Most parents want a successful education for their children. With this assumption in mind, Kevin presents a powerful presentation that uncovers the ten secrets to a successful education and training for your child. They are time tested. They are the rock bottom principles that are basic to all education. And they affirm the homeschool vision. It's not a one-size-fits-all education. In fact, one of these ten principles is the Principle of Individuality, which requires a different model for each home and child. This impacting presentation will give the first time homeschooler confidence and vision. It will also provide encouragement and a reality check for the experienced homeschooler.

We thought we were just bringing desks into our home, but it ended up changing our lives and our worldview. In fact, it changed our world! That's the testimony Kevin brings to this moving presentation of three generations and 35 years in the homeschooling movement. It's a story about relationships, about maximizing our God-given potential, and making a powerful impact on our world for Christ. It was more than homeschooling. It was life God's way, that we found.

Maintaining the freedom to home educate in Oregon has required constant vigilance. Hear the stories of the faithfulness of God throughout the years as homeschool parents have fought to protect their right to homeschool their children.

Sometimes it is hard to see beyond the drudgery of our day to day homeschooling regimen. There is more to homeschooling than meets the eye. Is God preparing to use the homeschooling in a powerful way to transform our families, churches, and culture? We will look at the trends within the movement, and the exciting developments that are coming in the future of this movement. This message will lift you up and help you to see where you are going. It is a vital message for the entire homeschooling movement. People do not quit homeschooling for lack of curriculum, they quit for lack of vision.

Lures abound to sidetrack homeschooling parents. One is the fast-growing nationwide promise of “free,” state-run, “home” school programs to “help” you educate your children. Dr. Ray will challenge you to consider the paramount importance of who should be in authority over what is taught to the minds and hearts of children. Related to tax-funded programs, there are (1) subtle and negative practical consequences of enrolling your children in them, (2) serious problems from the perspective of a liberty-loving republic such as the United States, and (3) contradictions to a biblical worldview that demands parents and private associations be the main educators of children. Dr. Ray is convinced this is one of the most urgent issues with which homeschoolers should grapple during the next several years.

Today most people think that education is to train a child for a good paying and satisfying job. Is that how we as home educators ought to view education? We have already taken the quirky road of non-conformity by teaching our children at home. Ought we consider something so outrageously daring as to become traditionalists? For thousands of years, until modern 20th century man became “enlightened,” education primarily had one goal in mind. Come find out what that goal was. This foundation of education must be solid in order to have an ordered, civilized person and society. Come learn how to be a trend setter by pursuing traditionalism.

This workshop contemplates the unique qualities that God has given boys and presents a challenge that every parent of a boy needs to hear. The message is especially practical for the homeschooling family that struggles with high energy, young boys. It will leave you with a new vision for raising godly sons. This is a much-needed presentation to homeschoolers, many of whom struggle with what to do with boys in the home.