Jess Geren’s four children are regular churchgoers — they participate in Christian youth groups and study the Bible at home. When LifeWise Academy, a fast-growing program that allows students to leave school during the day for religious instruction, came to Ayersville Local Schools, their northwest Ohio district, she saw it as a chance to spread the gospel.
“It’s not my kids that I worry about,” she said. “This is their opportunity to be a light. Their mission field is the public school.”
For many other Ohio parents, that’s a problem…