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Missions and People we have meet or Things we Love
Missions and those we know in the Lord's work who we know or have meet in our path have and will always be close to our hearts. We continue to be amazed at how God shows us so many of His children hard at work who make us strive to do the same in our lives. We have a special place for some we have meet along life's path and are looking forward to meeting many more who impact us in such a way. Often, it is just a person or a buisness who God has used to show He is at work in our lives.
Mike Ethington and his motorcycle mission, we love our friend Mike, he currently is doing a Bucket List and Mission Dream. Mike also takes people to El Salvador and does work there. He lived in Costa Rica as well and knows that area as well as the Rhoades Family listed next. These are homegrown missions from ABLBC. Added to this list is Blake and Megan Forner also in missions.
The Rhoades Family who we went to church with in Missouri are a wonderful family who are in El Salvador doing Gods will. We will always be impacted by them and what they are doing.
The Williams Family in Atlanta GA, who we first met not by fate but by God at Camp Sunshine in Sebago Maine which is a wonderful camp for kids with life-threatning disease. This family made an impact on our son, Jake and for that we will always have a special place in our heart. Chris has always found Phil to be such an encouragement and motivater to our family, we thank Meg and their entire famly who also changed their life style and are working to change hearts for Jesus. We love you and look forward to Camps ahead and other meetings!
The Loecken Family who we came to know recently through the Williams Family. They were impacted by a preacher who challenged them to live a different life style, one made to depend on Christ for everything they NEED, not want but more importantly, to GIVE and HELP wherever God has a place for them. They sold their home and four kids/teens are on the road and doing this because they felt God wanted them to. Their story has appeared in many places and on radio shows and can be found at www.crazylove.org. We are praying for this family and so glad God brought them into our lives. We understand their thirst! GO Loecken Family!!!!! We love and support ya! http://passiontoaction.org/
There are so many people and families who have crossed our path and continue to as God guides us. We long to see where He takes us next and are willing and ready to be His servants right here where we are. We pray to always be willing to GIVE and Help as so many have for us! We have been blessed by hundreds of people maybe thousands as our story continues to make contact with those God is using. We want to be used too!
Of course, so many people in the Lake Winnebago Mo, Lee's Summit Missouri area Water Wizzards!!! Every year, the Wizzards hold an incrediable event that without it, our family simply wouldn't be able to provide for. Many and so many to mention, sponcer our event each year. We thank all of them and every person who donates, helps, provides and comes to this event.
Mountain Grove Missouri, Charlotte and Asheville area have touched our lives and every single prayer ever given up Him for us, we are grateful for and their are those who have done that and much more we will never know but He does and we feel it in our lives. Thank You.
We want the churches down in the Ozarks near where my parents grew up as well as a lot of our family still there a thank you for your loving prayers and support, at Evening Shade and Mount Carney Missouri
Also, I know we have a cousin who said her church has taken up a collection as well and so we thank them as too.
Buisness
HUNT OF A LIFETIME- This is an amazing gift for children who have serious disease. We cannot say enough about the organization starting this for those who dream to hunt. They make certain all the family get a chance to go. They supply the children with everything needed and the age is up to 21. Tina Pattison is the person who started this when her son had cancer and it went into remission and came back but there wasn't anything more they could do and he was past the age and the Dream Foundations do not offer hunts. She started this in his memory and is an incrediable women who is also a friend. Jake had wished for a hunt but he became too sick to do this and we are just praying he will get well enough to have his dream. No matter what, we will always promote this organization and Chris will be involved and become the point person in North Carloina. He is happy to get donations for this wonderful organizations in the way of hunting gear, trips and guns. Call Chris at 816-522-5677 for any information. Many people are involved in this and all are so sweet.
Paul Malone is our guide serves and is wonderful Alaska bearfoot outfitters! No dream cout message up to Jake than this one. We thank you for the bottom of our hearts!
Our family runs across products and services that have been over the top in providing wonderful quality.
