" I have known Gene and Rebecca Antonio for twenty years.  I have seen great fruit in their lives and in their ministry.  I encourage you to stand behind them with your prayers and financial support.

Gene is a dynamic and inspiring speaker who would be a great blessing to home school conventions. "

     Hello, and thank you for visiting our homepage! It's great to have you with us. I'm Dr. Gene Antonio and my wife's name is Rebecca. We are committed, born-again, homeschool missionaries who have eight children, ages 3 to 19, all of whom have been raised on the mission field. Over the last 13 years, we have homeschooled and served the Lord Jesus Christ in India, Hungary and the Dominican Republic (DR).

As a fellow homeschooler, you know how much teaching your children has meant to you.  We want to do everything possible to encourage you in your own very important ministry of home education.  As a family who has homeschooled under difficult and trying circumstances in very different cultures, we have learned many useful lessons we would like to share with you.  There are many stress factors in homeschooling and we want to share specific ways for overcoming many of the obstacles faced by homeschoolers.  We want you to be victorious in your important homeschool ministry.

While in India, Dr. Gene learned some amazing little known health secrets from top experts.  These safe natural remedies have already saved families we know thousands of dollars and spared them from costly surgery. 

FREE Homeschool Seminar - This powerful motivational audio seminar by Dr. Antonio will inspire you to make your children radical disciples for Christ. You and your family will be thrilled by the awesome accounts of how the Lord has used the Antonio family to lead people to Christ in three very different cultures. Click here to obtain your FREE seminar

EXCITING NEW BOOK ON HOMESCHOOLING IN MISSIONS - We are soon to release a new book detailing our experiences in India.  It is great reading for parents and young people and will inspire you to serve the Lord wholeheartedly.  Your children will listen, laugh, and be thrilled as they hear how the Lord used us to touch lives in the great Sub-Continent of INDIA!  Click here for more info: Yes, please let me know as soon as your book is out so I can get my own special copy of the premier edition of your book, The Great Homeschool Missionary Adventure (copyrighted)

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  WHY EXPORT HOMESCHOOLING TO THE MISSION FIELD?

 We have been in the DR for five years and are pioneering the homeschool movement in this lovely but needy Third World nation.

Click here to see exciting photos of Dominican homeschoolers

A recent study found that 85% of young people raised in professing Christian homes who went to public school stopped attending church by the age of 18. Many, if not most, are living a lifestyle far removed from Biblical standards. The encouraging news is that among young people who were homeschooled, only 5% did not continue going to church after the age of 18. It is clear that homeschooling is an extraordinary means for parents to transmit their values to the next generation.

In the USA, an estimated one and a half to two million young people are receiving the tremendous blessing of a homeschool education.

In other Westernized foreign countries, such as those in Latin America, among the children of professing Christians, involvement in immorality and other unbiblical conduct is often taken for granted as an inavoidable "part of growing up." Somehow the adults were won to Christ, but no one taught them the powerful benefits of homeschooling their children.

Unfortunately, unlike the United States where almost everyone knows somebody who is homeschooling, most people overseas do not a have clue that there is a viable option to the vicious cycle of falling away that prevails among so many young people from Christian homes.

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations . . .teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and lo I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen. - Matthew 28:19-20

In accordance with the Great Commission to go and make disciples of other nations, we feel it is imperative for American homeschoolers to encourage efforts to export the blessing of homeschooling to other countries.

We believe that preaching all that Christ commanded includes teaching parents in other lands how they can raise their children as vibrant, radical disciples. We understand there many homeschool families who are unable to go personally. We want them to have the opportunity to get behind those of us on the frontlines overseas who are spreading the great news that homeschooling works.

Parents overseas need to be taught that there is a fabulous alternative to raising rebels with the all too common anti-"testimony" of, "I was raised in a Christian home but . . . I became involved with evil companions, pornography, drugs, ungodly music, immorality, etc. . . ."

"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved and thy house."  -Acts 16:31

Preaching the gospel ought to include the message that there is a means of preserving the children of believers. It is urgent that parents overseas know that Christ centered homeschooling can enable their children to consistently walk in holiness and purity throughout their youth and into adulthood. We want the national Christian young people to have testimonies filled with purity, praise and joyful thanksgiving instead of bitter regrets and a lifetime of remorse.

