Explore the treasures of Living Books at the Midwinter Convention 2008! Books Bloom ~ Jan and Gary Bloom Purveyers of the best Living Books Lisa Baughn ~ The Prudent Wife Blue Mountain IT Solutions Discovery Ice Cream Christy Sensenig, Discovery Toys Educational Consultant Edamar ~ Science KitBooks Hands On! Regional Museum HSLDA ~ Home School Legal Defense Association Homeschool Psych ~ Preparing Christian Homeschool Students for Psych 101 Homeschooling Today Magazine John Wesley College ~ High Point NC (Pending Final Confirmation) Living Books Library ~ Abingdon VA Milligan College ~ Elizabethton, TN Northeast State Technical Community College ~ Blountville, TN NETHEA ~ North East Tennessee Home Education Association Sonlight Curriculum ~ Anna Krug Steve Sensenig ~ Worship Keys The Old Schoolhouse Magazine The Time Ministry ~ Elizabeth Franklin Tri-Cities Homeschool Bands
It is a delightful treat to browse through the enormous Books Bloom bookstore with Jan and Gary Bloom, and their selection of 4000-5000 of the best living books! There are bookshelves FULL of favorites - they have an amazing selection of homeschool favorites, classics, all sorts of Christian books, children's books, and the best living books from yesteryear all neatly organized! It is like going into a great library full of fascinating, safe books, literature that whisks you away to different times and places. You can actually pull out old favorites to share with your kids, books that you loved as a child. One can spend hours perusing the shelves, lost in memories of great books read, and selecting new ones to share as a family. Plenty of read aloud treasures to be found by all, you will be amazed at the Books Bloom traveling library, all for sale!
Living Books Library (The BEST private library for Homeschoolers!)
Liz and Emily Cottrill of Living Books Library in Abingdon, VA, will have descriptions and information about their library, and its services including home education consultating, informational seminars and book repair. Emily writes the "Understanding the Arts" column in Homeschooling Today. They will display many curriculum options including Five in a Row and TruthQuest History, which utilize living books. Living Books Library will also have some great living books for sale, proceeds go to support the library. Watch for the Living Books Library website, coming soon!
 NETHEA advocates to preserve and defend the rights of homeschooling parents and creates a regional network of support, encouragement, and assistance to homeschooling families throughout the seven counties of northeast Tennessee. We will be taking new / renewal applications at the convention.
The Prudent Wife is Lisa Baughn's new website based on the prudent wife of scripture. Enjoy the healthy recipe archives with fabulous food, strategies for incorporating maximum nutrition leading to vibrant health, how to create restaurant favorites at home, natural alternatives and women's health, simplicity, homekeeping, decorating on a dime, seasonal ideas, a Prudent Wife Bible Study & more! You will learn the concepts of creating your own prudent journey and how to save time, money and sanity in your home as you go GREEN, saving $$ and the environment while honoring the Lord with your homekeeping and living on ONE income!!
 Dave Baughn of Blue Mountain IT Solutions has worked tirelessly to create the Midwinter Convention Website for 2008 and take care of all technical issues! Blue Mountain I.T. Solutions (BMITS) mission is to ensure that your business has the most efficient and secure network environment for day to day operations. We provide a complete solution package, customized to fit your unique company, whether you are a new startup or an established business looking for assistance with your network. Your success is our # 1 goal.
Sonlight is a literature based curriculum. Create a lifelong love for learning through great books. Enjoy outstanding literature that your family will want to read over and over in years to come. Equip students to know how to think, not just memorize facts, uilding family bonds and memories..We have materials for preschoolers through high school with all subjects available, including enrichment/electives.
What do you get when you combine the practical learning power of a hands-on science kit with the theory of a textbook? A KitBook! EDAMAR, Inc.’s newly released Electric Circuits KitBook is now available for public, private, and homeschool students. KitBooks are a patented new teaching/learning tool. KitBooks are totally self-contained, are maintenance free, and meet state and national science education standards. All parts for hands-on activities are included and exercises are performed on specially designed pages within the KitBook. Once your students try a KitBook you’ll see why at EDAMAR, Inc. our motto is “Hands on, Minds engaged.”
Discovery Ice Cream  Discovery Ice Cream , LLC began in 2006 when two friends - Allan Jones and Jack Rutledge (both homeschooling fathers) - founded the company. Discovery Ice Cream’s distinctives are numerous. Discovery Ice Cream is the family ice cream store – focused on becoming a connecting place for families. Discovery Ice Cream got started after the founders conceptualized a robotic ice cream machine where kids could design their own treat and watch a robot make it (one of the first uses of robotics in the consumer space in the world). Now, two years later, the company is well on its way. The prototype store is at 231 Broad Street in Kingsport, TN. Discovery Ice Cream features Ice Cream Robots, hard ice cream (made on the premises and visible to the patrons), coffee and espresso-based drinks and “Cool Beans and Cream” the very interesting menu of coffee and ice cream combinations. Discovery Ice Cream plans to begin franchising in the south beginning April 2008. Stop by for information if you’d like!
For most of his life, Steve has been involved in music ministry at some level. As you will discover in the biographical information about Steve on the his About page, this has resulted in a wide variety of opportunities and experiences. But when all of that is stripped away, what remains is a heart that loves to worship God, and hands that express that worship through intimate piano music.
