In this episode, Action for Canada's Parent and Youth webinar, host Tanya Gaw ( ) and Doris Livingston ( ) talk about the importance of sex education for parents and youth. They discuss the need for sex education in our schools, the role of parents, and the benefits of sex ed in our homeschools.
00:00:00.000My name is Tanya Gaw. I'm the founder of Action for Canada. And I'm, like I say, excited to be here today for this parent webinar. And Doris is on as well. Doris, if you want to just give your hand a little wave there.
00:00:17.300Doris Livingston is our parent and homeschool lead. And so generally, many of you are familiar with her who have been coming regular to our parent webinars. So she's a valued part of our team.
00:00:31.120All right, I'm just going to start for anybody here that's new. We love to know if this is your first time. So mention it in the chat. I'm going to share my screen. And I always love starting with a map of Canada. But all those wonderful little maple leaves there are Action for Canada chapters.
00:00:48.300And we have chapter leaders who are working really hard in their communities to reach out to other like minded people and help to mobilize them. We reach out to churches, we have parents teams, we reach out to businesses, and as well as mayors and city councils, we attend school board meetings. And as well, we are highly encouraging people pull their children out and homeschool.
00:01:16.500And so for today. And so for today, again, if you're new, if you go under call to action under weekly emails, there's other places you can go under resources to get our parent materials, and parent webinars that we've had on the past. On, let me just see, you'll see under parent resources, parent webinars, we've had amazing webinars that we've provided with people who specialize in homeschooling, and everything that surrounds that to help to make it an easy transition if you're considering that.
00:01:46.960If you scroll down the chapter page, which can be found under join A4C chapters, you just click on one of the links on your province, and you will find a list, I guess I should give you an example that a list of chapters in your province. And then as soon as you click an email, you'll email directly to the chapter leader.
00:02:06.340If you do not see a chapter in your area, please consider becoming a chapter leader, or email a chapter that is closest to you, and they will work to assist you.
00:02:17.620And so we've got two programs that we're going to be covering today. One is the sexual risk avoidance program for ages 11 to 18 years. And we've made it, we're going to have two different times, there will be ages 11 to 14 from 4 to 515pm PST. And then we've included 14 here 14 to 18, because parents know their children best.
00:02:40.180And they know if maybe they've been having conversations in their home, and they feel that they're ready to be with the older kids in the discussion. So we leave that up to the parents, but we do give them the choice to do that.
00:02:52.640Again, we're asking for a suggested donation, but we want to emphasize that we don't want any child or parent missing out on these programs. And so that you can join and we will cover that the other part of the program is Family Foundations addressing key issues related to optimal sexual development.
00:03:12.140And it's that would be the parent program run other thing I want to show you is our homeschooling under current issues if you're considering getting your kids out and we're asking communities to come together grandparents get in there and help out and make it a team so homeschool if you go here on the directory.
00:03:33.260And you just scroll down again by province we have vetted wonderful homeschooling associations to help you make it easier and then if you keep scrolling down, we give you additional information and again, I would really encourage encourage you to go to the parent webinars if that is something that you've been considering doing.
00:03:52.260All right, so I'm going to hand this over to Phil Phil is the founder and director sorry founder and executive director of peace education services, and he and his team will be overseeing the two programs in the fall for parents and for youth.
00:04:08.340So Phil, I'm like I say I'm going to hand that over to you, you can introduce your team and we look forward to your presentation.
00:04:14.160Wonderful. Thank you, Tanya. Great. Thank you, Tanya and action for Canada for the opportunity to offer the parent and youth webinars.
00:04:24.220These are designed to empower youth to protect their futures.
00:04:28.560At peace, we believe that sex is too important to God to leave at the culture in schools.
00:04:35.540So our goal is to equip faith communities. Now that includes parents, that includes grandparents, that includes youth leaders,
00:04:43.160that includes anyone, right, that has access to youth, to equip faith communities to empower youth with the knowledge and the skills to protect their futures by avoiding non-marital sex.
