Happy New Year! Our December post each year is a summary of what transpired that year. If you are new to our blog, you can get a fairly quick overview by just reading through previous December posts in the “Year in Review” category. (Though 2015-18 are password protected due to our host country at the time, so email us directly if you’d like the password.) FYI - I’m taking over writing the blog going forward so Ruth can focus on homeschool and other tasks. She has a gift for writing that I don’t possess, but I’ll do my best! The first part of 2022 saw quite a few changes for us: Church gatherings resumed after having been frequently shut down from Covid restrictions, so the home church we had been helping lead drew to a close, and we were all able to start attending an international church here in town. Our service with the set up of Frontier Ventures’ Asian Hub office drew to a close. We transitioned from our first homeschool helper (Amanda) to our second (Sarah). They were about as different in personality as is possible, so we feel like God was showing us the full spectrum of who could come in the future, and we learned a great deal about aligning expectations, emotional support, boundaries, the effect of culture shock, etc. Then mid-way through 2022 we left for the States for our first trip back since our arrival in Feb. 2020. This was really our first time trying to intentionally plan a circuit of speaking and updating churches and supporters, and we could have done a better job of planning/scheduling, so hopefully next time around it will be a bit less haphazard. It was really wonderful to connect with family, friends, and supporters! We were also able to increase our support level a bit, which is very helpful now that we’re back in Thailand. We returned to Chiang Mai in November. Our friend Lek and her daughter had lived in our house and watched our cats while we were gone, which was a huge blessing. If we had left it vacant, our house would have most likely been overrun by mold, cockroaches, and other critters. Even with her helping in that way, it took about a month to get our home and life back up and running. Visa documentation and getting my motorcycle driver’s license required hours of waiting at government offices over the course of about two weeks. In December Ruth and I were asked to lead a Christmas celebration evening with carols at the missionary guest house like we did last year. It was a bit larger this year, with about 50 or 60 people in attendance. There were folks hailing from ten different countries, and it was a unique, eclectic, and wonderful time of fellowship! Blessings, - Lance, for the Baker family
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Happy American Thanksgiving Month! We are still settling into being here. Getting our visas in order after reentry, our vehicle registration/insurance valid again, and taking paperwork to various offices that need them all take hours and hours (read, days and days) of organization, communication and waiting at the government buildings. Often only to have to start the process again because someone decided you need another form of ID that you’ve never seen or heard of before, but they’re sure you know what they’re talking about because they’re showing you the Google translation of the Thai list of official documents that you need… this happened at the latest attempt (of several) to get me (Ruth) a Thai bank account. We continue to run into problems (after multiple attempts at multiple banks), and this last one had us stymied. I needed some sort of ID paper stating my nationality, but apparently my passport didn’t count since that was also on the list. Such is life overseas. Silly me, I forgot about all this and expected things to just go smoothly and communication to be effective since we’ve been living in Asia for years now. Just that much more encouragement to learn to speak more Thai! Anyway, beyond all that, we are very glad to be back and reconnecting with everyone here and meeting the new neighbors who’ve moved in since we’ve been gone. The boys are slowly connecting with their friends from the neighborhood again, though some of them have still been elusive. Pray that these things will sort themselves out with time. Last post I promised to write more about the connections God made for us to join with new partners in the States. So exciting. Before we left for the States, we sent out a request asking those on our mailing list if they had any group/church/organization to whom they could commend us, to help us raise more monthly support. My sister forwarded the information about our financial need and the homeschool helper internship (Inspire) to be included in her homeschool co-op (Heart’s) newsletter. A lady who read the newsletter printed it out because of our need but wasn’t sure what to do with it. Then in a meeting at her church she heard that they were looking for a new missionary family to support. Turns out, this church in Olmsted, OH also currently supports a couple who live down the road from us here in Chiang Mai. This church “just happens” to have a heart for homeschool families and missionaries, and the couple down the road are nearing the end of more than 30 years on the field, and told that church they should give their support to us! They invited us to Olmsted to speak one Sunday, and are now supporting us monthly. While we do feel we need to make our needs known, we’ve also found that after that, relying on prayer is the best (although sometimes also the hardest) way for us to raise support. When things get difficult on the field it is such a comfort knowing that God moved in unique ways to get us here, and we can feel confident that we’re right where He wants us to be. Two other churches that we connected with each have an interesting story