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While at HSLDA, Will worked hard to support key initiatives of our organization, such as reforming state child welfare laws and agencies across the country. He is a member of the California Bar, the District of Columbia Bar, and the US Supreme Court bar. He left in 2018 to work at the US Department of Health and Human Services, where he became a career employee in the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division within the Office for Civil Rights. After he passed the California bar, Will rose to be HSLDA’s director of federal relations. Will served as a legal assistant with HSLDA starting in 2004 while attending Oak Brook School of Law. Now is our moment to be on the leading edge of protecting children by empowering parents all across our nation. All across the country, parents and policy makers are becoming attuned to the issues we care about, especially in the area of education. This is an exciting time of opportunity for the issue of parental rights, for our organization, and, most importantly, for every single one of you who cares so deeply about this issue. Jim will be joining the PRF board as chairman, and Michael Ramey will continue as executive director. Jim Mason succeeded him, also part-time, in addition to being Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) vice president. founder Mike Farris served in a part-time capacity from 2006 until 2017, when he became president and CEO of Alliance Defending Freedom. Estrada, Esq., will be joining the Parental Rights Foundation (PRF) and as our first-ever full-time president.

is a wealth of information on religious freedom available to the general public.We are pleased to announce that on November 29, 2021, William A.

The general public and the entire Church benefits from individual churches being engaged, empowered, and protected.

Through our grant program, $47+ million grants have been awarded to allies to engage on various legal matters.

We thus offer many benefits to non-ADF Church Alliance members as well, including legal representation when appropriate. We hold to the fact that when one member of the Body of Christ suffers, all members suffer. While we offer much of our resources and advice to our members, we also consider it a privilege to represent many non-members. Without these contributions, we would be unable to carry out our mission of keeping the doors open for the Gospel by advocating for religious liberty, the sanctity of life,and marriage and the family. When a church goes to court for a religious liberty issue, what happens to that church affects all churches.Īlliance Defending Freedom is supported by the generous gifts of ministry friends and ministry partners as well as ADF Church Alliance members. Churches may consider it unlikely that they will end up in court, but recent cultural developments have displayed a need for increased vigilance related to religious liberty legal matters.

Alliance Defending Freedom responds with advice and correspondence that prevents many situations from becoming cases that end up in court.

We offer direct access to attorneys to answer your questions about protecting the church’s religious liberty.

We correspond on your behalf with government officials - or others who are challenging your constitutional rights - on matters relating to your religious liberty.

Whether your church needs help navigating laws relating to employment, land use, tax exemption, church member discipline/removal, requests to use church facilities, and more, we are here to help.

We answer and advise ADF Church Alliance members regarding legal questions related to religious liberty.This audit includes a legal review of church bylaws and policies that relate to protecting the church’s religious liberty. Alliance Defending Freedom will perform a religious liberty audit, upon request, for all member churches.ADF does not provide casualty payments for a lawsuit. However, ADF cannot guarantee legal representation in every situation and retains the sole discretion over when it will provide litigation representation. ADF will typically represent ADF Church Alliance members in all litigation related to protecting the religious liberty of the church.

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The legal help that Alliance Defending Freedom provides to ADF Church Alliance members ranges from legal advice to full representation in court.

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