I am a pastor in Round Rock, Texas. I just wanted to zap a note of thanks to Doug Phillips for his recent article entitled “A Time for Maturity”. This truly is the balance or the other side of the coin that so many homeschooling families need to hear. Doug Phillips is being used to bring much needed reform to the Church in America, and Chrisian homeschoolers have been bringing much of that reform through the “alternative” way they live their lives. But this tendency on the part of many Christian homeschoolers to effectively give up or withhold themselves from the local chuches of our land, is hurting those same churches, just when we need to understand each other and work together more than ever. Many churches, like the one I help pastor in Round Rock, are in transition. We are “hybrid” churches if you will. Many of the values of Vision Forum, with some of the “traditional” ministries still operating (SS, Youth group, etc.) But we are not evil or Ichabod! We are trying to be faithful to what the Lord is showing us in these days without writing off as apostate precious co-servants in the Lord! This article helps greatly beause it is a needed corrective to the homeschool community. I pray many will read it and take it to heart. Sincerly in Christ, teaching elder and Sr.Pastor, J.B.