Association With Reclaiming America For Christ
CHA's association with "Reclaiming America" and "Reclaiming Oklahoma" center around the controversial Rev. Paul Blair, football coach at CHA since 2008, former OSU and NFL football player, who is the pastor at the Fairview Baptist Church, in Edmond, Oklahoma.
The right wing Evangelical and socially conservative political group called the Center for Reclaiming America for Christ was founded by the late D. James Kennedy but folded shortly after his death in 2007. Pastor Paul Blair of Fairview Baptist Church in Edmond, Oklahoma is also a CHA football coach and the facilitator of the CHA North satellite which resides at the Fairview Baptist Church location in Edmond, Oklahoma.
Pastor Paul Blair started an initiative to create a similar social and political action group called "Reclaim Oklahoma for Christ" and after some success took over the former Center for Reclaiming America for Christ now known simply as Reclaiming America for Christ with the full support and blessing of Coral Ridge Ministries although they are no longer associated.
Pastor Paul Blair's association with Reclaim America for Christ started with an association with John Birch Society member, politically right wing Evangelical activist, and former Oklahoma Congressional candidate Charlie Meadows, who during a breakfast meeting decided to form "Reclaim Oklahoma for Christ" with Blair. Pastor Blair along with John Birchers Clark Curry, and George Wallace founded Clouds Over America, a similar organization to educate pastors.
Read more about this topic: Christian Heritage Academy, Historical Overview, 2000s
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