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Category: Adventist Home Educator
Growing With God: Curlyn’s Homeschooling Testimony
My name is Curlyn Baptiste, I’m 38 years old and I’m a single-parent homeschooling mom in NYC.
My 4-year-old daughter was with me the first two years of her life and due to financial struggles I went back into the work force and sent her to school for one year.
To my utter dismay, whenever we had morning and evening worship, there was always a fight from 
her, not wanting to hear, sing or talk about Jesus or God. That was not my only struggle, she would tell me that ” my friends say this and teacher say that” and whatever I say would not be of much value. That troubled me at lot, had heart to heart searching with God as to what I should do for her to retain His knowledge and learn to love Him more.
During the summer of 2013, while in training to better myself in canvassing on my days off from work, I was paired up with another single mom who was going through the same battle! Friends, my God is good and He comes in right on time!
We both realised that we wanted the same things for our daughters and ourselves spiritually.
We received valuable information about Sunlight Education Ministry, an SDA curriculum for homeschooling which solely uses the Bible as the foundation and main source for all the educational classes. I was amazed and was even more confirmed that’s our goal when I found out all of its materials were free!!!!!!!
In October of 2013, against the wishes of my boss and my close friends, I quit my job and began homeschooling my daughter.
Friends, I’ve seen miracles happen!
Firstly, the other parent who joined me with her 4-year-old daughter, travels every day from her county to mine so that we can teach the kids! That’s a major sacrifice on her part and she is also an excellent vegan cook and medical missionary! We are schooled daily in what God requires of us in everything we do.
Secondly, my daughter has major food allergies. She is allergic to soy and other major foods, but as I chose to also become a vegan at the same time, we started introducing her to soy products and God be praised even her allergist was dumbfounded to see the positive changes in her.
Also our source of income is canvassing, and even when I can’t see God sometimes, He still comes through when I just totally rely on Him. I must say at times watching and waiting would get the better of me and I would doubt myself and God but even then He never gives up, He opens my eyes to other options even I can’t see to meet my daily needs.
Thirdly and most importantly, we has grown so much in the knowledge and walk with God!
Everyday I’m impressed by the Holy Spirit to learn more so that I can impart more. I feel so guilty when I don’t spend enough quality time myself with God everyday. My daughter is the driving force behind my walk with Him, I’ve learned from Adventist Home that kids learn more from our examples than our words so I have to know God myself to share Him with her and that’s what motivates me everyday.
Keep us in your prayers as we follow His will for us and our children that He had loaned to us.
I’m impressed to go to mission school and also looking for a country home for us, do please lift us up as we do the same for you as we travel on this journey to Glory Land.
God bless!
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On Solid Ground, Week of Prayer 2013 DVD’s
Thank you for joining us last month for Week of Prayer, On Solid Ground!
I hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did! The interaction via the blog and our Facebook Page was nice and it was encouraging to hear from day to day where people were checking in from. It’s times like these, that we don’t quite feel so alone in what we are doing! We realize that not everyone was able to watch the videos that very week. For those that missed Week of Prayer, we are now offering the set of 5 programs, copied onto two DVD’s.
DVD’s will be available for $15 per set with free shipping in the main 48 states of the United States. If you are out of the United States (main 48), we ask that you contact us before trying to purchase so we can figure out (individually) how to get these to you in a cost effective manner. You can also email us for more information at adventisthomeducator@gmail.com.
To Purchase the On Solid Ground DVD’s, you will need to go to PayPal.com and make a PayPal payment of $15 to adventisthomeducator@gmail.com
Please remember to include your mailing address so that we can mail these out to you. We will be able to begin shipping after April 15th, 2013.
On Solid Ground ~ Day 5: Fixing Broken Parts
Welcome to the fifth and last day of On Solid Ground, our special Homeschool Week of Prayer. Have you been blessed? Today Pastor Reeves will share with us : Fixing Broken Parts.
The theme song lyrics can be found by following this link. My Hope is Built on Nothing Less Please sing along with us! Videos are now available for you to learn sign language to the theme song.
A special thanks to the Bull family from northern Iowa for providing our special music today!
Today’s Prayer Focus: Pray for the decisions that have been made this week, both in your life, in your family and the other families watching. Pray that God will give us all strength to rise up and follow Him in a mighty and determined way. Pray for our hearts to be totally and truly committed to God.
Thanks to all of you who have commented, it has been so thrilling to hear from homeschool families all over the world. Pastor Reeves would love to hear from you! Leave your questions, prayer requests or greetings in the comment form below.
Programming Note: **The Week of Prayer videos will be posted on the AHE blog only until Sunday, March 10th.** For those of you subscribing by email, please note that the video may not show up in the email. Please visit the blog site directly to view the videos.
A special thank you to everyone who has helped out! Another special thanks to those who have commented here and there and everywhere… 🙂 It has been wonderful getting to know you all. We’re glad that you’ve all been able to be a part of this special Week of Prayer for Homeschoolers event. For those that missed any messages, you can catch up through Sunday, March 10th. If that isn’t possible, be watching for details about how to get DVD’s so you can watch as well. We will post details on the blog and in the next month’s newsletter.
On Solid Ground ~ Day 4: Unshakeable Character
Welcome to the fourth day of On Solid Ground, our special Homeschool Week of Prayer. Have you been blessed? Today Pastor Reeves will share with us : Unshakeable Character.
The theme song lyrics can be found by following this link. My Hope is Built on Nothing Less Please sing along with us! Videos are now available for you to learn sign language to the theme song.
A special thanks to the Allen Family from east Texas for providing our special music today!
Today’s Prayer Focus: Homeschooling Freedoms/Becoming More Like Jesus. Let’s pray for our governments around the world to be supportive with homeschooling and in areas where there are definite trials with homeschooling, give families strength and guidance to know God’s will in this area. We also want to pray that we will be open to examining our hearts and our characters and being willing to let go of some bad habits and become more like Jesus.
Thanks to all of you who have commented, it has been so thrilling to hear from homeschool families all over the world. Pastor Reeves would love to hear from you! Leave your questions, prayer requests or greetings in the comment form below.
Programming Note: **The Week of Prayer videos will be posted on the AHE blog only until Sunday, March 10th.** For those of you subscribing by email, please note that the video may not show up in the email. Please visit the blog site directly to view the videos.
Learn Sign Language for Our Week of Prayer Theme Song
You may have noticed in our Week of Prayer videos that during the theme song, there is some sign language being used. We thought you would enjoy learning some of that sign language this week as you are singing along. In this video we’ve slowed it down and we walk you through the first verse of signs.
You may need to turn up the volume as we talk rather softly. You may notice some fan feedback noise from the computer it was recorded on. The webcam offered the ability to mirror the image so that you can learn the signs by following us, instead of trying to reverse them if we did it with a camera. It isn’t the best recording, but it is adequate for it’s purpose.
Verse One and Chorus
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Verse Two
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Verse 3
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Verse 4
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Have fun practicing!
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