Brain Teasers, Wood Puzzles and More! Finely crafted wooden puzzles & brain teasers, fantastic for building spatial skills, problem solving, and more. They are good, quality products and very reasonably priced. Young people love these puzzles, brain teasers & games, although the age range is truly from 5 - 105! Our brain teasers are for all ages and are for all ages and professions, from the analytical computer person & engineer, to the math teacher who loves to challenge their student in developing problem solving skills in a fun way. They also help to increase focus and concentration, and it improves fine motor skills.
Christy Sensenig Educational Consultant DISCOVERY TOYS® products are more than just toys! Every one of our products delivers a ton of fun AND builds up the foundation for future learning success and achievement. We offer an array of products that support the development of a variety of skills for balanced learning, and our products grow with your child.
Home School Legal Defense Association is a nonprofit advocacy organization established to defend and advance the constitutional right of parents to direct the education of their children and to protect family freedoms. Through annual memberships, HSLDA is tens of thousands of families united in service together, providing a strong voice when and where needed.
Psychology is one of the most controversial and divisive academic subjects among Christians today. If you have never considered introductory psychology, your Christian worldview, and homeschooling in the same thought, do it now. Ask yourself if psychology has a place alongside biology, chemistry, and physics in your
homeschool and consider how psychology fits (if it fits at all) with your Christian worldview.
The work of Homeschooling Today magazine is focused and specific. Our commitment to bring the homeschool community useful information and resources is supported by a Biblical conviction that God uses families to change the world.
John Wesley College, an independent Christian college, endeavors to develop the whole person through Bible-based education for worldwide service in the church and society.
 Milligan is a flourishing liberal arts college with a distinctively different approach to higher education. Everything we do -- in the classroom, in the dorm room, or on the athletic field -- encourages students to reflect on what it means to be called to lives of service. Few institutions hold Milligan's conviction to mold both mind and spirit, to develop servant leaders to engage the culture for Christ.
 emerged from my own personal brush with death in 1984 and the lifestyle changes that came from that experience. It is a guide to help balance all the areas of your life in order to live each day as if it could be your last.
Northeast State Technical Community College is a public comprehensive community college with technical education and college transfer programs. The school strives to tailor its programs and services to meet the special needs of a diverse student body that numbers more than 5,000. Northeast State offers associate degrees in more than 50 programs of study, which can be transferred to a number of local and regional four-year colleges and universities. The school also offers associate of applied science degrees in more than 30 programs of study, such as business management, nursing, computer science, criminal justice, and office administration technology that prepare students for immediate entry into the workplace. In addition, Northeast State offers academic and technical certificates in more than a dozen areas of study. Northeast State also offers a large program in continuing education and professional development courses. These programs help students update and hone work skills and aid companies with workforce development. Northeast State offers courses at its main campus in Blountville and at teaching sites in Elizabethton, Gray, and Kingsport. Classes are available during the day or night, and some are offered on weekends. In addition, Northeast State offers a variety of online and alternative delivery courses. For more information, call 1-800-836-7822 or visit www.northeaststate.edu.
College Preparation Resources is committed to preparing Christian young people to be twenty-first century world changers, to be salt and light. In Daniel 1:17-21 we see that young Daniel is a prisoner. He also is the King's most trusted advisor. Daniel is in Babylon -- but he is no Babylonian. God is using Babylon to make Daniel more effective for Him. The college experience for many of our children represents a time of training in Babylon. It is a time to take a stand for Him in an alien culture. For Such a Time as This produces and sells academically rigourous Classical Christian High School Materials for the college bound student. Our materials are designed to help students think critically about the world and their participation in it. Our integrated Literature and History curriculum allows the student to engage in the great ideas that have shaped our world. Phone: 276-628-3436
Tricities Homeschool BandsThe Tricities Homeschool Bands is a group of homeschooled students and parents that rehearses on Friday afternoons at Crossroad Christian Church in Gray. Now in its fourth year, the Band has expanded to four separate bands: advanced, intermediate, beginning and jazz band. The band currently has openings for students or parents with experience on a band instrument and the jazz band is in need of bass guitar and acoustic guitar players. The beginning band will take new students in the fall of 2008. All students must be nine years old or older to play in the band. Also offered in conjunction with the band is a recorder/music class for students seven years or older. The band performs a Christmas, Spring and Pops Concert during the school year, and takes smaller groups for nursing home concerts during the summer. There are also opportunities for the students to perform solos and/or ensembles at a recital and a local solo/ensemble festival. The cost is $50/semester for students. For information contact Juli Hensley at
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Hands On! Regional Museum At Hands On! Regional Museum you can take a slide down the Katie Ellen Coal Mine or fly a real airplane... but this is just the beginning! Become a pioneer, an explorer, or an inventor, ready to find new places and experience new things, like science, the world around us and technology. Understand tidal pools and the mysteries of the sea. Shop at the Kindermart, make a deposit at KidsBank, and create a masterpiece in the Art Studio! Lights, Camera, Action... become an anchor or forecast the weather on WKID-TV. And understand what makes your body work, in Amazing Me. Ever changing daily programs, interactive exhibits, outreach programs, and festivals are designed for all ages to enjoy. Discover, explore, and create to make learning fun, all in one great place...
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