Life Together
Morning Time for Moms Summer Discipleship Course with Cindy Rollins**
Morning Time for Moms Summer Discipleship
- 30 Day Reading Schedule
- Two Zoom meetings a week (one for teaching/one for book discussion)
- Facebook or Canvas group interactions
- Weekly overview video
- Recitation Sharing Days Adults and/or Children
Guest Speakers
This year’s speakers will be:
- Querida Thompson
- Jason Baxter
- Dawn Duran
- Cindy Rollins
What We Explore
- Poetry
- Bible
- Music
- Books
- Art
What we'll cover
Poetry
Diary of an Old Soul
by George MacDonald
Weekly Poetry to be announced
Bible
Proverbs 1-31
Books
by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
The Comedy of Errors (Read and acted together each Friday)
by William Shakespeare
Music
Children’s Classical Selections
Peter and the Wolf
Hansel and Gretel
Weekly hymns TBA
Weekly folk songs TBA
Art
Norman Rockwell
Hi! I’m Cindy – an author, encourager, and a mom.
I homeschooled nine children for over 30 years using Charlotte Mason’s timeless ideas. As I gathered my family for Morning Time on a regular basis, I realized that the routine had become a regular practice & pattern that carried love and life to my children. The things I discovered in Morning Time were the very best things, and those things have proven to endure in their hearts as well as mine.
Over five weeks, we’ll build community together with Morning Time (a regular gathering focused on remembering – Scripture, songs, poetry, works of music, art & stories). As I like to say, community is something we build while we’re doing other things. While we’re doing the work of learning, growing & being a part of one another’s lives, a community grows with a shared common culture.
I hope that while we’re together we can see one another in different seasons of our lives, be an example to one another and help one another, hold one another as we adapt to change as women.
I look forward to a great time of discipleship with you this summer!
How it works
When you join:
- I will add you to the class email list.
- You will be invited to both our Facebook page (makes discussion and interaction very easy) & Canvas for non-Facebook users.
In a couple weeks:
- You will receive our 30 Day Reading List and other goodies.
- On June 9th, we will begin our reading plan and interact on the platforms daily with new poems and lots of chances for discussion.
During the 5 weeks:
- Every Tuesday, we will have a teaching time on Zoom with a guest speaker or myself.
- On Fridays, we will often have Zoom meetings to discuss our readings for the week.
- The Zoom sessions will be available afterwards for those who can’t make it until at least September 2025.
- Guest Speakers include: Querida Thompson, Jason Baxter & Dawn Duran.
Guest Speakers
Jason Baxter
June 17, 2025 @ 3pm ET
Jason Baxter is a speaker, author and college professor. In his books and on his Substack (Beauty Matters), he writes about Dante, C.S. Lewis, and the relevance of ancient and medieval beauty for our digital world. He serves as the Director for the Center for Beauty and Culture at Benedictine College.
Dawn Duran
June 24, 2025 @ 3pm ET
Dawn is a physical therapist by training and a wife and mother by vocation. She has been home educating her sons, currently in 8th and 11th grades, using the Charlotte Mason philosophy “since the beginning.” She feels blessed to have encountered Charlotte Mason when her children were toddlers, and has immersed herself in Mason’s wisdom ever since.
For several years Dawn enjoyed leading local students in the study of Plutarch and Shakespeare as part of the Friday Feast group. She is the creator of Swedish Drill Revisited and author of the book A Reasoned Patriotism: Critical Thinking and Civic Duty in an Age of Polarization. She writes for The Discerning Home Educator and co-hosts The New Mason Jar podcast with Cindy Rollins.
Querida Thompson
July 1, 2025 @ 3pm ET
Querida Thompson began her musical training at the age of 12 after receiving a full year scholarship for private lessons with Paul Dornion at the Mount Royal Academy in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She received her Bachelor of Music degree in Performance from the University of British Columbia with honors, studying with Wesley Foster, and completed her Artist Diploma degree with high distinction from McGill University under the direction of Michael Dumouchel. During her studies she has worked with such prominent musicians as James Campbell, Charles Neidich, David Shifrin, and Eduard Brunner.
Querida has performed in an orchestral setting in New Zealand, Australia, Tazmania, England, Scotland, Norway as well as Canada, under such distinguished conductors as Bramwell Tovey, Sidney Harth, Christopher Adey, Victor Yampolsky, Victor Feldbrill, and Kazuyoshi Akiyama.
As a soloist she has performed in Calgary, Vancouver and Montreal. Querida has performed extensively as a chamber musician for such venues as Charlottesville’s Music on Park Street as well as the Salon Series; the Vancouver Art Gallery, Calgary’s Glenbow Museum, Edmonton’s “Next Fest,” Montreal’s Christ Church Cathedral, and Vancouver’s “Friends of Chamber Music” competition where her ensemble’s performance of Prokofiev’s Sextet won first prize.
Querida currently teaches for the music departments at Wayne Community College as well as Piedmont Virginia Community College and is also an active homeschool educator. For over twenty years, she has shared her passion and enthusiasm for music with students in a variety of settings—everywhere from the college classroom to homeschool co-ops to homeschooling her own daughter. Over a lifetime, Querida has become a great believer that anyone can appreciate music if they have ears to hear and it is her privilege to help guide people in that quest.
See you this summer!
Painting: The Gleaners by Jean-François Millet