January 12, 2026 Show with Jill Kilker on “Home Schooling: A Guide for Christian Parents”

Homeschooling as Christian Discipleship and a Response to Government Schools

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Good afternoon, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, and the rest of humanity living on the planet Earth, who are listening via live streaming at ironsharpensironradio .com. This is Chris Arnson, your host of Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, wishing you all a happy Monday on this 12th day of January 2026, and I'm thrilled to have back on the program Jill Kilker, who is director of Children and Youth Ministries at Enola First Church of God in Enola, Pennsylvania, pastored by a very dear friend of mine, George Jensen.

Jill is the head of school for Pharos Academy, an expert on homeschool law in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and she's going to be addressing today, Homeschooling a Guide for Christian Parents. And it's my honor and privilege to welcome you back to Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, Jill Kilker.

Thank you, Chris. It's an honor to be here.

Well, why don't you explain, especially for the sake of our listeners who were unable to hear your first interview, why don't you explain to them what Pharos Academy is, which I know is housed at the Enola First Church of God in Enola, Pennsylvania.

Yes. Pharos Academy is a Christian micro school, classical homeschool model, and we will be launching in the fall of this year to provide support to parents who are homeschooling, to provide a hybrid where the students will be with us two days a week and receive their instruction, the instruction and given assignments for the days that they're at home.

And we are looking to provide not only nurturing for students, but for families to support them in their homeschool journey.

And if anybody wants more details on the Pharos Academy, go to the website of Enola First Church of God, which is enolacog .com, that's E-N as in Nancy, O-L-A-C-O-G .com. Then click on Ministries, and you will see the specific item to click for Pharos Academy.

So God willing, we'll repeat that later on in the program. And by the way, if any of you want to hear later on, after this live program is over, of course, if you want to hear the first interview I did with Jill, along with her pastor, George Jensen, on December 22nd, Options for Churches and Christian Parents to Educate Our Children, just go to iansharpensionradio .com and type in the search engine, KILKER, K-I-L-K-E-R, and that episode of the program will come up.

Well, this is an area that is growing in the lives of Christians. In fact, it's not even isolated to Christians. I think parents of all persuasions began to explore and even participate in homeschooling during the COVID crisis, especially since there were mandates that shut down schools, and temporarily, anyway.

But it still hasn't universally caught on with all Christian households, and I'd like to explore with you reasons that might motivate parents, Christian parents, to take the deep dive into homeschooling their children.

Homeschooling Can Be Possible Even for Working Parents

First of all, perhaps you could explain to our listeners who they may have two working parents, and that's an unfortunate reality that in the 21st century, which actually began in the 20th century, many married couples had both parents in the workplace, and they actually relied upon sending their children either to a public school, which should be better named or more appropriately named government schools, or if they were blessed financially, they could send their children to a private school.

And that is a wonderful blessing, especially if they are near a solid, biblically faithful church that happens to operate a Christian school. But what do you tell parents when they are in that situation where they just say it's impossible for us?

Well, I think a lot of times when parents say that it's impossible for them, I think sometimes it's really not. They just don't have the resources available to them and don't have the confidence in their own abilities.

Homeschooling is very much a jury of a lead learner, the parent, and the learner, the child. And oftentimes, the children just need to be directed, and the parents can learn right along with their children.

They don't have to go into the journey fully equipped. They just need to be a great encourager and cheerleader and a model for lifelong learning.

And what about parents who actually don't think that they're academically adequate to take on such a task to educate their own children in their house?

So, I'm a great example of that, Chris. I taught in public school for a decade. I worked in a private school for quite a while as well, and then took this position at my church. But I started homeschooling my children after having taught and had a master's degree in education, but didn't feel equipped to educate my own children.

Now, legally speaking, all you need in the state of Pennsylvania is a high school diploma. Every state has slightly different homeschool laws, but in Pennsylvania, that's all that is required. I just was confident in a classroom with other people's children, but doubted my own ability to educate my children until I jumped in and took it day by day and realized that I could actually even redeem the gaps in my own education as I educated my own children.

And what are the circumstances legally where you may have parents who insist that they are incapable of homeschooling themselves? And perhaps you have one of those families where neither parent has a high school diploma.