of how God moved as well. One senior pastor reached out to us because of our interactions with him three years earlier before he even was a pastor. In fact he and his family had served in missions for years in Thailand, so we have a wonderful connection with them. The second church had asked my brother, Luke, to fill in for the pastor for two weekends. They wanted his messages to center around missions, and he offered to do one better by having us come and speak one weekend. Through that they decided to start supporting us, and again it was obviously the handiwork of God, not us. In other more recent news, shortly after returning, we found out that Josiah may needed another follow-up surgical procedure, and the appointment determining that was scheduled for just a couple days before Thanksgiving. We were blindsided because while we knew he may have to go in annually for check-ups and possibly out-patient procedures as he grew, we thought he was healed from his most recent surgery and was in the clear until next year. In light of this timing, we decided not to have a large group to our house for Thanksgiving since we weren’t sure if we’d be in the hospital for that week, and instead had a family day of celebration. Thankfully, Josiah didn’t end up needing an immediate procedure, but he does now have another follow up appointment in January, so please pray that he’ll continue to heal. Since he’s in the clear for the upcoming holiday season, we’ve scheduled a neighborhood football (soccer) match and BBQ for Boxing Day (Dec. 26th), and we’re going to attempt our first ever open house invitation to all of our neighbors on New Year’s Eve. Our house isn’t large, but we’re going to give it a shot anyway. - For the Baker family, Ruth and Lance Hello from Thailand! We are back and getting acclimated to Thai culture again. We are so glad to be back - our family fits well here in this country. We had the privilege of speaking at four new churches while we were in the States, two of which plan to have future meetings about supporting us and one has already committed to supporting us long-term. All four came about through God’s arrangement in surprising ways. The first weekend we were back we attended my dad’s family reunion. As he is one of eight kids, and some of his siblings already have great-grandkids, it is a large event for which they rented a college campus and planned a weekend full of fellowship. My brother was supposed to give the message Sunday morning but ended up loosing his voice, so Lance was asked Saturday night if he’d be able to briefly share what we’ve been doing in Asia the next morning. It was such a blessing to be able to share with my family about the ministries we’ve been involved with here. From that event, we have connected with a few cousins who were interested in supporting us monthly, and someone who may be interested in joining our homeschool helper internship. Also, because of that morning, one of my cousins was able to connect us with her church leadership and we were able to share at their church a month later. I’m not glad my brother had to suffer the weekend with a sore throat, but am so thankful God used it to bless us in multiple ways. Three other churches near us in PA and Ohio also connected us through God’s arrangements (instead of ours) but this post will be long enough as it is without those stories so I will cover those next month. These three new churches are local country churches near my sister and parents’ houses. Concerning support level, two of the above mentioned churches still need to meet with their members to vote about supporting us. Assuming we can add them in with the other new church and new individuals who have committed to monthly support, we will be at 70% of our goal budget. The good news is, our monthly living expenses are fully covered so we aren’t in danger of having to leave because of lack of funds. (Praise God!) So while our current support level hampers our ability for some ministry involvement, it does keep us on the field and doing ministry long term. Thankfully, coming back to the States always results in a net gain for us financially through money given to us from the people and churches we interact with while there. This means, our flights back, travel in the States and other expenses there were more than covered, pulling nothing from our monthly support, and allowing us to save while we were there. Secondly, we were included in a missions fundraising event this year called REACH which will cover the ministry expenses of starting our homeschool helper internship, Inspire, so that also won’t have to come out of our monthly financial budget this year. We are not guaranteed this money every year however, so please continue praying with us that our financial support will increase over this next year so we can continue with the ministries we’ve started. Thank you so much for your prayers and involvement in this ministry. If you are a supporter and would ever like to come and see our life and the work we’re involved with here, or would like to plan an outreach to support the missionaries we work with, please let us know, and we’ll work together with you to make that happen. It was so great to connect with those of you we could while we were in the States. This was the first time we’ve had a short stay but with many, many places to visit, so our planning didn’t work out perfectly a few times. Hopefully the next time will be smoother from what we learned this time around. We hope you’ll give us grace where we messed up, and we look forward to spending more time with everyone the next time we’re visiting. Thank you again for your prayers, - Ruth, for the Baker family Homeschool is going full-steam ahead now that we're back. The boys did a fun project of research while learning the practical lesson of how videos can make things look super easy when in reality they take a bit of talent. However, they had a lot of fun making watermelon baskets and did an amazing job! We were able to share two of the baskets with our neighbor who leads a bible study for collage kids from the Karen people group of the Myanmar-Thai border.