00:04:57.980Today, I'd like to do four things. One, introduce the presenters that will be delivering the programs.
00:05:04.900Two, set the scene. Why are these webinars important?
00:05:07.940Three, an overview of the youth webinar. And then finally, an overview of the parent webinar.
00:05:15.900Our presentation team, myself, Phil Lees, as you found out, founder of Peace Education Services.
00:05:22.400We've been engaged in the community here in Ontario, some communities across Canada, in the United States,
00:05:30.160and to some degree internationally for the last 28 years.
00:05:33.520Lori Kuykendall. Lori is married to Chris, mother of four young adults.
00:05:40.400She lives in Texas. She's the founder and the president of Beacon Health Education Resources.
00:05:46.840She has a master's degree in public health and has been leading the delivery of healthy sexual risk avoidance messaging to youth and parents in Texas,
00:05:57.440not just Texas, not just Texas, though, across the United States and internationally for more than 25 years.
00:06:04.760Then, Pastor Dave Wilweber. He's married to Marie, father of three teens, lives in Hawaii.
00:06:12.120He's the pastor of Malcolm Mackay Ministries. He's a certified sexual risk avoidance specialist.
00:06:18.360And Dave and I have worked together for the past 10 years getting healthy risk avoidance messaging to youth in the communities and the churches in Hawaii.
00:06:27.760Finally, Mirtha. Mirtha is from Toronto. She's married to Eddie for 20 years, mother of three.
00:06:37.140And Mirtha has been involved with Peace since 2011.
00:06:41.060She's a certified sexual risk avoidance specialist, an author, and a motivational speaker.
00:06:47.700Mirtha and Pastor Dave will be delivering the youth webinar.
00:06:51.300And then myself, Lori, and Pastor Dave will be taking care of the parent webinars.
00:07:01.280Well, first, let's start with what is the goal of parenting?
00:07:04.640The goal is to get our kids successfully to adulthood.
00:07:08.860We have this analogy that we use developed in Hawaii.
00:07:12.500You know, we're raising our kids on the island of childhood from zero to nine years.
00:07:16.980But our goal is to get them to the shoreline of adulthood where they can achieve their goals.
00:07:22.420That could be university, college, a trade, a career, a family, home, and spiritual goals.
00:07:28.980But we have to get them across the very risky waters of the youth years where teen sex, pornography, drugs, and alcohol can significantly negatively impact life goal achievement.
00:07:41.940When we talk about the risks of youth sex, everybody thinks of pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.
00:07:48.780But culture tells youth, hey, use a condom.
00:08:03.580But there are far more risks, social, emotional risks, early failed relationships.
00:08:09.900If teens start having sex as teens, they're going to have failed relationships.
00:08:16.240That often sets up a pattern for failed relationships throughout life.
00:08:20.660Research shows that early sexual activity leads to poor family relationships that often continue throughout life.
00:08:29.500It leads to reduced academic achievement and reduced earning potential.
00:08:34.920That sometimes gets people's attention.
00:08:37.260Most youth who are sexually active say they regret their sexual activity.
00:08:44.300That leads to increased depression and suicide rates, increased exposure to crime and sexual exploitation, and reduced life goal achievement.
00:08:55.360Yes, these can be negative lifelong consequences.
00:09:00.180And the social-emotional risks, a condom doesn't touch.
00:09:03.620But the research shows that youth who avoid sexual activity have better current, future, physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual health.
00:09:19.260They have reduced exposure to crime, domestic violence, and trafficking.
00:09:23.300So, we want to make sure our kids have the knowledge and the skills to make the best decisions.
00:09:32.460So, what does culture provide for our kids?
00:09:36.340Well, they provide comprehensive sex education.
00:09:38.980Up until about the mid-1990s, we taught the kids an abstinence-based sex ed.
00:10:39.440Everyone has sexual rights to be sexually engaged.
