Lewises passing love of homeschooling, health care sharing on to their sons

Frank and Kari Lewis of Home School Enrichment Magazine have passed on to their two sons not only a love of homeschooling but a commitment to health care sharing as well.

The entire Lewis family, including Matthew and Jonathan, were part of the early development of Samaritan Ministries, managing mailings and marketing databases for founder and President Ted Pittenger.

The Lewises met Ted at a homeschool event when the boys were teenagers. Not long after, the whole family started working for Samaritan, soon becoming members themselves.

“It was a way Christians could help other Christians,” Frank says.

Kari says health care sharing is a way for the Church to take back what was its responsibility in the first place: helping to take care of people in need.

“From a practical sense, too, it is more affordable than insurance,” Kari says. “And I do like the fact that people are praying and that we have the opportunity to pray for people.”

“And it works,” Frank adds.

Joining Samaritan after seeing it work for their parents over the years was an obvious choice for Matthew and Jonathan when they started their own families. They have received help from Samaritan members with expenses for the births of their children and for other needs.

“There wasn’t another option that was nearly as good,” Matthew says. “We knew how it worked from both the inside and the outside.”

“I believed in the concept,” Jonathan says. “It’s definitely more budget-friendly for a young family than some high-priced insurance program.”

Before they were married, Jonathan’s fiancée was hesitant about joining Samaritan. Insurance seemed safer and more guaranteed. Those concerns, however, didn’t last.

“It can be a little bit of a shift,” Jonathan says. “But in the time since then, we had the baby and she saw how it worked. It definitely is something she is very much on board with now. She likes to send out the notes.”

The Lewises all also appreciate the ease of the need sharing process.

“You don’t have to think through anything,” Kari says. “When you have a need, they send you everything.”

“It’s the easiest paperwork I can imagine for something like this,” Matthew says.