What people are saying:

• Facebook User: Secular Education Association our Kiwanis club in my county just donated 9k to our county lifewise chapter and another 3k to another county lifewise chapter… money wasted in my opinion could have went to better organizations
  • Secular Education Association: Facebook User absolutely and they should be called on it at every opportunity.
• Facebook User: If their goal were truly to provide access to Bible education for children, they have missed the mark by a wide margin. Their aim is clearly financial support for political indoctrination legitimized by a whiff of Jesus.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User the group in our county gets the students involved and then hits up the parents for money after about 2 wks. One school board finally voted to ban Lifewise from their school.
• Facebook User: Cult
• Facebook User: Cultist never stop trying to recruit, they just repackage their brand after each scandal.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User This is also part of Project 25 and a big NO for public schools.
• Facebook User: 😵‍💫. Infiltration!☹️
• Facebook User: Those poor kids.
• Facebook User: Best to be aware of this mess before they show up in your school district.
• Facebook User: Corporate Christianity is an oxymoron.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User or it should be
• Facebook User: Sounds like an opportunity to protest
  • Facebook User: Facebook User always up for protesting!
• Facebook User: Next generation Christian Nationalists? 😒
• Facebook User: Clearly you don’t realize that every non profit organization works this way…on both sides of everything. Those against Lifewise likely support organizations who operate the same way. You just don’t like their mission, and that’s okay. But don’t paint it like Lifewise is doing some weird “Mecca”. They all do some form of this.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User clearly you bought all their lies and haven’t done your homework. Most non-profits don’t get to write laws that increase themselves 1100%.
    We don’t like the harm Lifewise is doing to kids and public education.
    You seem to be okay with antisemitism and bigotry.
    We aren’t.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User the “all of them do it” card, eh. What an original take. One of them isn’t trying to force religion based on being in the “in crowd”. Religion is freedom. Freedom to practice or not practice the way YOU want to.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User Im sorry ma’am but your post info is inaccurate. Most large non-profits literally pay for lobbyists to hit up lawmakers to vote aligned with their cause and have lobbyists on staff. The facts are non-profits DO write laws, have paid staff that lobby government workers, and legally use their monies (even donations) to do so.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User if you think what Lifewise has done is legal, then look at this:
    

    I can’t wait for the legal case that takes this crap to after school time. Pedowise Lostkids at the Academy!

  • Facebook User: Facebook User excuse those pedophiles that lost kids some more! Wow!
  • Facebook User: Facebook User its so gross.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User antisemitism is taught https://youtu.be/fsTD14fGFIs?is=GaRIpIBKYJE-WGvr
  • Facebook User: Facebook User Have you seen Kacie’s Story?
    The Tale of a Mother who trusted #LifewiseAcademy Facebook User with her child? Who was forgotten by them? Without her coat? Who walked SIX blocks back to her school with several strangers trying to pick her up in their cars?
    Read how they TRIED TO COVER THIS UP! There are now 2 confirmed instances where Lifewise lost a child! https://www.facebook.com/share/p/14NVSyivvMM
    Join the thousands of concerned adults and learn the truth about this program! Break free of the candy coating and see this organization for what it really is!
  • Facebook User: Facebook User bigotry
  • Facebook User: Facebook User
    🚨Here’s a small list of the problematic LIFEWISE STAFF scandals!
    This doesn’t ever cover the issues with the targeting of children with propaganda on school property or loss of education time that LifeWise Academy causes!

