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A Christian College Success Story – Joel Bomgaars

While it’s no small accomplishment to dedicate a couple of decades to grow a company to $2 million in revenue a year, Joel Bomgaars has done exactly that… but in just two years. Joel is the Founder and CEO of NetworkStreaming, a company that he began to develop during his senior year at the Christian college he attended. NetworkStreaming’s products allow their customers “to remotely connect with any computer, anywhere in the world, in less than 10 seconds” – a rather impressive concept for a senior in college to begin to develop.

A 2003 Christian college graduate in business administration, Joel has already guided NetworkStreaming to 33 employees and a customer base of over 1,300 in 50 states and 32 countries around the globe. NetworkStreaming’s customer list includes such names as AIG, Nissan, UBS and Farm Bureau Insurance to name a few.

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Don’t Underestimate a Christian Classical Education

Your children are heavily influenced by education. It not only helps shape their view of the world and their ability to deal with life, it also plays a role in their strength of character. So it’s really no wonder that deciding how and where your children should be educated can be a hard choice.

All schools and educational options have something to offer, whether the schools are public, private, religious, charter, home, or non-sectarian. However, there is also Christian Classical Education, which is different in that it is promoting the most proven form of education.

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Psychology For Christian Homeschool Students?

Type the phrase “Christian Psychology” into a search engine. I just did. Of the first 10 sites listed, 5 condemned psychology as “psycho-heresy,” “psychobabble,” or “the most deadly form of modernism to ever confront the Church.” The other sites accept psychology as an important academic discipline, consistent with a Christian worldview, and worthy of study. The Internet reflects that psychology is one of the most controversial and divisive academic subjects among Christians today.

What does that mean for homeschoolers? Some Christian homeschoolers accept psychology wholesale, some reject it entirely, and some wrestle with which aspects to accept and which to reject. This article suggests that whatever you believe about psychology, the time to address academic psychology is BEFORE your student leaves home for college.

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