Being homeschoolers, we are members of several online homeschool groups and receive many homeschool newsletters. One of the newsletters sends out a weekly email called "Freebie Fridays". I look forward to it every week, because it really does have some valuable online freebies for homeschoolers. Some of them I have passed on to you in the past.

I don't know if I want to commit to doing it weekly, but I do like the idea of passing on some freebies to you from time to time that promote family values. Since I'm not sure how often it will be, I'm calling my posts "Families Again Freebies". It may be every week, it may be a couple of times a week, or I may skip a week or so, but I hope to be fairly regular in passing on free websites and ideas that will help you in your journey of raising kids.

In one of my early posts I talked about Behemoth.com. I lamented that they had daily free downloads but required a credit card to set up an account. Since that post, we switched banks and now have a check card that I was able to use to register. I love it! They have historical talks, talks on family values, educational downloads etc. ... all from a Christian worldview. I look forward every day to see what the next thing is that I can download. I have listened to many of them, and have not been disappointed yet. 

Another website that I have gone to a lot recently is DLTK crafts. Most of the crafts that were used for our Advent nights came from this site and I have even used some of their crafts for my Bible clubs. Everything is free and there is a ton of crafts that you can use for family craft nights. DTLK crafts is a family based site, so you shouldn't find anything too objectionable, but I did find one craft that involved Pokemon, so you do need to be careful.

Let me know what you think of these, and if you know of any good freebies that you think will meet this sites goal of strengthening the Christian family, please let me know and I may put it in a future FamiliesAgain Freebies post.

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Mood:  hungry

Well, the holidays are almost over and so are all of my great advent/holiday plans for the family. How did they go? You read about our first advent night in one of my previous posts. The others went a little better but not much. We made sure that our calender was clear for the second advent night, but we still started late, so Joshua still wasn't himself. He was quite during the start of our Bible reading, but then we were interupted and it went downhill from there. He lost focus for the rest of the Bible reading and then didn't want to do the craft. The third night was a little better, he did try the craft even after being antsy during the devotional time.

It is partly my fault. I should have been doing family devotions since all of the kids were little. I can't totally expect them to cooperate right from the start when they aren't used to it. But, that is about to end. I am commited to start daily family devotions beginning January 1st. Of course, we won't have the added crafts, and I will make sure that the devotions are "Joshua friendly". It should be interesting - I'll keep you posted.

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Did you get a lot of money or giftcards for Christmas? Check out some of these great after Christmas sales!

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I realized as I was writing my last post how little I have talked about the mission organization that Sarah and I are with - BCM (Bible Centered Ministries) International. In fact, there are other organizations that have gotten more mentions in my blog than BCM. I am very embarrassed and plan to rectify this situation immediately! I just promoted, in my last entry, an organization that I don't absolutely totally agree with, but have not done enough to promote my own mission which I totally agree with. Since I just published the other organization's mission statement, I am now proudly publishing the mission statement of BCM and will post more about BCM in the near future.

Jesus said: "I am sending you to them to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light."
Acts 26:18

BCM is a global Bible-Centered Ministry dedicated to making disciples of all age groups for the Lord Jesus Christ through evangelism, teaching and training so that churches are established and The Church strengthened.

We minister through evangelism, church planting, discipleship, leadership training and publishing Bible curriculum and teaching materials. We also provide Bible Clubs, camping, counseling, and compassionate care. BCM strives to make an impact in the world through Reaching Children and Developing Churches Worldwide.

Key partnerships with other international organizations, such as Handi*Vangelism Ministries International, New Hope International, Comfort Foundation (Vologda, Russia), and Life Change Ministries International (Hyderabad, India) greatly enhance our global impact.

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I have mentioned Vision Forum many times (probably too many for some of you) and I'm sure some of you have wondered what Vision Forum was all about. Today the president and founder of Vision Forum, Doug Philips, published "The Mission of Vision Forum Ministries" on his blog so I decided to publish them here. While I don't agree with every "jot and tittle" of their goals, and their mission statement does not necessarily express my views or the views of our mission organization, BCM International, overall they have the same values as this blog so I heartily support them.

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