Name: Thrive! NCHE Homeschool Conference
Start: 2025-05-22T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-05-24T23:59:59-05:00
Location: Winston-Salem, NC

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June 19, 2008 at 2:35 am
Shanna
Participant
I am curious how others are adding in church history. We are from a reformed background and we find church history very important. SCM has such a wonderful biblical worldview in dealing with history itself but find it is lacking church history. Or, am I just completely missing it?
June 19, 2008 at 11:25 pm
CindyS
Participant
We read Trial and Triumph to the littler ones and then later, Foxe’s. We also read Voice of the Martyrs to learn about the church today, as well as some of their resources. Also, I try to keep a missionary biography going at all times with the children or something like Evangelists in Chains, Of Whom the World was not Worthy, etc.
Blessings,
Cindy
June 19, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Sonya Shafer
Moderator
We love the Louise Vernon books for Reformation time period church history.
June 20, 2008 at 2:34 am
Shanna
Participant
Cindy,
How are you adding in T&T and Foxes? Are you reading selections as they fit in time wise or just straight through as a read-aloud? Also, can you tell me about the latter books you mentioned?
Sonya,
Are the books you listed in some of the modules?
June 20, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Sonya Shafer
Moderator
I believe they’re in the Renaissance/Reformation module. They’re listed for 4-6 grade, but can be read for the entire family.
June 21, 2008 at 12:24 am
CindyS
Participant
Hey Shanna,
We started reading T&T once per month until recently when we pick it up almost weekly. I do not coordinate the readings, though that would be a good idea. I have read Foxe’s aloud and also assigned it to an older child for part of their Bible assignment.
Evangelists in Chains and Of Whom the World Was Not Worthy were both assigned to a child this past school year. That particular child cannot locate the books…sigh. I will continue to look for them so that I can give you a decent synopsis since it has been quite a while since I read them. Since I was not trained to narrate as a child my retention is horrible :(, but I remember that I really liked these two books.
If this is helpful, others among our favorites are:
The Secret Mission and others in the Huguenot Inheritance Series published by Inheritance Publications
St. Bartholomew’s Eve – A Tale of the Huguenot Wars by Henty
But Not Forsaken, by Brenneman, published by Christian Light (about a family of Mennonite refugees from the Russian Ukraine into east Germany during the war)
Tortured for Christ, by Richard Wurmbrand
The Two Margarets, by Mackenzie, published by Christian Focus (about the Scottish Covenanters)
The Bible Smuggler, by Vernon, published by Herald Press (about William Tyndale)
Ink on His Fingers, same (about Gutenberg)
My Escape from the Auto De Fe, by Pastor Wm. Timms, published by Shiloh Publications (about the Protestant Reformation)
Morning Star of the Reformation, by Thomson, published by BJU (about John Wycliffe)
Blessings,
Cindy