Men's Breakfast at the 2013 Family & Homeschool Conference

Men's Breakfast at the 2013 Family & Homeschool Conference 6/15/2013

by CHEK (Notes) on Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at 8:06pm

Special Speakers: Rick Boyer and Israel Wayne

Back Add to my calendar 2013 Family and Homeschool Conference - Men's Breakfast

• When 15 Jun 2013
•   8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
• Location Valley View Church, Louisville, KY 40272

Registration (depends on selected options) Base fee:

• Member - $9.00 (USD) $9-Ages 16+ and$5-Ages 6-15
• Pastor - $9.00 (USD) $9-Ages 16+ and$5-Ages 6-15
• Public - $9.00 (USD) Non-Members$9-Ages 16+ and$5-Ages 6-15

LOOKING FOR SOME FELLOWSHIP WITH LIKE-MINED MEN? Plan now to attend the Christian Home Educators of Kentucky Men’s Breakfast.  Good food, great fellowship, excellent words of encouragement. 

A MANLY MAN’S MENU! Sausage       Bacon       Fried Bologna   Scrambled Eggs Hash Browns    Sausage Gravy    Home made Biscuits   Fresh fruit        Coffee             Juice             Milk
$9 Ages 16+      $5 /ages 6 -15
Men do not have to attend the conference to attend the breakfast.
Pastors can attend the conference free, but do need to register and pay for breakfast.

 Click for directions to Valley View Church

Register here: http://www.chek.org/Events?eventId=663439&EventViewMode=EventDetails

Don't Miss Out on This Wonderful Opportunity!

Overcomers Seminar Are you struggling to overcome obstacles, the world, the flesh, the devil?? Do you have a friend or family member struggling to overcome??      Christian Home Educators of Kentucky and Home for His Glory invite you to: The Overcomers Seminar Join us on the evening of Monday, May 20, 2013 6:30 p.m. EST and end at 9:30p.m. EST at Amazing Grace Bible Church (address with directions below)       Come hear Skeet Savage, veteran homeschool mom and fervent prayer warrior as she shares with you how she has overcome. As founder of Wisdom’s Gate Ministries, she continues to serve in this ministry with her daughter, Sony Elise, and her son, Israel Wayne.       Skeet Savage has experienced suffering and hard times — and has emerged as a joyful victor against enormous odds! During this time together, Skeet will share the Biblical keys to access the power of God to redeem your life from disappointment, boredom, hopelessness, failure, and utter devastation — and restore to you the abundant life He has promised to all who believe. As you hear her unforgettable account of God’s mercy poured out on the most hopeless of situations, you will recognize the mighty hand of the Redeemer God who alone is the Mender of broken dreams, the Giver of life and hope, the One who truly can make all things new!            Come, bring a friend and join us for this inspiring event. Your spirit will be revived and your faith renewed as you hear the amazing testimony of God’s miraculous dealings in the lives of common folks. Come expecting to be challenged and CHANGED by this uplifting message! No matter what trial you’re facing, YOU CAN be an over comer!            Not only is this a wonderful message of hope to those in difficult situations, God has used this series of messages as an effective equipping message for the Church as it gives practical teaching and keen insights on how to reach out to people in difficult situations. *Amazing Grace Bible Church meets at the Calvin Presbyterian Church building.  Calvin is located just off of the Watterson Expressway (I-264) at the Brownsboro Rd exit.  Go one block west and take a left at the light onto Rudy Lane.  The church is about a half mile down on the left. The address is  2501 Rudy Lane, Louisville, KY 40207 What others have expressed after hearing Skeet speak: "A the beginning of the meeting you prayed that we would leave there knowing God better than we’d ever known Him before. That is just what happened to me. It left me hungry for more of Jesus!" We encourage you to come and bring a family member or friend! Plan for a night out and to be blessed. Sign up here:  http://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0944ADA78-skeet

AC and Garna Donahue featured Speakers at the CHEK 2013 Family & Homeschool Conference

CHEK welcomes AC and Garna Donahue!

 

AC's Sessions 

Getting It Legally Right: Kentucky's Home School Laws & Legal Update –

AC Donahue has been the long time in-state counsel for Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) and CHEK. AC will cover the minimal requirements to legally home school in Kentucky. He will also provide timely tips on how to document your progress. Finally, he will address cases that have been litigated in the last couple of years.

The Keys To A Thriving Homeschool Cooperative - Garna will share from her 13+ years of experience in starting and running a successful support group. The focus will be on equipping homeschooling families to raise up a generation of godly young men and women. 

