that um we we need to maintain a certain sort of um perspective
01:02:54.600and brand for instance this is classical education i'm not going to get into that in this presentation
01:02:58.680what that is but uh it really leans into the historical part of um of kind of uh education
01:03:06.040um but uh i i'd love to hear from you if you're interested in planting a school and we would love
01:03:12.520to come alongside with you and give you a little bit more information about what that would look like
01:03:16.360because we use uh churches free of charge from monday to friday we're able to through fundraising
01:03:22.280we're able to actually lower our costs to about a two-thirds of what most christian schools would be
01:03:27.960even though we actually do not take a cent from the government and the reason we do not
01:03:32.120is because we do not well we don't want the government to have a single finger in what we're
01:03:39.960doing beyond what is what what we have to under law so we're committed to that that means we fundraise
01:03:46.040that means we use um uh volunteers we are absolutely committed to building something that is
01:03:53.160not relying we're relying on god god will supply our needs amen so uh that's compass schools um
01:04:02.440and then i just wanted to um i also we also have a liberal arts college that we've started this year
01:04:07.400if you have anybody that's graduating or doesn't know what they're doing in their early 20s oh i would
01:04:12.280love to talk to you about our one-year program uh with uh new antioch institute um that will ready
01:04:19.720your children like i am convinced nothing else will for the world all right so if you want more
01:04:24.360information about that um i'd love to talk to you about new antioch institute my email is paul
01:04:30.600at dirksfamily.ca paul at dirksfamily.ca and uh would love to hear from you uh on these on these
01:04:42.200matters i just want to put in a quick plug uh thank you for action for canada for letting me be willing
01:04:46.920to do this but i have a book coming out uh in uh august september um that is that will touch on a
01:04:54.840lot of these issues it's called deep discipleship for dark days it's going to be released uh through
01:04:59.720ezra press um which is a wonderful um group uh out out out east they're doing great work they they
01:05:06.840would they would be very much in line with with a lot of action for canada's uh viewpoints and um and
01:05:13.960work um they're an apologetics um uh institute uh and uh and i touched on some education things in
01:05:22.680here but it really is the book is designed to i wrote it for my church really i wrote it for listen
01:05:28.600you see these totalitarian trajectories going on in our society you see the darkness creeping
01:05:33.560up uh you know what do we do beside being anxious because that god has not given us a spirit of
01:05:39.720fear and timidity right doesn't want us to be anxious what do we do and here are the seven
01:05:44.440exhortations that i i think christians need to heed in this day and age uh buy a sword in other words be
01:05:51.160willing to go to war with the word of god um second of all flee the carnival you need to leave this life
01:05:57.240of just trying to build up your kingdom here and of an entertainment driven culture uh resist the mind
01:06:03.800control that's all about indoctrination cancel culture uh the renewal of the mind that citadel of the
01:06:08.920soul that john calvin talked about do your homework that's all about the life of the family and the
01:06:13.560pressures that are facing family i talk about some sexual orientation and gender identity things there
01:06:18.440practice pioneering that's really what we're talking about today the fact that we are ripe right now for
01:06:24.360building new things because we're facing ostracization uh potentially in the future with
01:06:30.680a biometric digital identification that's that's coming down the pike there's so many groups that want
01:06:35.080to make that happen uh we need to build so that we have even some alternative culture um if necessary
01:06:41.400and i'm not saying that we don't fight for what we have right now i'm saying we need to build right now
01:06:45.400in addition to fighting uh don't dine with demons listen there's so much evil in the world you need to
01:06:50.920understand do not be complicit in it in any way uh there are some tremendous pressures that will be
01:06:56.760leveled against christians to become complicit in the evils of the world we we'd rather do anything
01:07:02.040than sin against god even to die rather than sin against god and in fact lastly find the faithful
01:07:07.640find a christian church that is willing to be strong and courageous on these issues that understands
01:07:14.760not just the gospel but all of the gospel implications that i've touched on very briefly
01:07:20.440uh in this presentation so thanks for the opportunity to share a little bit on uh pastor
01:07:25.400on pastors and leaders and education and uh thanks for action for canada for being willing to to host me today
