See the sidebar for a list of these items. During our four years of operation, HTS has steadily diversified its acquisitions. All of this material is housed in two bookshelves 10' L x 8' H, two lateral file cabinets crammed full of catalogs and support materials representing about 200 venders, VCR and TV, two IBM-compatible 386 computers and printer, etc. My ultimate vision for the Resource Center is that it become a place where people can come and peruse a sampling of what the major curriculum companies have to offer. This includes the latest in unit studies, supplementary materials for unit studies, curricula teaching art, music and other subjects that tend to get less attention, science projects, foreign language curriculum, and definitely more Christian biographies and edifying recreational reading materials for the children.
Home schooling is the most successful family-reviving movement of our century.
It follows then that many of the most useful family-strengthening resources are to be found in home schooling circles. Having these resources located in the church can strengthen your church's outreach and discipleship. In some cases, people have entered other ministries in our church after first coming into contact with us through the Resource Center. Our church's youth ministry and family-integrated Sunday School classes have capitalized on theses resources as well. Our leaders have referred on a number of occasions to these resources to enhance their own discipleship activities with the parents.