YWAM Publishing Review

I was so excited when the opportunity came up to participate in a review for YWAM Publishing with the Schoolhouse Review Crew! For this review I chose Corrie Ten Boom: Keeper of the Angels' Den from the Christian Heroes: Then & Now series to read with my son in our homeschool. We also received the Unit Study Curriculum Guide.

Meet YWAM Publishing

YWAM Publishing offers high quality Christian books at discounted prices. The categories included on their website are:

• Hero Biographies
• Hero Series - Bonus Material
• International Adventure Series
• Homeschooling
• Missions
• New Releases
• Upcoming Releases
• Ebook/MP3 Downloads
• YWAM's Top 40
• Christian Living
• Children & Teens
• Music & Worship (Books)
• Music
• Fiction
• Libros En Espanol ~ Spanish
• Books in Other Languages

YWAM Publishing is a non-profit ministry of YWAM (Youth with a Mission), which was founded in 1960. YWAM is a large interdenominational Christian ministry located in nearly 900 locations in over 400 countries! They have a volunteer staff of 17,000 people.

YWAM Publishing began with printing tracks on one small printing press for a mission outreach to the 1970 Munich Olympic Games. They are committed to producing and distributing books that encourage Christians to make a difference in the world. 

Today YWAM Publishing publishes and distributes 150 of their own titles, in addition to over 2,000 books and videos from other sources, to people, churches, and bookstores all over the world. When homeschoolers like you and I purchase products from YWAM Publishing, we are helping children and adults all over the world through the vital missions programs of YWAM. Isn't that amazing?!

Christian Heroes: Then & Now Book Series

Christian Heroes: Then & Now is a book series that shares exciting and inspirational stories of real people who have a heart for missions and have answered God's call to missions.



Corrie ten Boom: Keeper of the Angels' Den is one of the 42 books in the Christian Heroes: Then and Now book series.

The book description given by YWAM Publishing:

Suddenly, Corrie's ordered life was lost in the insanity of war. With bravery and compassion, her family and countless other Dutch citizens risked everything to extend God's hand to those innocents marked for certain execution in a world gone mad.

Corrie ten Boom's life of determination, faith, and forgiveness in the face of unimaginable brutality and hardship is a stunning testimony of the sustaining power of God (1892-1983).

I have always admired the courage and faith of Corrie ten Boom. I'm so glad to be able to read about her life and learn from her Christian example with my son!

Here are the categories included in the Unit Study Curriculum Guide which is now a download on the YWAM Publishing website:

Student Explorations
Essay writing
Creative writing
Hands-on projects
Audio/Visual projects

Social Studies
Reproducible activity pages
Geography
History
Vocabulary
Critical thinking

Bible Study
Scripture memorization
Devotional application
Spiritual concepts

Community Links
Meaningful field trips
Guest speakers
Service projects

Related Themes to Explore
Politics and law
Current events
Life skills
Math
History
Geography
Science

Bibliography of Related Resources
Books
Movies
Documentaries
Magazine articles
Websites

Culminating Event
Project displays
Era music, food, and activities
Oral presentations

How We Used the Book and Unit Study Curriculum Guide

For the remainder of this review, I will be sharing about our experience with Corrie ten Boom: Keeper of the Angels' Den, one of the books available in the Christian Heroes: Then & Now book series; plus the Unit Study Curriculum Guide.

We read a chapter a week in the book. There are comprehension questions provided for each chapter in the Unit Study Curriculum Guide which I use with my son after reading each chapter. I am pleasantly surprised when he can answer most of the questions! He really gets into the book as we read it together.

I also use the Scripture verses provided in the curriculum guide as copywork each week. Once we have finished reading the book, I plan to go to our local library and check out the movie, The Hiding Place, which is a movie suggestion in the curriculum guide based on Corrie ten Boom's life.

There is so much to choose from in the Unit Study Curriculum Guide! I love that and the fact that I'm not tied to doing the same activity every day after we read. It also helps to keep my son's attention and interest.

I'm really looking forward to reading more of the books included in Christian Heroes: Then & Now series with my son. I hope you'll check out this inspirational series about real life Christian heroes and everything else that is offered at YWAM Publishing!

You can connect with YWAM Publishing on the following social media outlets:

• Facebook
• Twitter 
• Pinterest

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Super Teacher Worksheets Review

Today I'm sharing with you a review of an amazing online worksheets printables resource called Super Teacher Worksheets that will benefit both public school teachers as well as homeschoolers! As a member of the Schoolhouse Review Crew, I was given an Individual Membership for an entire year to use in our homeschool.