This update will be brief as we are down to the last two weeks in the States and incredibly busy getting ready to leave. We’ll be speaking at two new churches the next two Sundays and then we speak at our final church in Houston, PA who has been a long-time supporter, two days before we leave on October 18. Once we get back to Thailand and we hear back from the new churches we’ve visited, we can evaluate where we’re at financially and then give you an update about that and what God did on this trip. Praise God we did raise more support while we were in the States! However, we know we didn’t hit the 100% mark so far, so please continue to pray for additional monthly supporters as people consider what they’ve heard about our ministry. We pray God moves in the hearts of those He wants to join us in this ministry and they follow Him in His leading to support His work. We have had such a wonderful time connecting with everyone and sharing what God is doing around us in Thailand. Pray for us as the last few weeks are a colossal effort in organization and packing. Thank you for your continued prayers and support! - Ruth, for the Baker family. We’re over halfway through our trip here and have every Sunday scheduled until we leave! For the month of August we’ve been at a church in a different state each Sunday - Indiana, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, then back to Pennsylvania. Last Sunday we were at our sending church, Community Bible Church in Pennsylvania. This coming Sunday we’ll be in Akron, Ohio at Lakeside Christian Church’s REACH, a picnic to raise funds for missions, and Lance is giving a short update and the sermon that morning. Then we’re back in Pennsylvania the next Sunday at the Federated Church for their Sunday morning service and have an update evening for our supporters in the Erie area on the 16th at my brother Mark’s house in Edinboro, PA. After that we are headed down to the DC area for that weekend, then back to PA for the next Sunday. If you’re interested in hearing our update or catching up with us, join us at one of these events or contact us to find out a more detailed schedule. We were blessed to speak at a new church in North Carolina this past month and hope we will gain new supporters from that morning. It was the first church that we set up a table with things from Thailand to show people, like money and hand-made items, along with pictures from our last country and current pictures from Thailand. It was a great way to connect with people after the service and for people to learn more about Thailand and our ministry when they came to get a prayer card. Please continue to pray for us as we finish out our time here with one more month of speaking and travel. We are praying for more monthly supporters from individuals to supplement the churches that support us and to get us to where we need to be in our budget. Thank you for your continued prayers and support! - Ruth, for the Baker family. There are so many things to adjust to culturally, our heads are spinning trying to reorient ourselves. From being able to see everyone’s face (masks were still mandatory everywhere when we left Thailand), to understanding what everyone’s saying around us, to the small things like knowing you can ask anyone for information and they’ll understand you, it can be pretty overwhelming! The first day here one of our sons asked for water to drink, passing on the other options, “because you can drink it from the tap!” He thought that was so cool, he couldn’t pass up the opportunity. Lance and I even forget and find ourselves looking for a water bottle so we can brush our teeth. We have been busy seeing family, reconnecting with supporters, updating our supporting churches and making connections with other churches. We are so excited to have new churches to speak at and the possibility of a few more to add to our support network. Thank you so much to those of you who were able to connect us with a new church or group to talk to and to our new supporters. We really need those connections and new support. It has been great, as we’ve put together the presentation about our ministry, to remember all the different areas of ministry we’ve been involved in over the past 2+ years we’ve been in Thailand. During the initial covid shut-downs we were still able to lead a praise and worship evening at a missionary guest house as well as the Sunday morning worship there. We’ve hosted multiple gatherings during major (and some minor) U.S. holidays for single missionaries or couples who had no one to celebrate the day with. We’ve had kids events and ongoing interactions, soccer games and holiday parties for the youth in our neighborhood. We’ve hosted and walked with missionary families, couples, and singles going through hard times, planned events for them and walked with them through their struggles. One summer was spent helping two missions organizations set up guest house quarters for their training needs in Asia and short-term housing and welcoming in the first team to use the facilities. Lance has been involved with a young Thai men’s soccer outreach group and the local community through our visa organization the Future Foundation doing charity work that they've organized for a local orphanage, refugees and other’s in our city in need. And, of course, our latest focus of setting up and developing a homeschool helper internship program called Inspire (which has yet to become official - but that’s going to