Min awakes with joyful anticipation of what God will do as she cooperates with Him in home-educating her 4 creative children, as well as her friend’s precious two children. She delights in sharing the Gospel-grounded Charlotte Mason philosophy and methods with every family and church.
Over a decade ago, having become convinced of the life-giving paradigm the Charlotte Mason philosophy brings, she has embraced Miss Mason’s principles, allowing them to inform her ministry with moms, college students, and children.
If you were having tea with her, she would tell you God doesn’t waste anything; she can testify to how her varied background in Nursing, law, and nonprofit work establishing safehomes for sexually exploited, pregnant mothers, has helped equip her for her current vocation.
Min is a wife of more than 20 years to her best friend, Young. They have the blessing of pastoring a beautiful, ethnically diverse church in New Jersey. In addition to serving as Pastor’s Wife, the Children’s Ministry Director, an artist, and home-educator, you’ll find her loving on mothers at LifeGivingMotherhood.org – a worldwide community of mothers desiring to grow in their spiritual disciplines and life-giving habits – and podcasting at “Charlotte Mason For All” and “Charlotte Mason’s Volumes.”
2023 Conference
Spiritual Formation in Teens: How to talk about transgenderism & current prevailing ideologies with our children
“[Confusion] is not new, but the children are.”
However, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. And the Word of God stands forever. We approach the current pervading ideas with humility under the Word of God. Though this limited time together in this workshop is not meant to be comprehensive, may our exploration be a beginning and a catalyst to turn to God first, again and again, before we allow ourselves and our children to be reduced to merely man-made constructs of temporal animals whose all-important identity is in our sexuality and emotions alone. Using Charlotte Mason’s “Kingdom of Mansoul” as a helpful tool, we will also discuss how we can be mentor and guide to our teens as they find their identity in Christ. God is the Alpha and Omega. He is our Creator. He had the first word, and He will have the last word. If you believe this, let’s join hands in prayer together for our children’s sake, and ultimately, for the sake of the Kingdom of God as we seek it first.
Mothers, we are our child’s first theologian. We do not shrink back in fear of this holy mantle God has given us. On the contrary, with help and power from the Holy Spirit, let’s get right to work as sentinels and watchmen of our gates. And the gates of hell will not prevail against us, for He who promised is faithful.
2022 Conference
The Hidden Work of Rest
Apostle Paul writes, “I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.” (1 Cor. 3:6)
There are days I wonder if I am effective in my ministry of motherhood to my children.
Rather than the harvest I expect from each new (and to me, exciting!) change I prayerfully make in our home atmosphere and homeschool curriculum, I get…. well, nothing. Some days, I get worse than nothing; I get resistance and what looks like five steps back.
On those days, I can only but lift my eyes to the mountains where my help comes from. Only then, I can see with clarity.
My work is like that of Apostle Paul and Apollos. I am to plant the seeds in my children’s hearts through ample opportunity to hear God’s living word and experience His powerful presence. I am to water carefully, while sensitively checking the “soil” to ensure I don’t overwater or underwater the growing seeds preciously hidden underground.
Too often, that is where I go wrong.
The ministry of motherhood is one that takes great faith. Our spiritual senses must be sharp as never before. Our faith in the redemptive work of Christ, finished for us on the cross, MUST increase.
I’d like to prayerfully explore with you what it means to (1) overwater and (2) underwater. And (3) to do that hard work of proactively seeking rest so that we can discern how God gives the growth, as ONLY He can.
That is, through Faith and Love.
2021 Fall retreat
How to Be on Your Soul’s Side: The Mother’s Timetable
Do your weeks feel like they’re all rolling into one long day with no margin for soul-rest and reflection? Are you feeling exhausted in body, mind, and soul by the afternoon? Do you feel spent and like you’re running on empty?
We’re created as vessels, not reservoirs.
During this workshop, we’ll discuss why and how to create the “Mother’s Timetable” used in the Life-giving Motherhood membership. It’s a powerful tool we use to help create habits of mind, body, and soul, enabling you to stand strong under the “motherhood mantle” of deputed authority appointed to you by Christ.
2021 Conference
How to Aim for a Life-giving Homeschool
Do you want to give your child the very best education possible, but don’t quite know what that means? Do you want to do “all-the-things,” but don’t know where to start or you keep getting distracted by the next shiny, new curriculum? Are you feeling anxious and worried you’re not up for the task to home-educate your child? Let’s get back to the foundations together. Let’s provide our child with “a thinking love” (Pestalozzi) and take hold of what is essential. Let’s grasp, with both hands, the 3 powerful educational instruments at our disposal (according to Charlotte Mason), as we allow our Lord to breathe fresh, new life into our homes and homeschools.
2020 Workshop
Courage & Calling: Unveiling God’s Everlasting Purpose for Your Homeschool
Moses refused to go a step further unless God would go with him. Jacob refused to let go of God until He blessed him. Not because they were incompetent. It was because they had their sights, not on things of earth, but on things of heaven. They had a cosmic view, a clear vision of their everlasting goal.
In this workshop, we will prayerfully craft a detailed vision of your child at graduation to set before you. God said, “Without vision, the people perish.” Let’s give Him this time to set His vision in our hearts and move us from confusion to clarity – grasping His everlasting purpose for our homeschools, as we say with Moses: “If Your Presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from here!”
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We are a community of Gospel-reliant moms, intent on being disciples and disciplers of Christ, who have united to answer the call of raising up the next generation in accordance with God’s Word, by cultivating the spiritual disciplines lived out by Christ, and by replacing unproductive habits with life-giving, productivity-boosting habits, which enable us to hone our ability to be watchful, praying gatekeepers of our homes, and ultimately, hear our King say when He returns, “Well done, good and faithful servant.”
