Moms: Unsung Heroes – Missy Robertson and Kimberley Fletcher

[00:00:00] oh here’s your host Kevin Conover bringing outside

[00:00:06] welcome to educate for life I’m your host Kevin Conover if you’re a homeschooling parent I’ve designed a Bible curriculum just for your kids

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[00:00:23] faith in Jesus Christ and the Bible my guests today are Missy Robertson and Kimberley Fletcher Missy is married to

[00:00:29] jay-z Probert s’en they’re well known for their family reality TV show duck dynasty the show has broken several

[00:00:35] ratings a records on A&E and cable television the fourth season premiered to eleven point eight million viewers

[00:00:42] unbelievable the most-watched non-fiction cable series in history the series ended on March 29th 2017 after

[00:00:49] eleven seasons and Kimberly and Jase had been married for more than 25 years they have three kids Reed Cole and Mia and I

[00:00:56] wanted to ask you Missy I saw online that Jase recently shaved his beard off

[00:01:03] in order to raise money for the meeow meeow mu I believe it is yes yes he did

[00:01:12] okay and now are you happy about that I am thrilled I got the man I married

[00:01:20] right back that’s fantastic that’s great so yeah I posted that up on my Facebook

[00:01:26] page it’s pretty amazing he looks so different yeah yeah but that’s really

[00:01:31] great can you tell us a little bit about the Mia mu foundation and what that is sure it’s named after our daughter Mia

[00:01:38] she just actually turned 14 and she was born with a cleft lip and a cleft palate and we did not know anything about this

[00:01:46] condition when she was diagnosed with that she was 31 weeks old in my womb and

[00:01:51] that’s when we knew and we didn’t know the extent of it until she was born so we had to learn really quickly exactly

[00:01:58] what this was about and you know actually I’m still learning after 14 years era every child is different it’s

[00:02:05] not something that you can just solve or fix with the surgery the if the pilot is

[00:02:11] involved it it just has a lot affected because of the growing child and so each one is different and

[00:02:18] it takes really a team that knows each individual child and what’s best for them and there’s a lot of expenses

[00:02:23] involved and long before duck dynasty we were you know living paycheck-to-paycheck the average American family and when

[00:02:31] you’re hit with something like this you’re not financially prepared yet you still want to do it

[00:02:36] what’s completely best for your child and we’ve tried to eliminate the stress

[00:02:41] of the finances in regarding regards to making that decision that a family has to go through so this is just a way to

[00:02:48] come alongside the family once they’ve made that decision and help them financially that’s so great and if

[00:02:54] somebody wants to support that effort what website can they go to to make a contribution it’s Mia Morgan okay Mia

[00:03:02] Muturi that’s fantastic my own daughter I have a daughter with cystic fibrosis so I know what it’s like to have that

[00:03:07] sort of a struggle now you you now that the show is over are you are you happy

[00:03:13] that the show is over or you wish it was still going on no no most of us are

[00:03:19] really happy five years and it was great we all said that we’ll do it as long as God pays away and creates that Avenue

[00:03:26] for us so we all felt very fine and great and grand with it stopping so we

[00:03:32] we went into this knowing that we wanted to give this to God at the very beginning and we said people would say

[00:03:39] how long are you going to do it we said however long God wants us to so when God saw that it needed to be over we were

[00:03:45] perfectly fine with that that’s great and you you probably find yourself with so much more time on your hands I mean

[00:03:52] we’re first kind of at a loss is like okay what do I do with myself here oh we had a little bit of a breathing

[00:03:57] breathing room there yeah yeah it was pretty stressful you know for a long time but you know with our my I have two

[00:04:05] older boys and so their lives were changing pretty rapidly with college and marriage all happening in that last

[00:04:11] season and so that gave us the time to really focus on them and celebrate these

[00:04:18] changes in their lives with film they filmed all through middle school in high school and so this was great for our

[00:04:24] family to kind of regroup and spend some time you know helping them make those decisions that’s so that’s so fantastic

[00:04:30] and so now that you’re not doing the show and you you have this additional

[00:04:36] time and everything what do you spend your time doing what are you investing

[00:04:41] in now I saw on the website that you have a variety of ministries that you’re involved with that you support and

[00:04:48] contribute to and I know you have laminin designs also can you tell us a little bit about laminin designs and

[00:04:54] what your what you’re doing there sure sure it’s a jewelry company that I own that it’s basically it’s a business but

[00:05:02] it’s also a ministry and we’ve been in ministry our entire married life my dad

[00:05:08] is a gospel preacher and course you know about Phil and Kay and how they always have always had people in their home so

[00:05:15] that part was easy the business part was something that I’m having to learn still on a daily basis and trying to connect

[00:05:21] those two but the ministry part of this is a hire mainly women who just

[00:05:28] basically need a new purpose in life they have found themselves that making wrong decisions earlier in their past

[00:05:34] and yeah uh-huh hello like can you hear me oh I’m sorry

[00:05:44] we lost you there for a second I can hear you now go ahead you gone some of them have been involved in sex trafficking some in drug abuse and I

[00:05:51] even had one lady who is homeless for a few years and so the specificity of them amazing and becomes hard to have a

