This last weekend, Vision Forum was grateful for the opportunity to be represented at the Arlington Home School Book Fair in Texas (with 5,000 in attendance), at the Christian Homeschool Association of Pennsylvania conference (7,000 persons strong), and at the Georgia Home Education Association (5,500 in attendance — up dramatically from past years) where I keynoted. The wonderful news is that Christian home education remains, hands-down, the fastest growing and most inluential educational movement in America.

This year’s GHEA state home school conference included a graduation with more than two thousand people in attendance.

This year, I brought a message to the graduates and attendees which addressed a biblical vision for godly dominion and culture. The Lord was also kind to give opportunities to present messages on how sons and daughters can honor mothers and fathers, how wives can bless (even visionless) husbands, and how fathers can communicate vision and leadership in their family’s home education program.

My soon-to-be-twelve-year-old son Joshua is not only a most able personal assistant to me, but an absolute delight as a son and companion.

Two years ago, Vision Forum graduated from our internship a very impressive, godly, and principled young man named Nathanial Darnell. He and his able brother Joseph have not only started a top-notch film company called Valor Visual Media, but have already produced a significant film (carried by Vision Forum) called Remember Alabama. Joseph is pictured above helping to run the filming of the GHEA conference.

When on the road, we are always delighted to see our good friends. One of the more impressive home school family businesses we see on the road is Rhino Technologies, run and managed by the Mark Reinhardt family. Their daughter Hannah has been a special blessing to my children for many years.

Ken Patterson, the accomplished leader of GHEA, has been assisting or leading the state home school conference every year since 1988. This year, he retires. Georgia Christians owe Ken a debt of gratitude for his many years of service in presenting a conference with speakers committed to a distinctively biblical vision of education.