The Long Haul: Homeschooling K Through 12 And Beyond – Having graduated two children who are presently in college, Garna will help you set goals for each child. You will also learn how to teach your child the most important of life’s lessons with confidence while leaving your sanity intact. Finally, she will provide insight into how to guide your children beyond high school into college or the workforce.

AC & Garna's Joint Session(s) -

What Every Support Group Leader Should Know: Establishing A Sound and Legal Foundation –

AC and Garna Donahue have been involved in home school leadership on many levels. AC has been the long time in-state counsel for Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) and CHEK. Garna has been the Executive Director of Cumberland Christian Home Educators (CCHE) for over 13 years. The Donahues will detail some of the basic foundations that must be established in order to run a sound and legal home school cooperative.

AC’s Bio –

AC Donahue is the Managing Attorney of Donahue Law Group. Donahue Law Group is a creditors rights law firm and has offices in both Kentucky and Ohio. Mr. Donahue has a BA in International Studies from the University of Kentucky, and a Juris Doctorate from Regent University, College of Law. Prior to college, Mr. Donahue served in the U.S. Army from 1980-87. A.C. Donahue has served as General Counsel to CHEK and as in-state counsel for HSLDA since 1996. Mr. Donahue is also an Allied Attorney with Alliance Defending Freedom. AC and his wife Garna home schooled their children through high school.

Bio – Garna Donahue graduated from Eastern Kentucky University with a Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education. Teaching has been part of her life since she was 9 years old and began helping teachers in her school. After college, she managed a large physicians’ office in Lexington and is currently the Business Manager for her husband’s law firm. She and her husband, A.C., homeschooled their oldest two children all the way through high school and both are in college doing well. They plan to homeschool their youngest son as well. Garna is the Executive Director of Cumberland Christian Home Educators (CCHE) – a large support group in south central Kentucky serving 6 counties. She has grown the organization from a handful of families to well over 100 member-families. She loves serving the group and gives God all the glory for equipping her to meet the needs of homeschoolers including her own children.

Learning to Delight in Your Children ... 3 part series from CHEK Family & Homeschool Conference Keynotes, Rick & Marilyn Boyer

 CHEK is delighted to have Rick & Marilyn Boyer as Keynote Speakers for the 2013 Family and Homeschool Conference.  We pray you will see what a blessing they are going to be to Kentucky families and homeschoolers who attend! Bring a friend this year for just a $20 suggested donation.

DELIGHT - Dictionary definition: to affect with great pleasure, to please highly. Delight is a more permanent pleasure than joy and not dependent on sudden excitement.


Part One:
 Learning to View Life From our Children’s Point of View
I have 14 children and all of them are different from one another as I’m sure your children are as well. It takes time, quality time, to get to really know your children as individuals...Read more.


Part Two:
 It was one of those things we stumbled upon not realizing it was an important principle in God’s Word and had such a lasting impact on our children. I have since started... Read more.


Part Three:
 Let me give you some concrete ideas on how to delight in your child: Read more.

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More about Rick, Marilyn and Character Concepts:

2013 CHEK Family & Homeschool Conference Registration & More

Mark your calendar:

2013 CHEK Family and Homeschool Conference

June 14-15, 2013

Valley View Church8911 3rd Street Road
Louisville, KY  40272

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Registration

For several years we have offered free conference registration to our members. This year we will continue to offer free member registration, but will also give you the option during registration to include a suggested $20 donation. We hope you will consider partnering with us in this way. If your finances do not allow, please choose the "Free" option during registration. We look forward to seeing you June 14-15 at Valley View Church in Louisville.

  

Marilyn Boyer, Speaker, 2013 CHEK Family & Homeschool Conference Session Descriptions

Marilyn Boyer and her husband Rick are true pioneers of homeschooling. Beginning in 1980, Marilyn has taught all of her 14 children from kindergarten through high school. Her passion for putting Christian character at the top of her educational priorities resulted in the creation of the Character Concepts Curriculum.

