About the Event

This conference was held at the request of families in Georgia who invited the Botkin family to address pressing issues unique to the Bible Belt. Good churches seem to be compromising with cultural trends, becoming more like the world rather than making disciples and conforming the world to the Word of God. Many families were being made to feel uncomfortable in these churches because parents wanted to find and pursue higher standards for their family that the churches were willing to endorse. Many of these families want to build a spiritual foundation that can stand the pressures of growing anti-Christian hostility in the broader American culture. They don’t want to lose their children to the media, the public school, the sports culture, or the entertainment-centered youth group. At the February conference, many intelligent questions were asked about parenting, church planting and the future of the home education movement. Parents with older children brought their entire families and asked questions about marriage, courtship, vocation, college, and what families look like when they work together, pray together and get into the “culture wars” together. Fathers demonstrated a mature and eager desire to lead more decisively with a multi-generational vision. Permanent friendships were forged at that conference. Many of those friendships are bearing fruit not just in Georgia, but all across the nation.