Can they allow other parents in the neighborhood or in the church where they happen to be a member, if they are willing to do this, can other parents have the children of other families educated in the homeschooling situation in their own homes?

So, I'm not sure about the particular laws for each individual state. I could look into specific states, but in the state of Pennsylvania, the parent is what is called the supervisor of the home education plan.

So, the parent is the one who's overseeing the program, and they need to sign an affidavit or an unsworn declaration at the beginning of the school year with their local school district, and they need to have a high school diploma to do that.

So, if they don't legally have a high school diploma, there are challenges involved in that. And there is a wonderful organization called the Homeschool Legal Defense Association, and HSLDA for short, it's a Christian organization that helps support homeschool families throughout the world and also helps to fight for homeschool-friendly legislation.

And so, they could advise people specifically on that. If a parent doesn't academically, if they have a high school diploma in the state of Pennsylvania, but they don't feel adequately able to do it themselves, they can enlist the help of an organization like Feros Academy, where the main instruction is happening with us, and we're guiding the parents on the homeschool journey so that they would receive the support that they needed to adequately fulfill their role as supervisor of the home education program.

The Rise of Homeschool Hybrids and Local Support Networks

And this concept that you have about to launch later this year, Feros Academy, is that something, to your knowledge, that exists in other states? And how frequently have you heard of other communities having such a program?

Sure.

Well, we are a homeschool hybrid, and homeschool hybrids have exploded in the United States over the last year. It is definitely becoming an option for homeschool parents. When we started this journey looking into this, there were very few options out there.

And even in the year and a half, two years that we've been in process, that we've been planning, we have seen so many other options even in our area pop up. Now, every model is slightly different, and I think that we offer a unique piece in that we're also mentoring and nurturing parents in the journey, but there are multiple options within distance of most homeschoolers, I would even venture to say, in many states throughout the nation.

Now, as people are seeing the need for this and the value in a hybrid program that will allow them the freedom and the involvement of the homeschool world with some of the accountability and structure and support of a hybrid school.

Great. Well, I'm glad to hear that this has exploded. Do you know of any states in the union that do not have such a hybrid option?

I do not. I would encourage people to, again, I'm going to throw the name out of the homeschool legal defense association because they are a great resource, and they also work with homeschool programs like Ferris Academy.

They keep a registry of those things as well, and any local homeschool organizations in your state would likely be able to point you to available resources, whether those resources are a homeschool hybrid like Ferris or whether they are homeschool martial art classes or homeschool theater productions, things like that.

Usually, those local homeschool organizations in our area, we have Harrisburg Area Homeschoolers Association, and they, it's called HAHA, and HAHA keeps a list and makes those resources available to homeschool parents in this area.

Why Christian Parents See Homeschooling as Discipleship

Now, why do you believe that this is an urgent need in the body of Christ nationwide and even worldwide to not allow their children to be raised, nurtured, and educated in government schools?

Well, I said this in our last episode that we did together, Chris, and I think it bears repeating. Children are being discipled, and make no mistake, you can say, oh, it's the church that disciples the children.

It's the parent who disciples the children, but I would challenge Christian parents with how many hours are the children spending in school, and compare that to how many quality hours that children actually have with their parents, and make no mistake that much of the discipleship is happening during the school day.

It's not necessarily discipleship in what a Christian parent would hope for, but we're reclaiming hours. If you do the hours of how many hours a child spends in school, I had this figure, and I will try to find it for you.

I did the math one day about how many hours are spent, K to 12, in a school, and how many hours compared to, even if we're generous and we say a child is in church an hour for Sunday school, an hour for worship, and an hour for a Wednesday night, or a kid's club, or a youth group, and we compare those numbers, most of the discipleship, sadly, is occurring in, like Pastor Jensen calls it, in Caesar's school.

In Caesar's school, they're learning the ways of the world. And so we really help families when we share the option of homeschooling to reclaim those crucial discipleship hours with their children.

