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Bob
married Maxine in August 1971, is the head of our family,
and has been Pastor Bob since 1974 in three different congregations in
an evangelical denomation. In addition to his heavy pastoral
workload in the local church and community, Bob is our business Post
Office runner, bank depositor, bill payer, and general go-fer
person. This past year he has taken up designing websites
and helping with our JOY site. He also helps out in a big
way with the domestic tasks around the house. He speaks from time
to time at home schooling events. Maxine
(that's me), in addition to being a "pastor's wife" and all that
entails, started JOY Center of Learning in 1993 and as these things go,
got the whole family involved in my passion. More often than not
it is me on the other end of the telephone taking your orders,
answering questions, and generally offering information and
encouragement, and then on to packing up your orders for
shipment. I have been a speaker to church groups and for many
home school events and conferences in seven provinces and in Missouri
and California. Both Bob and I are writers and enjoy communicating with others through the written word in newspaper articles, magazine articles, and the books I have authored. You can listen to some of Bob's sermons or read some of his articles at Shelburne Grace Church of the Nazarene. We home educated our two children
starting in 1985 when Andrea was in grade four and Andrew in grade
one. They completed highschool at home. We also home
educated two girls from the community for six years. In total we
were "in the home education trenches" for twenty years! Andrea
does just about everything but avoids talking on the phone whenever
possible! She is our webmaster/designer, computer expert, and
bookkeeper. Andrea orders from our suppliers and tracks inventory,
prepares shipping manifests, and keeps our computers running and us on
track. She lives at home and is extremely active in our local
church as our pianist, audiovisual expert and sound technician. I
travel a lot and Andrea picks up my responsibilities whenever I am away
and yes, she will answer the phone when necessary! Andrew
no longer lives with us and is employed as a sub-contractor dispatcher
by a satellite installation company that services a large territory in
Ontario. During the years he was 12-16 he was our chief cook and
kept us all well fed while we were getting JOY Center of Learning up
and running! So, although he is no longer involved, he had a big
part in our early years. The
rest
of our team should also be mentioned - the four footed
members! When you call, you are apt to hear one of our two dogs
chiming in. Although our spacious warehouse is across town, our
office is in our home. We have a very vocal seven-year-old female
border collie/golden retreiver cross named Sandi, and a little white
male Llassa-poo named Coby. Coby is "mom" to four cats who came
to live with us as kittens. Their owner was very ill with cancer
and the kittens were sickly. Coby, barely a year old himself at the
time, mothered them - carrying them around like little puppies.
Two of the cats now think they ARE dogs!! By the time we got them
healthy, two of us just couldn't let them go!! That was in the
spring of 2006 when Chester, Smokey, Pebbles and Buzz joined us.
In May of 2008 our friend finally passed away, leaving us with nine
more cats to find homes for. (At one point there were
23!!). We found homes for all but two older females and after all
was said and done, guess what, Gracie and Princess now live with us. So there you have it. We are
here to serve you. Oh, by the way - Bob wants me to make it
REALLY CLEAR (his emphasis) to you that we are not prepared to serve
you by taking in any more animals of any variety, nor to find homes for
any!!! You might guess from that comment that he was not one of
the two who welcomed the six cats!
Links to the websites that our family has
put together: JOY Center of Learning
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