[00:05:59] supply of it and they create beautiful jewelry and that’s what we’re about is just trying to help them in ministry but

[00:06:05] also have fun well it that’s so great yeah and what a fantastic thing to do there it is to

[00:06:11] reach out to these women who have been struggling with these drug addictions and human trafficking and so forth

[00:06:17] laminin designs calm if your interest if you’re listening and you’re interested in supporting that through purchasing

[00:06:22] some of their jewelry and so forth you can do that laminin designs calm now Missy Kimberley is going to be joining

[00:06:29] us on the air in a little bit here but you’re involved with the moms mark USA

[00:06:34] that’s coming up here in September September 23rd in aha and why did you decide to get

[00:06:42] involved with what Kimberly is doing well I think it’s very important for

[00:06:47] women to take a stand together and Kimberly’s heart for wanting to use bones I think is something that has not

[00:06:54] been really highlighted in social our culture and so you know just as a lot of

[00:07:00] now – pretty much grown boys and one middle school girl who’s it also has you

[00:07:07] know issues because of the way the way she was born with cliffs put the pilot and so many physical struggles and

[00:07:13] social struggles and different things you know moms can tackle a lot we can handle a lot when it comes to our kids

[00:07:20] and when we feel like you know our kids are threatened or somehow that our kids

[00:07:26] are not going to thrive in a place where we know that they so much potential you

[00:07:32] know we go to bat for them like returning to mama bears there I want to assess for them and what better place to

[00:07:38] come together everybody thinking along the same lines and for one purpose to better our communities and better our

[00:07:46] country as a whole for our children and getting back to not letting the social

[00:07:53] culture of the day dictate what we believe but stand firm on the truth you

[00:07:58] know Jesus same yesterday today and forever no matter what the culture says

[00:08:03] if we get back to the Bible we get back to the roots of the gospel and why Jesus came

[00:08:08] that’s what our kids maybethe ribn I couldn’t agree more I think that’s so fantastic that you’re doing that and I

[00:08:15] think it’s amazing I was looking up the stats on moms and and George Barna a Christian statistician who does a lot of

[00:08:22] surveys he talks about the faith of moms and one of his studies that was recently

[00:08:28] done he said the spirituality of moms outpaces that of dads women who are raising children are among the most

[00:08:34] faith minded and spiritually active segments of the American population and he goes on to talk about that a majority

[00:08:41] of mother strongly agree that their faith is very important in their life in contrast fathers also tend to list

[00:08:47] family as their top priority in life yet they’re much less likely to equally attribute importance to faith

[00:08:52] and so that’s so exciting what you’re doing with her and for those of you who listening mom’s marked usa.com if you

[00:08:59] want to look more into it September 23rd Missy is going to be speaking there at

[00:09:04] the event as well as Kimberly and also people like Sarah pale and candy Carson

[00:09:09] and others so if that’s something you want to get involved with it’s a fantastic opportunity to make a

[00:09:15] difference in our culture and my guest today is Miss Robertson of duck dynasty

[00:09:20] Fame and also Kimberly Fletcher who will be joining us in the next segment and

[00:09:26] stay with us we’re going to continue to talk about the impact that mothers have on the culture and on their families

[00:09:33] we’re going to be right back [Music]

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[00:11:53] welcome to educate for life I’m your host Kevin Conover if you’re a homeschooling parent I’ve designed a

[00:11:58] Bible curriculum just for your kids my website is joined I educate for life do our G it’s 40 online classes

[00:12:04] defending the truth of the Bible and right now i’m talking with missy robertson and kimberly fletcher two moms

[00:12:11] who have a passion for jesus christ and truth and are working hard to let moms

[00:12:17] know what kind of an impact they can have on the lives of their children and really in the broader culture as a whole

[00:12:23] and kimberly is the founder and president of homemakers of America and

[00:12:29] she’s also an Air Force wife and mother of eight she’s the author of women America’s last best hope which makes me

[00:12:37] nervous about what that means for men but we’ll talk about that soon here and she’s also

[00:12:42] a contributor to the blaze and townhall.com and also hosts her own radio program so we’re gonna be talking

[00:12:49] more to Kimberly also but Missy I have only a little bit of time left here with you I wanted to ask you also about what

[00:12:57] you’re doing with some of the ministries you’re involved with you have an orphanage that you support down in the

[00:13:03] Dominican Republic I was reading and can you tell our guests a little bit more about that also yes we’ve had a

[00:13:09] relationship with that orphanage for almost ten years now and through our church and so I’ve been

[00:13:15] a member of the same church since I was three months old basically and so we we

[00:13:22] are used in ministry we have a ministry organization called one kingdom and you

[00:13:27] can find this one kingdom org but it’s right now there there in South Florida helping all of those who have been

[00:13:33] affected by her we’re just in Houston with the same with Harvey and so we have

[00:13:39] a huge outreach in terms of trying to take care of people here first in our

[00:13:45] country and second just really around the world and one of those places is a tiny little orphanage in a Dominican

[00:13:52] Republic and it has gone through a lot of

[00:13:57] for those children edit I just want to think that have my heart

[00:14:04] okay we lost you for a little bit there but I think we get the gist that that is something that you’re passionate about

