Welcome to the High Country Christian Homeschool web pages!  Content is dynamic, so send corrections, additional information, or pictures for the Gallery to James Wilkes (wilkesjt at gmail dot com).  If you want access to the calendar to post events, let me know that as well (it is a google calendar).

Following is the mission of HCCHS:

Deuteronomy 6:6-7 commands parents to, “teach these words of mine to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you lie down and when you get up.” HCCHS firmly believes that the best way to fulfill this command is through home education, allowing parents the best possible environment to disciple their children through spiritual, moral, and academic training that is grounded in Scripture. Once a family makes the important decision to home school, HCCHS believes it is the group’s privilege and duty to equip and encourage the family to continue, mature and succeed in their home schooling journey. HCCHS endeavors to weave a tapestry of support that covers the needs of both the beginning and the veteran home schooling family. Our heart’s desire is to cultivate lasting relationships and long-term commitment to Christian home education in the lives of HCCHS member families.

Quick Links

Relevant happenings and interesting links in the homeschool world:

NCHE Annual Conference

HCCHS Student News

American Form of Government

HCCHS Calendar


President's Corner

 

Another rerun from 2006:

Since you are reading this I will assume that you are homeschooling.  This means that sometime in the recent past you had a serious change in thinking about education, unless you are a second generation homeschooler.  Your way of thinking was challenged by someone or something.  You and your spouse made a conscious decision to take responsibility for the education of your children.  So, now you can go merrily on your way and lead a normal life!

That is not how it has been for us.  Once you begin thinking about serious things, like educating your children, you begin to think and rethink other things as well.  Not all at once of course, but look back after a few years of homeschooling and see if you have changed your way of thinking about lots of things.  Here is a list of some things that we have had to rethink (I won’t tell you here where we ended up): evolution, birth control, music, church, doctrine (Calvinism), salvation, college, evangelism, role of husband and father, dating, immunizations, courtship, children, curriculum, child training, role of wife and mother, sleepovers, Sabbath day, working, health care, adolescence.  Get the idea?  Whether you just started homeschooling or just finished (actually, this is not possible), you will find yourself continually evaluating what you are doing and why.  God wants us to change, from glory to glory into the image of Jesus Christ.  Be willing to change for His glory!  Further up and further in!