Dear Friends,
I want to thank the Barnabas Group and its members for their generous support this past year. As you know, Hardwired was founded to protect the fundamental freedom to worship and live according to your conscience and faith. Today, that freedom is under more attack than ever. However, since I first shared our mission with you back in 2014, Barnabas members have been an integral support of our work. Your support has helped us plant the seeds of religious freedom in places where we are now seeing it bear fruit.
Someone once said, if you want a tree today, you needed to plant a seed ten years ago. Thanks to you, that is what we have done. The COVID pandemic has not slowed us down. We have been busier than ever because we know that we must remain vigilant while the door is open in many countries. Through your support, we now have over 400 Defenders of Freedom pushing back against religious persecution in some of the most difficult places – from Nigeria to Iraq and beyond.
But today, in spite of America’s rich cultural context for this freedom that has allowed us to spread this freedom globally, we are beginning to lose it here. And that is why we need to plant those same seeds of freedom here, to establish a new generation of Defenders of Freedom right here at home, in schools and communities across America. But I need your help. Last year, with support from many Barnabas members, Hardwired trained dozens of teachers across the Middle East. Brave teachers risked their lives to develop lessons that taught their students for the first time how to respect religious freedom. We turned these lessons into stories for a series of children’s books about religious freedom and it’s my hope to see these stories and lessons in schools, libraries, and homes across the country.
Every day the “cancel culture” bullies, harasses, intimidates, silences, and sometimes physically assaults people who believe differently from them. And no one should have to live in fear of retaliation for what they believe – especially here in America. That is why we must act now before we lose this freedom.
Pasquale Russo, San Diego Barnabas Group Partner, shared this about Hardwired:
“Tina has been “hardwired” by God with a heart to defend the rights of
innocent believers whose religious freedoms have been trampled on.
She has been tenacious in advocating, educating and fighting
for the rights of women, children, and vulnerable communities in countries
most of us would consider too dangerous. We heard her present at Barnabas years
ago and were compelled to get involved financially ever since.”
If you’d like to help Hardwired launch our program in schools, homes, and communities across America to teach the next generation of children to value religious freedom and stand up to the cancel culture, then please contact me today to learn more about our plans to stand up and change the culture.
Tina Ramirez, President
Hardwired
(804) 366-9808
