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Our emphasis at the Midwinter Convention is on living books this year! 

Inspire the joy of reading living books!

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 

Christy Sensenig ~ Discovery Toys Educational Consultant

Edamar ~ Science KitBooks

HSLDA ~ Home School Legal Defense Association (Pending final confirmation)

Homeschool Psych ~ Preparing Christian Homeschool Students for Psych 101

Homeschooling Today Magazine

Cathy Hyatt ~ Caterer Extraordinaire 

John Wesley College ~  High Point NC (Pending Final Confirmation)

Living Books Library ~ Abingdon VA

Milligan College ~ Elizabethton, TN 

Miss Emily's Bakery ~ Purveyor of Fine Baked Goods 

NETHEA ~ North East Tennessee Home  Education Association

Sonlight Curriculum ~ Anna Krug  

Steve Sensenig ~ Worship Keys

The Old Schoolhouse Magazine

The Time Ministry ~ Elizabeth Franklin

Books Bloom

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!

Liz & Emily Cottrill - Living Books Library

NETHEA - North East Tennessee Home Education Association

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.
 

Lisa Baughn ~ The Prudent Wife

The Prudent Wife is a 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!!

Miss Emily’s Bakery (Purveyor of Delicious Baked Goods) 

Homeschooled entrepreneur Miss Emily's delectable bakery items are back again by popular demand. Stop by The Prudent Wife booth, to see what the prudent daughter has whipped up in her sparkling clean kitchen. Using the finest ingredients like real creamery butter, pure vanilla and organic coffee, Miss Emily has been baking away to spoil the Midwinter moms! Her famous Triple Chocolate Espresso Cake is back, in a light and a not so light version, along with a buttery rich Cinnamon Bundt Cake and much more. Can you imagine for a moment the decadence of getting a delicious treat, that you do not have to share with any of your beloved kids, as you stroll through the book aisles!

Blue Mountain IT Solutions

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 Curriculum  

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.

Edamar ~ Science KitBooks

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.” 

WORSHIP KEYS 

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.

The Old Schoolhouse Magazine

The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine is for homeschooling families everywhere. Our magazine is like a convention in a journal! It doesn't stereotype homeschooling families or even homeschooling itself. Whether you have one child or ten, whether you are just at the beginning of your journey or are nearing the finish line, you'll find something in our magazine that encourages you!

Christy Sensenig ~ DISCOVERY TOYS® 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.

HSLDA - Home School Legal Defense Association

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.

Homeschool Psych

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.

Homeschooling Today Magazine

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

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 College 

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. 

The Time Ministry

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.

 More book sellers and vendors coming soon!

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most
accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."
~Charles W. Eliot