    Renee Beck who lost her teaching license permanently for sexting with minors at a public school to be a director of Lifewise. Their check failed. They didn’t even Google her!

    https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/central-ohio-news/ohio-lifewise-worker-lost-teaching-license-over-student-sexting-accusations/

    Christopher Riggs, a LifeWise staff member and pastor, has pleaded guilty to child SA crimes.
    https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/central-ohio-news/former-lifewise-teacher-pastor-pleads-guilty-to-sexual-misconduct-toward-teenager/

    Kenneth Holycross was a teacher at Lifewise Bethel in 2025, has just been indicted for many child SA crimes. The investigation is ongoing and the police believe there are more victims!
    https://www.whio.com/news/local/man-who-worked-with-children-arrested-rape-charges/34TICC3ZCBB6PLKHBULI6JFXIU/

    William Thomas Vansickle, Lifewise Northern Local (Somerset, Ohio) was a crossing guard for the program. He has been charged with child SA last November.
    https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1B8w6ig32C/

    ☆Lifewise Academy has been set up in inappropriate places where convicted criminals and child molesters worked. Our members’ activism stopped the program before it started!
    

    ☆Find all the scandals here:

    LifeWise Safety Concerns: Criminal Cases, Vetting Failures, and Concerning Affiliations

    When programs move children to unsecured second locations during the school day, those risks multiply!!! Is your child safe?

    ☆They left and lost a child!
    In Decatur, IN a 7 year old was left behind. She emerged to an empty building from the bathroom. Determined to get back to safety, the terrified child started walking back in freezing temperatures. Several adults stopped, she finally accepted to walk back with a stranger who brought her back to her elementary school! This story could have ended so badly. This is why we fight against programs where this kind of thing has ZERO OVERSIGHT!! They are trying to cover it up now!

    https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AhWxVv5W2/
    Listen to the Mom: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1GfC1qwjnr

    ☆This is now the 2nd child they havd admitted to losing.
    https://youtu.be/Tlfpsuwe9Ys?si=bYdNbTaG9fWt6MQW

  • Secular Education Association: Facebook User but do they all prey on children? Do they all proselytize inside public schools? Sit down and shut up.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User No one with any intelligence or sense excuses pedophiles or their disgusting behavior. Now that’s cleared up, I’m certain your car, clothes, items in your kitchen have pedophiles or sex offenders working there. When will you be throwing those items away or destroying them? Probably never right? 🤷🏼‍♀️ Does that mean you are excusing those behaviors– since we are following your logic pattern? I’m with you that we need to stand against those individuals that would want to hurt children in any way physically and sexually especially, and make sure they are caught and punished to the fullest extent of the law. Hope this helps.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User But all non profits don’t have state mandated release time to attend their programs.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User my aunt owns and operates a non-profit, one of the largest privately owned no kill shelters in the state of ohio, and they dont operate this way. contrary to your myopic worldview, not everyone behaves like exploitative christian nationalists.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User Lifewise laughs at the reports of bullies. They didn’t fire Renee Beck until weeks after it was revealed she wasa pedo.
    If you want to entrust your kids to this kind of stupid risks, that’s fine but I fight back when it disrupts my kids’ education. My kids shouldn’t feel punished because I am responsible enough to prioritize religious instruction on my time. I value my kids’ art, music, STEM, gym and intervention teachers time. Their education time shouldn’t be truncated so your kid can go somewhere else.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User You just can’t argue with these people….they don’t listen to facts.
