Please Help The Romeike Family

I have copied the following article off of a friend's blog, Our Full House. Please read this and sign the petition...



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"What would you do if your state decided you could no longer home educate your children? Would you stay and place them in public school, would you risk prison by continuing to homeschool them or would you move somewhere that allowed you the freedom? This is a very real question that each homeschool family needs to answer. When our family began to homeschool our children in California almost 20 years ago, homeschooling was not what it is today. People thought it was illegal, worse yet the state was not sure what to do with this growing movement of parents that were taking their children out of government schools and training them at home. This week I met with a state government employee that didn't know the homeschool laws of our state and she works within the children's welfare system.

Last year I was made aware of a family that came to America, legally, from Germany to enjoy the freedom of home educating their children. The Romeike family left their country, home, church, family, friends and church to come to America. They first immigrated to America in 2008 and the Obama Administration is now trying to deport them back to a country that wants to prosecute them for teaching their children at home. I will not share the whole story here because there are so many details I don't want to miss. I will include links at the bottom of the page for more reading about the Romeike family and the challenges they have endured in order to exercise their God given right to teach their children without the governments interference.

Sign Now

Homeschool Legal Defense is representing the Romeike family in court and has an uphill battle, not against the German government but against the US government. Can you imagine any more hypocrisy than the US government telling the Romeike family, who immigrated to America legally that they are not allowed to stay here after five years, when that same government is proposing amnesty to 12 million illegal immigrants currently in the US? The Romeike family needs your help. There is currently a White House petition that will allow HSLDA and the Romeike family to have their case heard by the White House. Please join us in signing this important petition before April 18. Whether you are a homeschool family or not, this affects you. If the Romeike family is deported for homeschooling, will we be next?"

Land of Liberty: The Romeike Family Story

German Homeschool Case May Impact US Homeschool Freedom

German Homeschoolers Seek Asylum in America (Video)

Bontrager Family Singers Sibling Cooperation

You have got to watch this amazing video of the Bontrager Family!  They've got talent!

A Beautiful Courtship Story

 

This is the Steele Family, missionaries to the Ukraine!  They have recently re-posted their courtship story on their blog, a story which I read several years ago and thoroughly enjoyed and again enjoyed reading it a second time!  So if any of you would like to read a really sweet love story on how our Amazing God works in the lives of His children, you can click on the links below....

 

 

Love Story Part 1: Three Strikes and You're Out?

Love Story Part 2: First Things First

Love Story Part 3: Dating the Dad?

Love Story Part 4: Let's Tell Kelsie

Love Story Part 5: The Beginning

Love Story Part 6: Mystery Courtship

Love Story Part 7: "I Love You"

 

I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did!

 

Why We Should Support Hobby Lobby

Hobby Lobby CEO, David Green’s Letter

When my family and I started our company 40 years ago, we were working out of a garage on a $600 bank loan, assembling miniature picture frames. Our first retail store wasn’t much bigger than most people’s living rooms, but we had faith that we would succeed if we lived and worked according to God’s word. From there, Hobby Lobby has become one of the nation’s largest arts and crafts retailers, with more than 500 locations in 41 states. Our children grew up into fine business leaders, and today we run Hobby Lobby together, as a family.

We’re Christians, and we run our business on Christian principles. I’ve always said that the first two goals of our business are 1) to run our business in harmony with God’s laws, and 2) to focus on people more than money. And that’s what we’ve tried to do. We close early so our employees can see their families at night. We keep our stores closed on Sundays, one of the week’s biggest shopping days, so that our workers and their families can enjoy a day of rest. We believe that it is by God’s grace that Hobby Lobby has endured, and he has blessed us and our employees. We’ve not only added jobs in a weak economy, we’ve also raised wages for the past four years in a row. Our full-time employees start at 80% above minimum wage.

But now, our government threatens to change all of that. A new government health care mandate says that our family business must provide what I believe are abortion-causing drugs as part of our health insurance. Being Christians, we don’t pay for drugs that might cause abortions. Which means that we don’t cover emergency contraception, the morning-after pill or the week-after pill. We believe doing so might end a life after the moment of conception, something that is contrary to our most important beliefs. It goes against the biblical principles on which we have run this company since day one. If we refuse to comply, we could face $1.3 million per day in government fines.

Our government threatens to fine job creators in a bad economy. Our government threatens to fine a company that’s raised wages four years running. Our government threatens to fine a family for running its business according to its beliefs. It’s not right.

I know people will say we ought to follow the rules, that it’s the same for everybody. But that’s not true. The government has exempted thousands of companies from this mandate, for reasons of convenience or cost. But it won’t exempt them for reasons of religious belief. So, Hobby Lobby — and my family — are forced to make a choice. With great reluctance, we filed a lawsuit today, represented by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, asking a federal court to stop this mandate before it hurts our business. We don’t like to go running into court, but we no longer have a choice. We believe people are more important than the bottom line and that honoring God is more important than turning a profit.

My family has lived the American dream. We want to continue growing our company and providing great jobs for thousands of employees, but the government is going to make that much more difficult. The government is forcing us to choose between following our faith and following the law. I say that’s a choice no American — and no American business — should have to make.

David Green is the CEO and founder of Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.

My Precious Niece!

 

December 23rd, 2013, Victoria Providence Rae Yuck was born to my sister Jordan and her husband, Caleb! Victoria was 7 lbs. and 4 oz and 21 inches long. She is so perfect!

 

  Victoria was born at home, up in Canada, and we were so blessed to be able to be up there to celebrate her birth over the Christmas holidays! The Lord has blessed our family with her presence and we are all so overjoyed and simply marvel at His goodness! I am trying to upload more pictures, but I am experiencing some difficulties, soooo...until I am able, you can enjoy more pictures of her over at our family blog: www.farmingthecarolinas.blogspot.com. We love her so much!

Living Without Reservation

"Dear brothers and sisters, we must always remember that the time is short and nothing should be put off for tomorrow.  We must live each day as though it were our last.  We must work the works of Him who has called us as long as it is day; night is coming when no one can work (John 9:4).  Let us put our hand to the plow and not look back.  For the joy set before Christ, He endured the cross, despising the shame.  For the joy set before us, let us also endure the suffering and weariness that often accompany true discipleship and run with endurance the race that is set before us (Hebrews 12:1-2).  If we are to die in Christ without regrets, we must live for Christ without reservation!"

 

-Paul Washer

Great Quote

"Many pastors criticize me for taking the Gospel so seriously. 

But do they really think that on Judgement Day, Christ will chastise me, saying,

 'Leonard, you took me too seriously'?"

 

-Leonard Ravenhill