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Extras and Announcements -- Feburary 20, 2005

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#1 · February 20, 2005, 4:28 pm

Posted by: homenews <homenews@...>

 
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Hope Chest Home School News
Extras and Announcements
February 20, 2005
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Dear Hope Chest friends,
 
I have several extra goodies and announcements that are either time-sensitive or won't fit in a regular issue, so here we are!   As you remember, the last issue (Called to Love) had a sub-theme of missions, and many of these things are about great opportunities to get involved.
  • Great Web Sites for Your Education and Amusement
  • Next Hope Chest Issue on High School
  • Book Proceeds Fund Easter Conference in Malawi
  • Two Knowles Teens Head for Bolivia This Summer
  • Saints Bible Institute -- Semester in Italy
  • Mission to Japan Needs American Students for Spring Break in Daytona Beach, Florida
  • National Christian Choir presents Heart of a Child this Saturday (February 26) in Orlando Area
  • Worldview Seminar in Orlando on March 7
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Great Web Sites for Your Education and Amusement
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Song Birds -- a dozen pictures and sound clips -- my kids loved these!
(If you poke around at this site, you will also find pics and sounds for toads and frogs!  Great for the boys!)
 
National Spelling Bee -- including an Audio Paideia that pronounces and defines all the words on the 2005 list! http://www.spellingbee.com/  (My 12 year old daughter Joanna won the NearHim Home Educators bee in January, and advances to the Seminole County bee this Thursday, February 24!)
 
Here's a hilarious quiz on food customs around the world!
 
Speaking of food, have you ever seen the Gospel on a bag of potato chips?  I did when I bought a bag at Big Lots last year!  Check this out! http://www.unclerays.com
 
Generation Joshua (a division of Home School Legal Defense Association)
Summer camp, free on-line civics class, and more
 
MicroSoft free Anti-Spyware software (This has really helped us. I had so many spyware programs on that my computer was running abysmally slow -- it's much faster now!)
 
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Next Hope Chest Issue on High School
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The theme of the next Hope Chest issue is "The High School Years."  We would all love to hear your thoughts on this, so please send them along for possible inclusion!  I'd like to include information on lots of different high school options, including dual enrollment, on-line courses and apprenticeship.
 
 

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Book Proceeds Fund Easter Conference in Malawi
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As many of you know, for the past few years, our Learner's Journal lesson planner proceeds have funded Chichewa language Bible and tract distribution for Pastor Headson Makazinga in Malawi.  In his latest letter to me, Pastor Makazinga reported that the group of village churches he oversees will convene for an Easter Conference at the end of March.  Lots of widows and orphans will attend.  I won't be printing a batch of Learner's Journals any time soon, but I would like to send some money over to help out with this.  So, I just ordered a small print run of my books Common Sense Excellence: Faith-Filled Home Education for Preschool to 5th Grade and The Real Life Home School Mom.  Profits from any orders received by February 28 (just a week from now) will be sent along to Pastor Makazinga.  In a separate e-mail message, I will include ordering information and a short excerpt and table of contents from each book.  If you would like to send a donation directly to Pastor Makazinga, please e-mail me for his address and instructions.  P.S. Thanks for praying for the last shipment of tracts, Christian books and other supplies -- it made it through without pilfering!  Yeah!
 
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Two Knowles Teens Head for Bolivia This Summer
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My oldest two daughters, Mary and Julia, are catching the missions spirit and planning to go to Bolivia for two weeks in June/July with MissionX E-teams from Metro Life Church (http://www.metrolife.org).    Mary will turn 18 on her trip to La Paz with the evangelism team -- a fitting choice since she speaks Spanish after three college courses in it!  Julia, who will be 16 this April, is very physically strong and loves hands-on projects.  Her team will do construction work way out in Entros Rios.  A third team will do medical work somewhere in Bolivia.  There will also be teams sent to other countries and US cities.  If you would like to sponsor Mary and Julia financially please send me an e-mail, and we'll keep you posted on when and where to send donations.  The total cost for each of them will be up to $1500, including shots and passports, so any amount will help!
 
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Saints Bible Institute
Semester in Italy
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[Virginia's note: Our dear friends Ken and RuthAnn Wells are preparing for long-term missionary service with the Saints Bible Institute.  They hope to leave this June.  Since they have been living in New York for the past several months raising support, we were so blessed yesterday to have a surprise visit from them!  Ken was our pastor at Orlando Grace Church while we were members there a few years back.  They are a veteran home school family with six great kids.  You can e-mail the Wells family at [email protected]]
 
Saints Bible Institute in San Lorenzo, Italy, is a semester-long life-immersion experience for Christian students.  The Fall 2005 semester will run from September 12 - December 12.  SBI integrates at least 15 hours of college credit with hands-on missions experience in evangelism and church planting.  Courses include Philosophy, Romans, Renaissance and Reformation, Evangelism, Missions, Acts, Church history, Biblical Archeology and Italian.   All classes are taught in English, and course credits have been accepted by a variety of American colleges.  The cost is $4,000 per student, which includes tuition, room, board, resident dorm supervision and school-sponsored travel in Italy.  Apart from the semester abroad, there are also 3 week S.E.E. (Saints Equipped to Evanglize) short-term mission trips.  For more information, visit their web site at http://www.saintsbibleinstitute.com or e-mail [email protected], or phone (941)795-4418, or write to PO Box 587, Brandenton, FL 34206-0587.
 
