Dear Jack,

Welcome to the Friday Five! Every Friday we share our top five articles, stories, and quotes for you to read and share with your friends and church families.

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1. NC VALUES: We Wish You a Happy Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend

We wish you all a very happy and gratitude-filled Thanksgiving season!

“Oh give thanks to the Lord; call upon his name;

make known his deeds among the peoples!

Sing to him, sing praises to him;

tell of all his wondrous works!

Glory in his holy name;

let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice!

Seek the Lord and his strength;

seek his presence continually!” (Ps. 105:1-4)

2. YOU'RE INVITED: Come to the Legislature to Protect Parental Rights

The NC House Oversight Committee has recently learned that Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools (CHCCS) is intentionally breaching the North Carolina Constitution and state laws to indoctrinate children as young as six years old with inappropriate materials involving sex and gender. As a result, the Oversight Committee is calling in CHCCS Board Chair George Griffin to testify and give an account for his school district’s lawless behavior.

Please join us at the NC Legislature to support the House Oversight Committee as they take steps to protect children from sexual indoctrination and hold rogue school boards accountable.

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3. SPECTRUM: New Law Requires Classrooms in N.C. to Catalog Every Book in Case Parents Object

"Under the new law, which also recognized two sexes in rules and public policies, each school must post classroom library book lists to a searchable online catalog. Then parents and guardians can then identify books their students can’t borrow.

NC Values Coalition Press Director Ashley Vaughan said her organization helped draft and supported this measure.

'Parents have a right to be involved in their children’s education, and this law requires schools and teachers to be transparent about the reading materials that they provide to their students,' Vaughan said."

Read more: https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte/news/2025/11/23/cataloging-classroom-libraries-

4. CAROLINA JOURNAL: Congressional Map Challengers Defend Suit Against Motion to Dismiss

"Critics challenging North Carolina’s new congressional map in federal court filed paperwork Friday defending their lawsuit against Republican state legislative leaders’ motion to dismiss the case.

The court filings arrived two days after a three-judge trial court panel heard arguments for and against an injunction that would block the map’s use for 2026 elections."

Read more: https://www.carolinajournal.com/congressional-map-challengers-defend-suit-against-motion-to-dismiss/

5. DAILY SIGNAL: New Survey: What Doctors Really Think About Trans Treatment for Minors

"While many health care associations support the experimental transgender medical interventions euphemistically described as “gender-affirming care” for minors, most doctors in Florida agree with the public to support laws protecting kids from these “treatments,” a new study finds.

'We see that a strong majority of doctors believe sex-change interventions should be prohibited for minors,' Ian Kingsbury, director of Do No Harm’s Center for Accountability in Medicine, told The Daily Signal."

Read more: https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/11/24/most-florida-doctors-oppose-trans-treatment-for-minors/

Weekly Prayer: Officials

LORD, you also have instructed us to pray for our governing officials, and we come to you in the spirit of this petition. We pray for our state government and its executive, legislative, and judicial servants. May they indeed be servants unto the people, and govern in a manner that protects liberty and virtue. In the same spirit, we pray for public servants across our local governments. May they all heed your mandate in Romans 13:4 to be in positions of authority as “God’s servant” and for the “good” of the public. They govern in what we confess are difficult times. May they plead with you to give them wisdom, and may your grace to govern wisely be poured out on them.

Protect us from the oppression and loss of freedoms that other countries have experienced, and help us to value and preserve freedom, which we know comes only from You.

“I have indeed seen the oppression of my people in Egypt.  I have heard their groaning and have come down to set them free.” Acts 7:34

Amen

Sincerely,

Tami & Team

NC Values