[00:14:10] you care about I think it’s so a great how your family has turned this opportunity into something to be a

[00:14:16] blessing to others so many people don’t do that and that’s really really fantastic and so what do you see for the

[00:14:25] future do you think that is duck dynasty ever going to come back on on the air or is that kind of something

[00:14:31] that’s that’s over and done with well you know I quit limiting God five

[00:14:37] years ago I used to just pray for things that I knew to pray about and now I’m just like God whatever you have in your

[00:14:43] brain about what’s going on in my life you just go do it and hopefully I’ll be able and willing at the time because

[00:14:49] what he did was duck dynasty nobody saw coming nobody could have ever predicted

[00:14:54] that and so I have no idea what the future holds I have quit trying to

[00:14:59] determine the future so whatever God lays out in front of me I just prayed I will be available and willing to do what

[00:15:05] he says that’s so great that’s good advice and and so for young mothers out there who are struggling with you know

[00:15:14] maintaining their faith their marriages they’re struggling with their marriages and all what kind of what kind of advice

[00:15:19] would you give them maybe going back in time looking at yourself as a young mother and if you were to go back and

[00:15:25] give advice to yourself as a young mother you know from a faith perspective of faith in Jesus Christ

[00:15:31] what kind of advice might you have given to yourself or already give to a young mother today I would definitely say

[00:15:38] godly godly counsel from older women number one for sure and man community

[00:15:44] whether it’s a church whether it’s just a faith group that you’re involved in because it’s hard to I can’t imagine

[00:15:51] having to do that alone so especially when Mia was born there I had so many friends that just gathered around and

[00:15:57] held me up and said you can do this and pray for me daily and where they’re helping me physically with her and so

[00:16:04] number one godly advice from older women and number two find your find your

[00:16:09] people find your community that’s great advice very good wonderful advice I

[00:16:15] again my guest today Missy Robertson and Kimberley Fletcher and they’re here

[00:16:20] we’re talking about the impact that mothers have on a culture specifically moms mark USA is coming up on September

[00:16:26] 23rd in Omaha Nebraska you can join them anywhere in the world through livestream and there’s going to be all kinds of

[00:16:32] guests and encouraging just encouraging you to make a difference as a mom and I

[00:16:37] just wanted to say thank you very much miss you for being on the program today I’ve know you’ve got you’ve got an other

[00:16:42] things to get to so thank you for being here thank you for having me okay god bless you so I wanted to pick up

[00:16:50] with you Kimberly and just talk about you know I was reading this stat here

[00:16:55] this is again by George Barna and it says it was a study he did mom’s rank

[00:17:01] family as their number one priority and report that it’s also their top time commitment 7 out of 10 say family takes

[00:17:08] the lion’s share of their time and no other commitment comes close to the nearest competitor for time is career

[00:17:14] with just over 2 and 10 moms saying they spend most of their hours each week at work here’s the biggest disparity

[00:17:20] between priorities and obligations mom’s rank career last on their list of priorities after family

[00:17:26] personal development church and friendships but it’s second on their list of time commitments and so there’s

[00:17:32] this disparity here whereas they don’t rank career as real important but yet

[00:17:38] when it comes to real life its second on their list of time commitments is this something that resonates with what you

[00:17:45] see in our culture and with what you see in your ministry to moms yeah it is

[00:17:52] actually and there’s some there’s a few factors that play into that one is that there are a lot of mothers who are

[00:17:58] working outside the home who would rather not work outside the home that they they they would tell you that they

[00:18:04] feel like you know they have to work their the force outside the home because of the economic situation that that the

[00:18:10] kind of climate of our of our society today with all the different policies that are going on they do directly

[00:18:16] affect home and family and what Missy was saying about the need to be supported that’s huge and another factor

[00:18:24] would would be that I think there are women who would enjoy their career if you will more if it’s a career

[00:18:32] that’s difference between having a job and having a career when you have a career it’s something that you’re really enjoying and you’re doing when you have

[00:18:37] a job you’re doing it because you need the money so when somebody has a career then if they were more supported in

[00:18:44] their role as a mother it would make a really big difference and I’m I’m talking about mothers supporting mother

[00:18:51] so it’s just what she said there used to be this beautiful energy between between

[00:18:57] women a spirit of sisterhood a sense of community that thrived with the women of America and that just doesn’t exist

[00:19:04] anymore it’s like we’re all compartmentalized in our own little world but we need each other we need

[00:19:09] each other when when we have a child who has a problem or work struggling with whatever the issue is just sometimes all

[00:19:14] we need is something to go you’re a great mom keep going it’s been a bad date that’s okay get up tomorrow and do it again

[00:19:20] yeah hit that for each other I think that’s really what factors into those

[00:19:26] two those numbers and statistics well that’s so interesting and so what why in

[00:19:31] your studies and what you’ve looked into why has this change taking place where

[00:19:36] there’s not as much community among mothers to be able to support one another why is that disappearing in

[00:19:43] American culture I think the whole entire sense of community is disappearing in the American culture

