Prayer Partners
CHEA's ministry rests on a foundation of prayer. The tenth of each month is CHEA's day of prayer for homeschoolers in California, group leaders (local and state), and CHEA's ministry to all homeschoolers. We invite you to join us at this designated day of prayer and...
Homeschool History By Susan K. Stewart
"Children at risk." "Students hunted down." "Parents arrested and jailed." Sounds like headlines about a third-world country or a secretive cult. They are not. These are headlines about home educators-- home educators in the United States. Headlines and news articles...
If We Don’t Remember, We Forget By Gregg Harris
One of my family’s favorite films is one called Avalon, made in 1990 by director Barry Levinson. It tells a beautiful story about how easily the next generation can be lost. Sam Krichinsky (played by Armin Mueller-Stahl) is a young Jewish immigrant in the early 1900s...
Microscopes, the Bible, and Real Science: Why a modern microscopist believes the Bible to be God’s Word.
by Mark Armitage, M.S., Ed.S., Creation Research Society It is often said that the Bible is not a book about science. Skeptics maintain that it contains no scientific facts within its pages. Furthermore, it is said that accounts in Scripture that deal with scientific...
The Shelving of Classic Books By Sarah Schwab
In the late twentieth century, there was a move to replace classic western literature used in most schools and universities with a more diverse reading curriculum. The new curriculum would place an emphasis on ideas present in today’s society, such as the struggles...
Going Fun Places to Learn by Susan Peterson
“This subject is sooo boring.” “School is not fun.” “I don’t get anything out of just reading about it.” These and numerous other comments like them are what we homeschoolers hear so often, but we can do something wonderful to turn around such apathetic and sour...
Re-Discovering Your Hometown by Karen Koch
I chuckled while watching Pixar’s Wall-E with my kids the other day when the captain and other characters said incredulously, “I didn’t know we had a pool” and “We have a jogging track?” Apparently they had lived on the spaceship Axiom so long they had ceased to see...
School Portraits Tips by Julie Horn
With the sophistication of digital cameras today, great quality photos are easier than ever. However, there are some tricks of the photo trade that will lift your portraits from the snapshot pile and elevate them to the wall. Choose an overcast day. If the weather is...
What’s Up With Your Worldview? by Lalo Gunther
As a young father, I am challenged by an ever-increasing wave of ideas in our culture today that run counter to my Christian faith—the faith I hope to see bestowed upon my newborn daughter. The Bible tells us that God created all things and they were created for His...
Creation Science Investigation by Nathaniel Jeanson
“The Bible is a bunch of cute stories and fairy tales—no one really believes what it says.” That’s what a lot of kids and teachers are saying today. Where do they get that notion? And why do students abandon their faith in droves, as recent studies suggest? There are...