00:10:42.540All ages, all genders, all activities, as long as they're engaged in consensually.
00:10:48.540And the goal of comprehensive sex ed is to equip youth to have satisfying sexual relations and reduced risk.
00:10:56.160Keep in mind, the primary goal was reducing STIs, pregnancy, and teen sexual activity.
00:11:04.100When I look at the content, I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this, but if you scan through this, and this is content from many different curricula, but in schools and school boards across Canada.
00:11:16.140Preschool, early masturbation, gender identities, grades 1, 2, and 3.
00:12:05.840So that's what comprehensive sex ed is based upon.
00:12:11.480But it's not limited to that short period of time when we teach sex ed.
00:12:16.760We are integrating sexual orientation and gender identity concepts throughout the curriculum in books like these, which I think you've been exposed to already.
00:12:26.660So, has, we've been doing CSE since the mid-1990s.
00:13:59.620Teen sexual activity in the church is very, very close to the same rate as no-faith kids.
00:14:08.080Does CSE reduce teen pregnancy and STIs?
00:14:13.340Well, there was a study done in 2020 that reviewed all of the 103 comprehensive sex ed programs that are used to say, hey, look, this works.
00:15:31.040So, comprehensive sex ed since 1997 has proven that it leads to increased STIs, increased teen sexual activity, increased depression, suicide, and other negative consequences.
00:15:43.500So, in the last 10, 12 years, a new approach has developed, which is an improvement on what we did in the old abstinence approach.
00:16:36.860Well, then we develop the skills to establish healthy boundaries, develop refusal skills, understand how to build healthy relationships to eventually find out the person that you might want to spend the rest of your life with without having to have sex, and then avoid sex until marriage.
00:16:58.020So, we said, the teen said, we wish our parents were better equipped.
00:17:05.880So, about 10 years ago, we started programs, developing programs to equip parents and equip the church.
00:17:18.320We have two programs that we're offering, and these two programs in the webinars coming up, Family Foundations, which is an eight-hour parent program.
00:17:27.720Actually, it's about nine web module sessions, and equips parenting adults to be – and when I say adults, I don't just mean parents.
00:17:39.580I mean any parents that have connection to kids, any adults that have connection to kids.
00:17:45.540So, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, youth pastors, et cetera, to begin the lifelong discussion about sexuality and what is a healthy relationship.
00:17:56.080And the second program is for youth, grades 6 to 12, heritage keepers.
00:18:02.780In 2017, I said, wait, we've got to find something that works.
00:18:06.860So, I did some post-grad work, and we researched the different sex ed curriculum, and we came across this one.
00:18:14.840This one has been tested by Mathematica in large school studies, and it's been proven to reduce teen sexual activity by 67%.
00:18:23.080So, they have 2,000 kids in the program, and they have 2,000 kids in a well-matched control group, and they deliver the program to the program youth.
00:18:34.320Twelve months later, they come back and survey the kids, and they find that the kids that have taken the program are engaged in sexual activity at a rate of 67% less than the kids that took other programs.
00:19:40.520Well, so looking forward to sharing with you, parents, you're my heroes.
00:19:48.440I think it's critical that you are on this call because our framework is that you, as parents, are the primary educators and disciples of your children, not us.
00:20:01.920We are here just to come alongside you, so you are doing the right thing.
00:20:07.880Why are they going to be teaching my kids?
00:20:10.880So, kudos to you for being on this call because in today's world, you definitely do not want just anybody talking to your kids about sex, sexuality.
00:20:22.200It's way too risky, and I have to say, Phil does his talk so well, but it always leaves me just kind of sick inside because as an adult, I'm looking at what the kids are getting, and it's like a cesspool.
00:20:38.100And that's why you, as a parent, and that's why you, as a parent, and that's why you, as a parent, are there to protect, and to teach, and guide, and to provide for your child.
00:20:50.720So, some distinctives about heritage keepers that I have kind of learned and discerned.