  • Facebook User: I’m sorry, maybe there is a misunderstanding in what Lifewise is. The kid’s parents have to sign their kids up for Lifewise, not all kids go to Lifewise. So if you don’t want your child to attend just don’t sign them up??? Am I missing something here? That is not sarcasm that is a serious question… So if a Muslim, Atheist, Hindu, Jewish etc. group wanted to start their own version of “Lifewise” they could absolutely do that. There is complete freedom for any group or parent to try to do it. The problem is, most of those groups can’t garner enough funding, interest and support.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User That is a good point but I think any religion could do this? If I am not mistaken. Like if a Muslim, Atheist, Hindu etc… group wanted to do it they all could? I know that may not have been what you were referring to. Sorry about that.
  • Facebook User: Secular Education Association Sorry if my first post came across snarky. I have stated in other places here that any religion can do this. Lifewise just happens to be overwhelmingly successful and growing like crazy because the vast majority of parents like the idea. If they didn’t, it would not be growing like you stated above. Again, sorry for coming acrossed snarky and rude.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User That’s good about your aunt. You are correct not every non profit handles it that way. You are correct
  • Facebook User: Facebook User Like when we were kids and we went to church after school for age appropriate religious instruction and had youth groups that met on weekends. Nothing state mandated, no release from school everything voluntary after school hours and on the weekends. No connection between school and religion at all, totally separate and it worked.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User Yeah that makes sense. I just don’t think this is state mandated or anything, and its not at school. In essence… the kids (whose parents sign them up) take their lunch break at the local church. But again I do agree that the school should not be involved at all!
  • Facebook User: Facebook User I agree Religion is freedom. I dont believe anyone is forced into this program? My understanding is that the parents sign them up, if they want them to go? I would completely be aginst this if it was mandated. Absolutely agree it should be a free choice to leave school for lunch once a week.
  • Facebook User: I am also not a fan of Christian nationalists. We are in the same camp there!!
  • Facebook User: Facebook User Not when you see in the local news that someone from Lifewise has been arrested for soliciting sex with minors. Big NO
• Facebook User: Gross.
• Facebook User: No. FU!
• Facebook User: Anything but spending the money on the people in Ohio who really need the help.
• Facebook User: seems like a protest should be planned outside!
• Facebook User: 🤮🤬🤮🤬🤮🤬🤮🤬
• Facebook User: Bible education belongs at home or in Sunday school.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User Actually, American schools were STARTED to teach kids how to read the Bible.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User why are you on this page? Wrong audience, dude. Go bother some religious pages.
  • Facebook User: Facebook Userreligious beliefs have no place in public schools or government, it’s as simple as that.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User free american public schools were started to teach kids how to read, write, do arithmetic and think critically so they could be successful no matter where they came from. Reading any books, including a bible, spellbook, koran or whatever is just a personal choice.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User “Actually, American schools were STARTED to teach kids how to read the Bible.”

