Jennifer is a passionate advocate for living a lifestyle of health and wellness. This was the beginning of the ASL program at CHC! Even though Sonja is a retired homeschooler, she continues to coordinate the American Sign Language classes for CHC and serves as the bookkeeper for Christ the King Church. She and Nathan began taking sign language classes locally, and before long, her son asked if she would start a homeschool class so that he could sign “with people his own age." Option for her younger son, she had the idea that learning sign language would be fun for both of them. She homeschooled her two sons, Drew and Nathan, for 20 years - from kindergarten through high school. Once her first son was born, she hung her diplomas over the rocking chair and became a full-time mom and eventual homeschooler. After graduating with a master’s degree in healthcare administration (MHA), Sonja worked for 10 years as anĪdministrator and consultant for physician practices and hospitals in the Charlotte, NC area. She graduated with a BS in Public Health and continued her education in the business school at Duke University. She attended college at UNC-Chapel Hill, where through God’s providence, she met her husband, Eddie. Her children are her hobby, as well as reading, crocheting, watching old movies, and spending time with her family and friends. She has since devoted her time to raising and homeschooling them which brings her great joy. In 2003, God blessed Julie and her husband with the first of three children. Julie was then given the opportunity to teach Art History at UNCW for a little over a year as well as teach an art history series to the docents at Cameron Art Museum. Upon retirement from the Coast Guard in 2001, God led Julie and Jeff back to Wilmington which has become their permanent home. After living in Chicago for four years, she and her husband were transferred again, this time to Houston, where she was employed by the Museum of Fine Arts to work in registration and installation. At the Art Institute she spent many hours in the museum library doing research for the textile department. After living in Wilmington for four years, Julie and her husband Jeff were transferred to Chicago where she earned a Master of Arts degree in Art History from Northern Illinois University and volunteered at the Art Institute of Chicago. John’s Museum of Art (now Cameron Art Museum) where she learned how a museum is operated, how to install traveling art exhibits as well as the museum’s permanent collection and how to handle and transport art. Julie earned her Bachelor of Arts in Art History from UNCW while stationed in Wilmington as a military wife. His other interests include drawing, singing, organizing, and reading (shocker)! He is obsessively dedicated to doing the best he can to help kids love learning. Currently, Jeremy uses his passion to teach middle and high school literature/writing at Christian Homeschool Center and Providence Preparatory Academy. Though he holds a degree in art and graphic design, his stronger love for literature made teaching English a more natural choice. It was here, working with kids, that resurrected Jeremy’s lifelong desire to teach and make learning exciting. Their homeschooling journey led them to Classical Conversations where Jeremy and Kate both “tutored” on and off between moves and homeschooled their first three children. Time since has brought six wonderful children into their lives: Benjamin (2004), Caroline (2005), Selah (2007), Caleb (2013), and twins, Hazel and Hope (2019). The adventure started in 2003 when Jeremy proposed to the most beautiful woman in the world, Kate Mundrick, who inconceivably replied in the affirmative. Husband, father, Christian, and belletristic bibliomaniac, Jeremy is no stranger to the homeschool community.
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