Rick Boyer Keynote Speaker CHEK 2013 Family & Homeschool Conference Main Session Topics

Rick Boyer and his wife Marilyn are among the early trailblazers of the homeschooling movement. Building on their own experience in training their own 14 children at home since 1980, Rick and Marilyn have written several popular books on homeschooling, Christian parenting and national reformation. The Boyers are also creators of Character Concepts Curriculum. Rick's books include Home Educating
with Confidence, Take Back the Land, The Socialization Trap and The Hands-on Dad. He is known to thousands of children through his "Uncle Rick: audio recordings. Learn more about his character building materials for children at Character Concepts

Excellence in Writing Workshops for the 2013 Family & Homeschool Conference June 14 & 15

 Exhibitor:
Jan Miller is a veteran home educator residing in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St.
Paul, Minnesota with her husband, Britton, and those of their eight children who are not
yet graduated. Jan has been blessed with almost two decades of experience instructing
those children in their home, during which she tried virtually every writing program on
the market. She has wide experience teaching various science classes, home
economics, history, literature, and writing in their home school, various cottage schools
with other homeschooling families, online, and in tutorial classes using (of course)
Excellence in Writing, her favorite.

Beth Ellen Nash to Host Special Needs Workshops at CHEK Family & Homeschool Conference

Cornerstone Beth Ellen Nash has her education degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has 14 years experience working with struggling learners. She was the director and lead teacher for 7 years at Hope Academy, a private school in Madison, WI until it closed in 2011 to shift toward an individualized online and homeschool hybrid option called Wings to Soar Online Academy where she is currently curriculum director and a teacher. She is the Homeschool and Special Needs Consultant for Cornerstone Learning Connections, her dad’s educational store that specializes in serving homeschoolers. Beth Ellen has tutored, assessed, and/or consulted with hundreds of families. 
She is the author of Wings to Soar: Integrated, Multisensory Language Arts with Words You Really Use. She is currently working on several additional books including Outside the Box Homeschooling, US History Alive! Outside the Box Colonial and Revolutionary War, and Science Alive! Outside the Box Learning Opportunities. www.cornerstonelearningconnections.com

CHEK Action Item: from HSLDA

Urgent Calls Needed—Congress Prepares to Tax Internet Sales Dear HSLDA Members and Friends: HSLDA President Mike Smith has been an advocate of homeschooling for more than 30 years. Read more >> Dear HSLDA Members and Friends, The U.S. Senate is preparing to vote on allowing taxation of internet sales. The vote will come as early as this afternoon. The bill is S. 743, the so-called “Marketplace Fairness Bill.” While this is not a homeschool issue, this legislation will directly affect HSLDA, as well as many homeschool families who operate home businesses and sell items online. Currently, a small business only needs to collect sales taxes in states where the business has a physical presence. The proposed Senate legislation will give the states the authority to force businesses to collect sales taxes from all online customers, even if the customer lives in a state where the small business has no physical presence. HSLDA believes that this will significantly hurt many small businesses, as well as any person who buys items online. We urge you to click here to visit Taxes Without Borders to learn more about this issue, and to also send prepared emails to your two U.S. senators and your U.S. representative. Can you imagine small businesses being required to file monthly sales tax returns in all 50 states? If you do not want to use the pre-written service above, please contact your federal elected officials and ask them to reject the Marketplace Fairness Bill and any other federal legislation which taxes internet sales. You can reach your federal officials at the Capitol Switchboard, 202-224-3121, or by typing in your ZIP code in our Legislative Toolbox. Very truly yours, J. Michael Smith, Esq. President, HSLDA Read More: Heritage Foundation: “Beware the Internet Sales Tax” Mercatus Center: “The Internet, Sales Taxes, and Tax Competition” (please note, this discusses an earlier version of the bill from 2011) Americans for Tax Reform Letter to U.S. Senate The Heritage Network: Morning Bell: “Internet Sales Tax Is a State Money Grab”			To support HSLDA’'s litigation, education and lobbying efforts, click here. Contributions or gifts to HSLDA are not tax deductible. To make a tax-deductible gift to the Homeschool Freedom Fund, which will fund litigation and educating the public about homeschooling, click here.  For more information about these two opportunities to support the work of HSLDA see the FAQ here. QUICK LINKS HSLDA Home Page Join HSLDA Members Home Page @home e-vents Homeschool Thru High School Homeschool Thru the Early Years Struggling Learners HSLDA Bookstore AP Prep Courses Join 20,000 others... The HSLDA Curriculum Market is buzzing with activity! Save money on new and used homeschooling materials, or sell your extras.
The HSLDA E-lert Service is a service of: Home School Legal Defense Association • P.O. Box 3000 • Purcellville, Virginia 20134-9000 Phone: (540) 338-5600 • Fax: (540) 338-2733 • Email: info@hslda.org Web: http://www.hslda.org

#StopCommonCore Call your Senators

Please call your two U.S. senators and urge them to stop the Common Core Curriculum