Now, those of us who have any connection to the media, whether it be television or we own computers and so on, especially if we are at all familiar with the conservative outlets in the media that warn Christians about the things that are going on in government schools, how prevalent are some of these nightmarish scenarios that we hear that are just full-blown advocating to children, even at very young, tender ages, the normalness in their minds of same-sex relations, and the host of other things that usually accompany a leftist worldview.

I mean, do you have any idea what percentage of government schools feature that kind of thing? I remember, I don't know how many years ago it was exactly, but I remember the first book for children that made the news.

There may have been books that preceded that, but this is the first one I can remember hearing about, Heather Has Two Mommies, and basically it was just trying to teach children that this is completely normal.

There's nothing at all bizarre or nothing that should be rejected or opposed when it comes to a child having two parents of the same gender raising them. How, to your knowledge, how common is this in the government schools?

Well, I just want to start by saying that I do know that I was a Christian teacher in a public school for 10 years, and I tried to show the love of Christ to students every single day. I had to go a little bit more in the back door to do that because I wasn't allowed to openly express my faith.

But I did have a lot of opportunity to share at least some of that picture with my students, and I applaud and thank all of those Christians who see the public school as their mission field. But that being said, I do know that what a child hears day in and day out gives them a worldview and a mindset.

And so, scattered throughout this crazy world we live in, this sinful world we live in is the result of the fall, which is textbooks that normalize same-sex marriages, same-sex relationships, peer pressure, that almost consider those things as the right thing to do to support any lifestyle that someone wants to embrace.

I was campaigning in Virginia with a student civics organization one time and went in the school, which was the polling place, to use the restroom, and there was a sign on the bathroom that said, all were welcome in the women's bathroom, basically saying, and I don't remember the exact wording, but basically saying, however you identify, if this is how you see yourself, you are welcome.

And there were some big things that happened several years ago with a school district in Virginia keeping some of those things from parents. So, I don't have exact statistics to answer your question, but I do very much believe that what we, I say to my students in Sunday School, what we hide in our hearts is what we become.

So, if we're hiding a constant diet of a secular worldview in our heart, that is really what's going to be reflected in our thinking, in our actions. I don't know that childhood is the time to set a child free in the midst of that.

We should be surrounding them with truth.

Amen. Now, in addition to morally corrupt and demonic sexual ideologies being, you know, mainstays in some government schools for even kindergarten children, aren't there other basic standard courses that have always existed in schools that are necessary for a human being to function properly and to excel in life?

They used to call it the three R's, reading, writing, and arithmetic. Tongue-in-cheek misspelling of arithmetic. But aren't even those courses being corrupted by the left, where things are being dumbed down?

I mean, it's even been said that to require precision and accuracy in math is racist, you know, things like that that are absolutely insane. How common is that kind of insanity?

Well, I think that from the very basic beginning of the world, public schools often teach, you know, different theories of evolution, the Big Bang Theory, you know, things like that, that the earth is, you know, millions and billions of years old and we can't believe what the Bible account of how the world came into being.

From the very beginning, I think that kids are being indoctrinated in science, and what they say is science is lacking answers.

I was taught Darwinian evolution in a Roman Catholic parochial school as long ago as the late 1960s and early 1970s. Our science teacher actually mocked the Bible's Genesis account of creation.

Wow, yes. And see, again, one of the verses that we cling to at Ferris Academy is the verse about always being ready to give an answer for the hope that is within you. And you can't give an answer for the hope that is within you if you haven't been properly educated on what God's Word says.

And if you're not properly educated in, say, science, to be able to look and say, there are holes in the theory of evolution. There's no contradiction or holes in the Word of God.

But as far as the insanity with math that I mentioned, how prominent is that, where they're dumbing down math and all that kind of thing?

Well, I think as a whole, the education system is failing. I mean, I don't think that's some big revelation that I needed to come on your show to share with people. We look at the graduates and their lack of preparation, and we see that it's failing.

It's educating the masses. And this is a very strong opinion of mine, because when you look at all the great minds in history, when you look at the founding fathers, even, they were educated generally till eighth grade.

And then there was no such thing as a teenager. You were a child, and then you became a young lady or a young man, and you were mentored. And your formal education stopped at eighth grade, yet these people were so well read.