Jonny, you will always and forever be a part of our heart. The influence and fiendship you have shown my son will have a life long effect. Your heart for Christ and teaching music to all those you do, will be honored, the Worship Group Training program will bring blessings upon your family.
http://www.johnnysmusicasheville.com/guitar-lessons-asheville
http://www.tsorthodontics.com/ This is our orthodontist in Asheville NC and they are wonderful to our family. The are both great testimonies and have helped us with the expense of brases by dramatically dropping the price on the estimates we had. They allowed us payments without intrest and no one else would. God had His hand in this as well. They attend Biltmore Baptist Chruch.
We want to say a HUGE THANK YOU to G and L guitars who did an amazing deal for our son Jake. A Big thanks to the Vice President Rob Rozzeto and to Matt Disilca of Music Man located in the East Village, NY NY. Rob you ROCK!!!!! and now my son can too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks, Thanks, Thanks! If ever you need a guitar of awesome American made quaility, G and L is the best! On top of that, they made sure that Mrs. Fender signed a letter on top of the guitar! Thanks, to her as well.
My very good friend Gail Pickert ownes Sweet Meadows Natural Market with many great natural products. She is also very knowledgeble in Nutrition and supplements. She has everything from vitamin to beauty products and foods. She is a fellow Christian and works hard to make her customers happy.
http://local.yahoo.com/info-17769600-sweet-meadows-natural-market-raymore
We want to say thanks to friends in Todd who have opened their home to us, The Wadden Family, to Katy Jo in Hilton Head and Summit Cabin Rentals in Piegon Forge. To all of you who help make it possible for our family to have some time away and play, we thank.
We apologize to anyone we may have left out as we are just starting this list.
Home School, Our Favorites
Teaching Textbooks, is by far the greatest math program we have ever come across and will be our Math in used in our home. The include Trignometry with Algebra 3 as some see only Calculus. If more is need in these areas, we have taken them through local community colleges. I feared teaching this area so much when my kids reached this age but I am so glad we found this Christian company that has made the task of teaching math so enjoyable. http://www.teachingtextbooks.com/?Click=9171
This is a wonderful writing company which teaches you, how to teach your child at all leves how to write. Many Tell you how but this shows you in a ten hour lecture and then he teached your approraite age school children to their intrests levels. They also have wonderful Litature based teaching and a great Sequential Spelling set. The have other books on History and Sceince as well. I am so glad we have this and the company was very generous with our family.
http://www.excellenceinwriting.com/
Switched on Schoolhouse and The Liberty Academy re one in the same. They use the same curriculum but one is done online and has accreditation and the other is not. In the high school years, it can became more important to use their online
Robinson Curriculum- This is something we LOVE. We just don't have time to get back and forth to a library or we loose the books, have late fees and with this great collection for the price, you can't miss. We got it for the books alone, over 12,000 library which they can print out any book, 12 yr. education and 22 Cd's with 12,000 vocab words and 2, oo historic illustations. Without having to take up all the room! We use this with SOS and for reading. Wonderful
http://www.robinsoncurriculum.com/
Splashes from the River is a great English course from basic to advanced and includes an essay, punctuation course and free spelling as well. They offer a no frills DVD which comes with a dvd to print out the woorkbooks and have been great.
Egumpp--this is a great refresher in english in a quick review.
http://www.splashesfromtheriver.com/----- I have used this series with all my kids but reinforced with Abeka Language for younger years and their normal SOS english.
The best spelling I have ever run into is Sequential Spelling by AVCO. The impact on reading and voacbulary are a plus too.
Teach with movies is a retal program that is so reasonable, about $12 per year. You can rent so many movies that can help in a fun way.
We find using our old clooege books for A and P and Chemistry can be combined with the high school science.
There is tons of great material to give your child the best education money can buy. It isn't cheap to homeschool and it isn't easy. In fact it is the hardest thing we have ever done but we feel good about it.
Homeschool stuff we Love, Math U See- a great math program for younger kids. http://www.mathusee.com/
Rosetta Stone foriegn language is great as our entire family has used it. It is very expensive as a lot of the things we use are but we have found it works well though I have heard of other's less expeience in Cathy Duffy Reviews. This was a gift so we will use it for all three kids.
