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Home Educators of New Brunswick Ltd.

BYLAWS

The name of this organization shall be Home Educators of New Brunswick Ltd., hereinafter referred to as "HENB", a company granted Letters Patent pursuant to the Companies Act, R.S.N.B. 1973 c. C-13.

HENB is a Christian organization, serving home educators and local support groups in the Province of New Brunswick (hereinafter "NB") regardless of religious affiliation and providing particular support to Christians dedicated to observing the Biblical commands of Deuteronomy 6:4-10, Proverbs 22:6, and Ephesians 6:4. HENB promotes home education as the Scriptural design for education whereas institutional education is the alternative to the home. The members believe that every family has the God-given legal and constitutional right to home educate in NB, regardless of their philosophy of education or religious affiliation. HENB is not a church, nor is it meant to replace the ministry of the local church to the home education family.

HENB is organized for the purpose of serving all home educators and all local support groups in NB, particularly providing service and support to Christian home education support groups within NB, including but not limited to the following ways:

1. By aiding in the creation and growth of Christian home education support groups throughout NB.
2. By providing information regarding the political and legal climate of home education in NB and Canada by:
   
   • 2.1 encouraging home education families to seek appropriate counsel;
     
   • 2.2 monitoring and advising the NB Department of Education and other appropriate officials; and
   • 2.3 monitoring relevant cases before provincial and federal courts.
3. By doing whatever is necessary and biblically defensible to protect the future freedoms of home education in NB and in Canada.
4. By promoting the advantages of home education to the general public.
5. By promoting sound, high-quality home education programs to parents or legal guardians for the purpose of developing Christ-like character, and which will satisfy the spiritual, intellectual, physical and emotional growth needs of their children
6. By reviewing and disseminating home education materials and information considered vital to home educators, thus serving as a resource to parents desiring to educate their children in the home.
7. By publishing a provincial newsletter.
8. By planning and conducting an annual provincial home education convention and other educational opportunities designed to provide information and training that will help parents and others involved with or interested in home education.
9. By supporting accurate home education research.
10. By establishing and maintaining contact with home education advocates, researchers, and associations.
11. By implementing whatever other programs or services in the future as may be deemed necessary by the membership of HENB.

We Believe:

1. The Bible to be the inspired and infallible Word of God and constitutes completed and final revelation. The Bible, in its original autograph, is without error in whole and in part: including theological concepts as well as geographical and historical details. The Bible is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. We believe the Bible is the final authority in all matters.
2. God has existed from all eternity in three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ was God come in human flesh being fully God and fully man except without sin.
3. All men are in violation of God's righteous requirements and His holy character both by nature and act, and are therefore under His wrath and just condemnation. The central purpose for the coming of Jesus Christ was to pay the penalty for man's sin through His substitutionary death on the cross - the successful accomplishment of which was attested to by His subsequent visible, bodily resurrection.
4. Salvation is offered as a gift, free to the sinner. This gift must be responded to in individual faith, not trusting in any personal works whatsoever, but the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ alone.

Section 1:     Family
•We believe that the family is the basic governmental, social, and spiritual unit created by God. In it, the child learns self-government, social relationships and develops a relationship to the Creator and Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, according to John 3:5 and 16, Ephesians 6:1, and Colossians 3:20.

• We understand "family" to mean a male and female parent, legally married (Genesis 1:26-28), although we recognize the exceptions of a single parent, adopted, foster, and step children (James 1:27). We believe this "family" to be the best provider of long term nurture and instruction needed by children and commanded by God (Proverbs 1:8-9, 2:1-11; Colossians 3:21; and Ephesians 6:4).

• We believe the Bible never endorses homosexual marriages or homosexual orientation (Romans 1:18-32). Neither do we believe the Bible ever endorses transitory, co-habitational relationships.

Section 2:     Education
• We believe that the ultimate responsibility for the education of children belongs to parents (Deuteronomy 4:9, 6:1-25, and 4:1-3). Thus, we believe this is an inalienable right given by God which the state cannot create, destroy, or alter. Parents may allow another to teach some of the cognitive information that children need to know, but all education must be under the ultimate control and supervision of the parents.

• We believe education in the home to be the best form of education, but we recognize that many parents cannot educate at home for valid reasons and support the right of parents to send their children to private Christian schools. We further recognize that because of economic or other reasons a member parent or guardian may have no other alternative but to place a child in a public school.

• We believe that there is no neutral academic discipline and that all education is religious in nature since one's view of the world and life is inevitably involved in teaching (Proverbs 2:1-8 and 3:1-2 with 6:20-23; and Matthew 28:18-20).

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