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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n\u201cAt the time, my husband, John, was out of town. I was going to call him that evening to fill him in when I felt like the Lord wanted me to sit with Him in prayer for a bit. So I thought to myself, \u2018What specifically am I asking the Lord for?\u2019 The answer came to me in a word \u2014 \u2018rooms.\u2019 I didn\u2019t need anything fancy or even a huge building. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI just needed a building with seven empty rooms in which we could hold the classes we had planned. So, I asked the Lord to give us seven rooms somewhere in Lebanon. Before I picked up my phone to call John, I opened my Bible, and it literally fell open to John 14:2-3, which read, \u2018In my Father\u2019s house are many rooms.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
One week later, Besse received a call from a local church that wanted to host the group, answering her prayer. The group has since grown to an enrollment of over 400. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe root of CCA is a sense of family and community anchored in the love of Jesus. We offer opportunities that our students can\u2019t do at home, like archery, Taekwondo, dance, art with mixed media, STEM, and super science classes. We also offer lots of hands-on learning and experiments, theatre classes, crafting, sewing, and a variety of Bible classes, plus literature classes where students can discuss literary works with their peers. Some of our more unique class offerings are meteorology, marine biology, learning to build, music classes, and classes on all the possible career paths students may be interested in when they are older.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n For junior high and high school, we offer many of the same enrichment classes, but we add some age-appropriate options like cooking, life skills and home maintenance, hobby farming and gardening, sewing, typing, how to create documents and spreadsheets, website design, and woodworking. For older grades, we also offer core classes like\u00a0algebra, geometry, biology and chemistry, English, research and writing, American history, and world history. Aside from academics, our students get the joy of participating in holiday parties, grade-level social gatherings outside of school, planned educational field trips, student council, out-of-town trips, and we offer a prom for our high school students.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Besse now has 15 years of home-schooling under her belt, three of her children have graduated, and Rebecca is a thriving high school student. Besse\u2019s oldest son, Aaron, obtained a business degree from Cumberland University. Her daughter, Sara, is a freshman at Union University. Her son, Jacob, serves in the U.S. Navy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe teach our children to think outside the box, to do different things, and to see all the endless possibilities. Life is not formulaic. Our goal is to help our children pave their own way to their goals in life, not to look for a path that\u2019s already paved; I feel that home-schooling has helped them to do that.\u201d GN <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MARY BESSE craved opportunities for her four home-schooled children to delve deeper into a wider variety of subjects that interested them. Ten years ago, she founded the home-school tutorial Cornerstone Christian Academy (CCA), which offers weekly classes at The Journey Church. Although she appreciated their previous home-school cooperative program, where parents divided up the teaching […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":20873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/goodnewsmags.com\/lebanon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/03\/2-1-1024x683.png\")
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