Groupon

My brothers and I have had the opportunity to have some pretty neat adventures…my Mom has found a way for us to learn new skills and to have some diverse experiences that don’t break the bank. She checks her Groupon app for “Today’s Daily Deal” and can get receive huge discounts for things she knows we’ll like to do. For instance, in a few months we’ll learn how to scuba dive, attend a performance of the Nutcracker and create a photo book from the pictures we took from our Florida trip.

Check it out for yourself-membership is free!

 

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New Blog Record….Post-A-Day

There are 30 posts for the month of November 2010 which establishes a new record for the GTC Blog.

One reason why I have been posting so frequently is I’ve downloaded the Windows Live Tools which included the ultra-handy Windows Live Writer. I can just drag and drop photos from my computer, type in some text, add a video to YouTube and publish the post-all without having to sign in or open up a web browser. At this point the steps to adding more content to the blog is very streamlined.

Another reason why I’ve been posting so often is because I finally purchased a new digital camera! I had lost my old camera a few months ago and had to borrow my brother’s camera to take photos. This new camera is also quite an upgrade compared to my $85-$115 I used for the past few years. It is a Canon Powershot SX130IS and is known as a power-zoom camera with a 12x optical zoom. I really like the size of it because I carry it in my pocket 95% of the time we leave the house.

Anyways, thank you to everyone who follows this blog-it kind of surprises me that anyone would actually care what we do day-by-day, but the main purpose for this blog isn’t for the public to read anyways. The reason why we have a family blog is for us to have a journal of what our family has done and been through.

Agenda & Divided

This weekend we had the opportunity to watch two documentaries from this year’s SAICFF. They were both very good and we’re planning on showing them to family and friends who might be interested in them. On Thanksgiving we watched Divided with the Brewer family and it was on the break down of the family through age-segregated youth ministry.

AGENDA

When Idaho legislator Curtis Bowers wrote a “Letter to the Editor” about the drastic changes in America’s culture, it became the feature story on the evening news, people protested at the capitol, and for weeks the local newspapers were filled with responses.

He realized then that he’d hit on something.

Ask almost anyone and you will hear, “Communism is dead! The Berlin wall came down.” But although the word “communism” has fallen out of favor, Marxism continues to have a powerful influence upon our nation, as this new film quickly reveals. Join Bowers for a fascinating look at the people and groups that have successfully targeted America’s morality and freedom in their effort to grind America down.

It’s a well-documented agenda.

 

 

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DIVIDED

Is Age Segregation Ministry Multiplying or Dividing the church?

Divided follows filmmaker Philip Leclerc on a revealing journey as he seeks answers to what has happened to today’s Christian youth. Philip speaks to kids in local youth groups, interviews national youth ministry leaders, and finally meets with a growing number of pastors and elders who are abandoning the age-segregated Sunday school and youth ministry model and embracing instead the perfect ministry model God’s Word prescribes.

Two-thirds of young people are going to leave the Church. That's a shocking statistic. —Ken Ham

It's time to get past the denial phase. —Kevin Swanson

 

 

Divided from NCFIC on Vimeo

2010 CHEF Conference

We just returned from the 2010 Missouri CHEF (Christian Home Educators Fellowship) Conference. This year's speakers were absolutely fantastic and included Dr. Paul Jehle, Kevin Swanson, Bill Potter, Ken Ham and Dr. Marshall Foster.

The topics presented at the conference were so broad that it would be very limiting to call this event a just a typical "Homeschool" Conference. This year's speakers taught on Creation/Evolution, Church History, Military History, Homeschooling and Family Discipleship, Culture-Changing, Economics, Mentoring, God's Providence, Constitutional Law, Mathematics in relation to the Trinity, Interposition and College Solutions. The hard part about a conference with this caliber of speakers is deciding which lectures you'll have to miss and which ones you will attend. Obviously we had to buy a CDs for all of them!
Some of the speakers that we particularly enjoyed (because they are a blast to watch in person) were Kevin Swanson and Dr. Paul Jehle. Dr. Jehle taught some great lectures about America's founding, her founding charters, the coalition between the jurisdictions of government and interposition as described in the Constitution.
It is always great to visit with friends that you don't get to see too often, but it was also fun to "hang out" with a family from our church, the Baileys who also attended the conference.
Despite this fantastic panel of speakers we were a little bit disappointed with the amount of people that attended. The conference is very affordable in comparison with similar conferences, yet there weren't nearly enough attendees. We hope that more people will attend this conference when they come to realization that this conference is about much more than just homeschooling, so that even if their children are grown or if they don't even have any children they will still come and learn to from some of the nation's best teachers.


Thus far next year's speakers include: Doug Phillips, Dr. Voddie Bachuam, Bill Potter and Herb Titus and to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the War Between the States the 2011 conference will be Civil War-themed. Hope to see you there! For more information you can visit: http://www.chef-missouri.com/