MATCH
Dear Homeschool Exhibitor,
It has is hard to believe that it is already 2022. But we are so thankful to finally be able to move forward and be back to "normal". For those that are new, please let me introduce myself and our organization. My husband & I are the directors of the Missouri Association of Teaching Christian Homes, Inc. (MATCH). This is the only state wide Christian organization in Missouri. We have three children a son 33, daughter 22 and our youngest 19.
For those that have followed our family ups and downs over the years with our youngest, the past year 2 years have been hard ones. I spent October 2020-July 2021, taking care of my sister in Columbia, MO. In July 2021, after selling the family home and buying a home outside of the city limits, we moved my sister in with us. God took her Home November 2021. At the same time we had just found out the news that our youngest time on earth was short. For those interested in keeping up with this journey we have started a Facebook page for him. God has been so good to us!
We would love to work with your group in whatever way possible. If you have suggestions, please feel free to contact us.
We offer to do FREE product reviews for vendors.
The way this works is, you send us whatever you would like for us to review and after reviewing it, we will put the review in our state wide membership newsletter (online); on our members only site on the web; on our blogs (3 different ones); and on Facebook (we do not return or resell items sent for review). If you want us to review a book or even a series, please send us the physical books or ebooks. If you are sending ebooks we accept ebooks for the Nook or Kindle, as well as common non-DRM formats. Please note that we get a lot of reviews and we try to get them done ASAP but as a homeschool mom, my family comes first. If you don't hear from us or see your review out there, please email me and I will check into it.
We would love to have articles or blogs for our monthly newsletter Fireside Helps.
Fireside Helps is sent out to MATCH members throughout the state, monthly on our members only site only. We could use the following:
Please send them to me by the 4th Friday of every month. All of our regular writers receive a free link to our newsletter so that they can see it each month. To become a writer, please contact me by email.
If you are a writer for our newsletter we would love to put an ad in each newsletter your submit an article for, for FREE. If you would like to submit an ad we can do it for $10/month for a 300x250 or a 728x50. Click here to buy ad space. After paying for your ad, email the ad to us in jpg or png format.
We would love to put a web banner ad on our website for your products. If you offer our members a discount the banner ad is FREE. If you don't want to offer a discount the ads are as follows:
Click on the ad above that you would like to do and then email the .jpg or .png to us.
Homeschool Weekend.
After having to cancel our homeschool weekend for two years, we are finally getting things back to "normal". Our event is August 17-20 and even though things look a little different we are excited about the new opportunities God has given us. We are doing goody bags this year again and want to be able to include you into them. These bags are geared toward the kids but want to advertise you and your products. You can include all sorts of fun things like, scratch pads, pens, pencils, jump ropes, etc. We are also in need of bags and name badges for the items. If you have magazines, feel free to include those. This year the bags will be given out at our supper get-together, so people won't have to carry them all day. Due to this being our first time of doing the event in two years and with the price of gas, we are only asking for 250 items. We need everything by August 1, 2022. We don't know how many will be attending this year, so we are just asking for a smaller amount for this year and hope that next year we can be back up to a much larger group.
Chris Klicka Homeschool Memorial Library.
We announced last year that this dream was finally coming true. We are now ready to start getting books for this library. The library will be free to all our MATCH members first and then we hope to expand it out to others. Here is what we would love to have from you:
If you have sent something and we haven't gotten back to, PLEASE contact me. With my hands full of taking care of our youngest and getting ready to release him back to the Father, things sometimes slip our minds. We do appreciate your prayers during this time. We know that God is working everything out for HIS purpose.
Please take a few minutes to update your information with us so that we keep in contact with the right person. We look forward to working with you. If you have any questions please feel free to contact us at 417-255-1103 or by email.
God bless you,
Michael & Orilla Crider
MATCH Directors
NOTE:
If mailing or sending anything to our office please mail it to:
MATCH
Orilla Crider, Director
1887 County Road 6460
West Plains, MO 65775
It has is hard to believe that it is already 2022. But we are so thankful to finally be able to move forward and be back to "normal". For those that are new, please let me introduce myself and our organization. My husband & I are the directors of the Missouri Association of Teaching Christian Homes, Inc. (MATCH). This is the only state wide Christian organization in Missouri. We have three children a son 33, daughter 22 and our youngest 19.
