Faculty and Staff

Johnnie Seago

Program Director

Johnnie’s most cherished roles in her life are that of a wife, mother and educator. She is the founder and director of Parent and Child Educational Services (PACES) which for 19 years has offered educational guidance to parents and classes for students. Johnnie is a familiar keynote and conference speaker in the home schooling community and has been married to Ted for 32 years. She is the mom to nine children and the grand mommy to eight, soon to be ten. Johnnie’s book, A Wonderful Life: Faith, Sacrifice and Reason address the many roles of a Godly wife, mother and educator. She is currently completing a doctorate in education from Liberty University, holds a Masters of Education in Curriculum and Instruction and a Bachelor’s degree in writing. She also serves as the Dean of Women for the Anne Bradstreet College. Johnnie has many appearances as a guest educator on radio and television shows and enjoys addressing topics such as worldview, classical education, curriculum choices, teacher education, pedagogy and practice.

Ted Seago

Executive Director

Ted Seago has served as a dad to nine children, grand-daddy to eight and has been married to Johnnie for 32 years. He serves as the pastor of Grace Community Church in north Houston. Ted and Johnnie have home schooled six children and been active in the home education community since 1990. They own and direct PACES, a ministry to assist home educating families, and have facilitated the education of thousands of students. Ted has a masters and doctorate in education.

As the Executive Director of the Family-Directed Education Foundation, Dr. Seago assists churches in starting church schools. He serves as a Trustee of the John Witherspoon Seminary and College. Dr. Seago serves the home school community as a SETHSA board member, and the church community as an Executive Council member of the Houston Area Pastor’s Council.

JoBeth Mathis

Logic Coordinator

God has blessed me with 5 children, all home educated through high school, and four of whom have taught PACES PAideia classes. As God brought me to this point, He has given me the desire to guide our students in not only seeing events through a Christian worldview, but to also recognize that the education they are receiving is preparing them for cultural warfare. It is a great pleasure working with these students as they are continually seeing how God is being glorified and how the truth and beauty of His creation is expressed through the art, architecture, music and literature of the periods we are studying.

Becky Hogeland

Curriculum Director, Culturative History Coordinator

Melanie Golden

Elementary Coordinator

I love to teach because I love to learn. Few things delight me more than challenging a student with a question and seeing the light of understanding sweep across their face. God has allowed me the privilege of teaching all 3 of my children at home, but in reality, finding that I have in fact become the student. As each day passes, I have come to understand just how much I do not know about my God and the world He created that I live in. I long to know Christ more fully and learn to love Him with all that I am. I am convinced that God created us with minds to learn more about Him, more about the world we live in and ultimately love Him and glorify Him with and through that knowledge.

Erin Lichnovsky

Program Development

Difference makers, Influencers, Champions, Generation Joshua….all these terms are the prayer of my heart when it comes to leading my flock. God has blessed our family with six children and one on the way, and I thank Him continually for this immense calling of motherhood. I believe that Jesus knew something we often fail to realize, he had the biggest kingdom impact spending his time with the few….the twelve. It wasn’t the masses who went and changed the world….it was the twelve. Thus discipleship is the drumbeat of our teaching philosophy, both at home and at PACES. I believe that in order for our ‘arrows’ to fly straight and fly FAR, we must break up the fallow ground and nourish the soil where they grow. We set the pace at home by our own diligent study, our teachable spirits, and applying knowledge to our lives on a daily basis. Wisdom and virtue doesn’t just happen to our children, we provide an environment for them to grow and question, and reason, and wrestle with the truths in God’s word. As Johnnie teaches us, we provide a ‘safe place for honest doubt’ in the home and at PACES for our children as they seek to uncover God’s truths in relation to our world and their own lives.

Joey Lichnovsky

Science & Math Coordinator

Micah 6:8 says “He has shown you, O man, what is good, and what the Lord doth require of you, but to do justly, to love mercy, and walk humbly with your God…”

I believe that in the field of Math and Science, a quick answer is not as impressive as knowing and understanding the process. I desire to teach, train, and mentor the students God gives me to become thinkers and learn to reason through the process. The ‘How’ and the ‘Why’ is more important than knowing the answer to a problem.

I desire to be used of the Lord to influence others and impact the Kingdom of God. Discipleship is about each one teaching one after being taught by one. “For we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.” 2 Cor. 4:7

  • Julie Berzins – Assistant to the Director
  • Andrew Rodgers, Director of Technology and Systems
  • Anita Michelson, Art Coordinator
  • Christy Anderson – Bookkeeping
  • Dawn Housos – Field Trip Coordinator