DEMO: Our team at North Carolina Values Coalition has been working hard on a special project called the Carolina Values Summit equipping you to resist growing attacks on religious freedom. We are honored to announce that Pastor Andrew Brunson, the American missionary pastor who was arrested and held captive for over two years in a Turkish prison, will return to his native state of North Carolina to share his story and deliver the keynote address.

This Christian leadership event is for Pastors, Christian Leaders, and Executive Directors of our state’s faith-based nonprofits, schools, and ministries. We hope you will join us on 7/7 for this ground-breaking event and impressive lineup of speakers.

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The North Carolina Values Coalition presents a special project called the Carolina Values Summit to equip you to resist growing attacks on religious freedom. We are honored to announce that Roger Severino will be joining us as a speaker. The current Director of the Office for Civil Rights at the United States Department of Health and Human Services on a mission to protect religious liberty.

This Christian leadership event is for Pastors, Christian Leaders, and Executive Directors of our state’s faith-based nonprofits, schools, and ministries. We hope you will join us on 7/7 for this ground-breaking event and impressive lineup of speakers, including:

Roger Severino, Currently serves in the Trump Administration as the Director of the Office for Civil Rights at the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

• Son of immigrants from Colombia, grew up in in Southern California
• Graduate of University of Southern California, Carnegie Mellon University and Harvard Law School
• Most recently served as the Director of the DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society at The Heritage Foundation.
• Accomplish trial lawyer at Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division where he enforced the Fair Housing Act, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, and Title II and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
• The media calls him the man behind President Trump's Religious-Freedom Agenda for Health Care. Severino led the effort to reverse Obama-administration policy that had redefined “sex” to include “gender identity” and “termination of pregnancy” for purposes of nondiscrimination under the Affordable Care Act. 
• Created a new the new Division of Conscience and Religious Freedom division within Office of Civil Rights

The North Carolina Values Coalition presents a special project called the Carolina Values Summit to equip you to resist growing attacks on religious freedom. We are honored to announce that Lt. Gov. Dan Forest will be joining us as a speaker. The current Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina reminds attendees it is important to protect our Carolina Values.

This Christian leadership event is for Pastors, Christian Leaders, and Executive Directors of our state’s faith-based nonprofits, schools, and ministries.

Dan Forest, the current Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina.

• Before serving in office, Dan was a senior partner at an architectural firm in Charlotte.
• Graduate of UNC-Charlotte
• Dan & Alice Forest have homeschooled their four children.
• Son of former Charlotte Mayor and US Congresswoman Sue Myrick
• Has served in the role of Lt Governor since 2012 and is currently running for Governor in 2020.
• In 2018, Dan Forest was appointed as the Chairman of the Republican Lieutenant Governors Association.
• Forest was also a leading supporter of proposals to adopt a state Religious Freedom Restoration act to help protect religious freedoms of small businesses and houses of worship.

The North Carolina Values Coalition presents a special project called the Carolina Values Summit to equip you to resist growing attacks on religious freedom. We are honored to announce that Ryan Tucker will be joining us as a speaker. Senior Counsel and Director of the Center for Christian Ministries with Alliance Defending Freedom overseeing litigation efforts to maintain and defend religious freedom in America.

This Christian leadership event is for Pastors, Christian Leaders, and Executive Directors of our state’s faith-based nonprofits, schools, and ministries. We hope you will join us on 7/7 for this ground-breaking event and impressive lineup of speakers, including:

Ryan Tucker serves as Senior Counsel and Director of the Center for Christian Ministries with Alliance Defending Freedom. He oversees all litigation efforts to maintain and defend the constitutionally protected freedom of churches, Christian ministries and religious schools to exercise their rights under the First Amendment.