be the name). This weekend we head to a summer camp for a few days in Indiana and then on to Tremont, IL to see supporters at both places. The next weekend we’re back at two churches in Pennsylvania to give our update and then to North Carolina and the D.C. area the next weekend and following week after that. We’ll be in Akron, OH for presentations September 4th (Lakeside) and the 25th (an afternoon event) if you’re in that area and would like to hear us. (If you attend a church in the Akron area that would be interested in hearing our presentation, Sunday morning of the 25th we’re still available to speak.) We’re scheduled to speak somewhere almost every Sunday until we leave mid-October, so if you’re interested in hearing our presentation, contact us and we can let you know where we’ll be when. We have yet to nail down a date for our supporters in the Erie, PA area who don’t attend a supporting church but if you support us financially and are in that area we will contact you directly once that’s scheduled. If you know of a church or group who would like to hear what we did when we were in Ch-na and our ministry now in Thailand, we do have one or two Sundays left open and we definitely have many weekdays, Friday evenings or Saturday afternoons or evenings when we can schedule something for a church or small group. Please contact us (lanceandruth@psmail.net or Lance: 814-737-3262) and we can make plans. Thank you for all of you who have so warmly welcomed us and have joined us in the ministry through prayer and financial support. We so appreciate your partnership. - Ruth, for the Baker family. Life has twisted and turned once again and we will be in the States this summer! Hurray! Most covid restrictions for entering Thailand have lifted so there are very few requirements for us coming back in, no long-term quarantine on re-entry and someone sent us a very generous donation to help with flights, so we will be in the States July through mid-October. Our goal for this time in the States is to update our current supporters and to add new ones through networking, to bring our monthly financial support up to being fully funded by the time we return in October. Please pray with us during this time as we focus on this need. If you attend a church that supports us, we are working with your leadership to come and do a photo presentation for you of our ministry. We also plan to do presentations at a few supporters’ homes in Erie, Pennsylvania, the D.C. area, and Tremont, Illinois for our supporters in those areas who don’t attend a supporting church. If you would like to see our presentation and aren’t in those areas, please contact us and we can make plans with you to come to where you are. If you’re able to host an evening in your home with people who may be interested in supporting our ministry, please consider this as a way to help us raise the support we need to go back to the field. Or if you think your church might be interested in supporting a new missionary family, please put us in contact with your leadership so we can share our ministry with them. We’re so looking forward to reconnecting with our supporters and seeing our new family members we have yet to meet - three nieces and one nephew! We are doubly blessed as my sister Katy, who is a missionary in Brazil, will also be home for part of the time, so we can see her again too. It’s been over two years since we’ve seen any family members, so we are excited to have the opportunity to come back. Our first few weeks will be spent with family, but we will start visiting churches and speaking by the end of July. Thank you for your prayers as we focus on raising the support we need before heading back to Thailand. Being fully funded, instead of living partially supported, will be a huge stressor lifted in our everyday life on the field. We know nothing will be accomplished without prayer, so please join us in praying for this need while we’re here. Thank you for your prayer and financial support, - Ruth, for the Baker family. This month has been filled with Josiah’s surgery, navigating his hospital stay and helping him with his prolonged recovery at home. So, this gives me the perfect opportunity to update you on a myriad of smaller ministries we’ve been doing over here that have never quite made it into the blog. We had the privilege of being involved in a home church in the Saraphi district for about seven months, starting last September, while our current church was closed again because of Covid restrictions. Lance had connected with the husband of a family who had just moved here from Brazil for the soccer ministry. Since we knew all the churches were closed, limiting their opportunities for fellowship, we invited them to get together with us one Sunday and found out during that visit that they had decided to solve their fellowship problem by hosting a home church at their house starting the next week until the churches opened again. We expressed our interest in joining them, as getting people to come to our house had been only sporadically successful. The first Sunday we had a wonderful and truly unique time of fellowship comprised of four families: Brazilian, German, Japanese/Thai and us. Lance and I volunteered to do the morning worship time using the portable electric piano one of our supporting churches, Lakeside Christian Church, had gifted us for just such an opportunity. We led the singing, the Brazilian husband taught from James, and we finished the service by sharing prayer requests and praises then praying for each other. This was the pattern for every week that ended with lunch and great fellowship, either bringing food or ordering Thai food and sharing the cost. The group grew to over 30 people towards the end, but in April, as the established Chiang Mai churches reopened, the