Dear HSLDA Members and Friends:

HSLDA President Mike Smith has been an advocate of homeschooling for more than 30 years. Read more >>

HSLDA strongly opposes the Common Core State Standards Initiative, and the curriculum, tests, and databases that are being created as part of this misguided attempt to nationalize our nation’s education system. You can read our recent article on the Common Core here, and our recent article on national databases here. You can watch a video interview of HSLDA’s Director of Federal Relations discussing the Common Core here.
Thankfully, Senator Chuck Grassley (Iowa) understands the problems with the Common Core, and is urging his fellow senators to oppose the federal government’s funding and support of this nationalized curriculum. He is circulating a letter to senators urging them to sign onto the letter to stop the federal government’s funding of the Common Core.
Please call your two U.S. senators and ask them to sign onto Senator Grassley’s letter to end federal funding for the Common Core. You can reach your senators at the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121, or visit this page to find your senators and to email them. Since the Common Core impacts all parents, there is no need to identify yourself as a homeschooler.
Your message can be as simple as: “Please sign onto Senator Grassley’s letter urging Congress to defund the Common Core Curriculum Standards Initiative. The federal government should not be using tax-payer dollars to pressure the states into adopting educational goals and curriculum which should be decided by local parents, teachers, and schools.”
Here is the text of Senator Grassley’s letter:

We ask that the Fiscal Year 2014 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Bill include language to restore state decision-making and accountability with respect to state academic content standards. The decision about what students should be taught and when it should be taught has enormous consequences for our children. Therefore, parents ought to have a straight line of accountability to those who are making such decisions. State legislatures, which are directly accountable to the citizens of their states, are the appropriate place for those decisions to be made, free from any pressure from the U.S. Department of Education.
While the Common Core State Standards Initiative was initially billed as a voluntary effort between states, federal incentives have clouded the picture. Current federal law makes clear that the U.S. Department of Education may not be involved in setting specific content standards or determining the content of state assessments. Nevertheless, the selection criteria designed by the U.S. Department of Education for the Race to the Top Program provided that for a state to have any chance to compete for funding, it must commit to adopting a “common set of K–12 standards” matching the description of the Common Core. The U.S. Department of Education also made adoption of “college- and career-ready standards” meeting the description of the Common Core a condition to receive a state waiver under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Race to the Top funds were also used to fund two consortiums to develop assessments aligned to the Common Core and the Department is now in the process of evaluating these assessments.
We ask that you eliminate further interference by the U.S. Department of Education with respect to state decisions on academic content standards by including the following language in the Fiscal Year 2014 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Bill:

Sec. __. (a) Funds appropriated under this Act or any prior Act shall not be used by the Secretary of Education—

(1) to directly develop, implement, or evaluate multi-State or other specified standards (defined in this section as any set of academic content standards common to multiple States, including the Common Core State Standards developed by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers, or any other specified set or type of academic content standards selected by the Secretary) or assessments aligned with such standards;
(2) to award any grant, contract, or cooperative agreement that requires or specifically authorizes the development, implementation, or evaluation of multi-State or other specified standards, or assessments aligned with such standards;
(3) to condition any award of funds to a State on the adoption of multi-State or other specified standards, or to include, as a component of an application for Federal funds, a requirement or preference related to multi-State or other specified standards; or
(4) to enforce any provision of a waiver issued by such Secretary under section 9401 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7861) related to the adoption of multi-State or other specified standards.

(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall be construed to limit the discretion of an individual State to use funds provided through a grant, contract, or cooperative agreement for any uses that are authorized under the grant, contract, or cooperative agreement, if the State so chooses.

Thank you for standing with us for liberty.
Sincerely yours,

J. Michael Smith, Esq.
President, HSLDA

Free Dyslexia Seminars by Susan Barton

http://www.dys-add.com/

   

Does your child struggle with reading and writing?   If so, you may  want to check this out.

Susan Barton will be giving a free 3-hour seminar on Dyslexia (its symptoms, tutoring that works, and classroom accommodations that are necessary) that is open to parents, teachers, and other professionals.

Cold Spring, KY

Date: Friday, April 26, 2013

Time: 6:00–9:00 pm

Place: First Baptist Church

Register: Call Barb Reilman at (859) 991-0509 or click here to sign up.

Lexington, KY

Date: Monday, April 29, 2013

Time: 6:00–9:00 pm

Place: The Lexington School

Register: Call Kimberly Hudson at (859) 899-3343 or click here to sign up.