On a Mission, Without Leaving?
So many mission trips happening this summer. I love it! But, I am not going. That is not my call, or at least not at this time. But, what if we can still be...
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Quick start for 2020-2021
Are you brand new to homeschooling for the 2020-2021 school year? Already homeschooling and fielding questions from friends? This post is for you. ***Resources to share with prospective homeschoolers*** You probably have friends and...
The Quilt of Life
By Cara Shelton, ACHEV board member Isn’t it funny how life just keeps changing? As women, it seems like our lives are a series of quilt blocks that patch together into something beautiful. Each...
Overview of ACHEV – Part Four: Leadership
Overview of ACHEV continues! Last month we pointed out: Every member has a role. Every role is vital. We covered the roles, which are: board members, officers, coordinators, and participants (working and attending). Together,...
Overview of ACHEV – Part Three: Our Structure
Overview of ACHEV continues! Can you believe ACHEV has been around for over 30 years? Many of us were kids when the first homeschool moms and dads started this adventure! (Where were you in...
Overview of ACHEV – Part Two: What is our Purpose?
Please enjoy part two of a series first published in May, 2016. Last month we covered a brief history of ACHEV’s formation in 1981 and eventual incorporation in 1998. What is our purpose? ACHEV’s...
Overview of ACHEV – Part One: What is ACHEV?
Overview of ACHEV – first in a series! Please enjoy the first in a series of articles published in the April 2016 newsletter. What is ACHEV? What is our scope? How are we organized?...
Suspending Your Disbelief
-the scary and the sacred
By: Norma Jean Bennett I never meant to do it. I told myself that the addiction had to end with me—that my children and the generations to come would not suffer as I had....
Hello, Summer 2021.
So much has happened in since Summer 2020. We in ACHEV have worked incredibly hard, praying, reading all the expectations from our public health officials, shifting gears so often, my gears feel a little...
A Smuggler of the Best Quality
A book review on “God’s Smuggler” by Brother Andrew written by ACHEV students Alexandria Adair and Katie Znamenacek. “Lord, in my luggage i have scripture that i want to take to your children across...
THE GAME’S AFOOT!
By the CLASSICAL FOUNDATIONS LITERARY SOCIETY a book review on Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet My dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes: There has been a bad business during the night at 3, Larristion Gardens…...
Escape across the Highlands
A book review on Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson Written by the Classical Foundations Literary Society “David,” says he, “this is no’ the kind of death I fancy.” What, Alan!” I cried. “You’re not...