Meet The RH Contributors

Stacy McDonald

Stacy is a pastor’s wife, homeschooling mother, conference speaker, writer, and author of the life changing books, Passionate Housewives, Desperate for God and Raising Maidens of Virtue. While traveling with her family, Stacy has taught women all over the globe on issues concerning wives, mothers, homeschooling, and etiquette.

Together, their family’s mission is to encourage the reformation of the family through messages based on the Word of God. They believe that as we obediently train and educate our children according to Scripture, and equip them with a thoroughly Christian worldview, we will see families strengthened and future generations prepared for the task of reforming the church and impacting society.  She blogs at Your Sacred Calling.

June Fuentes

June is the happy wife to Steve and blessed homeschooling mother to eight beautiful children that they are raising for the Lord. She has a heart to see mothers all around the world grasp the vision of biblical motherhood and to see this noble role restored in the 21st century to the glory of God. June strongly believes that weak homes will equate a weak nation and therefore blogs at A Wise Woman Builds Her Home and contributes at Ladies Against Feminism to minister to Christian women on how to build up strong Christian homes.  As a team, the Fuentes family have a ministry called HomeBuilders where they minister to families through Bible study and fellowship at their home.

Robin Brookshire

Growing up I always thought that I would get married and have children one day, I just never did anything to plan for that. So when I did get married I really had no idea how to run a home, let alone make a meal that wasn’t burnt. My dear husband was and has continued to be very patient in overlooking my many failures. Thankfully, after 12 years of marriage and 5 years of being a working mother, my husband and I became one in the vision of having me be a stay-at-home wife and mother. Since then (14 years ago) I have realized the importance of equipping my daughters, Breezy and Emily Rose, in the domestic skills and preparing them for their future roles as homemakers. Blog: Resolved To Be.

Shelley Noonan

Author and speaker Shelley Noonan’s passion is to assist parents in recapturing the lost art of mentoring. Often times as parents, we teach a little here and a little there and just hope and pray that our children “turn out” or we can teach our children with purpose on purpose the morals, values and standards we want them to possess. This process of purposeful teaching is called mentoring.

Shelley and her husband Robert have over 13 years of homeschooling experience with their three, now grown, children. She also owns the website, Pumpkin Seed Press.

Kelly Crawford

Kelly and her husband Aaron homeschool their eight children and live a simple (though busy!) life, operating several home businesses and trying to remember that everything is a learning opportunity, that the vegetables are under those weeds somewhere, and that milking a cow really is worth it.  Once bound by the demands of feminism, Kelly now enjoys the freedom at home to change the world for Christ through her roles as wife and mother.  She also enjoys pursing her other interests, especially her love of writing, and besides an occasional publishing, she writes at Generation Cedar.  Kelly has a passion for seeing families rediscover God’s design for them and the blessed hope it gives as the Kingdom is advanced.  Since passion can be consuming and motherhood is hard, an occasional Mocha Frappe is in order.

The West Ladies

The West Ladies are grateful to be keepers at home who enjoy sewing, singing, writing, working in the garden, putting up food, and many other useful homesteading skills on a 96 acre farm in beautiful rural Tennessee.  They have made a collection of instructional DVDs the Homestead Blessings Series, on which they share a wealth of knowledge on the many different and lost arts of homemaking which they have learned to love and use themselves in everyday life, giving God all the glory.

You can join the West Ladies’ website at homestead-blessings.com and for more pictures and posts at thewestladies.blogspot.com.

Emily Rose Brookshire

Emily Rose was home-educated and is a stay-at-home-daughter. She finds joy in serving her family as a homemaker-in-training, and is very blessed to be taught by her wonderful mother in biblical womanhood and artful homemaking. A few of her interests include hospitality, photography, reading, studying history, graphic design, and cultural reformation.

Emily Rose and her sister created a line of historical paper dolls based on Christian women from history, the Daughters of His Story Paper Dolls. She is a self-taught photographer and blogs at SimplyVintagegirl.com.

Breezy Brookshire

Breezy is a 19-year old homeschool graduate and stay-at-home daughter. She has been learning domestic skills from her mother since she was a little girl (she still remembers her first sock-folding lesson) and loves being at home with her family.

She enjoys studying a variety of topics from the Biblical family and Scripture to cultural reformation and children’s illustration, and also loves to create art that glorifies her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Breezy and her sister, Emily Rose, own Noble Rose Press and are the creators of the Daughters of His Story paper doll series.

Breezy looks forward to someday caring for her own home and family. She blogs at A Bowl of Moss and Pebbles.

Jasmine Baucham

Jasmine is the oldest of Voddie and Bridget Baucham’s six children. She is a homeschool graduate who enjoys studying and writing about areas as varied as theology, philosophy, political science, art, film and culture. She is also an aspiring author who currently lives at home where she continues to assist her father in his research, is completing a degree in English literature, writing a book based on her blog, Joyfully at Home, and is blessed to assist her mother with the care of her younger siblings.

Rhonda Devine

Rhonda has been married to Herb for 27 years and together they have four children, ages 26 through 11, whom they have home schooled for the last 22 years.  Their oldest son, Daniel, is a journalist for World magazine.

Rhonda’s passion is to follow Christ wholeheartedly by serving in her role as helpmeet to Herb–which includes helping run their business, ministering at their local church, and using hospitality and biblical counseling to strengthen believers and build strong family units for the glory of God.  Through mentoring and writing, her heart’s desire is to see women blessed in their roles as helpmeets and mothers.

