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I Saw the Angel in the Marble by Chris & Ellyn Davis

It’s been several years since I heard Chris Davis speak in person at a homeschool conference, but I’ve never forgotten it. Many of us had shiny eyes and sniffles as we listened and caught the bigger vision of homeschooling and the true heart of parenting the precious gifts God had given us. It was powerful.

I Saw the Angel in the Marble captures Chris & Ellyn Davis’s encouraging words and wise experiences. They share the heart, the why’s, the relationships and the ways of homeschooling with a gentle perceptiveness that speaks to your heart.

This book is a great tool for you as a leader of a homeschool group. As it encourages you, it will provide you with tons of information for encouraging and educating the families in your group. The book will help you understand the various approaches to teaching, and therefore know how to support each family in their style and approach.

But most of all, I believe it will remind you of the wonderfulness of learning at home and the beautifulness of God working through and in your family. Fall in love with homeschooling all over again by reading the encouraging words of Chris & Ellyn Davis. Then light the fire in your group members by letting them know how to see the Angel in the Marble.

~ Denise Hyde

Under the Overpass: A Journey of Faith on the Streets of America
By Mike Yankoski
Review by Kristen Fagala

I have never lived on the streets of any city, but author Mike Yankoski made me feel as if I’d spent the long, hot summer of 2003 right there with him and his traveling buddy, Sam, trying to get comfortable on the rock hard concrete, scrounging through trash cans for people’s cast-off food, or enduring the endless days of the cast-away glances of passersby.

In Under the Overpass, Mike recounts the true story of how he and Sam, both upper-middle-class college students, lived five months on the streets with the homeless of six major American cities. This story in bestselling author Ryan Dobson’s words is “captivating, terrifying, encouraging!” Mike and Sam needed to know if their faith in God was real—real and authentic away from the comforts and safety of home.

I first heard of Mike Yankoski when he spoke at a youth ministers’ conference in Colorado. His testimony was authentic and his plea for us to lead a life of risky faith strangely challenged me to my core. I do not usually buy the book of a speaker on the spot, but I knew I was supposed to buy this one. I am so glad I did!

The true stories of the homeless told in this eight-chapter paperback shook my comfortable, middle-class world—and have changed it for good. The spiritual truths that God taught Mike and Sam on the streets that summer revealed a sensitivity to the Spirit in these young men that is rare and refreshing. The lessons they learned became the lessons I learned.

As a homeschool group leader, I believe you will greatly benefit from reading this inspirational book. Leaders cast the vision for their group members, and when we have a vision for caring for the poor among us, we as homeschoolers (who often think outside the box anyway) can move to action as a group, creatively blessing the world for Christ one person at a time.

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