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From the Desk of Laura Bunker: Welcome to 2015! United Families International also extends a special welcome to our new UFI Chapter in the Republic of Korea (South Korea). We are very glad to have them join our team, and we look forward to working together to...
Building a Bridge into 2015
Help us Build a Bridge into 2015 With Christmas 2014 behind us, our attention now turns fully to the coming year. Two weeks ago I asked for your financial support as United Families International looks to the challenges and opportunities of 2015. Some of our most...
Christmas = Families
Families are what Christmas is all about! It was the formation of a new family on that Christmas Eve some two thousand years ago that literally changed the world. We at United Families International wish you a Merry Christmas and hope that you are each enveloped in...
Adding Fuel to the Flame
A Message from Bob Spiel, UFI Chairman of the Board: Last year at this time your generosity overwhelmed us. I expressed to you our need for the financial resources to take on the challenges of 2014 – and donations came from around the globe large and small. The...
A Sound Marital House
From the Desk of Laura Bunker: An unprecedented conference of world religious leaders was recently convened at the Vatican to discuss the importance of marriage and family. Entitled “Humanum: An International Interreligious Colloquium on the Complementarity of Man...
Worried about the Future?
From the Desk of Laura Bunker: December 25, 1877, Southeastern Nevada: As the first year of settlement ended in the little town of Bunkerville, twenty-three people made up the community. It had been a struggling year, with no time for fun or recreation in the face of...
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The Power of Teaching Children to Work
by Elise Ellsworth Many years ago, homeschooling pioneer, Dorothy Moore, described "a woman who was asked by a rehabilitation center to counsel men who had been classified as unemployable. They were not derelicts, Mrs. Moore reports, but instead, well-dressed and...
A Path to Defunding Planned Parenthood
by Diane Robertson Planned Parenthood is the biggest abortion provider in the United States. They kill over 300,000 unborn babies each year, and they have been caught illegally selling body parts of unborn babies. So, here at United Families International, we can only...
They, It and Identity
by McKayla Skinner Recently, BBC News published an article entitled Canadian Baby ‘First Without Gender Designation’ On Health Card. The article talks about a non-binary transgender person (neither completely male or female) known as Kori Doty (originally a female),...
Good News and Challenges on the Religious Liberty Front
by William C. Duncan At the close of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent term, the Court issued an important religious liberty decision and announced another decision was likely to come during the next term. The recent Trinity Lutheran decision involved a Missouri...
Our Home School Journey
by Diane Robertson As a parent of many children, I have run the gamut of affordable school choices. I started my kids in public school. Dabbled for a couple years in home schooling, tried out a renowned charter school and ultimately pulled my kids out formal schooling...
Transgender Laws Hurt Real Women
by Alannah Hurley Recently, a transgender boy who identifies as a girl, joined an all-girls track team, competed in state competitions, and came in first on multiple times during these competitions. “Andraya Yearwood, is the boy and his success knocked out other top...
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