We earnestly desire that all of the activities and publications of the Wilk/Amite CHEF be consistent with a Christian testimony to the honor and glory of the Lord Jesus.
It is the purpose of this organization to work together to encourage and uplift one another. We will also keep you informed of any current events on legislation affecting home education and the family. We want to provide opportunities for group enrichment and social activities.
We do not provide or endorse particular textbooks or curriculum (although we will share what has and has not worked for us); we do not provide legal advice; we do not endorse or support any business venture.
Each family within the Wilk/Amite CHEF is completely independent and is not in any way under the authority of this group. Each family is responsible for selecting its own curriculum, or courses of study and methods of teaching.
Wilk/Amite CHEF only seeks to minister to homeschool families as we strive to do what God has called us to do as parents.
high privilege and responsibility of Christian parents, who will account
to the Lord for its faithful exercise.
2. Nevertheless, we acknowledge our own insufficiency to carry out this
responsibility without the help of the Lord. "Except the LORD build the
house, they labour in vain that build it..." Psalm 127:1
3. While this task is spiritual in nature, it cannot be divorced from the education of our children. Teaching our children the ways of the Lord
involves their growth in knowledge and in learning. Molding their hearts, we must also train their minds. "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." Matthew 22:37 Just as there is no true education without spiritual training, so spiritual training without education is deficient.
4. Without seeking to impose our convictions on others who conscientiously choose a different course, we believe that for us teaching our children at home is the best way we can fulfill our spiritual responsibilities toward our children and the most sure way to preserve them in the faith.
5. Nevertheless, we acknowledge our need for the encouragement, exhortation and counsel of other like-minded parents and seek to benefit from the variety of gifts, skills and knowledge which God has distributed among his people.
6. Both our love for the kingdom of God and our concern for our nation drive us to support other Christian parents in this weighty task of training our children in the ways of the Lord.
7. While God's plan for the training of our children is that the parent's
influence remain paramount, we acknowledge the potential value of
exposure to other influences as tools in the parent's hand. Christian
parents are responsible for governing the influences brought to bear on
their children, promoting the godly and restricting the ungodly.
Recognizing the great potential for both good and ill from the influence
of our children's own peers, parents must be especially vigilant to guide
and direct their children's contacts with other children.
8. In joining with other like-minded parents for mutual help in training
our children, we accept a responsibility, not just to our children but to
the group as a whole, to work to insure that the peer group environment
is an influence toward godliness and not worldliness. We acknowledge
the need to be sensitive to the concerns of others in this area and to give
and receive correction and counsel with regard to each others children.
9. An important part of God's plan for the spiritual training of our
children is our membership in some branch of the visible church.
10. In training our children, as in all other areas of the Christian life, we
seek to be transformed by the Word rather than to be conformed to the
world and its practices. Recognizing the many areas in which the
wisdom of this age departs from Biblical standards for child-rearing,
we desire to be governed by God's word not only in our individual
families but in our joint work with other Christian parents as part of
Wilk/Amite CHEF. We reject the temptation to let the lowest common
denominator of our culture become the unacknowledged rule of our
practice.
11. For instance, we oppose the wisdom and legitimacy of the practice of
"dating" as it has arisen in our modern culture and seek to replace this
model with a more Biblical one of "courtship", with its emphasis on
the role of parents in the life-choices of their children and its realistic
approach to the temptations of unsupervised romantic relationships.
12. We hope and pray that God will be at work through faithful parents for
the transmission of our faith to the next generation and for revival in
the Church and the nation.
