Call for Prayer

To all my dear sweet readers,

It seems everywhere I turn home educating moms are crying out – or wishing they could without feeling looked down upon. They feel overwhelmed, discouraged, tired, worn out, stressed out, and out of sorts. They don’t want to quit. They love what they do. But they are currently under heavy fire, and in need of support.

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Physical support, in any way you can, would be greatly appreciated I’m sure. I don’t know any mom that would turn down a floor vacuumed, a load of laundry ran, or dishes done.

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Emotional support is necessary. They need a safe place to express what they’re going through. Someone who will care, and be a shoulder to lean on – or cry on.

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But most of all they need prayer support. They need lifted up to our heavenly Father. We need to ask for the enemy to be rebuked in this attack. We need to ask for His strength, for they know their own is spent. We need to ask for His Peace in the midst of their storm.

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Never before have I seen such a wide-spread attack on home educating moms from all over, at the beginning of the typical school-year. Purpose to pray for your home educating sisters in Christ, as they seek to follow their Lord in discipling their children for Him.

Announcing! R Road

Whoo-hoo!

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I finally have my newsletter out so I can finally make this announcement.

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Notebooking the Shorter Catechism

Our family studies the Westminster Shorter Catechism as a tool to help us grasp Bible truths. It is imperative that our children learn the pillars of the Truths of Christianity and learn to stand on them, as our society is rapidly straying away from them, even in the church. And the WSC is a good summary of Biblical Christian teaching.

523927: Training Hearts, Teaching MindsOur favorite resource for the family is Training Hearts Teaching Minds by Starr Meade. This book is a family devotional based on the shorter catechism (Protestant, reformed doctrine). Rather than just teaching the questions and answers of the shorter catechism by dry rote, there are 6 daily short family devotional readings that explain each question and answer and give Scriptures that teach us these doctrines.

There are 107 questions, so we take about 3 years to go through the WSC. Daily we read the devotional and Scriptures and recite the questions and answers, and perhaps most importantly, discuss what we are reading in the catechism and the Bible. Our younger children that are able to write copy the questions and answers and list references for the verses the teaching comes from. At the end of each week, they write a summary of the teaching in their own words. They Journal this in a Composition Notebook. We all memorize the questions and answers, but it is in this context of understanding, not just rote repetition.

2521X: The Westminster Shorter Catechism: For Study ClassesYouth copy the question and do their own research in the Bible before looking at the answer, following R Road to Biblical Wisdom method of study.  They then compare their answer to the stated one, and look up other Scriptures listed that they hadn’t come across in their own study. They also then read from The Westminster Shorter Catechism for Study Classes and other resources. In addition to copying the answer, they write their own synopsis from their learning. Their study is kept in a 3 ring-binder.

This study forms a core for our Bible Doctrine studies. We utilize many other resources, but primarily the Bible itself, to learn the tenets of our Christian faith, that we may be faithful followers of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.