Introducing Super Teacher Worksheets

There is an incredible amount of worksheet printables for teachers and homeschool parents to use for children in grades PreK-5th. You'll have access to over 10,000 printable worksheets, activities and games! Math worksheets, grammar worksheets, printable maps, map skills activities, reading comprehension and so much more is available at your fingertips with Super Teacher Worksheets!



This online printable worksheets site has a huge list of homeschool printables in these categories:

• Math
• Reading and Writing
• Phonics and Early Literacy
• Handwriting
• Grammar
• Spelling Lists and Worksheets (Grades 1-5)
• Science
• Social Studies
• Holidays
• Puzzles and Brain Teasers
• Teacher Helpers
• Pre-K and Kindergarten
• Make-Your-Own Worksheets

Printable Reading Books

Fun Math Worksheets

Holiday Fun

Telling Time and Clock Practice

Multiplication and Division Worksheets

Reading Comprehension

How We Used Super Teacher Worksheets

I absolutely love Super Teachers Worksheets! I used the math worksheets and the reading comprehension worksheets with my son in our homeschool as a way to reinforce weaknesses in his learning which is delayed due to his special needs.

I used the worksheet generator to create my own math worksheets for my son so he could practice his subtraction facts. I will be making more worksheets to use as practice for addition, multiplication and division. I love that I can save all of my worksheets that I create and reprint them at any time. This will be a great time-saver for me! Especially if there is a particular worksheet that my son might struggle with and we need to go over again.

The reading comprehension worksheets were very helpful to use with my son to build his comprehension skills.

I'm using the spelling lists in our homeschool as well. You can print off the list of spelling words each week and use the worksheets that go along with them for practice work during the week. I had my son write out the list of spelling words on Monday and quizzed him on Tuesday. Any words he missed on the spelling quiz were assigned to write again on Wednesday and Thursday with the final spelling test on those missed words taking place on Friday.

I love the filing cabinet that I can use to save the worksheets I've used. There is a handy icon at the top of the menu bar that you can simply click on to save the worksheets you find and use on Super Teacher Worksheets.

My Opinion of Super Teacher Worksheets

As I stated earlier in my review, I love using Super Teacher Worksheets! There are so many printable worksheets available with just the click of my mouse. If you're looking for printable worksheets to use in your homeschool, you will definitely want to check out Super Teacher Worksheets! This is a completely online program so you will need a computer or laptop, internet access, and a printer.

You can connect with Super Teachers Worksheets on the following social media outlets:

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Pinterest

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Learn How To Start Your Own VA Business with FaithLeaps: The Christian Mom's Guide to Starting a Virtual Assistant Business

As a newbie into the Virtual Assistant business world, FaithLeaps: The Christian Moms Guide to Starting a Virtual Assistant Business by Alyssa Avant is an easy and informative read for anyone who wants to know how to get started in their own Virtual Assistant Business. I received an advance copy of FaithLeaps in exchange for my honest review which I am happy to be able to share with you today!

When I first began my blog here at Grace-Filled-Moments, I had no idea of the doors that my leap of faith would open! What began as a place to pour out my heart over our son's diagnosis' of Asperger's Syndrome, OCD, and ADD, is now a place where I share my faith and love for God, our homeschooling adventures with curriculum reviews as part of the Review Crew for The Old Schoolhouse Magazine, and now it's the place where I share my services offered in my Virtual Assistant Business. God has truly been in each leap of faith that I've taken here as I've shared how I'm living life's moments in the power of God's grace!

I was drawn into Alyssa's very helpful words and read through her ebook in one afternoon! I learned what I need to do to get my newly started VA business to the next level as well as mistakes to avoid. Alyssa also shares helpful links for further instruction that can help you launch and run your successful VA business.

I really appreciated Alyssa's insight and the step-by-step approach she willingly shares in this must read for anyone desiring to startup their own VA business. The opportunity to review Alyssa's book could not have come at a better time for me!

This will be a valuable tool that I will continually refer to as I grow into my VA business. I highly recommend FaithLeaps if you are a mom looking to start your own VA business to help bring extra income into your family's budget.

I'm so excited to share with you that FaithLeaps is available on Kindle for FREE today through September 20th! If you've ever wanted to learn how to start your own VA business, now is the time to act and get Alyssa's ebook today!

