About Bob and Tina Farewell
Bob and Tina Farewell married in 1979 and began home educating with the birth of the first of their five children in 1983. Though they planned to do “school at home,” God intervened by rapidly growing their business, Lifetime Books and Gifts, allowing their family to enjoy a lifestyle of learning and to travel, explore, read, think, and discover. Bob and Tina pursue four main goals for their family: the love of Christ, the love of family and others, the love of learning, and creating a multigenerational vision.
Since 1989 the Farewells have traveled around the United States for at least six months each year speaking to thousands of families and hosting retreats, conferences, and workshops. For years they published the Lifetime Treasures and Lifetime Entrepreneurs e-newsletters as well as numerous audio and printed resources for families, including the widely acclaimed Always Incomplete Resource Guide.
After eighteen years of successful business and ministry, the Farewells are mentoring the Gus and Shirley Solis family to continue the Lifetime legacy as they move forward with their calling and mission as speakers in the homeschool world and in other venues. They recently founded Bringing Dads Home, a business and ministry designed to help families succeed in their entrepreneurial adventures.
Bob is passionate not only about his wife Tina, but about being in the woods, working with his hands, traveling, hunting, and fishing with his children; and about public speaking on many subjects.
Tina loves experiencing life with her husband, reading aloud to their children, collecting great books for their huge family library, and her morning cup of coffee with Bob. She delights in sharing the trials and joys of being a woman, wife, and mother with other women, helping them realize how simple and enjoyable life with their husbands and children can be.
Bob and Tina have five children, three of whom are still learning at home—Joseph, Rebecca, and James. Eric continues his entrepreneurial journey in Tennessee. In 2001 they had the privilege of welcoming their new son Joseph Bennett into their family through the courtship and marriage of their oldest daughter Elizabeth.
The Farewell family lives in a renovated old home at beautiful Chalet Suzanne, their family’s country inn, in Lake Wales, Florida.
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