Reverend Rafael B. Cruz
Rafael Cruz is a powerful example of the American Dream. Born in Cuba, Rafael lived and suffered under a cruel, oppressive dictator. He began fighting Batista’s regime as a teenager and was imprisoned and tortured for his role in that fight.Rafael arrived in Texas on a student visa in 1957 with nothing but the clothes on his back and one hundred dollars sewn into his underwear. He got a job as a dishwasher, making 50 cents an hour, and worked his way through the University of Texas, while learning English. He later built a small business in further pursuit of the American Dream.
Concerned with the negative impact of the Carter administration policies on our country, Rafael Cruz became engaged in conservative politics as a grassroots activist during the 1980 Presidential Campaign of Ronald Reagan. When his son Ted was a child growing up in Houston, Rafael would tell him, “When we faced oppression in Cuba, I had a place to flee to. If we lose our freedom here, where do we go?”
In 2012, Ted Cruz was elected U.S. Senator from Texas.
Today, Reverend Cruz is an ordained minister, sharing the Word of God in churches and Pastors’ Conferences throughout the United States. He is also the president of Kingdom Translation Services.
As he travels the country sharing his story and speaking on the Biblical foundations of our nation, it is his passion to encourage Christians in what can be done to return our nation to the principles that made America exceptional.
Timothy Ballard
Update: We are excited to hear that O.U.R. has located a group of children to save from slavery. Unfortunately, the details of this news necessitates that Mr. Ballard will no longer be presenting at this event. We pray for him, those in O.U.R., and the children that they hope to free.Timothy Ballard is the Founder and CEO of Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.). He also serves as O.U.R.'s Jump Team Commander for rescue operations. Ballard began his career at the Central Intelligence Agency where he worked cases dealing with terrorism and Latin America. He has spent over a decade working as a Special Agent for the Department of Homeland Security where he was assigned to the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and deployed as an undercover operative for the U.S. Child Sex Tourism Jump Team. He has worked every type of case imaginable in the fight to dismantle child trafficking rings. Ballard has worked undercover in the United States and in multiple foreign countries to infiltrate child trafficking organizations. In this effort he has successfully dismantled dozens of these organizations and rescued countless children from sex slavery. He is an expert at managing Internet investigations, particularly those dealing with file-share networks where pedophiles and traffickers go to trade in child pornography. He is licensed to train law enforcement officers throughout the world in the use of sophisticated data mining software that helps these officials identify, infiltrate, and dismantle hidden child pornography operations. He has trained hundreds of law enforcement officers at home and abroad in best practices to liberate children from sex slavery.
Ballard is the best-selling author of The Covenant: One Nation Under God and is the author of the sequel to that work, The Covenant, Lincoln, and The War. He has taught American and International Politics courses at Imperial Valley College, San Diego State University and American Heritage School. He has been featured regularly on both local and national TV and radio programs to discuss American history and politics and the role America has played in defending liberty at home and abroad. He has often commented on how his academic work in American history has provided him the inspiration and motivation to rescue children--to carry on the American tradition of liberating the captive. He recently received the distinguished George Washington Honor Medal from the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge.
After serving a church mission to Chile, Ballard graduated Cum Laude with a BA in Spanish and Political Science from Brigham Young University. He went on to graduate Summa Cum Laude with an MA in International Politics from the Monterey Institute of International Studies. He resides in California with his wife and children.
Website: https://www.ourrescue.org
Gary and Carolyn Alder
Freedom Coaches, Gary and Carolyn Alder passionately proclaim the principles of freedom, as established by the U.S. Constitution in their seminars, courses, and writings.They focus on the structure of government as the key to the formula for freedom. The Alders' personalized presentations enlighten the hearts and minds of youth, civic and religious groups, elected officials, and patriots who love freedom.
Gary is a retired computer programmer/analyst. He takes a unique approach in analyzing the Constitution. His conclusions come from considering the original Constitution as the system specifications and determining how a government that followed those specifications would function. Carolyn is interested in bringing to light the specific words of the Founders. The words of the Founders provide a window to look into their hearts and minds.
Their award-winning book, "The Evolution and Destruction of the Original Electoral College", reveals the purposes and benefits of the Framers' ingenious presidential electoral system designed to place only statesmen in the White House--without campaigning, campaign promises, self aggrandizing, or catering to special interests. Soon after the Constitution was established, this unique system was destroyed by the machinations of party politics.
Website: http://www.freedomformula.us
Farley Anderson
Farley Anderson is the architect of the Diorama display. His extensive life experience includes a run for Governor, author of four published books, including The Restoration of our Republic. He is a business man, inventor and extensive national public speaker. He is active in church, community, the Boy Scouts of America and especially as a father.The diorama is fifteen incredible paintings by eleven nationally-recognized artists which tell of the great American Covenant, including the five miracles of the American Revolution. You will not want to miss this presentation.
Gove Allen
Gove Allen is a proud husband and father of three teen-aged patriots. They have been active in the Utah home-school community since moving here in 2006. He is the president of the Colonial Heritage Foundation, an organization dedicated to the preservation of the history, culture, skills, and values of America's Founding. He earned his doctorate in management and decision sciences from the University of Minnesota in 2001.Dr. Allen took his first professorship at Tulane University in New Orleans and had a ring-side seat for the collapse of society that occurred in the days following Hurricane Katrina. His experiences there helped him understand how important individual values are in supporting a free government.
Website: http://colonialheritage.org/
Jacob and Rebecca Siebach
Passionately patriotic, Jacob and Rebecca have been building the re-Ratify Project for the past five years. While looking at the decline of America's morals and standards, they asked, "What can we do to educate people about liberty and the Constitution?" The re-Ratify Project is that answer to that question!Jacob and Rebecca have been blessed with five beautiful children. They are active in their church, involved at every level politically, and continually developing new ways to explain the Constitution in fun, engaging, and memorable ways.
Website: http://reratifyproject.org
