IAHE Board Changes

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IAHE Board News

We wish Greg & Kathleen Fowl well as they have retired from the IAHE Board after eighteen years of service as Region 13 Representatives and later Board members.

Please welcome our new Board members, Frank and Jackie Franks of Pendleton, Indiana (Madison County).  Frank and Jackie reside in central Indiana on their 80 acre farm. They have home educated and graduated their children Caleb, Rebecca, and John-Paul. Another daughter Amy lives in Austin, TX, with her husband and three sons. Seeing the faults of how they lived their early lives, they decided to, with God's help, raise adults committed to Christ. They felt the best way to do this was to intentionally homeschool and disciple. Without discipleship, they feel that the results of home education will be no better or worse than any other form of education.  
                                   

                                                                             

Frank ran his own marketing/distribution company for over 25 years, and has 40 years of experience in business. A highlights of home educating for him was teaching math. In 2003, one of his dreams was fulfilled as he moved to and converted a 440 acre property into a certified organic, grass-fed beef operation and timber farm. He felt this was an excellent place to raise children, without the distractions and entrapments of materialism. Today, he is a business consultant and organic farmer.  

Jackie's background in medicine as an RN, as well as her love of science, Creation, and healthy living, has permeated much of her family's education. One of the highlights of home education for her was interweaving the Word of God into everyday living. Feeling inadequate to educate her children at home, she was driven to her knees to simply ask for wisdom and empowering from the Holy Spirit on a daily basis. This prayer was answered more than she ever could have expected. Today, she enjoys working alongside her husband and each of her children as they process how they are now to live in light of the gifts and talents they have been given by God. She writes a blog, which encourages women in the art of making a house a home and filling it with the Spirit of the Lord.  

The Franks enjoy beautiful/traditional music, gardening vegetables and berries, raising bees and trees, traveling, organic food that tastes good (especially homemade artisan breads), and fellowship with family and friends.