On the current homeschool conference, my husband and I purchased an enormous set of missionary biographies for our household. We’ve eyed that stack of books yearly and eventually bit the bullet. We knew it could be our most important buy for homeschooling this yr and we simply wished to dig in!
Since then, we’ve got loved utilizing Christian missionary biographies in our homeschooling. Everybody within the household is riveted to the tales and the discussions are superb. We’re all studying, rising, and are being pointed to Christ.
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I’ve additionally shared easy methods to use missionary biographies in your homeschool by creating unit research round them. However right here, I need to provide you with an excellent checklist of missionary biographies and sources so that you simply, too, can start constructing a library of those superb tales.
Additionally, you will discover under a set of notebooking pages I created for our personal missionary research. I’m sharing the printable with Proverbial Homemaker subscribers for FREE!
Notice: I do recommend that for younger children you preview any movies and audiobooks about missionaries. There are fairly heavy matters and violent scenes in a few of these tales! We select to not use missionary biography audiobooks at the moment for that motive. I can simply “edit” a ebook on the fly as I’m studying it. The younger readers proven under deal with this subject nicely.
Finest Sources for Instructing Missionary Biographies
Hero Tales: A Household Treasury of True Tales from the Lives of Christian Heroes by Dave and Neta Jackson
Hero Tales: A Household Treasury of True Tales from the Lives of Christian Heroes was the primary ebook we learn as a household that tipped me off to how nice missionary tales could be. My children LOVED these, and so they provide you with a simple begin with easy tales and devotions to learn every day. Should you aren’t certain if missionary tales will fly together with your youngsters, do that first! There are a number of volumes obtainable.
YWAM Missionary and Historical past Tales
That is the enormous set of books we purchased! We bought all of the Christian Heroes Then and Now sequence and a handful of the Younger Readers sequence. The common books are nice for learn alouds however the latter are excellent for teenagers round 7-8 years outdated to learn. It’s also possible to purchase unit research, exercise guides, and audiobook variations.
YWAM Christian Heroes Then and Now
YWAM Heroes for Younger Readers
Torchlighters DVDs
You should buy DVDs of the Torchlighters sequence or watch them streaming without cost. These are animated variations of missionary tales! They nonetheless should be previewed a bit for youthful children, however we solely skipped slightly and nonetheless loved your entire sequence with our younger crowd.
The Brinkman Adventures
Our household LOVES The Brinkmann Adventures audiobook sequence! I initially left this off the checklist and I can’t imagine I did! (Thanks the reader who jogged my memory.) They’re a lot enjoyable, very prime quality, and provides our youngsters an pleasure for the thrilling issues about missionary work. I additionally love that it reveals the entire household interacting on their adventures and fixing issues collectively. Extremely suggest it! You’ll be able to learn my full evaluate right here.
Missionary Tales by Christian Focus Publications
- Little Lights books are participating books for ages 3-7 with pleasant photos. What makes them distinctive is that the left hand aspect has textual content for the guardian or older little one to learn, whereas the appropriate hand aspect has an illustration and easy textual content for youthful youngsters to learn. For that motive, these are subsequent on my to-buy checklist!
Missionary Tales for Excessive College
For highschool stage biographies, attempt Bitesize Biographies from EP Books!
Extra Sources to Think about
FREE Christian Missionary Biography Notebooking Pages
I put collectively a set of missionary biography notebooking pages for our homeschool and I’m blissful to share them with you! The notebooking pages can be utilized alone as a report or as part of a unit research. Here’s what’s included:
- Missionary profile
- Bible/Character
- Timeline
- Geography
- Tradition
- Prayers
- Copywork house
- Free notes
Obtain the Missionary Notebooking Pages!
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