Conversation with Darrel Frater - White House Faith Office Update

Overview

This conversation was a follow-up call with Darrel Frater after Gary's meeting with Paula White at the White House Faith Office. Gary shared insights about the faith representatives in various government agencies and potential funding opportunities for Christian initiatives. The call also touched on Gary's professional focus on Alpha Schools and a potential World's Fair for America's 250th anniversary. The conversation concluded with an attempt to schedule a future meeting.

Key Points Discussed

White House Faith Office Insights

• Faith Representatives in Government: Gary discovered that the White House Faith Office has placed representatives in every cabinet agency:

  "In every agency. So faith is in every agency now. Commerce, um education, and I don't even know the names of the, but I met those two people. but basically, you know, the whole cabinet has their own each ag has an agency, right? Every every cabinet agency has a member of the White House faith office to make sure that there's no Christian discrimination, et cetera."

• Funding for Christian Initiatives: Paula White is focused on allocating government funding to Christian organizations:

  "The second second cool thing is that she's very excited about allocating government money to to uh Christians. and also nonCristians book Christians, for sure."

• Volunteer Opportunity: Paula White invited Gary to assist in a volunteer capacity:

  "And then I also made an impression and she was like, hey, what' you like to help me with stuff? Um, it would be a volunteer capacity because I don't wanna join the government and make zero dollars..."

• Technology and Faith Intersection: Gary identified a potential niche where he could contribute:

  "But it doesn't seem like she has people that are both at the intersection of advanced technology and faith, and so I' be very happy to help her with whatever she needs on that end."

• Funding Scale: Gary mentioned significant funding potential over the coming years:

  "I'll have a front front seat over the next year next however many months to um uh the process of allocating a lot a lot, a lot billions of dollars to to Christians. I was going to say Christians. Billions of dollars of Christians. over the next couple of years."

White House Meeting Experience

• Prayer Session: Gary described the intense prayer session at the White House:

  "I have footage of like the most insane prayer, like back to back. We were just praying all the. It was like truly historical archive footage... The way that we we ended the half day summit was like pastor after pass, just like pray for protection for Paula."

• Impression of Trump Administration: Gary expressed newfound respect for Trump:

  "I have never had more respect for Trump than I do now."

Professional Updates

• Alpha Schools Focus: Gary shared his current professional priorities:

  "Right now in terms of my professional focus because I just know government stuff moves very slowly, um is just to continue to find good partners for starting new schools, um and evangelizing the schools that we have already."

America's 250th Anniversary Initiative

• World's Fair Proposal: Gary discovered a gap in planning for America's 250th anniversary:

  "One of the questions I had was around whether someone whether a group that we should actually trust with a 250th anniversary stuff, um is actually do anything. apparently there is not a good group that is working on it. apparently it's like whatever whatever group that was appointed by Biden is they're not doing anything interesting."

• Potential New Initiative: Gary has connected with someone who has Trump's attention about creating a new working group:

  "I have someone powerful that has Trump's ears that's going to be um nudging Trump to create a whole new agency, basically, or like working group or whatever, um to get a world's fair going."

• Vision for the Celebration: Gary expressed his vision for the commemoration:

  "It'll be a real shame if we don't um commemorate what has happened so far, but also celebrate what the future is about to bring, which is, you know, we can say a lot of things about it, but like, I I like to call it a crystal futurist. reality."

Meeting Planning

• The conversation concluded with an attempt to schedule a meeting, with references to checking schedules for upcoming weekends.

Next Steps

1. Follow up on scheduling a meeting with Darrel
2. Continue exploring potential faith-based funding opportunities through the White House Faith Office
3. Develop potential collaboration around the intersection of technology and faith
4. Keep Darrel informed about progress with Alpha Schools partnerships
5. Potentially engage Darrel in discussions about the 250th anniversary World's Fair concept

Context and Significance

This conversation represents an important follow-up after Gary's meeting at the White House Faith Office, providing Darrel with insights about the faith initiatives within the Trump administration. It reinforces the potential for collaboration between Gary and Darrel on faith-based education initiatives, particularly as they relate to potential government funding opportunities. The discussion about America's 250th anniversary also opens a new potential area for collaboration around large-scale event planning with faith components.