For those that have followed our family ups and downs over the years with our youngest, the past year 2 years have been hard ones. I spent October 2020-July 2021, taking care of my sister in Columbia, MO. In July 2021, after selling the family home and buying a home outside of the city limits, we moved my sister in with us. God took her Home November 2021. At the same time we had just found out the news that our youngest time on earth was short. For those interested in keeping up with this journey we have started a Facebook page for him. God has been so good to us!
We would love to work with your group in whatever way possible. If you have suggestions, please feel free to contact us.
We offer to do FREE product reviews for vendors.
The way this works is, you send us whatever you would like for us to review and after reviewing it, we will put the review in our state wide membership newsletter (online); on our members only site on the web; on our blogs (3 different ones); and on Facebook (we do not return or resell items sent for review). If you want us to review a book or even a series, please send us the physical books or ebooks. If you are sending ebooks we accept ebooks for the Nook or Kindle, as well as common non-DRM formats. Please note that we get a lot of reviews and we try to get them done ASAP but as a homeschool mom, my family comes first. If you don't hear from us or see your review out there, please email me and I will check into it.
We would love to have articles or blogs for our monthly newsletter Fireside Helps.
Fireside Helps is sent out to MATCH members throughout the state, monthly on our members only site only. We could use the following:
- Articles of all sorts of topics. Encouragement, on different school subjects, etc.
- Blogs. If you have a blog that you don't mind us use items in our newsletter, please let us know. We are more than happy to put your information at the end of it.
- Homeschool Comics
- Fun pages for children. Puzzles for them to do and stories for children.
- Encouragement and helpful tips for special need families. We are seeing a lot of increase of special needs being brought home to be homeschooled and parents could use encouragement.
Please send them to me by the 4th Friday of every month. All of our regular writers receive a free link to our newsletter so that they can see it each month. To become a writer, please contact me by email.
If you are a writer for our newsletter we would love to put an ad in each newsletter your submit an article for, for FREE. If you would like to submit an ad we can do it for $10/month for a 300x250 or a 728x50. Click here to buy ad space. After paying for your ad, email the ad to us in jpg or png format.
We would love to put a web banner ad on our website for your products. If you offer our members a discount the banner ad is FREE. If you don't want to offer a discount the ads are as follows:
Click on the ad above that you would like to do and then email the .jpg or .png to us.
Homeschool Weekend.
After having to cancel our homeschool weekend for two years, we are finally getting things back to "normal". Our event is August 17-20 and even though things look a little different we are excited about the new opportunities God has given us. We are doing goody bags this year again and want to be able to include you into them. These bags are geared toward the kids but want to advertise you and your products. You can include all sorts of fun things like, scratch pads, pens, pencils, jump ropes, etc. We are also in need of bags and name badges for the items. If you have magazines, feel free to include those. This year the bags will be given out at our supper get-together, so people won't have to carry them all day. Due to this being our first time of doing the event in two years and with the price of gas, we are only asking for 250 items. We need everything by August 1, 2022. We don't know how many will be attending this year, so we are just asking for a smaller amount for this year and hope that next year we can be back up to a much larger group.
Chris Klicka Homeschool Memorial Library.
We announced last year that this dream was finally coming true. We are now ready to start getting books for this library. The library will be free to all our MATCH members first and then we hope to expand it out to others. Here is what we would love to have from you:
- Books you have written. Our library software uses the epub format, and we would prefer books to be submitted in that format. We can convert from several other formats if needed, including pdf and most word processors. If you have questions about a specific format contact us. We are also willing to convert from a manuscript or bound book if necessary, although this is much more time intensive and will delay getting the book added to the library. We will be putting a place in the library where they can go purchase their own copy.
- Book suggestions. Do you have suggestions of books that you think would be good to include in our library? We are looking for helpful and encouragement books for parents, teens and children. We are NOT wanting this to be a curriculum library but where the family can pick up their computer, tablets or cell phone and read a book for fun and encouragement. So, if you have some suggestions, please let us know the name of book, author, and publisher if possible.
If you have sent something and we haven't gotten back to, PLEASE contact me. With my hands full of taking care of our youngest and getting ready to release him back to the Father, things sometimes slip our minds. We do appreciate your prayers during this time. We know that God is working everything out for HIS purpose.
Please take a few minutes to update your information with us so that we keep in contact with the right person. We look forward to working with you. If you have any questions please feel free to contact us at 417-255-1103 or by email.
God bless you,
Michael & Orilla Crider
MATCH Directors
NOTE:
If mailing or sending anything to our office please mail it to:
MATCH
Orilla Crider, Director
1887 County Road 6460
West Plains, MO 65775
