About Training for Triumph
Training for Triumph is a family ministry/business that was developed in full one year ago, after operating informally for ten years or more. (The "ministry" part is running speech and debate in north east Indiana, speaking at conferences and support group meetings, sending our free e newsletter, writing and editing for ATI, teaching non-profit speech and debate classes, counseling home schoolers, and more. The "business" part includes the materials we write and sell and the cottage classes we teach. We hope that some day the "business" part of TFT will fund the "ministry part" of TFT entirely!)
Training for Triumph was birthed out of our desire to be servants to home school families, promoting quality education, strong family lives, intimate marriages, and generational evangelism. In this end, we have written materials designed to equip families in all of these areas---curriculum for the communication areas, materials for character development, tapes for the home school mother and father, and more.
We began home schooling twenty-three years ago, when our oldest child was one year old, by home schooling my mentally handicapped sister for a year. At that time we began reaching out to homeschoolers in our area who needed a “covering”---someone with an education degree to vouch for their home schools.
After some years of “babies and business”---and “doing the stuff” ourselves, we began writing articles and workshops and sharing locally. After many years of home schooling seven children (currently between the ages of eight and twenty-four), we began writing language arts curriculum for the Advanced Training Institute (ATI). Over the past couple of years, we have received permission to re-title the curriculum we had written for ATI and offer it to all home schoolers as Character Quality Language Arts (CQLA).
About this same time, we began branching out and speaking to larger groups, including some large group meetings of up to four thousand home school parents. In the past several years, we have continued to grow our speaking and tape ministry via conventions, support group meetings, and other home school gatherings.
Several years ago, our oldest child desired to learn about speech and debate. We joined the NCFCA bandwagon (National Christian Forensics Communicators Association) and began teaching and coaching speech and debate. From this ministry, we have written several speech and debate curriculum materials, taught hundreds of students speech and debate, spoken about speech and debate to many groups, and became the Indiana representatives for the NCFCA league for three years.
We have over fifty speaking topics we can share about including, but not limited to, any area of language arts, family living, marriage, ages and stages of children, raising teens, and more. We have dozens of workshops with creative titles and formats, such as “The Top Twenty Pieces of Home School Advice From Twenty Years of Home Schooling” (from my upcoming book of the same title) and “Prioritizing Your Life, School, and Home.” (See our complete list of topics under "Speaking Information" at this website.)
Our older children are heavily involved in Training for Triumph. They teach cottage classes to area home schoolers; co-author materials; and speak to young people and homeschooling parents about relationships, family, siblings, the Lord, speech, debate, history, raising teens, teaching literature, teaching speech, thinking skills, apologetics, siblings, family relationships, dyslexia, and more.
Training for Triumph desires to be your communication headquarters. Eventually, we hope to offer a wide range of products toward this end, including research paper materials, grammar drills, composition books, fiction writing curriculum, and more. Keep checking our web site for new additions!
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