HOMESCHOOLING CAN RAISE PEOPLE OUT OF POVERTY
Many young people in developing nations face a bleak future with respect to making a decent living. A recent study showed that 71% of homeschool graduates were working in their own business. Homeschooling promotes the strength of character and the kind of rugged, independent entrepeneurism needed to raise young people in the
Third World out of the quagmire of grinding poverty and despair.

We have a burden to spread the message of Bible based, Christ-centered home education and discipleship to people on the mission field overseas. We don't want to see the adults led to Christ only to have the devil rob their children right out out from under them. This is strangling the growth of the Kingdom of God .

Though not an end in itself, Bible based homeschooling can be an extraordinary
means of preserving young people under the Lordship of Christ. It promotes spiritual and emotional bonding between children and parents and better socialization between young people and adults. It is also an effective tool for evangelizing non-Christians who are looking for a means of helping their children.

We have a vision to reach the people of the Dominican Republic so that they know homeschooling is a viable positive option for their children. Click here to see our articles.

To achieve that goal, we have organized the nation's first homeschool support group. In addition, we have held the first national conference on home schooling in the history of the Dominican Republic.

 As a homeschooler, you know how much the ability to teach your children has meant to you and your family. In the an estimated 1.5- 2 million children are reaping the benefits of home education. There are literally hundreds of homeschool support groups and seminars going on year round. Most people know someone who is homeschooling.

 Here, in the , the idea of preserving one's children through homeschooling is a new idea. After living here for five years, we have found that Dominicans are deeply interested in learning how to preserve strong moral values in their children. Right now, there are thousands of Dominican families in the waiting to learn the benefits of homeschooling. You can become a co-worker in reaching those families and seeing their children become discipled in the way of the Lord.

 "As ye have done unto the least of my brethren, ye have done unto me."

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 2) HELP SPONSOR AN EVANGELISTIC HOMESCHOOL CONVENTION IN THE   We are fluent in the language and have a vision for reaching many thousands of families with the message of family and social revival through homeschooling. To reach these precious spiritually hungry families requires intense targeted publicity and various forms of outreach. This involves a good deal of expense. Please consider helping us with your prayerful support. Simply click this link and fill out the information on the form. Tell us that you would like to stand with us in our efforts.  Contributions to our ministry are tax-deductible in the United States. You can make your contribution payable to "FACT" PO Box 54, Two Harbors MN 555616.  To contact us directly by telephone: 1(809) 304 0520, email: drganthony@msn.com.  If you go to www.skype.com you can sign up and call us at drganthony.  We do not have internet in our home, so you might want to call or email us to set up a time to call through Skype.

 3) Consider having your 18 and over HS graduate apply to work as a volunteer in our ministry here.  Your young people will get fired up for God, learn the language and see many lives touched for eternity. Click this link for more info

 Please keep our family in your prayers and let us keep in touch with you!  Let us know how things are going in your life so we can pray for you as well.

 In His bonds of affection across the miles from our family to yours,

 Dr. Gene & Mrs. Rebecca Antonio and eight homeschooled champions for Christ

 "Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it." Psalm 127:1

 PS Don't forget to get your own FREE copy of my powerful audio homeschool seminar. It will give you a true personal understanding of what we are all about and greatly encourage and challenge you. You and your family will be blessed! Click here to obtain your own personal FREE copy of our powerful Homeschool seminar

 Most people here do not know that such an option exists. Many Christian families are losing their children to the world in droves. Many of these families would homeschool if only they knew about it. It is our responsibility to reach them. We do not want to win the adults only to see their children swallowed up by secular education.

 YOU CAN HELP US GET THE WORD OUT - Our ministry headquarters in the bustling capital city of Santo Domingo which has three million inhabitants. For each seminar, we need to do intense publicity on radio and newspapers. Each day of radio advertising will potentially reach hundreds of thousands of Dominicans with the message of homeschooling. For one day, the cost is $60. For a week?s worth of intense publicity on the radio, the cost is $US300. For newspapers, the ads run $65 per day. Cost of posters, flyers and additional advertising, a minimum of $400.

These precious families cannot start homeschooling unless they know about it and they cannot know about it unless we tell them, (Romans 10:14-15).