Mission schools could provide lending services to these missionaries who do not have any library available to them. Mission schools could provide a real service by holding seminars or workshops for the home schooling missionary community. Perhaps a mission school could even have one person on staff who specializes in assisting and advising home schooling missionaries. Finally, the implications of this research for missionaries who are anticipating or actually home schooling their children are significant. Home schooling takes a great deal of time and effort, and needs to be a joy and valued occupation of the mother in order for it to be satisfying to her and the children.
Most missionaries highly value their own library.
Likewise, home schooling missionaries should include in their budget the funds to purchase necessary reading material and other educational resources for their children. And then they must be flexible and use their imagination. That home schooling missionaries are succeeding in their home schooling is obvious. Yet they are eager for help to be more effective in this unquestionably difficult task of educating their own children in an overseas setting. Evangelical Missions Quarterly, Vol.