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Metro Life Church:
A Model of Support for Home Education
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• Direct supervision of the home education ministry by a pastor (Benny Phillips) who has been a home school dad for well over 20 years.  
• A commitment by the pastors to not let any of their programs replace the parents – which led to the discontinuation of a three-day-a-week high school program that didn’t seem to bear the desired fruit.
• An official “private school” enrollment option, The Regent Academy, which keeps our records, provides guidance and administrative support, assists with college applications and scholarships – all with maximum flexibility given to parents. (Available only to Metro Life members.)
• Standardized testing at a reasonable cost.
• Small bi-monthly home school support groups for Moms AND Dads.
• Bi-monthly workshops on home schooling and child training topics.
• Book fairs and home school seminars open to the public.
• Weekly 90-minute group tutoring sessions in high school math, science and foreign languages, for a fee of $10 per week.  (Available only to Metro Life members.)
• Volunteer-taught enrichment classes in various subjects for all grade levels, usually running in 6-8 week sessions.  High school classes have included philosophy, literature, church history, essay writing and others.  At the middle school and elementary levels, classes can include P.E., home economics, basic science, writing, sign language, Florida history and other subjects.  (Available only to Metro Life members.) 
• A church library stocked with home schooling resources.
• An active sports program, with high school basketball (boys and girls) and golf, as well as a Saturday morning soccer season and summer basketball camps  for younger children. 
• Royal Rangers and Missionettes scouting-type programs for K-8th grades. An “adult” worship team that welcomes teen instrumentalists and vocalists.
• Terrific retreats, conferences and seminars which teens are encouraged to attend along with the adults.
• Monthly Deluge youth meetings for high school and college age students, which include the parents in worship, teaching and fellowship times. (Non-Metro members are always welcome – second Saturdays at 6:45 pm.)
• A worship service which includes the children in the singing and prayer times before releasing them for Sunday School – plus a one-way-mirror nursing moms’ room and a separate toddler training room (for parents and their tots who are learning to sit still!) at the back of the sanctuary.
• Mission trips for high school and college students every other year.
• Extreme youth conference for high school and college students every other year.