00:20:59.560I've taught this over 40 times here in Hawaii with some amazing results.
00:21:05.020Whether the kids never had engaged in sexual activity, it gave them a greater framework and motivation to continue in that goal of marriage.
00:21:18.640I've taught kids, lots of kids who have had sex beforehand, and their mindset started to change, and it gave them a new vision and a new why for a deeper understanding of sex and relationships and marriage.
00:22:24.100So, when kids see that sex in marriage, when they see that vision and they see the rationale and they see the positive benefits as compared to the negative consequences, it really changes their mindset.
00:22:43.720Because they're not hearing that message on their phones or from porn or from social media or from Hollywood.
00:22:53.740So, this curriculum really nails the keeping sex in lifelong marriage.
00:23:01.420Heritage Keepers was designed for public schools.
00:23:03.900But we here in Hawaii, we have taught it in Christian settings, secular settings.
00:23:35.280If you have good research and good science and good medically accurate information, it's going to agree with the Bible.
00:23:47.420And so, what we do is we approach this so that we can teach in secular settings.
00:23:52.580We approach it from more of the scientific aspect, looking at human anatomy, looking at the reproductive system and so forth, looking at good research.
00:24:01.140Because if you've got good anatomy, good research, and you have good Bible interpretation, they're going to say the same thing.
00:24:09.320And so, I always like to say, we like our kids speaking two languages.
00:24:17.920We want them to be able to speak the language of the Bible, but also the language of science and human anatomy.
00:24:26.520And you tell me what's more effective.
00:24:28.500So, your child gets invited to a sex and drug party in college.
00:24:35.540And do you prefer them to say to their unchristian friends, well, Genesis 2.24 says that a man should leave his father and his mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.
00:24:50.560So, I'm not going to say, what, what, I care about my body, I am not going to go to that party, I care about my future, my job, and my family.
00:25:05.220Okay, you tell me which one's going to have a greater impact on the one that's inviting them to a party.
00:25:11.780And you tell me which one our children are going to be confident in saying.
00:25:17.660And so, if our kids can say that basic stuff, like, man, I care about myself, my body's important, my future's important.
00:25:25.760But then they also, as you are teaching them the biblical framework also, they're going to have a multidimensional reason for waiting for marriage.
00:25:42.920And it will impact them, and it will impact their friends, because that's ultimately what we want, is to impact culture.
00:27:18.280So, there are these 19 predictors that he determined from what kids were saying.
00:27:23.200And so, Heritage Keepers targets these 19 predictors.
00:27:31.340So, the lessons are specifically designed to kind of counter those 19 predictors that are out there that lead kids to have sex.
00:27:43.280And so, online, we're going to be listening to what the kids say on chat, and we're going to look at their mindset, and we're going to try to move them forward toward better thinking, more biblically aligned thinking, and moving them away from these predictors.
00:28:03.040So, you might be thinking, with all this messaging about sex and marriage, well, what about those kids that have already had sex?
00:28:18.800I want you to know that our messaging ends up being hopeful, grace-filled, and shame-free, because Heritage Keepers focuses in on today.
00:28:32.100I always ask the kids, hey, those of you that have already engaged in sex, did you have this presentation so clearly laid out to you when you were facing the choice of having sex?
00:28:54.880Today you can choose to take hold of the reins of your life.
00:28:59.080And you can say, I'm important, my future is important, my career is important, my family is important, and I'm going to move forward from today on.
00:29:09.160So, it's not a beating up of the past.
00:29:11.780It's a hope and grace and move forward.
00:29:16.940Some of it I've already alluded to, but their definition of sexual abstinence is not participating in any sexual activity outside of marriage.
00:29:32.460You'll notice that's kind of a hard line, because in terms of when we want the best for our kids, you saw on Phil's slide, all the negative consequences that can happen by participating in sexual activity.
00:29:50.540Condoms don't protect emotional damage, don't protect the heart, the condom won't necessarily protect the future.