01:07:32.040well thank you so much pastor paul that was a lot of good information and uh very insightful so let
01:07:41.080me just share something really quick i get bothered by the expression that uh children are the next the
01:07:48.760the future of the next generation i believe children are today's future and uh it bothers me a little
01:07:56.120bit when i see a lot of these mega churches that are uh coming about and they have campuses everywhere
01:08:02.280but they're all rented facilities and there doesn't seem to be a lot of um investment in um in what
01:08:08.600you're talking about uh uh you know in establishing programs for children uh children's church seems to
01:08:15.240be a lot of colored pages that go out there's uh there's not a lot of theology taught to children
01:08:21.160and uh you know so it's it's this is a challenge really for for pastors and i know i i don't know how many
01:08:27.960pastors we have on the call right now but uh it seems to me that uh the we can't expect our children
01:08:34.360to be out there with the wolves and expect them to grow up into healthy teenagers and bible believing
01:08:39.960teenagers and then be productive members of our churches down the road if the lord tarries uh the
01:08:46.360investment starts with them from the time that they're in infancy in our in our churches so thank you for that
01:08:54.200challenge and um so tanya ron anything that you want to just add in here with uh brother paul before
01:09:00.680we open it up for questions and by the way if you're on the call and you do have a question uh
01:09:06.120raise your hand and then we'll we'll have a general q a in just a few moments
01:09:11.400my comment would just be paul that was just amazing awesome thank you so much uh as you say i know that
01:09:18.280you have some conferences coming up that uh you'll be speaking at as well here in the lower mainland
01:09:24.680but how can people uh learn more about you how can they follow you i know you've provided your email
01:09:30.840but do you have a website as well that you post any of this information
01:09:36.360yeah thanks tanya yeah so you know there's there's been a few different things that i've had my
01:09:40.280my fingers in and and so you know i have tended to to build out certain things for those certain
01:09:46.600fields that i've been involved in so for a long time and it'll be up but not for much longer um
01:09:51.640i've i have a lot of my sex and gender stuff available at woman means something.com woman
01:09:57.560means something.com um and uh now it's it's actually take a look at it soon because i'll probably be
01:10:05.000shutting it down right now currently it's it's sort of a uh a repository uh i don't do much currently
01:10:11.000there but it's it's got it's it's rich with information that you can get uh twitter i do a lot of
01:10:15.480stuff on twitter that um again mostly gender and and sex stuff but but some more general thoughts
01:10:22.360as well so um i'm i'm just at paul dirks uh on twitter uh those would probably be the two major
01:10:29.800ways um again i i work with compass uh and so if anybody wants to get in touch with me in regards to
01:10:36.680educational things um through uh yeah paul at dirks family would be would be uh dot com or sorry
01:10:43.720dot ca uh would be a good way of getting a hold of me and for some of my educational things but um
01:10:49.080mostly work with compass on on that that sphere okay fantastic and i'm i'm loving the name of your
01:10:55.560book and the the seven steps i'm i'm excited about that i think you and i will have another conversation
01:11:01.240maybe about the empower hour bringing you on to talk more in depth um that was great yeah so uh
01:11:08.280dan back to you did you want to open it up unless ron has something dad you're on mute ron story
01:11:16.360i just wanted to uh add to that pastor paul what an amazing delivery and message and challenge
01:11:23.400to uh pastors associate pastors church leadership we are going to post this recording on our pastor's
01:11:31.880resource page and uh we will make sure to um spread the word and and get this out and just an incredible
01:11:42.440uh message we are just so happy to have connected with you and that you were able to share your heart
01:11:48.120and um we we just uh encourage you and and there's so many that you know as well too that i'm sure that
01:11:55.560are supporting the compass uh there's retired teachers there's teachers who have lost their vocation
01:12:02.120that that can be you know connected with these opportunities and uh to be able to teach in the
01:12:08.840churches as well too so we're happy and we see god's hand in that that he will provide even the the
01:12:16.280teachers you know that are required can you speak a little bit more on that as well and then i guess
01:12:21.800we'll open up uh to a q a i'll let dan take over there yeah so we yeah if there if there's anybody who
01:12:30.920is interested in teaching with us um we we'd love to hear from them um and uh so far the lord's been so
01:12:37.960good in providing us with some phenomenal teachers um and uh and yeah in some cases you know we we
