Chattanooga Matters

Big Brothers Big Sisters is the oldest, largest and most effective youth mentoring organization in the United States. We have been the leader in one-to-one youth service for more than a century, developing positive relationships that have a direct and lasting impact on the lives of young people. Big Brothers Big Sisters serves children, ages 6 through 18, in communities across the country – including yours. The Big Brothers Big Sisters Mission is to help children reach their potential through professionally supported, one-to-one relationships with measurable impact.

Since 1922 with little publicity or fanfare Bible in the Schools has made the study of the Bible available to public school students in the Chattanooga area. The Hamilton County public school system offers five elective courses in Bible history. Courses are taught only in schools where principals request them, and all classes strictly follow federal court rulings and guidelines. Typically, the classes are electives in the Social Studies curriculum. This past school year, nineteen middle and high schools offered the elective courses to more than 4,800 students, who were taught by sixteen qualified and certified teachers.

Bethany’s Chattanooga branch has served East Tennessee and Northwest Georgia since 1982, providing free, confidential counseling to individuals facing an unplanned pregnancy and adoption services for families. Bethany Christian Services is a not-for-profit, pro-life, Christian adoption and family services agency, supported through reimbursement for services and gifts received from individuals, churches, corporations, and foundations.

The Awakening America Alliance is a cooperative initiative within the body of Christ to increase awareness of the deep spiritual need in today’s America and to pursue a new Christ awakening in our nation that will impact our world. The Awakening America Alliance will seek to • Provide a broad umbrella under which the body of Christ in America can unite together in seeking a contemporary spiritual awakening. • Issue a wake-up call for revival in the church and a Christ awakening in the nation by utilizing unified activity, various forms of media, and highly visible events. • Collaborate together in prayer, fasting, and God inspired action to impact the nation’s non-Christian population. • Challenge today’s church in welcoming and discipling new generations of American youth.

The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) focuses in constitutional law and is based in Washington, D.C. The ACLJ is specifically dedicated to the ideal that religious freedom and freedom of speech are inalienable, God-given rights. The Center’s purpose is to educate, promulgate, conciliate, and where necessary, litigate, to ensure that those rights are protected under the law. The organization has participated in numerous cases before the Supreme Court, Federal Court of Appeals, Federal District Courts, and various state courts regarding freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

A CALL TO CORPORATE PRAYER ON BEHALF OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – God has laid it upon our hearts to call the people of the United States of America to prayer on behalf of our nation. In the inspiration and tradition of the Fulton Street Revival of 1857, we are calling for a grassroots movement of prayer around the cities of America for the welfare of this nation. Many believe that with the upcoming presidential election, the future of our country lies in the balance.