decision was made to return to a permanent group of worship. It was a treasured time of community and worship with families that we may not end up seeing as often anymore, but will always value as friends. Lance and I thoroughly enjoyed doing music every week. We look forward to travel starting in earnest again so there will be more guests at the missionary guest house here, and we can start up weekly praise and worship evenings there again. A super fun ministry I’ve started is the 2nd Friday of Every Month Ladies’ Night At My House. (I won’t be trademarking that name anytime soon if you want to use it too…) The premise was that we, missionary women, have lots of ministries or Bible studies we’re already involved in, but sometimes we really need to have time to just talk. So, that’s what the night is, creating the space to let that happen and no other plans for the evening. I make a ton of food (read, desserts) and tell all the missionary women I meet to just to show up any second Friday they’re free and need a night out. No one has to worry about not coming because they didn’t have time to make anything, and I love baking so it works out well. My hope was that over food and no requirements (no passage to read before you come or pages to fill out) women in ministry who need a break would feel free to come and it would be a blessing for them. Early in the week I send out a text to anyone who’s signed up reminding them it’s the 2nd Friday and then wait to see who shows up. It has been such a wonderful experience. Each night has been vastly different from the next, one night being all women approximately my age with kids of various ages, one night all single ladies and me, one night a mix of singles, experienced moms/missionaries, and new moms/missionaries. The discussions are what I hoped as well, from sharing practical information with those of us who haven’t been here as long (where to buy yarn or how to buy fresh produce in bulk at the best market) to sharing tough life stories (being kicked out of their previous country by the government and the emotional ramifications) to mom and ministry stories many of us can relate to. If you realize it’s the 2nd Friday of the month sometime - say a prayer for these women and this special ministry. And if you know of a lady serving in Chiang Mai who would benefit from this ministry, feel free to connect her with me. (My Thai number is 064-607-0441 on Line or WhatsApp.) Though hard to classify, another ministry we often find ourselves involved in is one of encouragement. Although it’s not as quantifiable as the previously mentioned 2FoEMLNaMH (still not trademarked), its becoming an ongoing ministry with many of the missionary families and singles we connect with. Having gone through many stressful and overwhelming situations on the field, we have felt how needed and what a substantial blessing it is to have someone take interest in what you’re going through and help in small ways to take some of the burden away. We can’t solve the problems or take away the exhaustion or emotional ramifications, but we can be available to meet for coffee or an evening out to take their mind off the pressures they’re facing. Lance meets more often one-on-one or with a few men in small groups, while I’m more attuned to seeing a family who might have a need we can meet. Throughout the past 2.5 years since being here, we can look back and see this definite pattern emerging, often weekly, throughout our time. Please keep these times of encouragement in your prayers as we seek to know how best to help others. Thank you again for your prayers for us and Josiah and for all the financial help you’ve given us during this time. - Ruth, for the Baker family. Josiah safely got through his 6th surgery! We haven't yet seen the doctor, so we don't have any details, but the nurse said everything went well last night during surgery. Praise God and thank you for all who were praying! This surgery was unexpected as we thought we were done with his last major one in December, 2017 and the again with a follow up surgery in May, 2018, for a slight correction. We found out recently that part of the surgery done in 2017 wasn't successful and so necessitated this surgery which will hopefully be his last. As with most things in Asia, nothing is as we expect it to be as Westerners. We had to be to the hospital by 2:00 p.m. yesterday afternoon, for a surgery scheduled for 8:00 p.m. By 3:00 we were checked in, Josiah was hooked up to a large bag of IV fluids and we were in his room. We paid for a private child's room so that we could stay and sleep with him overnight, so thankfully it was a really nice room with a table and couch. We past the afternoon by playing games and watched a movie to distract us the closer we got to the surgery time. They took him back for surgery at 9:00 and we waited in his room to hear from them. At 11:15 PM they called to say he was out, everything had gone well and they would be bringing him back to his room for us to see him in two hours after recovery at 1:10 AM, which is what happened. We were told the doctor would come today to check him and give us an update. He slept well and has been pretty groggy all day but seems to be doing well otherwise. He's tired of the bed already but hopefully will be able to sit in a chair or at the table soon. At Josiah's initial visit, the doctor said he'd be here three to five days, depending on what he found once he started the surgery, so we'll find out more about how long we'll be here once we talk to him. Hopefully it will be a short stay! Thank you so much for your prayers! The doctor came in around 3:30 this afternoon. He said the surgery went well, so that was good to hear; they did 3 different repairs. Unfortunately, though, he said the stay will be at least 5 days and maybe 