by Admin | May 1, 2012 | General
Greetings from the IAHE Board, Spring 2012 It is with great joy and excitement that we bring you this spring edition of The Informer. We have gathered for you a collection of articles and stories that we believe will encourage your hearts and quicken your spirits....
by Tess Worrell | Apr 28, 2012 | General
Though schedules vary, many home schoolers close the school year in May. For some, May becomes a light at the end of the long tunnel. For others, it looms as the blinding flash of a freight train hurtling toward them. However we see it–May is a finish line. How...
by Tess Worrell | Apr 14, 2012 | General
What frustrates you most as a parent? For me–disciplining the same behavior over. . .and over. . .and over. I often find myself saying, “Are we here again?!” Why can’t my children simply learn the lesson? Why can’t they just do what I...
by Carol Carpenter | Apr 10, 2012 | General
I wasn’t yet a mother when I first heard of the ‘Terrible Two’s’. I have to tell you I was really troubled by the term. It wasn’t that I feared what would befall our household when we, Lord willing, would have a two-year-old of our own....
by Tess Worrell | Apr 6, 2012 | General
“They put a purple robe on Him and twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on Him. And they began to call out, to Him ‘Hail, King of the Jews!’ Again and again they struck Him on the head with a staff and spit on Him. Falling on their knees,...
by Carol Carpenter | Apr 3, 2012 | General
“How sweet are Your words to my taste! Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth! The sum of Your word is truth.” Psalm 119:103, 160a About ten years ago, we had just moved to a new community and were visiting churches, looking for a new church home. I walked...
by Carol Carpenter | Mar 31, 2012 | General
“It is better to go to a house of mourning Than to go to a house of feasting, Because that [death] is the end of every man, And the living takes it to heart.” Ecclesiastes 7:2 This week my husband went literally to a house of mourning, and though our...
by Tess Worrell | Mar 31, 2012 | General
“In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps.” Proverbs 16:9 Fresh from the convention—renewed by speakers, encouraged by fellow home schoolers, inspired for next year—we find planning our course easy. That’s good. God desires us to plan....