Esther's Place Homeschool Resource Center

08/14/2026

We highly recommend Miss Krista Joy Luedtke Olson! ❤️

Are you looking for quality music time for your homeschooler?

Joyfully Made Music is returning with our kids choir, lead by Krista Joy Olson, a licensed educator for 25 years experience!

This choir is for families who want their kids to learn musical concepts through movement, singing, playing, instruments and fun! You are welcome to drop off or join us in the fun!

Our fall choir will include folk music, instruments, some music reading, music from many cultures and a sense of community.

And our holiday choir is returning, look for details soon!

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08/05/2026

📢Excellent Opportunity Alert:

Reign Dance Theater 🩰
SUMMER BALLET CAMPS
Come join us as we “praise His name with dancing!”
Camps include classical ballet, worship dance, scripture, choreography, crafts, and more!

Pre-School Camp (ages 3-6)
August 10-12 — 1:15-2:00pm ($60)

Beginning/Intermediate Camp (ages 7+) –
August 10-12 — 2:30-5:30pm ($180)

Register: https://reigndancetheater.org/summer-events-ep/
Reign Dance meets at Prairie Lutheran Church, 11000 Blossom Rd, Eden Prairie, MN 55347

08/04/2026

Are you cleaning out closets and shelves in anticipation of the coming school year? Are you looking for new to you curriculum, supplies, or clothes for those growing kids? Join us for a FREE Junk in the Trunk and Curriculum Swap event! Sign up to host a trunk https://calendly.com/ephrc/trunk-swap-2026. Nothing to swap? No problem! Shoppers only are always welcome.

07/18/2026

Are you a member? Consider joining HSLDA to protect your parental rights to home educate your children.
https://hslda.org/

07/04/2026

Happy 250th Birthday, America!!🇺🇲🎆🎇

"Let freedom ring!"

05/29/2026

We are at the Minnesota Association of Christian Home Educators (MACHE) Convention! Just in a different capacity this year. Come say hello and get some encouragement. We have candy! 😁

05/19/2026

New to homeschooling? Seasoned and in need of a refresh? Marnie Walden, director and founder of Esther's Place, welcomes the opportunity to be a sounding board and encouragement to you on your family's home education journey. Book your one-on-one consultation today! www.calendly.com/ephrc

One-on-One consultations take place at Ridgedale Library in Minnetonka, in the Lobelia Room, 293. We kindly ask you consider at $35 donation. Looking forward to serving you!

05/10/2026

𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓻𝓸𝓬𝓴𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓬𝓻𝓪𝓭𝓵𝓮
𝓲𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓻𝓾𝓵𝓮𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓵𝓭.
William Ross Wallace (1819-1881)

BLESSINGS on the hand of women!
Angels guard its strength and grace.
In the palace, cottage, hovel,
Oh, no matter where the place;
Would that never storms assailed it,
Rainbows ever gently curled,
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.

Infancy's the tender fountain,
Power may with beauty flow,
Mothers first to guide the streamlets,
From them souls unresting grow—
Grow on for the good or evil,
Sunshine streamed or evil hurled,
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.

Woman, how divine your mission,
Here upon our natal sod;
Keep—oh, keep the young heart open
Always to the breath of God!
All true trophies of the ages
Are from mother-love impearled,
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.

Blessings on the hand of women!
Fathers, sons, and daughters cry,
And the sacred song is mingled
With the worship in the sky—
Mingles where no tempest darkens,
Rainbows evermore are hurled;
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.

03/22/2026

Please make a point to join us if you can. Esther's Place will be there!

Join us for this important time to let our voices be heard! We will be joining Minnesotans for Health & Parental Rights!

03/06/2026

You're doing a worthy thing.

It's easy to compare ourselves to what we think school should look like. But you might be surprised at how much has changed. If you're worried you'll mess up your kids, please hear me when I say that you are doing a far better job than you think.

If you are teaching your children to read, you're not messing them up.
If you are teaching them to do math, you're not messing them up.
If you protect them from sexual predators, you're not messing them up.
If your children are growing up in a safe, loving home, you're not messing them up.
If you're not leaving them in a public school that doesn't stop bullies, you're not messing them up.
If you're giving your kids books that are safe for children to read, you're not messing them up.
If you're pointing them to Jesus, you're not messing them up.

I know from years of experience that parents who are even the least bit concerned that they're "doing it right" are the parents who are on the right track.

Government schools? Their standards are lowered every few years, and their priorities are vastly different from yours. They are not your measuring stick.

Walk the alternative path and do it boldly. You left school. Don't wish it back.