7. This was surprising and discouraging for all of us as we didn't even realize that more than 5 days might be an option. In our minds 3 days isn't too bad and 5 is no fun but doable but 7 is a serious stay! He'll check on him again in 3 days and then have a better idea of 5 or 7. He also said he has to be on complete bed rest, so no moving to a chair tomorrow like we hoped. Thank you for all your prayers. Josiah was in the hospital for 8 days before he was able to go home on the 17th. Unfortunately, the first day home on the 18th there was a problem with the surgery site and he had to return to the hospital. He's now attached to some tubes for two weeks while his surgery site heals but is able to be at home. The 19th, was his 15th birthday which was kept very low-key just spending time together, after he fainted in the morning trying to navigate around his tubes. This is highly stressful for all of us, especially as we didn't anticipate such a long and rough recovery time but thought we'd be finished with this all two weeks ago. He has one week left of being hooked up and on bed rest before being evaluated to see if he needs another two weeks or can recover normally. Thank you for your continued prayers. Josiah is now recovering normally at home. He has to stay calm and not run around or do anything jarring (like wrestling his brothers) but we are glad to be getting back to a normal routine not centered around hospitals or doctor's visits.
Thank you to all who prayed for us during this time, his surgery and recovery. We really appreciated it. If you’ve followed along with our blog this past year, you might remember us mentioning the idea of wanting to develop a homeschool assistant program for the missionaries here in Asia. The longer we’re on the field, the more missionaries we talk to and discuss the idea with, the more we see the need for this ministry. Our vision for this is two-fold. First, to aid established missionaries on the field by taking on some of the homeschooling burden so they can be more effective in their ministries. This can be needed for many reasons, such as, so the family has more flexibility to minister, opportunity to learn the language, ability to work on a new project that requires more time, to allow greater space for recovery after a particularly hard season on the field, or to provide help with kids who have special needs. The second goal is to provide an opportunity for young people or retirees to experience Asia and the realities of living on the field, while also being of immediate service to an established family. Many young folks want to explore whether long term missions might be a direction God is leading them in, but they only have opportunity to take a short trip somewhere, which doesn’t give them the “real” experience of life in another culture; the joys, the struggles, the discomfort, and the rewards of seeing God move, and of having their worldview expanded beyond what might have been possible had they not left their home culture. Who this is for: Any believer commended by their home church (college age up through retired person) who is interested in serving missionaries already established on the field as a ministry to them, and thereby indirectly joining them in their work. Someone prepared to make a one-year commitment to live and work in Thailand helping a missionary family with their homeschooling. What’s required: A willingness to step out of your comfort zone, be flexible in your thinking, and consider new ideas. Willingness to raise financial support through church members, family, or others who may be interested in helping with the financial requirements of the year. Willingness to live on your own or with a roommate paying rent and utilities, shopping for and making your meals and directing your life beyond the homeschool ministry. Willingness to intentionally plug into the community available for fellowship and everyday life beyond the family you’re serving, approach daily life problems with an adult problem-solving mindset, and to strive daily to be a blessing to the family you are paired up with. What ISN’T necessarily required: People trained to be teachers or who have curriculum prepared. People with previous experience homeschooling. People who have already lived in a foreign culture. What we provide: We will assist with visa application for the year, financial budgeting, matching the assistant with a homeschool family, help with choosing rental housing, showing how to get around Chiang Mai and get groceries, where some church locations are, and where/how to potentially get connected with peers for community. We will encourage the homeschooling family to help you with these adjustments as well, providing resource options for your interests and even ministry beyond their family. What helping looks like: You will work out with the family you’re helping what helping looks like for them. In some cases it may mean teaching alongside the parent, watching the younger kids while the parent schools the older ones (some families have a lot of kids), daily teaching of multiple children, working with one special needs kid while the others are in school, or many other situations as unique as each family. What it looks like for each assistant will vary depending on each family’s needs. The family will provide the curriculum for their children from which the assistant will teach and plan lessons in the style of homeschooling and class structure the parents prefer. This is just a quick overview, but please feel free to link anyone who’s interested to this page, and then they can inquire directly via email at lanceandruth@psmail.net for more info to move forward in the process if they feel led to do so! Blessings -Lance, for the Baker family |
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