We are grateful that you are considering how you and your children might begin to visit our lonely neighbors in one of your community’s nursing homes. We are certainly not experts in homeschooling, yet we do believe we can help your family take the first steps into this wonderful mission field. We have created several resources to help you get started and to develop your children’s skills in interacting with seniors. We are confident that your family will discover the joy of the Lord as you share His love and promises with God’s treasured elderly children hidden behind the care home walls.
- First Steps Guidebook
A first-steps booklet to guide your family into a life-giving outreach in a local nursing home. - ABC’s of the Nursing Home – Younger
Designed as a starting place for students grades K-5 to learn about God’s care for the elderly and what to expect when they begin visiting seniors at a local nursing home. Parents will need to help younger students read through the ABC’s while the student colors through each activity. - ABC’s of the Nursing Home – Older
Designed as a starting place for students grades 6-12 to learn about God’s care for the elderly and what to expect when they begin visiting seniors at a nursing home. - School Lesson: Respect the Elderly
Designed for students of reading age to understand God’s heart for the elderly and His instruction for us to care about our neighbors in the nursing home. - School Lesson: A Life of Love
Designed for students of reading age to understand God’s instruction to love others as He has loved us. - School Lesson: The Great Commission
Designed for students of reading age to understand God’s instruction to go to others to make disciples by sharing the Gospel. - Nursing Home Visitation Achievement Sheet
Designed for students of all ages to use once they have begun visiting the nursing home. This tool will help to place purpose and intention on each visit that aligns with the concepts they learned through the school work they completed. - Student Self Evaluation – Younger
Designed for students grades K-5 to reflect on the concepts they have learned and applied through both the curriculum and visitation to understand their growth and the meaning of their time spent with elderly friends. - Student Self Evaluation – Older
Designed for students grades 6-12 to reflect on the concepts they have learned and applied through both the curriculum and visitation to celebrate their growth and identify their impact. - Parent Evaluation of Student
Designed for parents to measure their children’s learned skills and areas of growth as a result of this component of school curriculum.