EXODUS MANDATE-WV

CERT
Christian Education Renewal Team
Exodus TEAM
(Telling Everyone About the Exodus)

Simply put, a CERT is a basic grassroots team formed to implement the vision of Exodus Mandate. The primary mission of a CERT is to educate and assist families, churches, pastors and ministry leaders at the community level in carrying out a vision for Christian Education as formulated by Exodus Mandate.

Organization
Anyone can volunteer to organize a CERT in his or her community. Although a CERT can begin with as few as 2-3 Christians, ideally, CERTs should have 3-7 diverse members, including a pastor and an educator. The group should remain an interdenominational, orthodox, evangelical Christian group.

Once organized, the CERT organizer should contact Exodus Mandate with the names and addresses of the members. After a brief assessment, we will validate your CERT as part of the Exodus Mandate Project and will assist your group in any way we can.

Function
A CERT is not a committee or a study group, but it is an action team and should meet regularly for prayer. The team members should become involved in their community, working to brief, inform, train and encourage the general at-large Christian community to remove their children from government schools and to provide for them a Christian education.

There are several ways to do this
1. Show the DVD IndoctriNation in churches, Sunday school classes, Bible study groups, local Christian cable TV or local access channel
2. Distribute materials, such as DVDs, CDs, books and brochures that encourage Christian parents to remove their children from government schools
3. Arrange meetings with Christian educators, Christian business leaders and professionals and show the DVD IndoctriNation. Invite discussions on the education crisis and how Christians should respond
4. Support existing Christian education alternatives in the community and assist in creating additional opportunities.

A CERT
Provides basic information about the harm to children caused by government-sponsored education at the K-12 level
Presents the biblical and theological mandate of Christian education and various Christian education options
Promotes the exodus of Christian children from public schools and provides references to appropriate Christian schools or home school associations
Prays for churches and families in the community.