About Us > Where We Started
02/03 - Met Dan Johnson, web developer,
computer programmer, and homeschool father from Nashville, who offered to build
HLA's website. Dan is founder of
http://www.homeschoolreporting.com
03/03
- Met and prayed with our future counseling staff and board of directors. Lynn Knowlton
becomes first official counselor for HLA.
03/03- Began construction of
http://www.homelifeacademy.com
04/03 - Attained Membership with
Association of Christian Schools International
and were listed on their website.
04/03 - Attained Private School Membership
with Home School Legal
Defense Association (HSLDA) and were listed on their website.
04/03- Listed as a Private, Church-related school by the
TN Department of Education.
Began research on other states.
05/01/2003 - Opened our doors for enrollment!
06/03 - Attained Membership with the Alternative Education Resource
Organization (AERO) and were listed on their web site.
09/03 - Secured an Employee Identification
Number with the IRS
10/03 - Incorporated as "HomeLife Academy"
with the TN Secretary
of State
11/03 - Lani Carey joins the High School
Couseling Staff
12/03 - Held the first annual staff and
board meeting: Prayed over every enrolled family by name and approved HLA's By Laws.
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01/04 - Attained Membership with the National Home Education Network
02/04- Attained Membership with
Christian Educators Association International
04/04 - Became an Approved or "Recognized"
Church-related school by the
FL Department of Education.
05/04 - Began second year of operation with
increasing enrollment and three counseling families.
06/04 - Karen Johnson joins the Volunteer
Counseling Staff
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01/05 - Ashleigh Totty, Justin Tisdale,
and Evan Johnson, all High School students, join office staff and begin training
for a busy summer! These were the first of many student workers in our office. We
miss them and thank them for helping HLA get started in those early years!
05/05 - Began third year of operations and
began ENROLLING ALL GRADE LEVELS!
06/05 - Due to repeated requests, incorporated
in the
state of FL as an option three school under Leon County:
school number 4618.
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03/06 - Karen Johnson joins the paid High
School Counseling Staff
05/06 - Began fourth year of operations
after graduating over 80 students! We are so proud of the first graduating class
and look forward to many more ahead.
10/06 - 3rd. Family Retreat a huge success!
05/07 - HLA tops record enrollment. Fortunately
God keeps sending us incredible people to help serve the growing number of home
educators!
08/07 - Lynn Williamson becomes Administrative
Assistant and he did an incredible job! We miss him tremendously but know he's in
a better place.
Read our Tribute to Lynn
10/07 - Lori Lee takes a seat and begins
training for Records Supervisor. In two months time she's doing great!
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01/08 - Increased numbers of mid-year transfers.
03/08 - Calente Tapp joins counselors.
10/08
- Mary and Jenn join the records department staff.
03/09 - Ken Shreeve joins staff as full-time Administrative Assistant.
04/09 - Nicole, Rebecca, Amy, Nichole, and Joy all joined staff
this spring as well, rounding out an incredible team and carrying us through a very
busy summer.
08/09 - Tyler Parkerson joins staff as full time web developer
and general master of all things internet!
10/09 - Ana Quesada trains to become first FL Counselor. She starts Jan. 1st 2010
12/09 - Launched new website and began serving homeschoolers in
every state!
05/2010 - Began 8th year serving home educators!
07/2010 - Record Enrollment numbers and growing in several other states
08/2010 - Tara, Samantha, Hosanna, and Shalom join office staff
10/2010 - Released new back office, member login, and improved web
enrollment services
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Most importantly, this is a testimony of God's faithfulness
and desire to help parents and families. We believe strongly that God is moving
through homeschooling to do much more than provide a quality education for children.
In fact, it may be that the most important thing God is doing through the homeschooling
movement is to build a better framework in which children can learn about Him. HLA's
desire is to be used by God to accomplish His goals for uniting entire families
and raising Godly children.