Welcome!
Welcome to Maricopa Christian Homeschoolers support group! Membership is open to all families currently home schooling* at least one child. Membership is concentrated in the city of Maricopa, although we do have families living outside the city.
We invite you to browse this website to learn more about us and then contact us for further information. Please be sure to read our Mission Statement and our Philosophy below as well as our definition of homeschooling. We look forward to partnering with you in your home school journey.
TO JOIN the Maricopa Christian Homeschool support group please contact our Membership Coordinator at maricopachs@yahoo.com.
Our Mission Statement
Maricopa Christian Homeschoolers exists to serve Christian home schooling* families who live in the city of Maricopa and the local surrounding areas. MCH desires to encourage and support parents in their decision to homesschool their children, including preschool age children, while also raising them in the Christian faith. We further desire to enable new and veteran homeschooling families opportunities to pray together, share ideas and collaborate resources, and to fellowship in educational and social settings that glorify the Lord and provides a witness to the world of His saving grace.
Our Philosophy
Maricopa Christian Homeschoolers adheres to the philosophy that our children are gifts from the Lord, (Psalm 127) and that parents are charged by God with the responsibility for teaching and training their children. (Deuteronomy 6:6-9, Proverbs 22:6, Ephesians 6:4; I Timothy 3:4) We believe that home schooling by definition is independence from government control. As Christians we submit our plans to the Lord and follow his leading, but the decision to home school is also a decision to take the responsibility for educating our children into our own hands without the influence or control of the government. It is in keeping with this philosophy that Maricopa Christian Homeschoolers promotes and encourages parent directed education and enrichment that is divorced completely from the authority, direction or funding of the state or federal government.
* Homeschooling for the purposes of this group is in accordance with A.R.S. 15-802. In addition parents (or legal guardians) must personally do at least 50% of the home schooling at the primary level (K-8). At the secondary level, parents must exercise exclusive control of the high school program but need not personally provide 50% of the instruction. However, they must do some of the home schooling. Note: Enrollment in a public charter school, including virtual academies, is not home schooling in accordance with A.R.S. 15-802, because the student is classified as a public school student. Because AZ law requires that the parent or guardian either do at least 50% of the teaching or retain exclusive control of their student’s education, children enrolled in virtual academies cannot be considered home schoolers.
We invite you to browse this website to learn more about us and then contact us for further information. Please be sure to read our Mission Statement and our Philosophy below as well as our definition of homeschooling. We look forward to partnering with you in your home school journey.
TO JOIN the Maricopa Christian Homeschool support group please contact our Membership Coordinator at maricopachs@yahoo.com.
Our Mission Statement
Maricopa Christian Homeschoolers exists to serve Christian home schooling* families who live in the city of Maricopa and the local surrounding areas. MCH desires to encourage and support parents in their decision to homesschool their children, including preschool age children, while also raising them in the Christian faith. We further desire to enable new and veteran homeschooling families opportunities to pray together, share ideas and collaborate resources, and to fellowship in educational and social settings that glorify the Lord and provides a witness to the world of His saving grace.
Our Philosophy
Maricopa Christian Homeschoolers adheres to the philosophy that our children are gifts from the Lord, (Psalm 127) and that parents are charged by God with the responsibility for teaching and training their children. (Deuteronomy 6:6-9, Proverbs 22:6, Ephesians 6:4; I Timothy 3:4) We believe that home schooling by definition is independence from government control. As Christians we submit our plans to the Lord and follow his leading, but the decision to home school is also a decision to take the responsibility for educating our children into our own hands without the influence or control of the government. It is in keeping with this philosophy that Maricopa Christian Homeschoolers promotes and encourages parent directed education and enrichment that is divorced completely from the authority, direction or funding of the state or federal government.
* Homeschooling for the purposes of this group is in accordance with A.R.S. 15-802. In addition parents (or legal guardians) must personally do at least 50% of the home schooling at the primary level (K-8). At the secondary level, parents must exercise exclusive control of the high school program but need not personally provide 50% of the instruction. However, they must do some of the home schooling. Note: Enrollment in a public charter school, including virtual academies, is not home schooling in accordance with A.R.S. 15-802, because the student is classified as a public school student. Because AZ law requires that the parent or guardian either do at least 50% of the teaching or retain exclusive control of their student’s education, children enrolled in virtual academies cannot be considered home schoolers.