00:29:59.900So, this definition I really like, because it's not about how close can we hit the line or how far can we go.
00:30:09.500So, this definition is not even about no as much as yes.
00:30:16.560This definition gives a yes message saying no outside of marriage, but yes inside of marriage.
00:30:25.420And that's fantastic, because kids need to hear that God and sex is good, and God made sex good and pleasurable, and there's the best context for it, and the best context is within the safety and the security of two people committed for lifelong loving marriage that is as healthy as absolutely possible.
00:30:49.720So, it's a hard line, but then we have seven hours to show why this definition is so good, and so then we talk about their life.
00:31:03.780What's important to you? Who's important to you? How about your future? What's important to you in your future?
00:31:10.880So, we are going to evaluate the world's message of sex, because it's such a contrast.
00:31:38.240First, the world's messaging is so loud, it's so in their face, it's so incessant and ongoing, but God's message is really quiet.
00:31:49.860He whispers it. He whispers it in his word, and he whispers it in the human body, and so we're helping these kids become critical thinkers about what they are hearing.
00:32:01.240So, we look at the human body, and I would really love to go through my whole presentation right now, but I can tell you that I'm going to give this presentation that God's messaging for sex within lifelong marriage, he actually wrote it into our bodies.
00:32:22.740I'm going to give this presentation, and I'm going to give this presentation, and I'm going to give you one example of that.
00:32:25.840What's the only way that we can make a baby?
00:32:30.620What's the only way that the reproductive system is completed?
00:32:47.580So, the body, the way God designed it, is telling us the best way to have sex, and it's also defining for us what marriage is.
00:32:59.600And so, it's fantastic as the light bulbs go on with the kids, as they see that God's human body, the way he created it, is the same message as what he says in his word.
00:33:13.480And if the kids get both, they're going to be that much stronger and that much more able to withstand the assault that's on their lives.
00:33:21.360So, we definitely teach the reproductive system, we teach conception, we teach genetics, we show what an amazing miracle that they are.
00:33:31.180I love when the girls come out of this, and their conclusion, and we haven't even hammered this message, their conclusion is, oh, I got to care about my body, because I'm important.
00:33:44.920And that's what happens when you teach the human body, when you teach the reproductive system, all that fuzziness about all these gender identities and stuff, it becomes male and it becomes female, when you teach the human body.
00:34:00.060You see, because in the schools, they don't teach the reproductive system, they teach you how not to get pregnant.
00:35:19.160They get such a great picture for God's best for their life.
00:35:22.960Including, kids need discernment on infatuation, lust, and love.
00:35:29.500I don't know if you guys have seen it.
00:35:31.040I read an article that somebody is putting messaging out to kids that if you haven't had sex by your third date, there's probably something wrong with the relationship.
00:37:14.060SAFE, you see going down, it says S-A-F-E.
00:37:18.980So, it stands for state your boundaries, avoid danger, firmly say no, and exit.
00:37:25.460And this is where you parents are critically important because we don't have enough time to help each kid work through thinking about their boundaries and stating their boundaries.
00:37:36.760But this is very proactive, stating your boundaries and avoiding danger are proactive.
00:37:44.680I am not going to put myself in a dangerous situation.
00:37:48.260But, as you all know, danger comes to us.
00:37:52.600So, in that situation, we're already prepared to state our boundaries and to be able to firmly say no.
00:37:59.540And then, if that other person is not listening, or if I'm in danger, I need to get out of there.
00:38:06.260This is exactly what Joseph did in Genesis 37.
00:38:10.360He followed the SAFE plan before there even was a SAFE plan.
00:38:15.240So, kind of drawing this to a close before I show you a few student feedbacks.
00:38:21.760You know this verse, the thief, the devil, comes only to steal, kill, and destroy.
00:38:30.040You start thinking about what his agenda is for your kids, for your family, for your generations.
00:39:56.860We love it when parents come into our teaching.
