ARCHIVED THEME · 2023–2024 · Founding Year
Home Education
A Timeless Approach
We are the Body of Christ, and we need each other.
CHECH began with a simple conviction: home education is not new, and it does not need to be reinvented. It needs to be supported. In its first year, CHECH set out to connect families across greater Houston through personal, social, spiritual, and professional formation — not as separate programs, but as one common effort, rooted in the Church, to help each home become what it was always meant to be.
A vision of the whole person
Catholic education was never meant to stop at facts. From its first year, CHECH held to a wider aim: forming the whole person, mind and soul together.
“Catholic education aims not only to communicate facts, but also to transmit a coherent, comprehensive vision of life.”
POPE ST. JOHN PAUL II
THE YEAR IN REVIEW
Where it began
A look back at CHECH's first year gathering families across Houston in 2023–2024
VOICES FROM THE YEAR
"We are the Body of Christ. And we need each other, the best of each other."
FROM THE 2024 CHECH FOUNDING CONFERENCE
“House management is really personal management, and home education is the business of managing and growing persons.”
Kimberly Hahn, conference speaker
“Family has always been linked to education — like the midwife who draws forth, the mother who nourishes, the tutor who trains.”
Dominic Aquila, conference speaker
FROM THE ARCHIVE · HOW THE FIRST CONFERENCE CLOSED
A prayer to CHECH's patroness
Our Lady of the Pillar, first of the apparitions, pray for us.
Our Lady of the Pillar, basis of holy culture, pray for us.
Our Lady of the Pillar, who pondered all the good in her heart, pray for us.
Our Lady of the Pillar, patron saint of Houston Catholic homeschooling families, pray for us.
A foundation was laid
The following year, that foundation opened into wonder — and CHECH published its first Showcase Magazine.
Visit An Invitation to Wonder