[00:19:48] part of that is because there’s this invisible hand wherever it’s coming from

[00:19:54] telling us that we can’t get along we’ve got to be divided in compartmentalize and these different socio-economic groups and these different you have this

[00:20:01] education under this religion or whatever but motherhood is the great unifier and you get in a room let’s say

[00:20:10] there’s 30 women in a room and they come from they’re all different ages all different races all different religions

[00:20:15] all different income levels and you would think that they would have nothing in common but the moment that one of

[00:20:21] those mothers says something about her child it is an infant connector everybody in that room is talking about

[00:20:27] the same thing I want to be able to get to a point where talking more about the things that unite us because moms really

[00:20:34] all want the same thing we all want our children to first and foremost be safe every mother wants that they want their

[00:20:40] children to be safe they want them to have a good education they want them to be able to be happy which in mom language equates to being a

[00:20:48] good person and being able to provide for yourself maybe in our old age maybe they’ll take care of care of us but if

[00:20:54] those are the things we could focus on and then let them encourage each other and in our you know role of being

[00:21:00] mothers I think I would make a really big difference community-wide all these

[00:21:05] things that can seem to divide us a second factor it’s the fact that women do have felt that they have to be out in

[00:21:14] the workforce to help to have that second income that has been something that has its again compartmentalized

[00:21:20] into a specific area we are we go here to go to work and then we come here to

[00:21:26] come home the third one would be that we are over busy yeah there are so many

[00:21:33] things on our plates and in our lives we we got to take our kids to soccer we got a jolly practice it’s kind of gotten to

[00:21:39] the point where you’re measured maybe we’re just measuring ourselves this way I think it’s probably ourselves they’re

[00:21:45] doing it they are a societal norm that we measure ourselves based on how many things our children are involved in that

[00:21:52] makes so much sense where we really have more qualities for the time that we spend with them yeah my guest today is

[00:21:58] Kimberly Fletcher and Missy Robertson and we’re talking about the impact that

[00:22:04] moms have and what’s what’s happening in our culture and how we want to get back to community the moms mark USA is coming

[00:22:10] up September 23rd Omaha Nebraska stay with us we’re going to be right back [Music]

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[00:22:55] hi this is Jason hall president of team home loans a branch of synergy one lending I just want to take this

[00:23:01] opportunity to thank Kevin Kahn over for the profound impact he’s had on mine and my wife’s spiritual life as well as

[00:23:07] being an incredible teacher while our kids were his students his knowledge and passion have taught us all how important

[00:23:13] it is to be defenders of our faith it’s our honor and privilege to support Kevin and his show is our sincere hope and

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[00:24:31] welcome to educate for life I’m your host Kevin Conover if you are a homeschooling parent I’ve designed a

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[00:24:51] member and it’s an amazing tool to help your children develop a strong faith in Jesus Christ in the Bible and I wanted

[00:24:57] to start off again by reading something I’ve George Barna is obviously one of my one of my heroes here because he’s

[00:25:03] constantly looking and reflecting on what’s happening in our culture and in 2017 he did a survey it said that while

[00:25:10] 58 to 70 percent of parents see value in their children being exposed to extended

[00:25:15] family gatherings church services art exhibits and the Bible children on average spent only two hours per week on

[00:25:21] these activities in contrast 33 to 43 percent of parents do not see value in

[00:25:26] their children being exposed to professional sports television news online content and current movies yet

[00:25:31] children on average spend seven hours per day on these and related activities statistically a very small amount of

[00:25:37] younger people have what he called a biblical worldview said Barna only four

[00:25:42] percent of 18 to 30 year olds and 7 percent of 30 to 49 year olds we are in

[00:25:47] a crisis Barna said if the church does not wake up and solve it biblical Christianity in the United States is in

[00:25:53] jeopardy and I know Kimberly you you are

[00:25:59] the the founder of homemakers of America and you’re also the one who’s putting

[00:26:06] together moms Marc usa.com and can you tell us what was it that caused you to

[00:26:14] start homemakers of America and then ultimately what is it you’re trying to at reach achieved through moms mark USA

[00:26:22] well what what inspired me to start the organization was literally a calling from God because what mother who is a

[00:26:29] full-time mother would sit down on the couch one day and say you know what you can start a national yeah yeah you

[00:26:35] already you have eight kids so goodness I have eight children and my husband was deployed a lot and but in 2004 I got

[00:26:44] involved and just informing people on during the presidential election that year I just got involved in just

[00:26:50] educating people and going door-to-door and saying you know these are the candidates and this is what they stand for but what I found is as I was doing

[00:26:56] that that women what fought fire and large would come to the door and say you

[00:27:02] know what don’t even bother because I’m not voting in this election and I’m like why and they said because we don’t know

[00:27:08] who these people are and we don’t know what they stand for and we don’t want to make the wrong choice I don’t want to make the wrong choice they said that

[00:27:14] over and over and over again and and I thought somehow where we have this

[00:27:19] disconnect between what’s going on in in society and what our role is in it and

[00:27:28] we get so busy with our getting involved in our NGO and work or in community

[00:27:35] service or in Bibles or whatever which like we’re going going going going going and we don’t realize we women largely