00:40:00.020Uncle Dave and Auntie Maile led the young adults to conclude on their own that sex is best done in lifelong loving marriage within the first three hours.
00:42:50.120We kind of, we have this analogy, again, that we use in Hawaii.
00:42:54.360If we could teach this messaging in the church, and everybody embraces it, so that the pastor, even on a Sunday morning, that he's teaching sexuality to the parents.
00:43:07.580That the parents take the parents program, the youth take the youth program, then they all get in.
00:43:13.720Then when the youth is in the canoe trying to paddle across to adulthood, guess who's in there with them?
00:43:20.600The senior pastor, the youth pastor, the peers that have been taking this, the parents, and they're all paddling, what?
00:44:13.440So, and we've been working on this now for a year and a half.
00:44:17.480This is going to be the first time we present it.
00:44:20.120So, we're going to be also looking to you and asking for your input because we want to make sure that this is going to be what parents see as important.
00:44:31.680Again, to equip and encourage parents and youth leaders to guide and support their children toward optimal sexual health, protecting their current and future well-being in a culture that sexualizes our children.
00:44:44.100What do we mean by optimal sexual health?
00:44:57.100Yes, these kids are going to be equipped to plan dates, relationships, activities to find out who might it be that I want to spend the rest of my life with.
00:45:10.600As Dave said, what are those characteristics?
00:45:13.380And if those are the characteristics that I want in somebody, how do I make myself as good as that?
00:45:26.520The sessions are going to be offered Tuesday nights, and there are nine modules, but we're splitting it up because we're going to offer five in October, but then Action for Canada is offering a marriage program that I think would be wise for people to take.
00:45:46.360Because, you know, if we can demonstrate a healthy marriage to our kids and model that, I think that's the best thing we can do.
00:46:34.460We're talking about their environment, et cetera.
00:46:37.300And you can go down there, and you can look at those characteristics of kids who are sexually active and characteristics of kids that are abstinent.
00:46:43.920And you can check those off and say, oh, okay, oh, I think my child's more on this side.
00:47:36.520And we've asked Dave to incorporate this because this teaching about why sex is best for marriage, our body speaks approach, I have never heard anywhere else.
00:47:52.360But the kids respond to it because, as he says, our body whispers the truth about why it's important to not engage in youth sexual activity and to wait until marriage.
00:48:08.560So I've asked him to present that so that you can take that presentation, that information, and use that when you're talking to your kids.
00:48:19.720Technology, social media, sexting, pornography.
00:48:22.320Dave already talked about how this is actually guiding kids.
00:48:27.460As a matter of fact, research shows that the majority of kids, when they do have a question about sexuality, and they don't know where to go, so they don't have parents to support, right, the majority of them go to pornography to find their answers.
00:49:05.020You're going to have a better understanding of the implications and the risks for your child and some strategies to help guide and develop your child's identity, okay?
00:49:17.360Then, after, so then you have the marriage seminars and Christmas, and then in January, we come back.
00:49:28.940And I'm not sure if this is going to be the order we're going to present.
00:49:31.740We may change it around, but these are the topics.
00:49:34.320Effective communication and healthy relationships.
00:49:53.220Dates that do not lead to sexual activity, but help them to identify the characteristics of the person that I would want to spend the rest of my life with in a married, lifelong relationship.
00:50:14.300We'll look in detail at comprehensive sex ed.
00:50:17.320We'll look in detail at sexual risk avoidance so that you have some background because our conclusion, we want you to now become advocates for sexual risk avoidance in your community so that, you know, we can get public schools taking this approach.
00:50:35.820And we can be a positive impact in our community, all right?
00:50:40.480So, sex is too important to God to lead the culture in schools.
00:50:46.060It's our job to empower our youth to protect their futures.
00:51:03.520Thank you so much to all three of you for the presentation.
00:51:08.100We're going to be posting this video on our parent webinar page, but as also we're going to ask once that's done that you share this far and wide.