 
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Mission to Japan Needs American Students
for Spring Break in Daytona Beach, Florida
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Mission to Japan is a ministry that brings Japanese students to Orlando and Atlanta for homestay programs, and sometimes takes American students to Japan.  Warren and Yukari Griffith founded MTJ in 1993, and ten years ago our family hosted an MTJ student for two weeks. 
 
This March, 14 Japanese students will attend the homestay program.  During spring break (March 14-19) they will be visiting Daytona Beach.  Warren is looking for 14 mature American Christian college students to come along for the fun and ministry.  The cost per student is $220, and some scholarships are available.  (Warren happily accepts scholarship donations, too!)
 
For more information, you can e-mail Warren at [email protected], visit the web site at http://www.MissionToJapan.org or call 407-273-4454.
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National Christian Choir Presents
Heart of a Child Concert
Saturday, February 26, in Orlando Area
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Have your kids ever heard a HUGE choir sing?  If you live in Central Florida, here's your chance.  The National Christian Choir (http://www.nationalchristianchoir.org/) will present "Heart of a Child" -- a FREE musical concert of hope and inspiration -- at Calvary Assembly of God in Winter Park this coming Saturday, February 26.  (Tickets are not required.)  They will sing at Calvary's service on Sunday morning, and at EPCOT (a Disney theme park) on Sunday evening.  The NCC is dear to my heart, since my mother, Mary Quarrier, has sung with them for over a decade, and she'll get to visit us for a few days while she is in town!  (This 200 voice choir is based in Gaithersburg, Maryland.)  Saturday's concert is sponsored by the Adventist Health System / Florida Hospital.  You can find more information on this concert at http://www.AHSconcert.com.
 
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Worldview Seminar in Orlando
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John Stonestreet is the director of the Summit at Bryan College, a leadership program for high school and college students designed to train them to understand why they believe what they believe, and develop a sense of mission to go into the world with a heart and mind for Christ. He is a camp and conference speaker to thousands each year, teaching parents, educators, and students how to think from a Biblical worldview.  He is also on the Biblical Studies faculty at Bryan College (TN). He and his wife, Sarah, live in Dayton, TN.

Pat and Don Wesolowski  have been homeschooling their 9 children for over 20 years.  After coming to a realization  that teaching worldview is of vital importance, they have a passion for bringing this seminar to as many Christians as possible.   (Virginia's note: You can e-mail Pat at [email protected] -- she is a neat lady!  Some of my girls have been to similar conferences put on by Pat and company.)

Cost:  $12 per person ($50 max per family)
Time:  9:00 -- 3:30
Date:  Monday, March 7, 2005
Loation:  First Academny, 2667 Bruton Blvd., Orlando, FL 32805
Pre-register:  Contact Bonnie Ward before March 1
([email protected], 407-206-8657)
Lunch:  Bring your own, purchase in the cafeteria (let First Academy know of your plans) or leave campus (students may not leave unless accompanied by an adult) Lunch break is from 12:00 -- 12:45.

Workshop Information

Children ages 8 -12

9:00 ---3:30 Topics covered:
The World of Worldviews (Do you have one?)
Why Should I?  (Honoring and respecting those in authority)
Research that Changed the World (The importance of learning research skills)
Developing Public Speaking Skills (Be ready always to give an answer.)
Impromptu Speeches
Video from ICR on Creation vs. Evolution

Teens

9:00 -- 12:00
Worldview teaching with Bryan College Students
Entertainment and Engaging the Culture
        How do you make sense of the crazy world that we live in?  What does it mean to be "in the world but not of it"? As Christians we are called to be salt & light in a world without truth.   Most teens do not have any idea what they believe or why.  Not only that, but they also have no idea why other people believe what they believe. Summit exists to train students to actively engage the culture by equipping them to analyze and articulate the dominant ideas shaping our  world through the
lens of a Christian worldview.

1:00 -- 2:30 John Stonestreet, Director of Summit,  The Importance of Thinking Worldviewishly
2:30-3:30 teens will join adults for a question and answer session

Parents

9:00 -- 12:00
John Stonestreet
The 5 Reasons Children Leave the Faith
The Importance of Thinking Worldviewishly

1:00 -- 2:30
Pat Wesolowski
Applying Worldview Thinking to Everyday Life

2:30 -- 3:30
John Stonestreet
What Now? and Question and Answer session for adults and teenagers.

 
 

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