What four decades adds up to
Laws on the books, research in the hands of churches and a quarter of a million voter guides. This is the record as CCV reports it, including the year’s losses, because a page that prints only the wins is the one nobody believes.
The figures, and where they come from
years in public policy, since 1983
(ccv.org/our-story)in fraudulent billing found by the HHS report CCV co-authored
(HHS report, co-authored by Aaron Baer)voter guides printed in a cycle
(CCV’s own reporting)new Christian schools opened since 2022
(CCV’s own reporting)How CCV describes its year
CCV’s 2025 ministry letter set the year under three headings: celebrating what is good, creating what is missing, restoring what is broken. The work they named under each is below.
See the newsroomHundreds of believers at the Statehouse
Through 2025 the Church Ambassador Network’s quarterly Prayer at the Statehouse drew believers from across Ohio to pray for state leaders, worship and be encouraged from the Word.
Read moreResearch, then a guide churches can use
CCV released Hope and a Future with the Institute for Family Studies in February 2025, on how declining marriage and family breakdown drive child poverty, violence and addiction. In June they partnered with Communio on a Church Solutions guide to turn the findings into something a congregation could act on.
Read morePastors equipped to read the culture
The Minnery Fellowship for Cultural Engagement rolled out fully in February 2025, with regional pastor cohorts meeting across Ohio in the spring and the autumn.
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Wolves in White Coats
A federal report commissioned by the US Department of Health and Human Services, co-authored by CCV president Aaron Baer, found hospitals had billed taxpayers and insurers more than $50 million in fraudulent codes to push gender medicine on children. Within a week the DOJ and HHS opened fraud reviews into nearly 200 clinics nationwide. Six of them are in Ohio.
Laws CCV worked, now on the books
Each of these passed with CCV behind it and is in force today. The tracker carries the rest, including the bills still moving.
The $60 billion budget
Governor DeWine signed Ohio’s biennial budget on 30 June 2025. It carried a series of CCV-backed policies and it lost two of them to the veto pen on the way through.
| Policy | Passed the legislature | In the signed budget |
|---|---|---|
| The Innocence Act: ID age verification for obscene websites and a ban on using a person’s likeness for sexual deepfakes | Yes | In force |
| Boards of education required to write policies prohibiting cell phone use during school hours | Yes | In force |
| The state required to report and research the impacts of marijuana | Yes | In force |
| State policy recognising two sexes, male and female, as fundamental and unchangeable | Yes | In force |
| Menstrual products prohibited in men’s restrooms in public buildings | Yes | In force |
| Education savings accounts for students at non-chartered, non-public schools | Yes | Vetoed |
| A requirement that public libraries keep LGBT material out of children’s sections | Yes | Vetoed |
Every line above cleared the legislature inside the budget bill. The last two were removed by line-item veto on the day the governor signed it.
In court and at the ballot
The SAFE Act survives the courts
The ACLU sued in Franklin County in March 2024 to block the law CCV had just carried over a veto. After months blocked, Judge Michael J. Holbrook ruled in its favour and the act took effect on 6 August 2024.
Protect Women Ohio and the amendment that passed
CCV was a founding partner of Protect Women Ohio, the coalition against the abortion amendment. PWO ran multi-million-dollar campaigns through 2023, including a $5.5m buy in the final weeks. The amendment passed and CCV said so plainly: “the devastating passage of Issue 1”.
Suing the Department of Education
With a coalition of Christian schools and families, CCV filed suit against the Ohio Department of Education over families being blocked from accessing scholarships.
Hope and a Future
Published with the Institute for Family Studies in February 2025, the report ties Ohio’s declining marriage rate and family-structure breakdown to child poverty, violence, addiction and educational outcomes. Ohio ranks 29th on the Family Structure Index it carries.
29thOhio’s rank on the Family Structure IndexThe measure CCV publishes with the report, and the number the Success Sequence bill was argued from in House Education.
Backed by the Family Structure Index
The index ranks every state on the family structure its children grow up in. CCV publishes it alongside the report, so the ranking the testimony rests on can be checked line by line.
Family Structure IndexA second report, released in January 2026, counted $22m in free care from Ohio’s pregnancy centres in 2024, reaching more than 128,000 women, men and children.
Four ministries, one year
CCV works through four standing ministries, each with its own network and its own year behind it.
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Financial accountability
CCV publishes what it raises and what it spends. The filings, the seals and the split sit on one page, so the record above can be checked against the cost of producing it.
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