00:51:19.120I think it is critical that we change the direction.
00:51:23.960My uncle always said the squeaky wheel is the one that gets the attention.
00:51:27.200And for decades, the trans and LGBTQ groups have been lobbying government, and they've been infiltrating the media and television and the news in order to get their message out there.
00:51:41.240And we are in an amazing shift right now in society.
00:51:45.720And that shift includes that people are beginning to question the current status quo.
00:51:51.200And I'm super happy about that, and that's why we're bringing Pastor Dave and Myrtha and Phil on with this program, and that we're not only addressing the youth, but we're educating parents, because they as well have been bombarded with misinformation.
00:52:07.780And unfortunately, as we've seen throughout COVID, is that people were too afraid to speak up.
00:52:14.720Like, how are you really feeling about this issue, right?
00:52:17.800How do you really feel about the direction your kids are headed in being overly sexualized from kindergarten all the way to the time they graduate?
00:52:42.700All right, if anybody has any questions, down at the bottom under reactions, not under reactions, yes, you can raise your hand if there are any questions.
00:52:54.880Sheila, is there any that had come through in the chat as well while we were speaking?
00:53:02.160If our child is physically showing signs of puberty, but mentally younger, is that covered?
00:53:07.780We briefly address that when we talk about the body speaking and puberty, because we know that the prefrontal cortex isn't even fully developed until 25.
00:53:21.220So we'll make a quick note of that, that their bodies are telling them that they're ready for sex.
00:53:28.920And of course, everybody else is saying that you're ready for sex, but their mind and their heart are not there.
00:53:34.440So we can mention that, but that's the power of a parent, because the power of the parent can, it's the difference between like a little communion cup and pouring directly into your child compared to us standing on a ladder, trying to aim that on that communion cup from 10 feet away.
00:53:57.420You catch, you catch my analogy, you catch my analogy, you as parents are an ongoing dialogue, and so you can pour directly into your kid's cup what they need, but we do address it generally.
00:54:08.600And can I just jump in there for a second, I think that this question would be well taken care of in the parent webinars when we're dealing with puberty, etc.
00:54:23.140And because, and the parent webinars, the youth ones are jammed full, the one hour session is almost like 55 minutes, so there's not a lot of time for Q&A.
00:54:35.960But the parent webinars, we set it up so that the instruction time is 35 to 40 minutes max, and then we have at least 20 minutes for Q&A.
00:54:46.360Okay, so, so we'll have time to discuss those kinds of things. And the lady who's going to be leading us on the parent webinar, Lori Kuykendall, she has, she has a master's in public health, and she's worked with parents and youth for 25 years.
00:55:04.040So I'm sure you're going to get direction on that concern.
00:55:09.240Okay, and then there's another question, I'd seen it earlier on, it says, what about the kids that don't have active parents in their lives?
00:55:16.360All the more reason why they need to take this.
00:55:23.120Right, and what I was, this is an appeal, because this video is going to go out to a whole lot of people.
00:55:29.140Right now, I want to make an appeal to pastors and to churches to open your doors, and to host this on Friday nights, to have your youth leaders there and a team that can engage the youth.
00:55:40.480And you know what, we all know about that child, you know, who their friend brought them to youth group, one Wednesday night, or one Friday night, and how it changed the direction of their lives.
00:55:50.960And this is why, as well, that Action for Canada is growing these chapters within communities.
00:55:57.800The last time we had parent or youth webinars, teacher and, sorry, for leadership and training programs, there were actual parents who hosted them in their homes.
00:56:09.040And they had a group of about 10 children in their homes, and that was, again, the community coming together to invest in their children.
00:56:17.000So, you know what, we ask parents to consider doing that same thing.
00:56:20.540Make it a fun night, have some pizza or cake.
00:56:24.220Don't give them the cake till afterwards, though, that might make them hyper.
00:56:27.360And, yeah, this is part of community, right?
00:56:30.380And can I just jump in again, Tanya, this seminar doesn't have to be presented just once.