Rhonda’s hobbies include gardening, canning, reading to her children, travel with her family, learning history, and ebaying.  You can read her thoughts at Walking with Sarah, and stop by her family’s blog, Devine Spot.

Angela Mills

Angela is a wife, homeschooling mom, and proud Jesus-Freak.  She is trying to learn for herself what it means to be a godly homemaker as she passes it on to her daughters.  She hopes they’ll be better house-keepers than she is, but she knows being a homemaker is about so much more than keeping a house, it’s about building a home.  Angela writes about being domestically challenged, creating family traditions, blessing your husband, nurturing yourself, following Jesus, homeschooling, and life as a mom at Homegrown Mom.  She also contributes toThe Homeschool Classroom, Exemplify Online, and Heart of the Matter Online.  You can follow her on Twitter @homegrown_mom and Facebook.

Carmen Hyde

Carmen is the love of her teacher/pastor husband, and mother of 7 semi-picky eaters ages 13 to 2. Aside from homeschooling her children she likes to cook yummy and inexpensive meals in her family’s pre-Civil War farmhouse kitchen. This is a far cry from their first week of marriage when her lack of cooking skills led to her husband’s stir fry every night. Thus began her journey on the road to being a keeper of the home. She is determined for her children to know the skills of home keeping and through her blog (Old House Kitchen) intends to help people enjoy their kitchens one recipe at a time. Along with homeschooling and cooking, Carmen enjoys spending time with her family, camping, and crafting. Carmen can be found at Old House Kitchen and Facebook (Old House Kitchen).

Tiffany Darling

Tiffany is the sweetheart to her husband, the mommy to her two little darlings, and a most unworthy, but forever grateful, daughter to the King. She spends her days loving and teaching her children, being her husband’s biggest cheerleader, and discovering the beauty of being “a keeper” of her home. Tiffany loves to create and can often be found decorating her surroundings, cooking or baking in her country kitchen, photographing the simple moments of her children’s fleeting childhood, or even finger-painting a masterpiece right along with her darlings. She is guilty of stealing away quiet moments with books and a hot mug of Starbucks coffee on occasion. Tiffany is knee-deep in church ministry with her husband who is an associate pastor at their church. She is passionate about her ordinary life as an ordinary housewife serving an extraordinary God. Tiffany blogs at A Moment Cherished where she can be found cherishing the moments and recording the blessings and even the bumps along her journey. Tiffany’s blog is a way to remember, because her life truly is just a vapor.

Courtney

Courtney is a graduate of the Moody Bible Institute, has been married 12 years to her high school sweet heart, and home schools her two children. After years of leading Bible Studies, mentorships and Titus 2 Workshops in her church, she decided to step out on faith and begin a ministry from home titled Women Living Well.

Her first passion is to see women walking with their King. Over 40 Good Morning Girls groups have started as a result. Her second passion is to see women thriving in their role as wives. This passion landed her on the Rachael Ray show in November 09’. She also blogs and vlogs on the topics of parenting, homemaking and healthy living.

Miss Jen

Having just turned 19, Jen finds great joy in serving her family from home. She firmly believes that the home is a beautiful canvas for biblical hospitality, servanthood and discipleship.  All aspects of homemaking are on her list of interests including gourmet cooking, baking, calligraphy, sewing and embroidery. She is also inspired by photography, music, theology and biblical womanhood.

Miss Jen blogs at Blessed Femina, which she founded in the fall of 2008 to document her blessed life as a daughter/homemaker-in- training and to encourage other women in Biblical femininity.

Happily residing in sunny northern California with her parents, it is her greatest desire to live a life depicted inI Corinthians 10:31: “So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.”

Laura Booz

You’d love to visit our farm in the center of Pennsylvania’s mountains! My husband, Ryan, is right-now building a windmill to aerate the pond so that we could have a paddle-boat race across the pond. (We’re still looking for a deal on paddle boats; ‘got any?) In the evening, you could join our daughters, Vivienne (5) and Lia (2) as they climb up on a rocking chair to enjoy a good story. As the stars appear and the crickets sing, we could sit on the porch and chat about homeschooling, reading, writing, singing, praying, or any number of beautiful topics. The next day, we could work in the garden, go for a jog, sing around the piano, or play a fierce game of kickball! Until then, visit me at http://www.laurabooz.com.

Jessica Heights

Jessica is a passionately Christian, blissfully wed, full-time homemaker and mother of three.  She is the author and founder of Muthering Heights and Other Senseless Sensibility, which in which I hope to encourage women as they blossom as mothers, wives, and seekers of grace.  It also chronicles the beauty, humor, mayhem that accompany my most sacred and noble calling of all.  She also serves as a co-host of Relevant.

Sarah Mae

Sarah Mae raises babes, loves her man, home-keeps, java-hugs, homeschool teaches, and blog writes.  She is a truth seeker and a grace lover. You can find her offering up her thoughts at her personal blog, Like a Warm Cup of Coffee and at the DaySpring website, (in)courage.  She is the gal behind Raising Homemakers.  Also this:  the Relevant Conference.

She is currently the proud mommy of two lovely daughters and one busy little boy.

She tweets @sarahmaeblogs.