More than one hundred homeschooled children like yours, taught by homeschooling mamas like you, worked together for the last two weeks to help audiences in Cookeville, Tennessee, be Touched by the King. The first to be touched were the guests…
I never collected Beanie Babies, but I do have two: a camel and a hippo. in our home I display the camel beside the piece of olive wood and replica of a Dead Sea Scroll that Ray’s daddy brought us…
Do you want to know a secret? During play performances, I sit in the orchestra pit beside Jennifer, the musical director. Usually Tabitha (one of the play moms) is in the pit with us to play the piano; but this year we have a…
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday  — today is play practice day 5. After putting the sets in place on Sunday, we have just three more days of practice before dress rehearsal on Thursday and the first performance on Thursday night. It’s intense, sort of  like…
In 1999 our then-fifteen-year-old daughter Mary Evelyn started the the Homeschool Dramatic Society. A few weeks earlier she had asked, “Mom, could I write a play and invite homeschoolers to be in it?” I had replied, “Sure.” The play that…
Ray and I have always lived near universities. Our current church is the first one we have been a part of during our entire marriage that has not had a ministry to college students. As our children were growing up,…
