Thursday, January 8, 2009

Homeschooling Conference

Last week the kids and I went to a homeschool conference in South Africa. We have had this conference before for all the moms but this time the whole family was invited. A volunteer team came to help alongside of some of our missionaries. The theme for the children was all about Egypt. They learned how to write like an Egyptian, play like an Egyptian, dress like an Egyptian, build like an Egyptian, and eat like an Egyptian. They did art projects and played games too. At the end of the conference they dressed like an Egyptian and had a bazaar for all the parents to come to. They worked hard in the few days that we were there and learned a lot about Egyptian life and culture. The youth went bowling, did geocaching, studied personality profiles, learned about finances, and played games. This time at the conference the parents had choices of classes to go to. I chose to go to a study on personality profiles, Physics is Phun, Power point, digital Photography, a discipline class, and how to keep ourselves upgraded. We are thankful that the International Mission Board provided this conference for us to go to. I always come away encouraged and ready to get back to homeschooling.



Hannah is working on her Egyptian necklace.


Justin


Zach and Troy








LOVE


This was all the youth aged mk's at the conference.


Hannah with Abbey and Anna Bowman. Hannah loved having lots of little s to play with.

1 comment:

Erin McDonald said...

Hello my name is Erin McDonald and I am a missionary in the Philippines. Our sending chruch is a Southern Baptist but we are here independantly. Any way the reason I am writting you because our home church sends money monthly to SBC and we suport Lottie Moon too, and I read that you guys are supported by the Lottie moon offering so I was wondering if you are SB missionaries. Our church would like to be in better contact with missionaries whom they support and it would be cool if when you go on furlo to visit them and tell about your ministry. Or if the Sunday School kids could send cards to your kids. stuff like that. If you are interested let me know. Thanks God Bless!