[00:27:42] say they don’t do politics well I don’t do politics either I do civic responsibility and civic responsibility

[00:27:47] is to know who you are your daughter of God to know what this

[00:27:53] country is about it protects our freedoms to worship that God and then to share that information with your

[00:27:59] children but to their hearts not their minds you can only stuff so much information in their minds and they

[00:28:05] remember but when you touch their hearts that lasts and if you want to you know keep that culture back that were that

[00:28:11] we’re losing that that biblical faith we need to go to their hearts and touch their hearts and that’s kind of where

[00:28:17] that that led me in the founding of the organization I wanted to do something that helps support promoting liberty and

[00:28:24] virtue in the home but the combination of those two just doesn’t really happen and there were no organizations out

[00:28:30] there doing it or resources providing it because I looked and I saw what you say can really when you say liberty and

[00:28:37] virtue and what do you can you except for our for our audience can you expand

[00:28:43] on what you mean by that yes so um Liberty is this different from

[00:28:50] freedom people have this idea that freedom means that you can do whatever you want and they’re still consequences and that’s

[00:28:56] not what it is freedom is the ability to choose to choose for yourself what actions you are going to do but then

[00:29:01] there are consequences to follow and you don’t get to dictate what those are Liberty means responsibility and and

[00:29:07] it’s a it’s a weighty principle it means that you provide for yourself that you that you understand the constitutional

[00:29:14] principles and principles of Liberty that this nation was founded on to to

[00:29:20] not steal from your neighbor to know basically the Ten Commandments all right along with that liberal sure you still

[00:29:26] have the choice of whether or not you’re going to do it virtue comes into play when you choose to do the right thing

[00:29:33] not because you’re going to get punished if you don’t but because you really want to because you want to be more price

[00:29:39] like because you want to be with your family you know and and and be loved and be

[00:29:44] cherished and you want to be a good person to the community so you need to have you need to have both and you have

[00:29:50] based the three pillars of Liberty are faith virtue and patriotism we’ve got to love our country we need to understand

[00:29:57] what it stands for because we truly are the light on the hill for the world and the whole world is looking at us hoping

[00:30:03] that we’ll succeed because if we don’t there is no hope left we still have the light of Christ here in a powerful way

[00:30:09] and we have the freedom to be able to provide for our families keep what we earn and make make our lives better for

[00:30:15] our posterity that is unique in all the world it is freedom in other places but not like it is here that’s absolutely

[00:30:22] true now the title of your book is women America’s last best hope so you know

[00:30:29] that makes me feel kind of bad as a man what so intoxicating it doesn’t really

[00:30:34] but I’m just curious it’s a it’s a somewhat of a provocative title because you know some people would be a thing

[00:30:39] well you know what why is it just women and not men what was the thought behind the title there well they found that

[00:30:47] rocks the cradle rules the world is not just a cute little thing it’s the mortalized fact and while it

[00:30:53] definitely takes two parents there are there are two very different defining roles and however you do it in your home

[00:30:59] that’s completely up to you but our divine inherent rights roles

[00:31:05] as men and women the men are the protectors and the providers and the women are the nurtures and the keepers

[00:31:10] of the culture we teach we nurture and you need those we need to be able to work together because you know you need

[00:31:16] that that that rugged you know know who are not going to do that and then you need that’s why she goes well maybe we

[00:31:22] should you know yeah yeah they complement each other but we truly are

[00:31:27] the keepers of the culture and well um in those in those sacred roles we are

[00:31:33] determining what the future will look like right in our own homes what we teach what we nurture and that’s kind of

[00:31:39] the purp you know the idea behind the name homemakers from America it’s not about stay home loft it’s about it’s

[00:31:46] about women who have realized their divine inherent role as keepers of the culture and the nurtures whatever

[00:31:52] standard we set that is as high as a culture will raise and it will not raise any higher if your children are sitting

[00:31:59] at the table and they have you know their burping at the table and the moms like yeah go ahead we’ll roll that’s the

[00:32:04] standard if she says no that is unacceptable say excuse me please then that is the standard so what what what

[00:32:11] the malls march is about is about raising that standard and we have the power to do that that that literally is

[00:32:18] our role in our greatest passage yeah Alexis de Tocqueville said righteous women in their circle of influence

[00:32:25] beginning in the home can turn the world around what America looks like tomorrow is happening right in our home we’re not

[00:32:31] just making homes we’re we’re creating the future yeah that’s that’s amazing

[00:32:37] and I feel like maybe some people have lost sight of that and our culture to an extent has said you’re only worth

[00:32:45] something as a woman if you’re working outside the home and they’ve kind of downplayed the value and the impact that

[00:32:51] a mom has on her children and I want to give you a chance to add to that and to respond to that because I know you’re

[00:32:57] passionate about that we’re coming up on a break here my guest today is Kimberly Fletcher and she is the founder of

[00:33:05] homemakers of America you can visit her website homemakers of America Oh RG and she’s also the founder of the moms

[00:33:12] marched for America moms march usa.com that’s happening September 23rd Omaha

[00:33:17] Nebraska you can also join them anywhere in the world through livestream thus and Sarah