• Graduate of Texas A&M and Baylor Law School
• Member of the state bar in Texas and Arizona and has argued cases at the US Supreme Court
• ADF attorneys have provided legal advice to thousands of churches and ministries across the country. Defending churches during the COVID-19 pandemic and when appropriate, the ADF team took legal action to advocate for equal treatment of churches across the country.
• ADF has issued guides to help protect Churches, Pregnancy Centers, Christian Ministries, schools and even help small business owners face the uncertainty in the variety of religious liberty challenges they face in local, regional, and national issues ranging from bylaw review to tax and gender issues. Download one of their guides at adflegal.org/resources.
• Before joining ADF, he was in a partner in a private law practice in San Antonio, Texas

The North Carolina Values Coalition presents a special project called the Carolina Values Summit to equip you to resist growing attacks on religious freedom. We are honored to announce that Dr. Carol Swain will be joining us as a speaker. This former Vanderbilt University Professor was forced out by the cancel culture for expressing her Biblical views on Islam and Marxism.

This Christian leadership event is for Pastors, Christian Leaders, and Executive Directors of our state’s faith-based nonprofits, schools, and ministries.

Dr. Carol Swain, award-winning political scientist, political commentator and author, and a former professor of political science and professor of law at Vanderbilt University.

• Dr. Swain is an American success story. One of 12 children born in rural America. She dropped out of school after the 8^th grade. She later put herself through school and eventually became a successful university professor.
• Has a total of five degrees including a BA in Criminal Justice, a Masters in Law, a Doctorate in Political Science after studying at Virginia Tech, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Yale University.
• Was a tenured Professor at both Princeton and Vanderbilt Universities
• Dr. Swain has appeared on FOX News, CNN, ABC, PBS News Hour as well as opinion on pieces in numerous newspapers including the New York Times, Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and USA Today.
• Her commentary can be heard on her podcast and nationally on American Family Radio and Bott Radio.
• Dr. Swain has served on the Tennessee Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission
• Author or editor of eight books including Abduction: How Liberalism Steals our Children’s Hearts and Minds and Debating Immigration
• Dr. Swain has run twice for Mayor of the City of Nashville, Tennessee
• After speaking out on dangers found within Islam, Vanderbilt University students protested and accused Dr. Swain of hate speech. On campus conditions deteriorated to the point that Dr. Swain eventually retired from teaching. 
• Swain has been outspoken critic of Black Lives Matter and has reiterated that the organization is rooted in Marxism

The North Carolina Values Coalition presents a special project called the Carolina Values Summit to equip you to resist growing attacks on religious freedom. We are honored to announce that Pastor Andrew Brunson, the American missionary pastor who was arrested and held captive for over two years in a Turkish prison, will return to his native state of North Carolina to share his story and deliver the keynote address.

This Christian leadership event is for Pastors, Christian Leaders, and Executive Directors of our state’s faith-based nonprofits, schools, and ministries. 

Dr. Andrew Brunson is the former missionary pastor who held prisoner for over two years after a failed coup d'état attempted to toppled Turkish President Erdogan.

• Born in Black Mountain, North Carolina
• Studied at Wheaton College, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Erskine Theological Seminary and University of Aberdeen.
• Lived in Turkey for 23 years and the pastor of Resurrection Church, a small evangelical Presbyterian congregation.
• Held for over a year without any charges and at times held in a cell with 21 others in a cell that was made for eight prisoners.
• Vice President Mike Pence said Brunson was arrested due to this Christian faith and there was no credible evidence against him.
• Brunson lost over 50 pounds while in prison
• He faced life in prison for the political charges of supporting a terrorist organization and for political espionage in association with the coup d'état.
• President Trump insisted that the Turkish government free Brunson and eventually Trump levied stiff trade tariffs on Turkey and accused the government of holding a Christian pastor hostage with no credible evidence of a crime.
• In the recently released John Bolton book, ‘The Room Where It Happened’, the former national security advisor detailed the personal diplomacy conducted by President Trump to secure the release of Pastor Brunson.
• Bruson was released two months after the trade tariffs were imposed.
• Pastor Brunson is the author of his prison memoir, God's Hostage: A True Story of Persecution, Imprisonment, and Perseverance (2019)

Roger Severino
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Lt. Gov. Dan Forest
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Ryan Tucker
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