Homeschooling: Learning to teach and raise your children through constant dependence upon God as you raise them to be citizens of God’s kingdom.

2015 True Education Symposium

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Pattern Education

Beatriz Caballero de Rivas

The True Education Mindset

So before we begin, let's have a word of prayer, please.

Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you so much for this day.

Thank you for the opportunity to be able to learn about true education.

Help us, Lord, to see you and the words that come today here in this place, may they be from you.

Okay, so before I begin with practical ideas, first I want you to know a little bit about the why I started.

It doesn't have to be that way with your story.

We all have a story of why we're doing it, right?

He lived in communism for a long, for when he was an adult, communism started.

And Beginning communism, he saw that the liberties were taken away.

They wanted to take the children away at a very young age and separate them from the parents and take them to, they called it agriculture in Spanish.

You would say, the cara al campo, to go facing agriculture.

And it would be away from the parents because, well, we know why, right?

If they're away from parents, it's a way to be able to guide them and brainwash them and teach them another way.

Well, my dad, in those ages, he was, he, his personality is very explosive and he was, he likes justice and how is this possible?

We need to, you know, reveal, we need to do a revolt, we need to get out and go look for help and come back and take away communism that was his idea he was not a Christian.

So he had the opportunity to be able to not do what communism people do, but he was 5 years in a concentration camp because of that.

And when he is able to get out of Cuba, his idea was I'm gonna be back.

And he went, actually arrived in New Jersey.

And someone came to the door, Spanish speaking, because he did not know any English, knocked at the door, and they were Seventh-day Adventist Spanish-speaking people.

And that's the way he learned about the truth.

And 6 months later, after being baptized, the same person came to his door and said, you know what, I was mistaken.

What I told you that was true is not true.

And he just, what do you mean it's not true?

You come back, you can come and talk to me about anything else, but I'll let you know when I'm ready to talk about this again.

So he took out his Bible and he went to an ABC and he took out counsels and Spirit of Prophecy and he wanted to compare if that really those books that he was learning from really were from the Bible because he had already accepted God and the truth of the Bible.

So he spent many, many months comparing and studying and you know what, He called that person and said, I'm ready, you can come, and let's talk.

And you know that person was rebaptized in church.

I grew up with my father working very hard.

We were a very poor family, but he worked 2 jobs.

There was no time to see dad except on Fridays and Saturdays, Friday nights.

And he would sit, I'm sorry, in a rocking chair and talk to me about Jesus.

He would sit in a rocking chair and he was very tired, you can see, but he would come with enthusiasm, always starting with something that happened in Cuba, but ending up with Jesus.

And it was at the feet of my father, it said on the rug, I accepted Jesus as my Savior.

And he would tell me, You know, I used to have that spirit, I have to go back and do justice.

You know what, I found out that that's not my country.

And that same zeal that he felt to go back to Cuba and do justice.

Now he was like, we have to make justice, not for us, you know, for God, we're soldiers.

So he had this torch lit up and he said, you know, I'm not sure if I'm going to be alive when Jesus comes.

I'm not sure, but I need to pass this on to you.

And I hope you're still small when Jesus comes, but if you're not and you have your kids, you need to pass it to them.

So I was growing up with this flame in my heart that at a small age we need to implant the seed and it's a burning torch that needs to be, I mean we cannot give the truth of the Bible in a very boring way because it's not boring.

It's so exciting and it's so real and it's so true and I can see it with things that happened to my father in the past, okay.

So when I'm growing up and I go and I choose something to study, I did end up studying education.

I did up going to public school and Christian Academy, Adventist Academy.

And when I began being a teacher and going into the elementary level, I was, oh, we're going to change the world.

And there was a 70% in my classroom that had no idea of what Christianity was.

Families that were divorcing, parents that really only wanted them there because it was a bilingual school.

So there was a lot of little things that were, you know, the rules of the place and the laws, where I was, I lived in Puerto Rico in that moment, limited me.

I knew I'm supposed to be out in the garden and stuff, but they're wanting me to be more time inside and how can I do it if I'm more, I had a lot of little questions going on?

But I did believe, and I saw teachers that had the flame, too.

But then I looked when I became pregnant.

I started to look at the kids that were coming out of certain schools, big schools, and I saw there's something happening that I'm not getting.

We have our truth, But a lot of our kids are, how do you say, they're illiterate in the Bible.

They don't have really an opinion about what they want to do and their goals.

I don't know what I want to do with my child.

And then I found a family that was there.

I was already giving second grade, and I was pregnant, But I saw a family that was outside.

While we were in the classroom and grading, I was that day very late, grading a lot of papers, and then I saw this family was so happy.

I could see them regularly playing, and actually, the Gardona family, They lived in Puerto Rico.

And Alvin and his sister and his parents, they would come out, and they did so many things that I was like, ah, they're so happy.

The kids are really smart, and they're learning with nature and this and that.

So I went to talk to Sonia, that was her name, and she says, you know what?

And I had seen it in another way as a teacher, but now as a parent.

Education, go back and read it, and then come back to me and we'll talk again, okay.

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