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[00:35:43] welcome to educate for life I’m your host Kevin Conover if you like this show or any of my previous shows you can

[00:35:49] check them out on YouTube they’re all on YouTube and Kimberly is not in the studio with me today but often my guests

[00:35:56] are and I’ve had all kinds of guess did have candy Carson on also had on Denise

[00:36:02] Schick whose father told her that he wanted to be transgender at 9 that’s a big issue in our culture today and she

[00:36:08] is a Christian who is ministers to families who have been impacted by this gender issue and all kinds of other

[00:36:16] guest scientists and different people from different walks of life giving their testimony and sharing how Jesus

[00:36:22] Christ has impacted their life and I wanted to start off this segment we’re on segment number four here we’ve got

[00:36:28] two left with another thing that I thought was really powerful when I was looking into the impact of moms another

[00:36:36] Barna study said when it comes to spiritual perspectives a majority of

[00:36:41] mothers said they have been greatly transformed by their faith while less than half of fathers had shared this

[00:36:46] experience also three-quarters of moms said their faith is very important in their life while this view was true

[00:36:52] among just two-thirds of fathers mothers were also more likely than fathers to be born-again Christians to say they are

[00:36:58] absolutely committed to Christianity and to embrace a personal responsibility to share their faith in Jesus Christ with

[00:37:05] others moms are also more religiously active in a typical week mothers are more likely than our fathers to attend

[00:37:11] church pray read the Bible to participate in a small group attend Sunday school and volunteer some other

[00:37:16] time to help a nonprofit organization the only faith related activity in which fathers are just as likely as mothers to

[00:37:23] engage is volunteering to help at a church and Kimberly I wanted to ask you

[00:37:29] about this kind of two things here where we left off from the last segment which is has our culture downplayed the impact

[00:37:36] of mothers and the moms mark USA what what is it you’re trying to achieve

[00:37:42] through that effort through the moms marks well yes absolutely it’s being

[00:37:48] downplayed and that’s what we’re trying to achieve how women realize mothers to

[00:37:55] be empowered and fired encouraged empowered to realize just how powerful their influence is we

[00:38:01] literally do have the ultimate power and you know out for the boss because

[00:38:06] and this I come and I can’t say it any better than an archbishop Fulton he said to a great extent the level of any

[00:38:13] civilization is the level of its womanhood when a man loves a woman he has to become worthy of her the higher

[00:38:20] her virtue the more noble her character the more devoted she is to truth justice and goodness the more a man has to

[00:38:27] aspire to be worthy of her the history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its

[00:38:33] women and I think in January I know we want to know is that – that’s the thing

[00:38:39] is like you never hear that but that’s such a powerful statement if if women

[00:38:44] knew the power that they have boy that would surely change things well that’s

[00:38:51] what I think and in January the messages that were sent were completely contrary to that and there was even an article

[00:38:58] written recently about about the hour month marks that said that this is going to take women’s rights back to the

[00:39:04] archaic days and I’m like what you’re talking about we have the ultimate rights we simply we are the keepers of

[00:39:10] the culture we determine where we’re going to go and again wherever we set that standard and if we value our own

[00:39:18] personal virtue there’s public virtue you know the way that you you behave I’m not talking public but as a citizen you

[00:39:24] know those are those values and virtues of being a part of a community and part of a family but individually are

[00:39:31] wholesome virtue do we give do we give ourselves away or or do we not I mean it is women who have

[00:39:38] the power we have the power to say no no you can’t behave that way no you can’t have access to me without

[00:39:44] commitment of marriage no you can’t expect my support if you abandon your duty but we also have the power to say

[00:39:49] yes yes you can earn my respect yes you’re worthy give me my companion yes I

[00:39:55] will stand strong at your side a woman’s power to decide stands as a foundation

[00:40:00] of civilization and it always has and and why have we lost this understanding

[00:40:07] as a culture what is that have to do with this whole you know equality issue or where did this where

[00:40:15] did we get off the tracks here well that actually is a fundamental problem here

[00:40:21] where we got off track was when we bought into a lie and the lie is being

[00:40:28] propagated by people who want to completely turn our culture around and we’re really sad like you can take it

[00:40:33] right down to the core source this is this is two armies God in the devil and if I wanted to destroy a country in a

[00:40:40] culture and undo everything that God had done that was good I would go directly to the limit because if I can convince

[00:40:46] them they aren’t who they are if I can deceive them distract them I can pull them away from where they have their greatest influence from where their

[00:40:52] voice is the most impacting from the home from their children from their family and that’s what’s happening they

[00:40:57] keep pulling us the day if you will there it is an orchestrated effort from

[00:41:03] Satan himself to pull us away so that so that those who come and fill in the holes can steal the hearts and minds of

[00:41:09] our children that’s why we’re losing our children that’s why they’re losing their faith because we’re still you know

[00:41:15] distracted and we feel like we’re buying into the lie that you have to have this title that motherhood is secondary that

[00:41:21] then it’s it’s a joke but in our hearts we know that’s not true and and again now some of the things I

[00:41:27] want mothers to be able to realize and embrace that this moms March that what you already feel in your heart to be

