Pray with your spouse if married and with others in your church.
Pray by faith that the pornographers cannot have our children and we are taking them back.
Pray the iCare bi-monthly prayer daily for two weeks. NOTE: Think of the power of hundreds of thousands or millions of women across America praying this same prayer every day.
Become knowledgeable and continue to learn about this issue.
What is the technology and what are its capabilities?
What are the sexualized messages of the culture and how they are delivered?
What is the harm of these messages to marriages, adults and especially young people and children?
Get the training DVD, master its content and share it with your small group, PTAs, women’s bible studies, etc.
Ask the right questions at the point of purchase when considering wireless devices.
At the kiosks and retail outlets, ask the salespeople to show you everything the phones and other wireless devices can do.
Build trust by engaging in open, consistent and persistent discussion with your kids.
Make the well-being of your marriage and your family a high enough priority so you take the time for this kind of interaction.
Say “yes” whenever possible so that “no” means “no.”
Develop a safe-use agreement with your kids concerning this technology (similar to a purity covenant).
Be excited rather than afraid about the technology: Ask your kids to show you what their cell phones and other wireless devices can do.
Check your personal and family TV viewing habits and make changes where necessary.
Recognize that modeling is the best way to teach and disciple your children.
Be the parent of your children and reinforce what is acceptable to watch on TV.
Remove TVs from the privacy of children’s bedrooms.
Take appropriate steps to reduce the harm that computer pornography can produce.
Install monitoring systems on all computers and regularly review the results. (Covenant Eyes)
Use a family-friendly Internet service provider who has installed an effective filtering system.
Put all the computers in public places (many of your wireless devices are computers).
Regulate cell phone usage.
Clarify the cell phone belongs to the parents who purchase the phone and pay for the monthly fee.
Establish rules that cell phones will not be used at meals or after an agreed upon time in the evening. If this has not already been done, admit your own mistake in not doing so and ask for forgiveness. But don’t back away from this responsibility.
If available, purchase cell phones without video and/or camera capability until adequate safety devices are in place.
Share with your kids about the harm of sexualized messages of the culture and pornography.
The material is seductive, destructive and evil.
Pornography is addictive and has become a devastating problem for many.
It undermines faith and faithfulness to the Lord.
It weakens worship, fellowship with other Christians and prayer.
Talk with others about iCare.
Master the sign up card as the one minute summary of iCare.
Master the sheet on telling your story and recruiting your friends.
Include friends at church.
Include the parents of your kid’s friends.
Use your personal e-mail list to educate and mobilize others.
Become a Titus 2 woman, with older moms teaching younger ones.
Help move the iCare movement forward more quickly.
Give serious consideration to personally becoming a sustaining member at $25 per year.
Invite others to become sustaining members.
Pray about financial support beyond the sustaining member level where possible.
At the appropriate time, become engaged in some public policy efforts but only on a limited basis.
Be prepared to write to the wireless companies and the CTIA - The Wireless Association encouraging them to do the right thing.
Be prepared to write to governmental agencies encouraging them to enforce the laws against illegal pornography.
