Jan

17

Our goals for 2012

January 17, 2012 | Home Education  |  Comments Off

Here we are at the beginning of 2012. This is a good time to think about what we will be doing this year.

At the top of the list we must think about our relationships with our children. In the busyness of the culture we live in this is often overlooked.  When our children are small we naturally have their hearts but as they grow older things and/or people steal their hearts from us. We must be vigilant in the work of keeping their hearts. Once we have lost their hearts it is even harder to regain them.

So as you and I make our plans for 2012 we need to think about our relationship with each of our children (no matter how old they are). Do we have their hearts? What can we be doing to keep their hearts? What can we be doing to regain their hearts?

Here are some links that might be helpful:Preventing and Regaining the Rebellious Heart
http://hef.org.nz/2010/preventing-and-regaining-the-rebellious-heart/

Training Our Children to Use Technology
http://hef.org.nz/2010/training-our-children-to-use-technology/

Interpersonal Relationships
http://hef.org.nz/2005/interpersonal-relationships/

What is a key ingredient to a productive homeschooling day? This week on Home School Heartbeat, Mike Farris shares an important lesson that his family learned after graduating nine of their ten children from homeschool.
Mike Farris:
This school year is our family’s 30th year of active homeschooling. To achieve 30 years, you must have either a very large family or very slow learners. We have the former.
This week I’m going to be sharing a list of lessons our family has learned in the past three decades. Since they are not in any particular order, I’ll start with an intensely practical lesson:
This is a must read:
http://www.hslda.org/docs/hshb/109/hshb10901.asp

I trust this will be helpful as you seek to keep or regain the hearts of your child/children. We have been home educating our children for over 30 years and I still need to be reminded of these things and I am still working hard on them.

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From the Smiths:

http://hef.org.nz/2011/craig-smith-26-january-1951-to-30-september-2011/

Updated 10 December 2011: Life for Those Left Behind (Craig Smith’s Health) page 6 click here

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Needing help for your home schooling journey:

http://hef.org.nz/2011/needing-help-for-your-home-schooling-journey-2/

And

Here are a couple of links to get you started home schooling:

http://hef.org.nz/getting-started-2/

and

http://hef.org.nz/exemptions/

Oct

11

Craig Smith 26 January 1951 to 30 September 2011

October 11, 2011 | *Family  |  Comments Off

Click here for Craig’s diary

Page 1: 8/7/11-31/8/11 http://hef.org.nz/about-us/craig-smiths-health-2/craigs-diary/

Page 2: 1/9/11 to … http://hef.org.nz/about-us/craig-smiths-health-2/11309-2/

 

Craig Smith’s Health

To read page 1 of Craig Smith’s health please click here: http://hef.org.nz/about-us/craig-smiths-health/craig-smiths-health-page-1/

To read page 2 of Craig Smith’s health please click here: http://hef.org.nz/about-us/craig-smiths-health/craig-smiths-health-page-2/

To read page 3 of Craig Smith’s health please click here: http://hef.org.nz/about-us/craig-smiths-health-2/craig-smiths-health-page-3/

To read page 4 of Craig Smith’s health please click here: http://hef.org.nz/about-us/craig-smiths-health-2/craig-smiths-health-page-4/

To read page 5 of Craig Smith’s health please click here: http://hef.org.nz/about-us/craig-smiths-health-page-1/craig-smiths-health-page-5/

Josh and Charmagne’s Wedding

http://hef.org.nz/about-us/craig-smith-26151-to-30911/charmagnes-wedding/

 

Livestream for Craig Smith’s Funeral

The funeral service took place at 1pm on Friday the 7th of October

During the afternoon tea at 3:30pm there were tributes.

Please click on the link below to see the liveStream of Craig’s funeral.

http://www.livestream.com/craigsmithfuneral 

Tributes

Click on link below to read the tribute:
Zach Smith on behalf of the family

David Waldron on behalf of his family and other families

John de Vries on behalf of the Reformed Church

Roy Sandbrook on behalf of Home Educators

  • including Kate Jaunay

Oct

5

Craig Smith’s funeral to be livestreamed

October 5, 2011 | Uncategorized  |  Comments Off

Click here for the funeral:

http://livestre.am/13Xnc

Oct

3

Craig Smith: Gone to Glory

October 3, 2011 | *Family  |  Comments Off

Dear friends, on Friday morning, Craig was very drowsy and spent most of the day asleep. He remained peaceful and quiet and deeply unconscious all afternoon. Late in the evening it became difficult for him to breathe and in a short time, about 11:35pm on Friday the 30th of September 2011 our gracious God took Craig home to Heaven.

We have all felt so completely surrounded by the Lord’s peace and love and the support and help of our dear brothers and sisters in Christ, family and friends. We will miss our husband and father yet we are thankful to know his eternal state with such certainty and look forward to seeing him again in Glory. We so appreciate all your prayers and support.

With love from Barbara and the children.

Funeral arrangements for Craig Smith

 

The funeral service will take place, Lord Willing, at

1pm on Friday the 7th of October

at Central Baptist Church, 190 Church Street, Palmerston North

Approx 2:30pm you are invited to join the family at the grave-side at

Kelvin Grove Cemetery, James Line, Pamlerston North

or

Light refreshments will be available from 2:30pm at the

Reformed Church, 541 Ruahine Street, Palmerston North

During the afternoon tea at about 3:30pm there will be tributes from:

Zach Smith on behalf of our family

David Waldron on behalf of families

John de Vries on behalf of the Reformed Church

Roy Sandbrook (including Kate Jaunay) on behalf of Home Educators

Aug

1

Craig’s battle with a Brain Tumour

August 1, 2011 | *Family  |  Comments Off

Some of you may have heard from other sources that Craig is having issues with his health.

Many people have been asking and we have seen a few google searches for “Craig Smith’s health”. So we have made a page on our website that we will update as we have news.

Barbara’s updates

http://hef.org.nz/about-us/craig-smiths-health/

Craig’s Diary of a Brain Tumour

http://hef.org.nz/about-us/craig-smiths-health/craigs-diary/

“A couple weeks ago Craig suddenly went all numb down his left side, from scalp to bottom of the foot. Actually, it crept up…he noticed it first in his foot really bad, then the whole leg, then rest of side. Upon reflection, he realised the scalp on the left had been numb for some time, but it was no big deal. The Dr got onto it straight away: ECG, blood tests, CT scan. All clear. But then the MRI. And the neurologist made an appointment to see us before he was even off the MRI table.  The Neurologist told us that Craig has a big tumor in his brain. Not the best news in the world, but as we tell all our Christian friends here, the Lord has the best sanctification programme out! Romans 8:28 and James 1:2-4. So Craig has another full-body CT scan on Tuesday 2 August to see if there are any other tumors in his body and encologists and neuro surgeons at Wellington Hospital are already working on a game plan. We hope to hear from them early next week.”

We are not sure what lies ahead at this stage. We may know a bit more on Tuesday after the full body CT Scan and after the Wellington drs contact us.

In the meantime we are doing everything we can to fight this.

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