[00:41:33] true is it will be validated you are right it is what you want when Hitler

[00:41:39] took over Germany the first thing he did was went to just to divide the families

[00:41:44] to keep them away from their mothers and they went after the education and the churches if those want the answers to

[00:41:50] preserving liberty and virtue and a strong freedom free culture why would those who are trying to destroy it be

[00:41:57] spending so much time doing it it is the answer so we need to come back

[00:42:02] in and realize that where we have our greatest impact on society the most

[00:42:07] patriotic thing we’ll ever do for our for our country is right within the walls of our own home yeah that’s that’s

[00:42:14] definitely true I think my my wife and I that’s been something that we’ve gone

[00:42:19] back and forth on and talked about and tried to figure out and okay what do we do here and we’d

[00:42:25] actually just started homeschooling this year and it’s definitely amazing the

[00:42:31] amount you can pour into a child when they’re there at your home and not that you know kids going to school is wrong

[00:42:38] or anything but but for us it’s just been a very kind of a i opening just to

[00:42:44] be able to see the amount of time we get to invest into our kids and and my wife actually does have more community now

[00:42:50] because of the fact that she is homeschooling she’s going to these class days each week so if you’re listening

[00:42:57] it’s worth looking into and checking out III I know there’s a lot of controversy over okay should I homeschool or should

[00:43:03] I now I teach at a private school and I still feel like wow this is pretty amazing now did you or did your kids go

[00:43:11] to did you homeschool them or did they go to school or what advice do you give people as it pertains to things like

[00:43:16] that and they’re battling over hey how do I meet my budget I need to work and

[00:43:21] yet you’re saying hey I need to invest more time in my family I’m sure that’s a very difficult or common objection to

[00:43:28] what you’re saying it is balancing your your home and

[00:43:33] family with everything else in your life even bouncing your home and your family it is a constant struggle I am an

[00:43:40] absolute advocate of homeschooling I don’t think everybody the idea already

[00:43:46] can do it I don’t believe that’s true I think there really are people who just shouldn’t but that’s very rare and

[00:43:52] really it’s about how do you do it because we kind of set the standard of

[00:43:58] it has to look like what the the you know the government education system looks like and it doesn’t have to look

[00:44:03] like in fact it looks very different from that and then we start to compare ourselves to oh they’re doing that and

[00:44:08] playing violin and flute and my kids are just burning in the mud you know yeah we can’t compare ourselves to each other

[00:44:14] either yeah I had a little bit of both my all of my children were in hermit

[00:44:20] school and I call it what it is on the public school I call it what it is government goal until my oldest son went

[00:44:27] all the way through and graduated we started homeschooling when he was a junior in high school my three younger

[00:44:34] children have never been to a government school well that’s not true they can go there part-time right now for enrichment

[00:44:41] classes our local school system is awesome they just go and do a band and choir and come home he’s pretty cool yeah that’s not when they allow you to

[00:44:46] do that so but as far as the time that you spend with your children I was blown

[00:44:53] away I didn’t think that I liked a homeschool we’ve been doing it since 2001 and we kind of was work for them

[00:44:59] pushed into it my son had a medical condition that was going to cause him to have to be home for a while and when I

[00:45:05] went into the to the county they said well this could be a long-term thing and homebound is just a short-term thing and

[00:45:12] I said well what am I supposed to do and I’m not even kidding the woman’s across the counter said we’ll have you looked

[00:45:17] into homeschooling oh well I happened to have a friend that had moved into the

[00:45:22] neighborhood who homeschooled and so I went over and talked to her and to this day I have the greatest love and

[00:45:27] admiration for her because when you can find somebody who can mentor you as a

[00:45:32] mother as a teachers a homeschool or whatever that you never forget that person it they held up a special place

[00:45:39] in your heart and I want to be able to do that you know for other mothers III homeschool I can I can help other mother

[00:45:45] ii first my first of all I’ll tell you you can do this yeah and a lot of people

[00:45:50] are just very feel overwhelmed by I know it my wife feels overwhelmed by it but

[00:45:57] we’re coming up on a break here we have one more segment left my guest today is Kimberly Fletcher and she is the founder

[00:46:04] of homemakers of America homemakers of America Oh our G and I encourage you to

[00:46:09] get involved with what she’s doing I think it’s a powerful powerful message that she’s trying to get out there

[00:46:14] mom’s marked usa.com coming up on September 23rd please get involved with that and I want to talk a little bit

[00:46:20] more about that when we come back what what is the declaration of mothers that

[00:46:27] you you’re having people sign so stay with us we’re going to be right back [Music]

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[00:48:45] [Applause] welcome back to educate for life I’m so

[00:48:50] glad you’re listening today and I really hope that this show has been encouraging to you especially if you’re a mom out

[00:48:56] there who is struggling and maybe you’re a single mom maybe you feel disconnected from a

[00:49:03] community of moms I really hope that Kimberly and Missy and what they’ve been

[00:49:09] able to share maybe gives you some insight and some encouragement and what

[00:49:15] we’re talking about here is how you as a mother have a incredible opportunity to

[00:49:21] impact the future of our country through your investment and how you pour into

