Thank you for your interest in what we do. We need more hands to help create learning materials written from the Christian perspective. Please take time to read this article to know more about our learning philosophy and advocacy.

Crowds flocked to hear the Master Teacher proclaim God’s kingdom and authenticate His message through miracles. Although most of the Jewish leaders viewed Jesus as a threat to their authority, and eventually conspired to have him crucified, many ordinary men and women in Judea were blessed by the Lord’s message and ministry.

Jesus’ disciples benefitted the most from His teaching ministry. Many times, He spoke to the crowds in parables but explained the meaning afterwards to his disciples (Read Luke 13:1-23). This prepared them for their upcoming and lifelong calling.

After Christ’s resurrection and ascension, He sent out His disciples to continue what He started. In Acts 4:13, we read about Peter and John boldly preaching the gospel of Jesus’ resurrection in the Temple. Those who heard them preach noticed something in these men. Yes, they were unschooled and ordinary men. They were neither students of prestigious rabbis nor graduates of synagogue schools. But the crowd noted these two preachers were “men had been with Jesus.”

Our learning philosophy attempts to follow Jesus’ model of teaching. We believe Jesus’ teaching methods can be summarized into three interconnected steps: Listening, Practicing, and Living.

We believe the parent/teacher should consider the needs, interests, and abilities of their children. Jesus, Himself, gathered His disciples and gently listened to their concerns, answered their questions, and repeated His lessons when they were slow to understand. Still, it was Jesus who taught His disciples, not the other way around.

Jesus’ model shows us learning starts when knowledge is handed down from the parent/teacher to the student. The parent/teacher, not the student, determines the flow of the learning.

To motivate students to listen, the parent/teacher must make use of methods like stories, real-life illustrations, and questions. During Jesus’ earthly ministry, He gave his disciples real-life scenarios where they can visualize how the lessons are applied.

In Matthew 6:24-33, for example, Jesus taught about serving God alone. Then He used the small birds and the grasses of the field as illustrations, before asking rhetorical questions like “Are you not much more valuable than they?” and “Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?” to drive home His lesson.

Jesus’ disciples must have sat around Him, each of them listening intently to get the most out of what He was saying. In other words, learning is initiated when the parent/teacher conveys the lesson, and the student responds by listening.

Consider the scene in Matthew 8:23-27. Jesus and His disciples took a boat to go to the other side of the Gadarenes, but they suddenly encountered a violent storm. This storm must be very strong that even the seasoned fishermen in the group like Peter, Andrew, James, and John were scared of dying. Jesus’ disciples were terrified. With pale faces and trembling limbs, they scrambled to wake Jesus from His sleep because they were going to drown.

Perhaps, Jesus got up after a yawn and a long stretch, and then gave a gentle rebuke, saying: “You of little faith, why are you so afraid?” After that, He got up to rebuke the wind and the waves to calm the storm.

In other words, it is one thing to learn about trusting God while inside a safe place, and another thing to learn about trusting God in the middle of the storm. Jesus knew that merely listening to His message about trusting in God would not produce genuine learning. The disciples need to practice what they learned.

Learning needs relevant exercises that could deepen the student’s understanding of the lesson. Games, exams, creative indoor activities, or short trips outside the house are few of the different methods we can use to practice what was learned. Practicing what they learning help our students build their knowledge on solid footing.

During this adventure, the disciples got a foretaste of what they will be tasked to do after Jesus’ ascension. At the same time, they experienced living out the lessons Jesus taught them every day. Of course, the ministry of the Holy Spirit transformed the ordinary men and women who followed Jesus into brave heralds of the gospel. But for the purposes of education, living out Jesus’ message cemented it in the disciples’ hearts and minds.

Listening helps the student get valuable information, practicing deepens their understanding of the lesson, and living out what they learned cements that knowledge in them for a long time.

Based on our mission statement, the TSF advocacy is: Quality and Innovative, Gospel-centered Homeschooling, Entrepreneurial, Pro-Philippines, Pro-Humanity, and Pro-Environment.

Of the many learning methods available for children and youth today, we believe a well-structured homeschooling approach can provide the most efficient path for Filipinos to succeed. That learning path must be entrepreneurial in nature. Our students must be trained to become faith-driven entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs who would one-day become leaders and game-changers in the business world for God’s glory.

Entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship are the backbone of any strong economy. All world-class countries put strong emphasis on entrepreneurship. Why do we need to gear our learning towards entrepreneurship as well?