01:12:45.240we do our best we want to be able to provide for teachers but in some cases they're taking
01:12:49.240less than they would take uh in in the you know in other systems but they're committed to what what's
01:12:55.000happening in this new this new uh pioneering work that i i really think has the has the ability to
01:13:01.640change canada right i'm just gonna also because this video uh i hoping will go viral we're gonna push
01:13:09.560it out and really encourage people but if they're just watching for the first time i just want to
01:13:15.320want to advise them that action for canada is moving towards working very closely with churches
01:13:22.040we're providing homeschooling information we have a homeschooling group we've vetted homeschooling
01:13:27.640groups across canada but we're encouraging churches to open their doors and helping to connect like
01:13:33.480people with like pastor paul who is right on the cutting edge he's got these uh schools already
01:13:39.240going and curriculums available and is willing to offer and help and and this is why we're putting
01:13:44.760chapters in every community to have communities of people with like-mindedness working together
01:13:51.880to achieve these type of goals it's amazing and it's doable so it's exciting
01:13:56.360amen all right so do we have any questions from any of our guests today any questions at all i know
01:14:07.720the presentation was quite full and quite informative so this is almost like testimony time
01:14:17.800so quiet bunch all right well okay pastor paul dirks it's been so good to have you on board and to
01:14:25.400have you along and uh i want to just express my heartfelt thank you on behalf of action for canada
01:14:31.160and our pastoral team here and everyone else so i'm sure that everyone who will be watching the
01:14:36.040recording will be very blessed very blessed so we thank you very much so i've asked pastor bruce
01:14:42.600the young to close us off in prayer this afternoon pastor bruce is involved with our uh action for
01:14:48.360canada prayer meetings here on zoom on monday wednesdays and fridays and uh so pastor bruce and
01:14:54.360pastor bruce is also uh part of a christian school here in cape breton and so i'm sure he's gotten
01:15:00.520some insight from what some of the things that you've shared here as well so pastor bruce would
01:15:05.160you just bless us and close us off in prayer please yes amen wanted first of all express my appreciation
01:15:11.320to pastor paul that was absolutely awesome very encouraging very encouraged i have three grandchildren
01:15:17.960in the public school system and uh my heart aches for them all the time and hopefully that's going
01:15:25.160to turn around and be able to go to the christian school and we've even talked about getting family
01:15:31.800a few families together and finding some of these retired school teachers or teachers who have given
01:15:36.920up their position and to to teach in and with the uh those small group of children so we'll see where
01:15:44.280that goes anyway but you have a tremendous amount of resources greatly appreciate it let's pray father
01:15:51.880we're just so blessed lord to first of all to be your children your blood bought your blood washed
01:15:57.880and to for us to know jesus lord in the very depths of our hearts and god is i'm sure that as pastor
01:16:04.200paul has shared so willingly this afternoon god it has just struck a chord in in all of our hearts
01:16:13.400all of the ones who are on this call we we all have the same goal we all have the same desires
01:16:19.160we all lord see see things father from your perspective and from that godly biblical christian
01:16:26.040worldview and so lord i just pray that our hearts would be stirred even greater lord to take action
01:16:32.600to stand up for the things of god i pray again lord for our church's leadership that father the
01:16:39.800minds and hearts and spirits would be open to realize lord that there is there is what is happening is so
01:16:49.400demonic against the church and against christians and so lord we just pray your blessing your blessing
01:16:55.800blessing today lord on our pastors and christian leaders across this land and lord that truly these
01:17:03.160spiritual eyes would be open to see what is happening in the spirit realm and father we just thank you that
01:17:09.960we are empowered by the spirit of the living god and lord that we do not need to take a back seat to what's happening in the world
01:17:17.800but we need to be declaring what the word of god is and what that truth is that eternal truth
01:17:25.000father we i just pray a blessing on each one on the call today pray a blessing on their families
01:17:31.160and jesus we just believe that the harvest would be great as we head into the end times lord that are coming
01:17:38.680very soon father we thank you so much for your faithfulness you're faithful to your word you're faithful
01:17:45.800lord to your people and lord we thank you and praise you in jesus mighty name amen and amen amen
01:17:55.880thank you so much thank you for joining us today and lord willing we will see you in two weeks