An Update from Lee

A year ago I announced we had our own home! It was a decades-long wait for me, but a dream fulfilled by my loving Father. Although we struggled with coming back to America after being overseas for fourteen years, looking back, we are assured that He has us in just the right place, not just in America, but down to being in this home. We were just discussing last night how everything worked to point us to being right here, right now. For such a time as this, right?

Thanks for sticking with us this year! I know we had a roller-coaster ride in the middle of the year when the site crashed. It was actually a sweet time in the Lord for me, His peace and presence being so close and clear. It felt like a personal victory to me being able to walk through it in that state of mind.

This was actually a pretty awesome year for our family. We had our first ever year in our own home. We’ve been slowly working on it. We’ve been able to host guests and spend time with neighbors.

Easy Peasy grew lots this year and we’ve been able to use that to help families locally and around the world. We just got an ad page up to help EP families hopefully, and we brought back our book request for struggling families.

My husband started working on a Bible translation project this year, in the North Macedonia dialect of Romani. He’s partnering via Messenger with his best friend, his language teacher from Macedonia (now named North Macedonia). He’s also become a regular guest preacher by Zoom at churches in India.

During the spring quarantine, I made miracle story videos to encourage people to not be afraid. I got up a site this year to house those videos, as well as other teachings, a gospel message, and the Romani Bible translation. That’s been fun work. I make the videos for the audio version of the Bible translation. While my husband and his friend have worked out how to write down this mostly unwritten language, the main thrust of the translation is to make it available as audio. It’s out on social media now and some Roma have started getting together online weekly to pray and read the scriptures for the first time in their own language.

This fall I led a reading/Bible study group using my novel, The King Will Make a Way. That was a fun and encouraging time for me as well.

Beginning this first week of January, you’ll be able to add “Good Morning, Lord” to your My EP course list. I am making 2-minute Bible teaching videos. I’ve been going through Genesis so far. This year I also wrote a Bible study called “This Is Eternal Life” on the high school site. That was the book of Matthew, and I’ve been adding onto that going through the book of John.

We got some more courses done as workbooks, as requested by our EP families. I got out some updates to our My EP site to make things even easier peasier. We replaced a multitude of Flash games with our very own fun activities, and I got to see my once-a-year-friends at our annual EP picnic, which is always a treat!

Here are our EP stats. We’ve almost made it everywhere in the world! The darker color means more people use it there.

 

The dark blue is actual visitors. The big blocks are just views. These aren’t registered users, just people finding their way to the All-in-One Homeschool site. But still…what a difference a year makes. The Lord uses all things for good

 

All praise to the One who does all things well. I’m grateful to get to be part of what He’s up to. Thanks for joining our EP family, whether you’ve been here from the start or are just beginning. We’re happy to have you and hope we can do a good job of serving your family. It’s our desire to have a little part of bringing life into homes.

8 thoughts on “An Update from Lee

  1. Verónica Flores Ascarrunz January 5, 2021 / 12:53 am

    Ustedes son una bendición para nosotros y una plegaria hecha respuesta. Somos de Bolivia y estamos muy agradecidos por todo lo que están haciendo, en mi país es muy nuevo el homeschool y son nuestros primeros pasos. Que Dios los Bendiga siempre

    • Lee Giles January 5, 2021 / 4:13 pm

      I’m glad we could help. Let us know how we can support you in this new journey.

  2. bestbuddies658 January 26, 2021 / 8:57 pm

    Your updates and connection here means so much. Thank you for taking the time to do so. Have a Happy 2021!

  3. suzydangerous February 4, 2021 / 6:31 pm

    Thank you for everything you do! You have made things much easier for me than they were before I discovered this easy peasy way to stay on schedule with our homeschool. I can’t thank you enough! Congratulations on your home! <3 Love from Colorado! God Bless you!

    Melisa and Logan
    EP Homeschoolers

  4. allycat2135 March 11, 2021 / 7:59 pm

    Hi, thank you for making EP, it’s awesome

    – a random 6th grader

    • allycat2135 March 16, 2021 / 5:34 pm

      Also, please add The Princess and The Goblin by George Macdonald to reading somewhere, it’s a British book, and it’s a favorite of mine.

  5. ciara March 23, 2021 / 5:17 pm

    hey thanks for making this EP!!!!! its really awesome. i love using this website for my homeschooling lol! have a good 2021! 🙂

    -a random 9th grader lmao

  6. Boldfaithliving April 26, 2021 / 12:40 pm

    Thank you so much for this website. I truly appreciate the work you do. It has been a blessing to both me and my 10th grader, who, once struggled in school, is now excelling thanks to EP. May the Lord continue to richly bless you and your family.

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