[00:49:27] your child and we just want to applaud you and say thank you for what you’re

[00:49:32] doing as a mother it’s a tremendous amount of work and just having to deal on a regular basis with kids that are

[00:49:40] developing a will of their own and independence and are constantly pushing

[00:49:46] the boundaries of what’s acceptable and so thank you for being a mom and thank

[00:49:51] you for going through all the hard stuff that a lot of times fathers are out of

[00:49:57] the home and are not involved in and so Kimberly I wanted to ask you

[00:50:03] so you’ve you’ve got this moms mark USA and if we go to the website on the

[00:50:08] website there you have the declaration of mothers and I wanted you to share

[00:50:14] with us what this is exactly and kind of expand and explain it to our listeners

[00:50:21] sure well it was actually inspiration that came to us about two years ago and

[00:50:26] our board got together and we talked about the need to have some kind of declaration that clearly outlined the

[00:50:34] basic principles of delivery and kind of common sense that all mothers could get

[00:50:40] around and the document clearly outlines some key truth whether or not you

[00:50:46] believe in God whether or not you want to recognize it that he you know was at the helm sounding our nation yeah

[00:50:53] miraculous events that happened and and he’s there I mean we see him everywhere

[00:51:00] absolutely those will deny him and we thought that that was something that needed to be declared very very clearly because our

[00:51:07] founders did they felt that it was self-evident that our rights come from God I felt evident that he even exists and

[00:51:13] so we put self-evident truths in this declaration that mothers are the nurturers that parents first and

[00:51:20] foremost are that are the are the those who teach nurture and raise their children and that the organization’s

[00:51:26] even churches and civic groups and government organizations are formed for the purpose of supporting them yeah not

[00:51:33] rather they sing or regulating them yeah in California here we have explorer declare yeah I love that because in

[00:51:40] California we had somebody one of our congressmen trying to trying to tell

[00:51:47] basically pass a bill that said this is what qualifies as a good parent and this is what’s a bad parent and if you don’t

[00:51:54] do what we say from a state perspective as a good parent then we’ll potentially come in and you

[00:52:00] know do who knows what we have unbridled authority to basically replace you as a

[00:52:05] parent and that certainly is something we want we do not want to take place in our country no absolutely not and and we

[00:52:13] wanted to make a very strong declaration that’s actually one of the first things that we state in this document that we

[00:52:20] recognize that a home that a nation is but a magnified home that mothers are the center of that home and that parents

[00:52:26] work together to raise and nurture their children that is our right or role our responsibility and that right comes from

[00:52:31] God it was a responsibility he gave us it was a right that he gave us and we only report to him now you know if there

[00:52:39] are families who are doing the various things obviously that then the law needs

[00:52:45] to step in but but that’s that’s not the norm yeah there and even in those situations

[00:52:51] a lot of times children are still better off with their parents because nobody is going to love a child more than their

[00:52:57] own mother or father and so you know we need to put the family first and figure

[00:53:04] out how can we support the family in those tragic situations not immediately decide that we’re going to rip them

[00:53:10] apart absolutely yeah I I completely agree with and so and then you know your emphasis

[00:53:17] on God is so important to as I’m reading this because I teach a Bible class at school at a Christian high school and

[00:53:24] without God you really don’t have any moral foundation to be able to say like

[00:53:30] you said all men are created equal all people are created equal in the sight of God without God then really it’s just

[00:53:37] whoever happens to have the power is the one that gets to make the rules or take advantage of other people right right

[00:53:43] and you know when our when our founding families came over here from from Europe

[00:53:49] they didn’t come from England people if you want her get that they came they were already free they already had freedom of religion they’ve gone to

[00:53:55] Holland and they already had freedom of religion what they were concerned about was the culture that they were children

[00:54:02] were being raised in and they can see that it’s starting it was starting to paint their children the disbelief in God the Diwali that was going on and

[00:54:09] they sacrificed everything and came over to America to a wilderness when we think

[00:54:15] of it today we’ve got buildings everywhere if it was a wilderness cold and no food you’re on your own yeah they

[00:54:21] made that sacrifice because they believed in God and they wanted that to be those values to be nurtured in the

[00:54:26] hearts of their children it meant that much to them not so great my guest today Kimberley Fletcher is the

[00:54:31] founder of homemakers of America and please get involved with her efforts of

[00:54:37] what she’s trying to do make women aware of how significant and how important it

[00:54:42] is and how impactful they are in the lives of their children and moms mark

[00:54:48] usa.com that’s coming up right around the corner here September 23rd if you can get to Omaha Nebraska then go for it

[00:54:54] if you can’t you can still get involved because of technology now through livestream and other ways so any

[00:55:02] anything you’d like to say to the listeners we’re just about out of time here but as far as getting involved with moms mark USA Kimberly oh I would just love

[00:55:11] for them to sign the Declaration of mothers because that is a powerful voice and the more mothers that sign it the

[00:55:16] greater our declaration is and more people will listen that’s great thank you so much for being on the air today I really appreciate your time and

[00:55:23] everything that you’re doing thank you so much absolutely Oh okay well if you’re listening out there

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