Three More Books to Give Away Before the ICHE Convention Starts on Thursday
UPDATE: Rita, Amanda, and Tim are our winners.
We have 3 more books to give away before the ICHE Convention starts on Thursday -- two copies of Already Compromised: Christian colleges took a test on the state of their faith and the final exam is in by Ken Ham and one copy of Already Gone: why your kids will quit church and what you can do to stop it by Ken Ham.
Kevin Swanson interviews Ken Ham on the state of Christian colleges and universities.
To enter this contest tell us briefly why you decided to start homeschooling -- be sure to leave your full name and email address (or you can email us at bluedorn@triviumpursuit.com if you prefer). We'll pick 3 winners on Tuesday.
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Contest: Why we decided to start homeschooling
We originally didn’t start out in the homeschool arena. We had friends homeschooling and I remember my wife saying “I could never do homeschool, I’m just not qualified.” That was 4 years ago. We would tell people, “We’ll supplement with more history and bible.” Little did we know the struggles we would face and the decision God would place before us to make a choice for His glory or the glory of the institution of public schools. Our daughter entered Kindergarten and the year went pretty well, nothing alarming, she liked her teacher and the class. Then started first grade. The first semester was okay, but after the teacher we had left to go back to her home in Montana, we began to experience public school and all that it will and won’t do for your child. Our daughter was getting bored because the class would stay on the same subject until everyone would get it. She found herself finishing her work and tests before the rest of the class, unchallenged in learning. Then the bullying started. Oh yes, by first grade bullying has already set in these days and the school policy of zero tolerance didn’t follow with enforcement. Boys bullying girls and girls bullying girls. I began to think, what kind of parents do these kids have that at that age boys are not taught to respect girls but instead treat them like dirt? That was followed by our daughter coming home with books about other Gods, which upon research were confirmed as false gods actually worshipped in other countries. The straw on the camel’s back had been broken and our eyes opened that if we were to raise a Godly daughter who could flower with strong roots, it would require us to commit to the Lord that we would raise her and all our kids to know Him and his character and not the character of the unbeliever, lest our children appear no different in the world than those of atheistic pretense. We prayerfully decided that we would rather spend the next 12 years teaching our kids than 12 years of fighting the humanistic teaching of schools who follow the agenda of those wishing to push an ungodly worldview into the thinking of our children.
Tim Birks
Homeschooling
I don't know if we are allowed to enter if we already won, but it's worth a try, right? :) We won a copy of "Already Compromised", but would LOVE to own "Already Gone".
My husband and I both attended and graduated from Christian school, and we both assumed that we would send our children to that same school. As Kindergarten approached for our oldest son, we began to feel the Lord leading us to homeschool. Because we both intended to send him to the Christian school, God really had some work to do in our hearts. As we considered our God-given responsibility to "train up" our children in the way they should go, we began to feel convicted that homeschool would be the way we could best do this without feeling that we were passing off our responsibility on other people. We felt that our primary purpose was for their spiritual training, and we would only have the weekends and a few hours in the evening if we sent them to school. When the Lord calls us to do something, He is very persuasive. :) I feel that each member of our family has been challenged and blessed beyond measure because we answered the call to homeschool, and I pray that others will experience the blessings we have because of the homeschool experience!
Amanda
saffler at hotmail dot com
Why I decided to homeschool. (Already Gone)
I decided to start homeschooling before my son was even born. I knew it was the direction God was leading our family when he should choose for us to begin having children, and my husband, whole-heartedly agreed.:)
Over the years before our son was born, He slowly taught us about home birth (Jesus was born safely in the natural setting of a stable, not in the artificial environment of a hospital), natural health (eating with the seasons, not over vaccinating, etc) and about His divine plan for His children to be "in but not of the world" and to make a change for the greater good through becoming actively involved for Christ in government and ministry, through Christian education.
Our Lord taught me that our children are called to higher things in life, values and ministry than the public schools will teach our children. He showed me the seriousness of the dangers of what the public schools DO teach, (evolution, abortion, sexuality, flexible personal values, etc), and the enormity of the dangers of negative socialization, social pressures and the high cost of letting someone not saved, teach our children falsehoods and lies.
God taught me how our children should be loved, like He loves, nurtured in their greatest God-Given gifts and not production-lined like the public and even private Christian schools do. He taught me that education is about following my child's lead, starting a fire and not filling a bucket. He taught me how to raise my son in the nurture and admonition of the Lord within a loving Christian family, teaching God's BEST through Christian home school resources, family worship and service to others.
Vision Forum Ministries, Verita’s Press and countless others have continued to help instill old fashioned, God-fearing values and skills into our teaching. And even after the structure of our family has changed in the past few years due to outside circumstances, I continue to home school my son, who is very self disciplined, God-fearing and self directed, even though I must now also hold down a job to support our family.
The Lord has been so faithful and He has brought amazing,, encouraging teachers to me like Mary Hood, the Maxwell family, the Duggars and IBLP/ATI, the Boyer family and probably most of all, Chris and Ellyn Davis from the Elijah Company, all through ICHE and their magazine, as well as through the ministry of HSDLA. These gifted, Godly people taught me that I am my child's BEST teacher and that with God, ALL things are possible. Year after year, I watched as homeschooled students won the National Spelling Bee and began self publishing books for and about homeschoolers. Homeschooled children like the Maxwell, and the two young men who wrote "Do Hard Things". So many students raising the bar for this generation and those to come, far too numerous to count, but our homeschooling efforts, the seeds we are sowing into our home schooled children, are reaping a truly awesome harvest. To God be the Glory!
Rita M
JazzyDog1965@hotmail.com
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