Simply click on this image to get this valuable tool for FREE!

Walking in His Grace, 

Laurie

25 Fun Fall Activities To Do With Your Family

I love fall and everything that comes with it! The beautiful colors of the changing leaves, the cooler temperatures, homemade soups and chili, pumpkin-flavored coffee and hoodies. There's so much to love about the fall season!

Here's my list of fun fall activities to do with your family. I hope you'll enjoy spending time with your family with these ideas.

Fun Fall Activities To Do With Your Family

1.   Visit a corn maze
2.   Make a leaf pile to play in
3.   Make a bonfire
4.   Make smores
5.   Go on a hayride
6.   Visit a farm
7.   Go to a fall festival
8.   Take a car ride to the mountains to look at all the fall colors
9.   Make caramel corn
10. Visit an apple orchard to pick apples
11. Make an apple pie
12. Cook a big pot of your family's favorite soup
13. Take a fall family photo
14. Visit a pumpkin patch
15. Start a gratitude journal
16. Have a fall picnic
17. Make a thankful tree craft
18. Plant some fall mums
19. Make an apple crisp
20. Take a nature walk
21. Make popcorn and watch a family movie
22. Cook a big pot of chili
23. Build a scarecrow
24. Make snickerdoodles
25. Decorate your house with fall decorations


I've made this list into a FREE printable you can download and use with your family! Simply click on the link below.

25 Fun Fall Activities To Do With Your Family

Free Printable

 

Do you have a fun fall activity you like to do with your family? Please share with us in the comments! Happy Fall y'all! :)

Walking in His Grace, 
Laurie

Each week, I am blessed to be able to link-up with the following awesome blogs. While you're here at Grace-Filled-Moments, please take some time to visit my blogging friends listed below.

Sunday: Raising Samuels Homeschool; Me, Coffee, and Jesus
Monday: My Joy-Filled Life, Just Another Mom, The Modest Mom, A Life in Balance

Tuesday: F. Dean Hackett ~ Tell It To Me Tuesday, Time-Warp Wife Titus 2sDay, Hip Homeschool Moms
Wednesday: A Little R&R, Messy Marriage, Mom's Morning Coffee, Soul Survivor, Wholehearted Home, Women Living Well, home of Good Morning Girls
Thursday:  Hearts for Home, I Choose Joy, The Evolution of Mom
Friday:  A Divine Encounter, Missional Women

Trusting God For the Power To Live This Life

One of the most life-changing spiritual truths I have realized in my life as a Christian is discovering that God has given me the power needed to live this life as His child. We read about this power coming in Peter's life in Acts chapter 2.

You remember Peter, right? Peter was the disciple who at the lowest point of His Christian life denied Jesus three times on the night Jesus was arrested.


But something wonderful and amazing happened to Peter! After weeping bitterly over his sin, Peter returns to the fellowship of the apostles and we find in Acts chapter 2 that they were all together in one place waiting on the promise of the Holy Spirit.

When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. ~Acts 2:1-4

Peter and the rest in that upper room received the promised Holy Spirit! Not only had Jesus told them about the gift of the Holy Spirit ~ the power they would need to be His witnesses in this life ~ but this was also prophecy from the Old Testament being fulfilled.

And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; even on my male servants and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy. ~Joel 2:28-32

Trusting God for the power to live this life is something we must all come to terms with in our spiritual growth. God knew we couldn't live this life to be His witnesses in our own strength and power. In fact, if you're like me, you've failed miserably each time you have tried.

Instead, we must learn to surrender to the power of the Holy Spirit that lives inside each one of us the moment we surrender our hearts and lives to Jesus. It is at that very moment of surrender that the Holy Spirit comes to live in our hearts.

It is when we realize that we have this power of the Holy Spirit living inside of us that we can begin to grow into all that God desires for us to be. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, faithfulness, goodness, gentleness and self-control. We receive it all and each day we grow a little bit in each characteristic of the Holy Spirit.

We can see a change in Peter's life after he received the Holy Spirit. Can the same be said of our lives? That's my prayer, as I'm sure it is the prayer for your life as well.

Peter has become a bold witness for Jesus! He boldly addresses the mockers in Acts 2 with his famous sermon of Acts 2:14-40 which results in the salvation and baptism of "about three thousand souls" (verse 41).

