Editor’s Note: This Guest Post is from Lisa Nehring. She lives rurally in the Dakota Territories. She has 1 husband, 2 graduate degrees, 5 kids and a black-belt in homeschooling. I’m delighted to be sharing on Rural Ministry about Rural Homeschooling. I wanted to start our journey together by sharing a […]
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My 5 P’s of Grocery Savings…
Editors Note: This was originally published by Vicki Williams at her Personal Blog here…. When I was growing up saving on groceries meant cheap, dented, tasteless food that my mother would gather from grocery store for pennies. And while she was able to “feed” the three of us for […]
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Creating a Rhythm to Your Homeschool…
Editors Note: This was originally published by Vicki Williams at her Personal Blog here…. Its been such a wonderful blessing to have our years planned out for us with such a strong biblical foundation with My Fathers World curriculum. When we first began this curriculum I scoured the internet […]
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Seven Days of Homeschooling Seven: Why a School Room?
In the beginning of our homeschool journey I wanted my house to be a home and our school to be at the kitchen table. I kept a small shelf or cabnet with our supplies and we just cleaned up each day. Over the years the bins of books for each […]
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Seven Days of Homeschooling Seven: Why a School Room?
In the beginning of our homeschool journey I wanted my house to be a home and our school to be at the kitchen table. I kept a small shelf or cabnet with our supplies and we just cleaned up each day. Over the years the bins of books for each […]
Family Stuff , Homeschool
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Seven Days of Homeschooling Seven: Have a Plan and Stick to the Plan
When we first began homeschooling 8 years ago I had only 3 children and used a traditional textbook/workbook style where planning was very simple. My curriculum company sent me homeschool lesson plans and nice little work books that were simply do the next page. I just did a number of […]
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Seven Days of Homeschooling Seven: Creating a Rhythm to Your Homeschool
Its been such a wonderful blessing to have our years planned out for us with such a strong biblical foundation with My Fathers World curriculum. When we first began this curriculum I scoured the internet for other M.O.M.Y.S.(Mothers of Many Young Siblings aka Moms with Kids close in age) using […]
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My 5 P’s of Grocery Savings..
When I was growing up saving on groceries meant cheap, dented, tasteless food that my mother would gather from grocery store for pennies. And while she was able to “feed” the three of us for $15 a week at one point, often times our food was throw…
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I Know A Guy….
Last weekend brought a snowstorm like I have never seen before. I grew up in the midwest, and have seen and done some really crazy things in snow and ice, but this was beyond anything else. We had temps, not wind chills of -12 and spent approximately 2 days straight […]
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Simply Living in Rural Ministry: Lunchmeat
One of the things that can be a challenge in Rural Ministry is living on a budget. While there are some things that are cheaper in a rural community (like housing), there are other things that can be far more expensive, like groceries. Here is an example: I will start […]
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Youth Ministry On the Cheap: Youth Family Christmas Party
Do you want an inexpensive and easy Christmas idea? I stumbled onto this one a few years ago, and it’s been successful ever since. Knowing that everyone is busy in December (Christmas parties, shopping, family and work get-togethers), I didn’t want to add one more event parents had to drag […]
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Seven Days of Homeschool Seven: What?
For the past 5 years we’ve been using My Fathers World for our home school curriculum. We really love how simple it is to use, very open and go. We also enjoy that it makes lessons easier for…