Many understand entrepreneurship as the ability and readiness to pursue, manage, and scale a business. It is developing, organizing, and running a business to make it profitable. We believe entrepreneurship is not all about creating something of value that can be exchanged for profit. God has a higher purpose for doing business.

Although money is important in business it is not the end goal for the Christian. The ultimate purpose of Christian entrepreneurship is to “glorify God and enjoy Him forever,” through the use of one’s skills, resources, and connections.

It is about discovering and using one’s ability to steward creation and create more good in this world for us and our fellow humans to enjoy, knowing that everything in this universe belongs to the Supreme Creator (1 Timothy 6:17).

Thus, God created human beings with an inherent drive to create something of value that would benefit themselves and others, just like what He did in Creation. In Genesis 2, God commanded Adam to work the Garden of Eden and take care of it. If not for the fall of mankind in Genesis, this Garden could have been the archetype of farming, agriculture, and landscaping, and many other businesses.

Sadly, sin’s entry into the world severely damaged humankind’s ability to please God through their industry. Instead of serving one another with valuable service and products, working and earning profit have become tools to satisfy one’s greed, envy, and every other selfish desire.

Despite the effects of sin, the image of God in humans remain. Although work became more difficult, God still values creativity and diligence, and rewards it with wisdom and wealth, especially when done for His glory (Proverbs 10:4; Colossians 3:23-24; 1 Peter 4:10).

In the Old Testament, the patriarch Abraham was a wealthy entrepreneur (Genesis 13). He and his family did not serve in the great cities of their time in exchange for money, but used whatever resources God gave him to build wealth. In the New Testament, Jesus was an entrepreneur. Before He officially launched His public ministry on earth, Jesus was a carpenter.

The Apostle Paul was a tentmaker by trade (Acts 20). Together with Priscilla and Aquilla, Paul built tents to help fund their missionary journeys and proclaim the gospel wherever God led them. Indeed, this entrepreneurial mindset has been a backbone in many Christian missionary efforts throughout the centuries.

In Philippine history, missionaries were among the first to build schools, hospitals, and other businesses needed to improve standard of living. Today, many Christian churches thrive because of the generous giving of Christian entrepreneurs, knowing it is one avenue where the ability to create wealth is used for God’s glory.

This ideal motivates us to build a learning system where the output of all lessons and experiences is Christian entrepreneurship. Just like many Filipinos, we had to go through the traditional education system in the Philippines, which is inherently designed to produce a nation of workers.

Of course, we learned a lot from those experiences. We made good friends and connections along the way. But because we were trained by the educational system to become excellent employees, we ended up believing the only feasible path in life for a Filipino is to study hard, land a good-paying job, and save for retirement.

It took us decades to realize the benefits of entrepreneurship are invaluable for our personal goals, for the advancement of God’s kingdom, and for the country’s economy. Wayne Grudem, in his book Business for the Glory of God, says it well: “…the only long-term solution to world poverty is business… because businesses produce goods, and businesses produce jobs.” (Grudem, 2003, p.80).

Would it be more glorious to see our kids develop an entrepreneurial mindset so they can freely use their God-given skills and talents and eventually become leaders and gamechangers in today’s business world?

Homeschooling in the Philippines is still in its infancy. Many parents, even Christian parents still view traditional learning as the best route to success, where their children can graduate with a diploma and compete in the workforce. We aspire to make a difference by creating an alternative learning path where our students will become successful faith-driven Filipino entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs in the future who love God, and are pro-humanity, pro-Filipino, and pro-environment.

We are looking for super-skilled content creators who are passionate with homeschooling and can create digital learning workbooks, activity sheets, and unit studies written from a Christian perspective.

Printable learning materials for homeschool students from Preschool to Grade 6 for the following Subjects:

1. English Language Arts
2. Numeracy
3. Social Studies
4. Science

You create the printable learning material. We will market them exclusively through The Storyfelters online platforms. You will earn up to 60% in royalties for every sale of the product you created.

• We need content creators who embrace the Christian faith and are members of a local Christian church
• We need content creators who can both write and layout their work using available software like Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, or Canva
• We need printable learning materials written from a Christian worldview, written in English, and are designed for the Filipino homeschooling community
• We need printable learning materials aimed to strengthen Filipino entrepreneurship and promote Christian leadership and excellence in the workplace.
• We need learning materials that will be sold exclusively through The Storyfelters e-commerce website (www.thestoryfelters.com)
• Who keeps the copyright? If you created the material you keep the copyright. We only need to place a watermark on each page showing it is published by www.thestoryfelters.com