Beloved, you and I have this same Holy Spirit power living inside of us! May we surrender every day to the power of the Holy Spirit Who has been given to us by God...

...to enable us to be who God created us to be and to do all that Jesus has called us to do as His witnesses to a lost and dying world.

Walking in His Grace, 

Laurie

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Each week, I am blessed to be able to link-up with the following awesome blogs. While you're here at Grace-Filled-Moments, please take some time to visit my blogging friends listed below.

Sunday: Raising Samuels Homeschool
Monday: Just Another Mom, The Modest Mom, A Life in Balance, My Joy-Filled Life

Tuesday: Hip Homeschool Moms, F. Dean Hackett ~ Tell It To Me Tuesday, Time-Warp Wife Titus 2sDay
Wednesday: A Little R&R, Messy Marriage, Mom's Morning Coffee, Soul Survivor, Wholehearted Home, Women Living Well, home of Good Morning Girls 
Thursday:  Hearts for Home, I Choose Joy, The Evolution of Mom
Friday:  A Divine Encounter, Missional Women

Understanding Your Ministry as a Christian

Did you know there is an unfinished work that Jesus left for us to do during our time here on earth? Realizing and understanding this truth is the foundation for understanding your ministry as a Christian.

In the opening verse of Acts 1:1 we see that Jesus “began to do and teach”.

“In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach.” ~Acts 1:1 

What is the work that Jesus asks us to do? We find the answer in Acts 1:8-9.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight.”

As Christians, we are called to finish the work that Jesus began during his ministry here on earth. We are called to be His witnesses. 

Jesus finished the work of redemption on the cross. There is nothing else you or I can do or add to his finished work on the cross. The gift of salvation is a finished work. It’s a gift that we are called to share with the world.

What is it that Jesus “began to do and teach”? The commandments of God. We can’t even begin to be His witnesses if we do not know the truth of God. We have to know what the Bible says. That’s why it’s so important for us to be in God’s Word every day, learning our growing, so we can be faithful witnesses rightly handling the Word of God.

In the next six weeks while we are reading in the book of Acts with the Good Morning Girls, we are going to be taking a glimpse into the lives of people who did their part in finishing the unfinished work that Jesus began in his ministry during His time on earth. 

We all have a part to play in the unfinished work of Jesus. Each one of us who are born-again believers in the family of God has been assigned a part in finishing the work which Jesus began.

The apostle Paul understood his part in finishing the work that Jesus began. He says to the Ephesian Elders in Acts 20:22-24:

And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, constrained by the Spirit, not knowing what will happen to me there, except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me. But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.”

Even with continual warnings from the Holy Spirit of the troubles and afflictions he would be facing in every city, Paul would not be deterred from his part in finishing the work that Jesus began. He wasn’t concerned with protecting his life or saving for retirement! His motivation was finishing his part in the unfinished work of Jesus.

Do we, as Christians, have the same motivation to fulfill our part in the unfinished work of Jesus?

What will we do with the time we have been given here on this earth?

The journey we begin today in the book of Acts testifies about the work that the Holy Spirit accomplished through His people in order to finish the unfinished work of Jesus. It’s a work of the Holy Spirit that continues even today in and through us as we live our lives for the purpose of finishing the work that Jesus gave us to do.

Understanding your ministry as a Christian requires taking an honest look at the priorities you have set in place for your life. Has the busyness of this world choked out your time for reading in the Bible? I invite you to join me in the book of Acts for the next six weeks. Let’s learn together about the acts of the Holy Spirit that are recorded in the book of Acts and get a fresh vision for how we can be a part of finishing the unfinished work of Jesus!

Walking in His Grace, 

Laurie

Each week, I am blessed to be able to link-up with the following awesome blogs. While you're here at Grace-Filled-Moments, please take some time to visit my blogging friends listed below.

Sunday: Raising Samuels Homeschool
Monday: Just Another Mom, The Modest Mom, A Life in Balance, My Joy-Filled Life

Tuesday: Hip Homeschool Moms, F. Dean Hackett ~ Tell It To Me Tuesday, Time-Warp Wife Titus 2sDay
Wednesday: A Little R&R, Messy Marriage, Mom's Morning Coffee, Soul Survivor, Wholehearted Home
Thursday:  Hearts for Home, I Choose Joy, The Evolution of Mom
Friday:  A Divine Encounter, Missional Women, Women Living Well, home of Good Morning Girls