Homeschooling in California- Please Pray!

Here's the e-mail I just sent out:


~Friends and Family,

We are writing to you with an urgent need for prayer. On February 28th a court decision was passed down in a private court room in California. This decision makes homeschooling illegal in California except for those parents with a teaching certificate. California is now the only state to move backward with homeschooling rights. Not only does this encroach on homeschooling rights, it shows that the three judges involved in this decision care very little for parental rights.

As for our family, we answer to God. We refuse to become "state certified" in order to teach our children from home and raise them in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. We are grateful to God for our freedom to homeschool, and we are in mourning at this time along with the many homeschoolers in California.

Please pray for the many families who homeschool in California. Pray for the over 200,000 children who may be forced, against their religious convictions and the will of their parents, out of their homes and into the state schools if this decision is not reversed. Also pray for the homeschool parents who are worried, unsure, and scared but have decided to place their trust in God.

If you are not concerned about Christian parental rights, your children or grandchildren might not have any. Now is the time to do something about it before it's too late. Please go to www.hslda.org and sign the petition to request depublishing of this California Court Case.

Also, you can go to: http://www.oneplace.com/Ministries/Focus_on_the_Family/Archives.asp?bcd=2008-3-7
and listen to Focus on the Family's "In Defense of Homeschooling" broadcast from Friday, March 7th.

- Marty, Allie, Sarah, Randi and Karl <>< ~

Please spread the word, pray, and sign the petition. Thanks!