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Longtime homeschool advocate and defender Chris Klicka died today. Klicka had suffered from multiple sclerosis for over a decade, and leaves behind wife Tracy and seven children. He was 48 years old.
Chris Klicka was a longtime employee for the Homeschool Legal Defense Association, working to ensure the rights of parents to homeschool all over the globe. He was the first director of the HSLDA and helped homeschoolers through that organization for 24 years.
“Chris’s accomplishments as a lawyer for homeschooling are clear and of value that cannot be overstated. He was one of the most important pioneers of our movement,” says HSLDA Chairman Mike Farris. “He believed that this truly is God’s way to teach children to love God. He believed it deeply. His conviction was infectious. He was a man of single-hearted devotion that I have never, ever seen equaled. The passion that Chris felt for the mission to which God called him never, ever, ever, ever dimmed, even slightly.”
Klicka's church has set up a tax deductible benevolence fund for his family. Donations may be made to:
Grace Community Church
Benevolence Fund
19420 Golf Vista Plaza, Suite 220
Lansdowne, VA 20176
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Praying for his family! It's such a tragic loss for the homeschooling community as well, in this day and age when parental rights and homeschooling are under attack world-wide and more and more in the US as well.
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