- 2 days a week at the Light House
- 5 days a week learning and doing at home
- In the group (journals)
- One-on-one
- Home visits and follow ups
Learning and doing at home
- Encourages students to apply the spiritual principles and practices learned at the Light House
- Teaches them to become self-disciplined learners
- Teaches them to depend on the Holy Spirit to be their teacher
- Opportunity for the children to witness and disciple in their families and community
- Two started their own small business using money earned by hard labour in someones fields…
- “Cross Over is good for us because it means we can study and still run our business on the days we are at home”
- Godly character
- Relevant and practical
- High academic quality
- Totally easy to use [teaching for dummies]
- Build 2 Peter 1 characteristics into the lives of the children AND their families
- Raise the literacy and numeracy level of the children and their families
- Provide relevant practical skills training to enable the children to become effective and productive employment creators
Practical Skills
- Farming God’s Way
- The children take responsibility for their own piece of farmland at the Light House
- They learn to do things:
- On time
- To standard
- Without wastage
- With joy!
- With some of their business profits, Washington and Wellington contributed to school fees for their younger brother
- Part of becoming givers, not just receivers
- Recognise godly principles in language and maths
- Excellently equipped to cope with entrepreneurial activities
- Capable of continuing their education through distance means
- Recognise God’s principles at work in God’s creation
- Human biology reinforces our identity in Christ
- Experimentation develops deeper thinking skills
- Big hearted people who build Cross Over groups
- Volunteers or paid through children being sponsored
- Learn together with their group
- Practice what they preach and teach
- Be a Light House in the community
- Full of the love of God
- Sets forth the light of the knowledge of God
- An alternative educational resource base
- Lesson plans
- Computers
- Laboratory
- Models
- Internet
- Learning equipment
- Tutors
- Correspondence courses
- Library
- Workshop
- Can be accessed by any person of any age
- By schools and community organisations
- For practical educational materials and assistance
