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Meet the Founders of My Father's World
Meet Marie Hazell:
Marie Hazell is a speech and language specialist with a master's degree and teaching credentials. After completing her degree, she taught in a special language kindergarten where her interest in teaching children and adapting to their various learning styles developed. Marie then taught kindergarten and first grade in a Christian school, which challenged her to develop a program that focused on both strong and weak learners, often at different levels. With her background in the educational system and then becoming the mother of six children, she realized the importance of the family in the educational process. Combining her experience and knowledge, she developed a Bible-based program for both homeschools and classrooms. Writing from her deep desire to further God's kingdom, she continues to develop curriculum that is a unique combination of her own observations, Charlotte Mason's ideas, and classical education, providing an international focus and Biblical worldview.
Meet David Hazell:
David Hazell has been involved in homeschooling since 1987, several of those years as the primary homeschooling parent. He is passionate about families serving Christ together. A strong believer in the value of home education for all ages, David is a popular speaker at homeschooling conventions, family conferences and churches across the country. He is the author of God Speaks Numanggang, a book about Bible translation, and is on the board of the Institute for Bible Translation. The Hazell family spent eight years in Russia where David served in Bible translation in Siberia and Moscow, helping coordinate Bible translations into more than 70 languages. His six children often accompanied him as he traveled throughout Russia and Europe. Today David and Marie work together developing My Father's World curriculum and encouraging families to see the world through God's eyes and live according to that knowledge.
About the Hazells:
David and Marie Hazell lived in Russia for eight years working on Bible translation. In 1992, shortly after communist walls began to fall, they moved their family to the depths of Siberia where they assisted with printing the first Scripture portion in the Evenki language. David and Marie also served in Moscow, coordinating translation projects in 70 minority languages of the former Soviet Union. The Hazells have six children. The family's move back to the United States in 2000 marked a new era in their support of international missions work. They now devote the majority of their time to developing My Father's World curriculum, focusing on a dual goal: raising up generations of families who see the world through God's eyes and live according to that knowledge, and providing support for Bible translation through God's Word for the Nations.
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