Elizabeth Ridenour is founder and president of The National Council On Bible Curriculum In Public Schools (NCBCPS). Ridenour attended East Carolina University and later became a commercial real estate broker and a certified paralegal interested in students’ rights. Years later, she was introduced to Carolyn Ray, an educator from Reidsville, NC who had taught Bible in public schools for 30 years. Like most Americans, Ridenour believed teaching Bible in public schools violated separation of church and state – a common myth she would soon learn had been propagated by liberal organizations, such as the ACLU. Meeting Ray left Ridenour questioning whether America’s children were being wrongfully denied their right to learn about the single most influential book shaping western culture, law, art, history, and speech. The Supreme Court rulings she uncovered during her research proved beyond a doubt that offering Bible curriculum in public schools is legal. Initially, this led her to found an organization to return Bible curriculum to North Carolina’s public schools, until calls flooding in from throughout the U.S. forced her to re-charter as a national non-profit organization (501(c)(3)).

In 1993, The National Council On Bible Curriculum In Public Schools was born with the goal of bringing back Bible curriculum as an educational tool to public schools in all 50 states. Since its start, 3,274 high schools have educated over 650,000 of their students using the Bible curriculum as a public high school elective. The 300 page curriculum – which Ridenour describes as “essentially a lesson in America’s heritage” – has been overwhelmingly adopted in 92 percent of the school districts where it has been considered, and it is has never been legally challenged.

Ridenour is a passionate communicator and has appeared on many radio and television broadcasts. In 1995. she received a Gold Angel Award for her work in co-producing a PSA, titled “Get The Whole Story,” and in 2001, she was recognized in the book, A Celebration of Women.

Ridenour is a member of the Council For National Policy, and she currently resides in Greensboro, NC.

Israel Hall is the Praise and Worship Pastor at Freedom Fellowship Church of The Villages and Paul Begley Prophecy. He recorded and toured internationally out of Nashville, Tennessee as a saxophonist, guitarist, singer and audio engineer with a Grammy award winning, multi-platinum artist and many other headlining national acts before entering ministry in Florida.

Growing up in the 1980’s, his Mother was a worship leader and his Father an assistant Pastor at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa under Pastor Chuck Smith. Israel is also the Vice President of the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools - an organization that has put Bible Curriculum classes as an elective in over 4,000 Schools in the United States. He has been married to his sweetheart from Montana, Kristin Hall for 15 years.

Warren Kelley is the President of Point of View Ministries, Inc. the organization that produces Point of View Radio Talk Show. He has been involved with the ministry in a variety of ways for over 30 years.

He served as a member of the Board of Directors for three years before joining the ministry full-time as the Director of Development in 1988. After three years in that role, he became the Vice President and eventually the Executive Vice President. In that role he ran the day-to-day operations of the ministry. After the passing of Marlin Maddoux, the ministry’s founder, the board named him as the new President, the role in which he continues to serve today.

Kelley also serves on the board of the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools and the board of askNova. He and his wife, Marla, have three children, three grandchildren and live on the north side of the DFW metroplex.

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