Science Labs: http://www.hometrainingtools.com/Default.asp?camid=&bhcd2=1256931597 This is a wonderful site that offers so much fun in science experiemnts and offers many in packages already set up with several top curriculuims or you can pick and choose. We found that switched on schoolhouse Biology is strong and use it but we also use ACE School of tomorrow and love their Biology lab on DVD which for dissection is top. You can follow right along. We also have SOS lab on DVD and we pick and choose the labs we do. We love the microscope and has made learning science so fun for the family. We have made our own slide and have seen their bone marrow slides. This makes science possible for the home schooler. Chemistry, I am ot sure of but we will decide about that next year. Body by Design and any anatomy coloring book and biology coloring book is fine. We also found that the visable women and man is good for understanding.
http://www.aophomeschooling.com/
Of course, each child is different and we use the Liberty Acedemy Switched on Schoolhouse for our basic curriculum and works well for us since we travel often and are on the go, when were sick or when were not. This is computer based and either can be done via the internet and offers accreditation or just the basic Switched on Schoolhouse which offers easy grade keeping and all the assignements are given either on their year or you can be create your own school year. All with 180 days, it meets most states standards. This doesn't include field trips that count for many state school days, so it works well. We have found that for Math, the other forms work better and do not use their math. You do not have to use their entire program.
http://libertyonlineacademy.com/
We add on to our subjects with the, Jensen's Format Writing and Daily Grams,Wordsmith Apprentice, Learning language Arts through Literature. Reading Comprehension in Varied Subjest Matter{ we use this in the summer or breaks just to keep the doing something} Cozy Grammer, Rosetta Stone, The Fallacy Detective for Reasoning Science tools and books as well as "A History of US" and for fun Driving thru History as well as early on Liberty Kids DVD's and SOS offers many educational videos as does the Christian Bookstore. The Creation Museum also offers a lot of learning material. There is just so much out there. After buying the Robinson Curriculium, I have not needed anything else with SOS, other than Sceince Experimence Supplies. It has everything in Literature and Classics as well as books on Logic, Reasoning and any subject area they are interested in.
Cathy Duffy's Top 100 Picks as well as her web site gives just about all that is out there. We did find some teaching sites that offer great films and DVD's to watch as well. The Christian Bookstore and Amazon as well as Ebay has a lot of material. It was hard for me at first as the kids had been in Abeka and a little Bob Jones but it didn't work for me at home with 3 kids. SOS, is so easy and in the lower grades is fine by itself and they offer by far the best deal. I have done them all and they are the best. The Acedemy just gives more assurance for college. We plan to have them start college classes in 11th grade.
If you know of an great books or homeschool tools, please let us know, we are always looking.
Western Carolina Cleaning- This is the very BEST in any type of cleaning from hardwoods to carpet and detail cleaning well as sterilization. They do a excellent job and provide it with kindness and hardwork. Greg Kandrel is the owner and went out of his way to help us. We cannot say enough good things about this company and thank Greg from the bottom of our hearts! Their phone number is 828-778-2829, located at 437 Kenilworth Rd. Asheville NC
Martins Mircoscopes- Martin owns this and home-school their children. He was a huge help in finding a quailty microscope for a minimal cost. His web address is www.martinmicroscope.com.
We have an entire list of buisnesses that support our family in the Kansas City area and will be putting a list together to say Thanks. There are others we will list over time and please remind us if we have left anyone out.
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Anita and Gunter Stein, berrydesign, Body by Jenn, Don Davis, Catfish Pimp, Greg Woniak, True Compnay Financial, Joesic Stell, LLC Lake Lotawana Ski Club, Lake Winnebago's Lion's Club-we serve, Little Joe's Asphalt, Lytle Construction, Inc. Martha LaPietra, MD, Metro Title Contractors, Pefect Promotions, Pyro City, Riffe Homes, Roofs by Gobson, Smilies by Dr. Jim Osbone and Dr. Jim Elias, Summit Boats and Gear, Smiles by Dr. Jim Osborne and Dr. Jim Elias, Summit Boates and Gear, Tim and Jana Allen, Realty Executives, Union Bank.
Thanks so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