They were so good at mathematics, calculations, science, engineering, things like that. Because I believe individual needs were met in a smaller setting, and discipline to learn, training of the mind was happening, not bluff or educating the masses where you might have missed a mathematical concept that you never learned your, say, multiplication tables, but it was time for the masses to move on.

So whether you understood or didn't understand, your class was moving on. And something like math is not, you can't skip parts of the process. You have to understand because it all builds on the basic foundation.

So when we look back and we see these people who were educated to eighth grade, but yet were able to think and speak and write and invent, it's astonishing how many years, even with college education, how lacking our educations are.

And, you know, I learned that the most about myself when I started to homeschool my kids, and I realized how uneducated I was with a master's degree in the government schools, in the government higher education learning institutions.

Wow. And by the way, folks, I want to remind you, especially if you have not heard my interview from four years ago with Pete Hegseth, who is now our Secretary of War. But regardless of what you think about current American foreign policy, I strongly urge you to hear my interview with Pete Hegseth on his book, Battle for the American Mind, Uprooting a Century of Miseducation.

And all you need to do is go to IronTripDesignRadio .com and type in Hegseth in the search engine, H-E-G-S-E-T-H, and my two interviews with Pete Hegseth will come up. And one of them is on his book, Battle for the American Mind, a fascinating history of how the education of our children became corrupted by Marxist ideology and so forth.

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If you just tuned us in, our guest today is Jill Kilker, Director of Children and Youth Ministries at Enola First Church of God in Enola, Pennsylvania, pastored by my dear friend, Pastor George Jensen.

And Jill is the head of School for Pharos Academy, an expert on homeschooling law in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. We are addressing homeschooling, a guide for Christian parents. If you have a question, send it to chrisarnson at gmail .com.

Chrisarnson at gmail .com. Give us your first name at least, city and state, and country of residence. I'd like you, before we go to any listener questions that come in, I'd like you to basically give a homeschooling 101 walkthrough.

If there are parents listening or a parent listening who has developed an interest in educating their children at home, perhaps either because of this show or even they've been contemplating it for a while and just have been dragging their heels for one reason or another and making that first step, what is the very first step that a parent should take when they finally make that decision?

I believe I want to homeschool our children. And where do they go from there? Sure.

Well, the first thing that they need to do once they've prayed and the Lord has made it clear to them that this is the option that he has for them is to either, you know, search on the internet, call the Homeschool Legal Defense Association, or talk to their local school district to get a copy of what their state homeschool laws are.

Now, homeschooling looks different, a little bit different, in every state in the nation. Each individual state makes the decision what their specific homeschool laws are. I do have, you know, in front of me access from the Homeschool Legal Defense Association.

I have their website up and I can look at laws in specific states. But I do very well know the laws in the state of Pennsylvania. And the first thing in the state of Pennsylvania that you need to do is if your child is currently in a public school, then you obviously withdraw them from the school.

And in the state of Pennsylvania, you have to file an affidavit or an unsworn declaration and submit educational objectives for your child. Compulsory education laws in the state of Pennsylvania start at age six, but they vary by state.

And you can begin educating before age six. You just are not legally required to report that you are educating because it's not compulsory until that age. So the first step would be to find out specifically what the laws are for homeschooling in your state.

And of course, after, I'm sorry, I interrupted you. Go ahead.

No, I'm sorry. After that, obviously, there's more to the process depending on your state. But that would be your place to start.

Now, as far as a curriculum, the Christian parents desiring to homeschool, obviously, one of the reasons is they don't want their children, as Fodi Baucom so accurately put it, if you send your children to Caesars schools, don't be surprised when they return home little Romans.

That's the primary motivation for most, if not all, Christian parents who want to homeschool. So therefore, a curriculum that they choose to guide them in homeschooling, they're going to typically want it to be as having as little influence from the government as possible.

So how do they go about finding a curriculum and what's mandated by law to be included in that curriculum?

Sure.

Again, I'll address the second part of your question, which is what is mandated by law to be in your curriculum? Again, that's going to be state specific. I know it's not your for pleasure reading, but I do very much suggest that a parent take the time to read through the homeschool law of their particular state.