01:00:40.880I would encourage everybody to watch that.
01:00:43.860We were talking about everything is based very much on Alfred Kinsey, who is a pedophile who did sexual experimentations on children and said they're sexual from birth.
01:00:54.520And the WHO standards for sexuality education, the CSE, known as SOGI 123 in Canada, WINSEC said it's all by a different name, but it's all comprehensive sexuality education.
01:01:05.520Their recommendations for zero to four is to teach about the enjoyment and pleasure when touching one's own body, early childhood masturbation.
01:01:14.500So Action for Canada provides you with notices of liability and other information to, if you go on this page, we provide you information to do even delegations at your local school board trustees.
01:01:29.740Although it's hard to break through, we are working towards that we've had great wins in Saskatchewan, we've turned over SOGI there and got it taken down as well as Planned Parenthood.
01:01:39.680So we're excited about the work our team is doing, and this is a next step in now focusing on countering what the world is teaching our children.
01:01:49.800So just those links again that I've just showed will be in the description area for those who will be watching this afterwards by video.
01:01:59.360Phil, is there anything else that you would like to add?
01:02:04.660I think one thing we did not mention, we will be recording the parent webinars, but because the curriculum for the youth is copyrighted, okay, we don't have the permission to record it and make it publicly available.
01:02:24.440So we cannot record the youth one, all right, just to let people know.
01:02:29.540So, you know, it is important, if you can, join in, don't depend on the video afterwards.
01:02:58.100Well, Pastor Dave and Mirtha, we are looking forward to seeing a lot of you in the coming weeks throughout October, November, and also into January.
01:03:09.700I would say if there's no more questions, I would say that is a wrap.
01:04:07.900Should there, should it be mixed with the kids or would it be wiser for maybe one parent, one family to take all the girls and the other family to take the boys?
01:04:16.520If possible, I think that would be ideal.
01:04:18.780I'd say parents know best, your community knows best, so you make the decisions on that.
01:04:26.220We've taught in same-sex situations, mostly we teach in co-ed, and we always teach with a male and a female teacher because that image is God.
01:04:38.360If you only have male, you don't get the full image of God.
01:04:42.540And so the kids, what we've learned after about the fifth time teaching us is we are the message.
01:04:48.780So as the male interacts with the female teacher, the kids get modeled for them, dignity and respect of the sexes, the biological sexes, and they see relationship in action.
01:05:02.880So we love it when we have a married couple.
01:05:06.020That's even better because then they see that's the message.
01:05:14.300Heather has just made a comment in the chat saying that we have to be careful because there was a bill passed that we can't raise our kids that way.
01:05:22.200What that is referring to, in case anybody else has that going through their mind, is the conversion therapy bill, which means that now that they've indoctrinated children and planted all these seeds in their minds that they're born in the wrong body,
01:05:35.900if that child comes home and says, I'm no longer a girl, I'm a boy, you're not permitted to take them for counseling.
01:05:42.500And if you as a parent try to convince your child or get to the bottom of that, you could go to jail for five years, as could the counselor.
01:05:50.620But we're talking about teaching biblical sexuality, healthy sexuality.
01:05:54.900We're talking about abstinence and we're giving the warnings of comprehensive sexuality education.
01:06:02.160We will never cease or desist doing it.
01:06:04.700And there's also a little something called the coronation oath in Canada, which means and King Charles just took the oath in May, stating that Canada must be must be governed by Protestant Christian biblical principles on the gospel.
01:06:18.700And that means that sodomy and everything they're teaching our children right now is outside of those.
01:06:26.500Section 52.1 of the Constitution says that it's the supreme rule of law in Canada and anything that's inconsistent with it is of no force or effect.
01:06:35.660So right now, it doesn't matter what the government has done, even though there's pressure there, we have a duty and an obligation to stand on godly principles.
01:06:43.040And we won't cease or desist doing that and until all of this is turned around.