Please join us this Maundy Thursday for a Day of Prayer. The event is being held on Thursday, March 29. #Schoolsthatpray
Please see the link for more information: https://www.acsi.org/day-of-prayer?utm_campaign=Maundy%20Thursday%20-%20Day%20of%20Prayer&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=61649914&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8J5Z7dw25W5Aj-_vRyUqCqq1Z5TB7YkslO4VBnMXnQGmIeWVZRsnmX23fTM3DRiL06JBlQXp2Eyx548ZO_dgHyEIGjqA&_hsmi=61649914
Dr. Paul Cates, Educational Doctor, and Dr. Kirk Cates are coming to the Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati, Ohio area in April and May. Limited openings are available for Getting an Educational Assessment Profile.
Dr. Paul Cates is one of the original designers of the IEP. He and Dr. Kirk are working on Individual Cognitive Plans (ICPs) to be used in tutoring, home schooling or help in public or private schools.
They will help you identify learning strengths and weaknesses stemming from cognition and academic development. They will assess processing issues, assess interneurosensory and intraneursensory issues for you and your child and help set up therapy programs to address these needs.
Tests are administered and interpreted by two Ph.D.’s with more than forty years of teaching and educational experience. The two Doctors will be available to consult and evaluate children, pre-school age to adult with ADD, ADHD, Anxiety and Stress Disorders, Comorbid Issues involving CD, OCD, Autism and other special needs.
Please call 828-435-0670 or 865-685-0658 or 772-971-1967 or email to pcates@att.net.
Several years ago, professionals in science, technology, engineering and mathematics noticed that there was a decline of students interested, studying and graduating in these technical fields. So they formed and organized BEST (Boosting Engineering Science and Technology).
Each year, BEST issues a challenge in September to the participating teams of junior high and high school students to imagine, design, build, program, promote and sell a robot that will be able to perform that tasks in the challenge. Each team receives a set of building materials and robotic components issued by the organization. Rules and specific regulations must be followed in order to qualify the robot to participate on the contest day only 8 weeks in the future.
Teams that participate are public schools, private, church schools and homeschooled kids. Each team is responsible for what has been mentioned plus documenting the process and compiling a pro fessional engineering notebook also. On competition day, professionals in these fields judge, critique and give feedback on every aspect of the challenge including teamwork and good sportsmanship. It is intense yet fun abounds!
Westin’s team River Valley Homeschool Robotics, is a newly formed group; which by the grace of God came in 2nd in our hub competition. Not 1 robotic glitch- everything went so well. Praise a God! We then advanced to Regionals. With some of the biggest and most experienced 
teams as our competition, his team did really well and came in 9th.
The students all worked hard — learning how to use tools, cutting materials, assembling, programming etc. All was done by students, with parents and a couple of engineers guiding and teaching. This has been such a wonderful opportunity for the students to be exposed to these career fields, these nurturing mentors, other instructors, adults and students. What an opportunity to blossom!
Westin W. is a student of Faith Christian Academy, a ministry of Faith Christian Ministries. Please contact us at 828-435-0670.
Tools For Homeschooling — Please join us for a three day seminar with Dr. Paul Cates and Dr. Kirk Cates.
The seminar is on Monday, June 19, Tuesday, June 20, and Wednesday, June 21, 2017, from 9 a.m. to noon each day. The seminar will be at Calvary Baptist Church, 3711 Tibbatts Street, Covington, KY 41015.
Monday, June 19, and Tuesday, June 20 — Manipulatives in Mathematics. This session is for parents and teachers.
Wednesday, June 21 — Help with Scheduling, Time Management, and Questions
Faith Christian Ministries works with all kids of students — gifted, special needs, and everyone in between. We work with kids interested in the arts, sports, gaming, and so much more. We can help you help your child to love learning and to love the school day.
We provide diagnostic and academic testings and then develop an individualized curriculum plan that is unique to each and every child that we see. All are special and we celebrate that.
A $50 deposit will reserve your seat for all three days. This deposit can then be applied to testing fees or curriculum purchase. Seating is extremely limited. Please bring a notebook and pens, any questions you have, test results or things you want to discuss with Dr. Cates.
Please read more on our Facebook page — Dr. Paul Cates, Homeschool’s Education Doctor.
For reservations, questions or more information, please contact Faith Christian Ministries at 865-685-0658.
Dr. Paul Cates and Faith Christian Ministries (FCM) have been a part of our homeschool journey for almost 20 years. Our relationship started when FCM tested our oldest child in elementary school to determine if some academic struggles were from our curriculum being too challenging or too easy resulting in disinterest. Those unexpected results completely altered our homeschool trajectory for our large family.
From that point forward instead of automatically handing each child the next grade level of curriculum, we focused on keeping them challenged without being frustrated. Our goal became mastery of material instead of merely completing all of the grade level textbooks. If they did not master the material using the planned curriculum, we added new resources; however, if the concepts were mastered, we moved forward to skip busy work. At some point our students have all repeated or skipped ahead by topic, subject, or grade level. The annual testing gave us more confidence to customize their education as needed to assure complete understanding and to maximize their learning time.
This customized approach allowed our students the time and freedom to explore their interests and continue to move forward in their academics, while also overcoming learning issues and asynchronous development. The curriculum for each student has varied, but all of our homeschool graduates earned a significant number of hours of college credit before graduating high school, were admitted to many top colleges, received generous college scholarships, and are happily employed in their chosen professions.
I believe our children would have blended in fine with their peers using a traditional academic approach, but partnering with Dr. Cates and FCM helped our children develop as individuals – discover and reach their full potential, cultivate their love of learning, and be prepared to thrive among their peers in college and the workplace.
— Jane D. — who has worked with Dr. Cates and FCM for almost 20 years
Grace Watson, a 2013 Faith Christian Ministries graduate, said the following about her experience with us.
“I began working 
with Dr. Cates between 2nd and 3rd grade when we discovered that I had a vision-processing issue. I was homeschooled all the way through high school, using his curriculum guidance after being tested annually. With Dr. Cates’ encouragement, I started taking classes at community college beginning my sophomore year of high school.
“I graduated May 16, 2013 from The Metropolitan Community College of Kansas City with an Associate of Arts degree and graduated on May 18, 2013 with a high school diploma. I continued my education at Belmont University in Nashville, TN, earning my Bachelor of Business Administration in Music Business on December 16, 2016. I am currently working full-time at Capitol Christian Music Group in Nashville, TN.”
Please call us at 828-435-0670 for find out more.
Are you and your children overscheduled? Is it hard to get school work done each day? Do you feel at the end of your rope? Is discipline a problem?
Everyone needs help with these issues. We have worked with multiple generations of families and know the importance of support and help of others.
Please join us for a free evening with one of the pioneers of homeschooling and other parents to discuss scheduling, everyday discipline issues, and priorities in your child’s education. We will meet on Monday, March 28, at 7 p.m. at the Country Inn and Suites, 10 Country Drive, Wilder, KY 41076. Please RSVP to attend to 865-685-0658.
These discussions will be led by Dr. Paul Cates, Founder and President of Faith Christian Ministries. He is one of people who made homeschooling possible in the United States. He still is passionate about teaching children in the way they should go.
Dr. Kirk Cates, Vice President of FCM and Educational Evaluator, will also be part of the discussion. He is equally passionate about working with children and their families.
We look forward to meeting you and to hope to also see some families we already are working with.