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From Focus on the Family, CitizenLink
September 13, 2006
After a Dallas church helped a high school combat gang activity and disruptive behavior, dozens of schools asked for the same help.

In this era when liberal legal groups are endlessly suing to keep the church out of public schools, principals in Texas are begging for churches to adopt their schools for the sake of the students. The program is now going national.

It began 18 years ago, when the principal of a Dallas high school contacted Dr. Tony Evans, senior pastor at Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship, and asked for help. The school was riddled with gang activity, truancy, delinquency and poor academic performance. Oak Cliff agreed to adopt the school.

“We began to provide mentoring, tutoring and family support services for those students,” Evans told CitizenLink. “Grades went up, delinquency went down and stability entered the school.”
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