

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: A Local Cooperative for Homeschool Families - Missions Marching Forward Awareness Week Presentation
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 24 Mar, 2026 at 06:30 pm
- **Event Description**: An Almond cooperative, which provides assistance in specific subjects for some 80 area children being homeschooled, will explain its benefits at 6:30PM Tuesday, March 24, as part of a week-long series on Christian Education in Allegany County.

The free public sessions, hosted by the What God is Doing in Friendship ny alliance of participating churches, are being held from Monday-Friday, March 23-27, at the Bible Baptist Church, 43 West Main Street, Friendship.

A Southern Tier Homeschool Academy representative will provide details about a Local Cooperative for Homeschool Families which meets once a week at Almond Community Church.

The nonprofit organization presents opportunities for classroom instruction, with a strong emphasis on core Christian values, with volunteer teachers providing instruction in specific areas of education, overseeing labs work, and reviewing and assigning lessons and readings to complete throughout the week at home.

A Basics of Homeschooling presentation will be held the preceding evening.

Christian Education in Allegany County is this year's Missions Marching Forward Awareness Week focus during the alliance's annual observance of many Christians serving in different missions capacities, both locally and around the world.

A broad number of sparsely-known opportunities to experience wholesome Christian education are available in Allegany County for school children through college ages and beyond, with participating alliance churches noting that many of these, other than some Sunday schools and youth groups, aren’t widely known.

The schedule for the remainder of the week, with the 6:30PM sessions open to the public without advance registration, includes:

– Monday, March 23:  Daniel DiFrancesco, regional representative of Homeschool New York will discuss The Basics of Homeschooling.

The Christian organization, the state’s largest homeschool support group, was formed some 35 years ago to help parents and caregivers provide children with a “high-quality education in a safe environment, without being overwhelmed.”

The speaker will provide information and tips designed to help someone who wishes to homeschool or who already is doing so be a confident home educator.

– Wednesday, March 25: Representatives of Parker-Jordan Christian Academy, recently relocated to larger facilities at Richburg, and Houghton Academy will discuss the benefits of a regular school campus environment and Christian Academy Differences between the two types of educational institutions.

Parker-Jordan, serving kindergarten through 12th graders, is in its fifth year of operation at its current location after developing waiting lists for students while using previously borrowed space at Wellsville and then at the Faith Bible Church in Little Genesee.

The school, chartered by the state Board of Regents, currently has some 50 students in its new facility in the village, with capacity for approximately 80.

Houghton Academy is an international college preparatory boarding school which also makes available instruction for area sixth through 12thgrade students.

Starting out in 1883 as the Houghton Wesleyan Methodist Seminary, it also served as the birthplace for the current Houghton University.

International students from the Academy also will play musical numbers during the evening.

– Thursday, March 26: The Christian Roots of Allegany County’s two universities and state college will be explored.

Rev. Christian R. Mattison, former member of the Seventh Day Baptist Historical Society board of directors, will discuss the denomination’s formation of a “select school” in 1836 which grew into Alfred University, from which Alfred State College also was birthed.

A speaker also will trace the history of Houghton University, started some 50 years later.

– Friday, March 27: Rev. Craig Merritt and his wife, Kim, will discuss a number of Non-School Christian Education Opportunities positively impacting children, youth and families which they have experienced during their years of ministry, including afterschool, homeschool, and club-type offerings.

Further information and updates on these and other community activities can be obtained by Joining or Following the What God is Doing in Friendship ny group Facebook page at https://tinyurl.com/God-in-Friendship-FB, or at WhatGodisDoing@outlook.com or (585) 664-9989.
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Friendship
- **state**: NY
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Bible Baptist Church Friendship NY 14739
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- **full address**: Bible Baptist Church Friendship NY 14739, 43 West Main Street - Across From the School,Friendship, New York, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tue, 24 Mar, 2026 at 06:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Bible Baptist Church Friendship NY 14739, 43 West Main Street - Across From the School,Friendship, New York, United States
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  - **A:** What God is Doing in Friendship ny
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