And that will spell out what needs to be included, mandated subjects for that state.

And how long is that typically? How long do they have to wade through something like that?

Not particularly. As legal things go, it's not particularly challenging to understand. I know I've said it multiple times, but again, the Homeschool Legal Defense Association can help parents weed through that.

Parents can become members and they can guide them in having an understanding of that. But there are also so many helps out there. My oldest child is 25. So I started homeschooling her two decades ago.

And it was a little harder to find things in those days. And homeschooling was still more on the fringe. But in 2026, it is growing and thriving. And there are so many resources, as I said, local organizations and even websites that help you wade through that.

It's not as heavy as many legal documents would be, because, you know, I mean, it's parents need to understand it to be able to follow the laws. And so I would encourage the parents to just look at that and make sure.

But talk to other homeschoolers. Pennsylvania is a state that requires an evaluation. At the end of the year by an evaluator who meets certain qualifications that are described under the law. And that is one of the hats that I wear.

And I work with many families. And part of what I do is guide them in understanding the law when they have questions about what is required of them. I also, I'm not a lawyer, but I have a grasp of this particular area of the law.

And most parents, you know, once they talk to someone can figure out what the government actually requires of them. And then when you get to the fun part, I think it's the fun part, because I am a bit of a how do I want to say curriculum?

Nerd.

Nerd.

Nerd is a good word.

You know, back in the early days of homeschooling, there was a Becca Christian curriculum available for homeschooling. And there was Bob Jones. And they were the main two. And there really just wasn't much out there for parents to use.

And now it's almost like the difference between buying your groceries at a convenience store or buying them at a mega mart. You know, the options are endless. It's almost too much to weed through. And in terms of influence from curriculum, curriculum written from a Christian worldview is plentiful.

And it's a blessing as a parent to be able to pick and choose. As I said, in fact, it's sometimes overwhelming to weed through. So again, I recommend that if you have other homeschoolers in your church that you talk to homeschooling families about what they use.

There are plenty of resources out there. There's a company called Rainbow Resource. Make sure when you Google that you don't find some crazy things.

How long ago did they name it that?

A long time ago. I used it when I first started homeschooling my daughter, my oldest child. I used it then. And they provide reviews on curriculum. And I believe it is, don't quote me on this, but I believe that it is a Christian company.

And they give, not that they just review Christian worldview curriculum. They review others as well. But it's just nice to kind of get a feel for, because there's so much out there rather than going to each individual site.

One of the curriculums that I like for science is Apologia. Apologia. Science is all from a Christian, young earth creation point of view. And it's, you know, real science without all the, if I can say this on the radio, crap that we don't want our children to hear.

Just out of curiosity, is it affiliated at all with Apologia Church in Phoenix, Arizona? The only reason, or actually it's in Mesa, Arizona. The only reason I ask is because they are actually mispronouncing that word.

It's, from what I understand, properly pronounced Apologia.

Oh, I don't believe it's connected with, I don't believe it's connected with them.

And North French Pastor Jeff Durbin, I just happen to know that James White, before he was an elder there, was ribbing you for years about the mispronunciation. And then he finally gave in and calls it Apologia as well.

Yes. Well, it's one of many. There are other Christian science curriculum out there, you know, where the children, I remember, you know, using, talking about science and talking about the wonder of the world that God created and how that's evident not only in science, but it's evident in mathematics.

It's evident in every part of the curriculum. And I remember when my children were young, just really hitting hard the truth of God's word and the importance that they know and be well-educated so they can defend their faith when others come up with, say, evolution and want to discuss that.

That they not just say because the Bible says. To you and me, saying because the Bible says, we believe it because the Bible says it. But to the rest of the world who doesn't believe in the authority of the Bible, you need to be educated, to be academically educated in how to defend that using terms that they understand from a science perspective.

And one time my son and his cousin, my sister's little boy, who were educated, you know, with a Christian worldview, they were in elementary school and they went to the local museum and they had a class.

One of my sisters offered to pay for this class because she's a science teacher, but she's a Christian. And they went and they were talking about all of these different things having to do with evolution.