    This is why we despise religion, you all lie constantly to try to convince us a god is the reason, when there has never been ANY PROOF that any of your fantasies are anything other than your fantasies.

    School were started to teach kids how to read, write, history, geography math and science. Only in the last 40 years have church’s decided to steal public funds and now we have people believing the earth is flat, only 4,000 years old, we had dinosaurs as pets before they went extinct, 2+2 can equal 5 and now you all want to open airplane doors at 30,000 feet flying 300 mph and you think tRump is a savior sent by your god.
    The only thing T rump and your god have in common is they are pedophiles.
    only pedophiles protect pedophiles

  • Facebook User: Facebook User not.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User absolutely agree. Not in public schools
  • Facebook User: Facebook User Nope. Wrong again. 👎🏻🚫 More Bible study needed everywhere.
  • Facebook User: Facebook Userapparently it doesn’t have to end there 🙏
  • Facebook User: Facebook User The origins of American public education are many and varied. In early days many free standing (not publicly funded) schools were started for many reasons: access to religious teachings, to provide trade skills, indoctrinate girls into the world of housekeeping. The Catholic church developed strong systems of education, while the emerging publicly funded systems were regarded as protestant. Concessions were made to accommodate Catholic students (which is why fish sticks on Fridays were institutionalized). Other groups were accommodated (or isolated)–Columbus at one time had several German language schools for an immigrant population seeking to maintain thair language. Racial segregation of schools was very common. Many schools began each day with the recitation of the Lord’s Prayer, or 23rd Psalm. The Supreme Court ruled such practices to be religious indoctrination that violated the establishment clause of the Constitution, In short, many practices that were once common no longer are, and for good reason. It is not the role of the state to provide religious education.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User So all books used to teach reading can be considered religion. I have always worshipped Dick and Jane and their life lessons.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User Actually, correct! Away from me, Old Deluder Satan.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User Nope, you’re wrong. Away from me, Satan!
  • Facebook User: Facebook User …but drugs, alcohol, stealing, killing,gangs, illegals and fraud belong in public?? Got it!!
  • Facebook User: Facebook User Yes, in the early 19th century when public schools started, the Bible was a textbook. The early educators used it to help children learn to read and to teach morals. But this organization wants none of that now…
  • Facebook User: Facebook User Yes, but it’s now the 21st century and we have much better, and more literature for the purpose of enjoyment and learning.
  • Facebook User: Facebook UserAgreed
  • Facebook User: Facebook User Nah…read Ben Franklin and then grow up…
  • Facebook User: Facebook User But it does not belong in the schools.
  • Facebook User: Elizabeth Hesburgh Not in public schools. We are there to teach our students and not have to deal with someone taking our students out for 2 hrs 2 days a week. Besides in the last few weeks in our area, there have been 4 men associated with Lifewise arrested due to soliciting sex with your girls. That is a big NO to having Lifewise in our schools.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User your opinion lol
  • Facebook User: Facebook User I agree no Bible study in public schools whatsoever. Parents can take their kids to church on Sunday.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User I don’t believe this is done at school??? And I think it is the choice of the parent at home to enroll or not. Those are two huge things for me. I do not think it should ever be at school or mandated at all. That would be a bad thing
  • Facebook User: Facebook User is that Biblical? 🤔
  • Facebook User: Facebook User it’s not happening in the school
• Facebook User: Indoctrination
• Facebook User: 🤮
• Facebook User: Indoctrination and Manipulation.
• Facebook User: I’ve considered applying to them so I can get on the inside, they started in my town, have a HQ here.
• Facebook User: Tell us Lifewise – why is it only the YOUNGEST kids? Need to get them early before they learn your book has 0 historic evidence?
  • Facebook User: Facebook User Younger kids are easily swayed and that should never happen.
• Facebook User: This is not Christiany.
• Facebook User: If that the cult church in Wadsworth?
• Facebook User: I praise God for Lifewise and the impact it has had on my 2 daughters!
  • Facebook User: Facebook User fuck lifewise. Now, That’s What I Call Child Grooming
  • Facebook User: Facebook User might wanna ask them if they are getting touched by the instructor 😮‍💨
  • Facebook User: Careful they hire pedos
  • Facebook User: Facebook User they are child molesters.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User do you praise god for antisemitism, child neglect, and pedos often?
  • Facebook User: Facebook User, I know their instructors and they’re all godly people. You might want to actually attend a Lifewise class, before you judge. I have not attended classes and was Blessed each time!
  • Facebook User: Facebook User , no I don’t care for Democrats, and everything you described perfectly the face of the Democrat party! So no, I don’t praise God for baby killers, pedophiles, dictators, and Communists. That’s today’s Democrat party!
  • Facebook User: Facebook User, have you ever attended Lifewise class? Can you verify with proof, or just second hand stories by godless fake news media!
  • Facebook User: Facebook User if it leads toward the brand of religion they preach it’s a tool of the devil.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User Lifewise teaches antisemitism.
    They hire pedophiles. They lost children.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User nah. I’ll just keep looking at all the news reports about the instructors touching kids. Thanks tho.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User we have the curriculum, video and audio proof of what they teach to kids. Disgusting!
  • Facebook User: Facebook User I suppose you could check here.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User but what about the kids who are not involved? Interview some of them to find out how they feel about it.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User, enjoy your fake news, sheep.
  • Facebook User: They are pushing religion onto your children lmao.
  • Secular Education Association: Facebook User hey, just so you know…. It’s almost never a stranger that does these things. It’s someone you “know and think is godly”. 👀
  • Facebook User: Facebook User There are numerous “godly” pedophiles as well. Don’t kid yourself.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User, my daughters have never experienced anything that your fake news propaganda is feeding you!
  • Facebook User: Secular Education Association, my daughters have never experienced anything like your fake news propaganda train is feeding you.
  • Secular Education Association: Facebook User those are facts sir.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User It’s not fake news. I’m very aware of some specific instances.
  • Facebook User: Facebook User, like I said my daughters have never experienced anything remotely close to what you’re talking about. They have only had positive experiences. You’re just looking for any way to disparage a Christian organization!