Cart Issacharian
Where does the name come from?
Issacharian comes from the name Issachar. Issachar was one of the twelve tribes of Israel. The Issacharians were commended in the Bible at one stage for understanding their times. Because they understood their times they knew what to do. I want to help people now to understand the times we live in so they will know what to do. That is why I use the name Issacharian.
Genevieve Smith
Who is she?
Genevieve Smith, born in 1980, is the eldest daughter of Craig and Barbara Smith, and the oldest of eight siblings (four natural, three adopted and one fostered). She delights in helping her father with his ministry to home educators with the Home Education Foundation. And she loves to assist her mother in the home, learning homemaking skills and looking after the little ones. Genevieve is passionate about the spiritual disciplines, her family, the Christian home, home education, Reformed doctrine, creeds, confessions and the motto semper reformanda, the Biblical family, Biblical child training (she also helps her father with his ministry Family Integrity), patriarchy, theonomy, reconstruction, presuppositions, femininity, visionary daughterhood, old books, Christian fellowship, Titus 2, sewing and lots more!
Engagement Announcement
On 13 September 2007 Pete de Deugd, second son of pioneering homeschoolers, Henk and Sue de Deugd, of Victoria, Australia, with the excited blessing of both his parents and Genevieve's parents, asked Genevieve to be his wife. A wedding will, Lord willing, take place in February 2008. Pete is a Godly and thoughtful young man — a thorough gentleman. He is self-employed and has built up his own milling and woodworking business near Ballarat where the couple will live.
To read articles by Genevieve click here.
The Smith Family
Who are they?
Craig and Barbara Smith are pioneer home schoolers in New Zealand. Craig Smith is the founder of the Home Education Foundation, and a founding member of Family Integrity. Their children are Genevieve (80), Zach (81 - married to Megan and they have one child, Cheyenh Marie), Alanson (84 - in the airforce), Charmagne (87), Jeremiah (92), Jedediah (97), Kaitlyn (00) and Grace Ariana (05). Jeremiah, Jedediah and Kaitlyn are adopted and Grace is fostered. The Smiths home educated their children from day one and have sought to ground their children in Biblical Christian worldview thinking. They are influenced by authors such as Rushdoony, Bahnsen, van Til and R C Sproul Jr.
To read articles about the Smiths in the media click on these links:
Listener article regarding child discipline
Article on Home Education in The Old Schoolhouse Magazine
Time Article on the Smith Family
The Smith family websites are:
www.hef.org.nz
www.familyintegrity.org.nz
http://homeschoolblogger.com/KiwiSmithFamily
http://charmagnesmith.blogspot.com
Website Creator
Who is she?
This website was put together by Samalah Gray, a young woman from a Christian homeschooling family. Her parents are Randal and Nicola Gray of Dashwood Timber in the Marlborough area in the South Island of New Zealand. Samalah is a daughter at home who serves her family by assisting her father with his wood milling business as his office manager. With her parents' blessing she has also started a website building business called Website Creation through which she has been able to extend herself, learn new skills and as a true Proverbs 31 entrepreneur, earn an income from home. Samalah is a competent, confident and highly skilled communicator. I (Genevieve) have loved working with Samalah to build this Issacharian website and highly recommend her and her business to anyone looking for a website designer or builder.