Speakers

Douglas W. Phillips, Esq.

Doug Phillips is the director of Vision Forum Ministries, a discipleship and training ministry that emphasizes Christian apologetics, worldview training, multi-generational faithfulness, and creative solutions whereby fathers can play a maximum role in family discipleship. A constitutional attorney, Doug served with the Home School Legal Defense Association for six years. He serves as adjunct professor of apologetics for the Institute for Creation Research, and co-authored the book, Weapons of Our Warfare with ICR’s president Dr. John Morris. A strong advocate of mentorship, Doug has taught from his home intensive college-level, independent courses on apologetics, law, theology, and government to home school students and graduates. Doug helped to start Boerne Christian Assembly in San Antonio, which emphasizes family-integrated worship, where he serves as a teaching elder. Doug and his wife, Beall, live with their seven children, Joshua, Justice, Liberty, Jubilee, Faith Evangeline, Honor and new arrival Providence Mather, in San Antonio, Texas.

Scott Brown

Scott T. Brown enjoys launching companies and is currently involved in commercial properties, real estate development, the automobile business, cattle, and ministry. He is the director of the National Center for Family Integrated Churches and elder at Hope Baptist Church in Wake Forest, North Carolina. He graduated from California State University in Fullerton in History and received a Master of Divinity from Talbot School of Theology, financed partly by a custom furniture and cabinet business he operated out of his father’s garage. He gives most of his time to local pastoral ministry, conferences on fatherhood, church reformation, and strengthening the family. He has been married to Deborah for twenty-four years and they have four children ages twenty-one, eighteen, fourteen, and eleven.

Kelly Brown

Kelly Brown is a nineteen year old North Carolinian who finished her high school education last year. Now she spends her time teaching writing classes to groups of home schoolers, playing the flute and piano, and pursuing theological studies.

Kelly’s passion for writing comes from her desire to pass on the knowledge of God’s goodness and sovereignty through words on paper. She is currently finishing her first book on the life of her grandfather during World War II and is now working on a second entitled, ” What’s a Girl to Do ” to encourage young women to keep faith in God’s appointed role for their lives, and how to resist being distracted from it.

Kelly’s favorite way to spend her time though, is at home; encouraging her mother and father in their ministry of re-building the family. She loves being with her brother and sisters, growing with them every day in learning more of God’s grace in their lives. By learning from her mother, she is preparing herself now, for someday having children of her own, and serving as a “helpmeet” for a husband.

One of her desires is to encourage a vision for biblical womanhood in the young ladies around her; helping girls to understand the beauty of following God’s original design for their lives. “The time is now,” says Kelly.

Anna Sofia Botkin

Anna Sofia Botkin is the oldest daughter of Geoffrey and Victoria Botkin. Since she was a little girl, she has been studying as her mother’s apprentice and her father’s ambassador. She is grateful for what her father taught her about what it means to be an arrow in her father’s hand, while living under his roof. She loves helping her family in their ministry of hospitality and attributes the most important part of her education to the interesting discussions around the famous Botkin dinner table. Since she and her sister began writing So Much More, she has come to more fully appreciate her duties as a daughter and sister, and the remarkable influence of visionary daughters on the Kingdom of God.

Elizabeth Botkin

Elizabeth Botkin has the privilege of assisting Geoffrey Botkin in his lifework. She finds her identity among her beloved father, her wonderful mother, Victoria, her sister and her five brothers, and finds her stimulation and adventure in helping them on reformation projects affecting family, church and state. Through the grace of God, she has been learning over the years how to submit her will to her father and channel her interests into avenues that further his vision. She and her sister serve their father through their interests in film making, orchestral harp, history, music theory and composition, theology, studying speech and deportment, the reconstruction of the West, hospitality, classical piano, the persecuted church, and home-making. A perfect case study of a born rebel turned devoted daughter, she learns more each year about the practical side of helping a father become a great man.

Jim Zes

Jim Zes is husband to his helpmeet, Kathleen, for almost twenty-nine years, and father to their three daughters, Sarah (27), Rebekah (24), and Hannah (21). He graduated with a B.S. in education from the University of Missouri - Columbia. For almost three decades he has enjoyed being a self-employed businessman in construction and the managing of rental properties. He co-founded Lex Rex Publishing, which published their first book, In the Name of God, Amen. Jim helped establish Reformation Christian Assembly in his hometown of St. Louis, Missouri, where he currently serves as teaching elder.

Sarah Zes

Sarah Zes has the blessing of being the eldest daughter of James and Kathleen, and finds her mission in serving them and advancing their vision. Her energy is employed in this task, as she aids her father in spreading the message of Biblical family renewal through tapes and books, as well as through hospitality. Not home educated until her last two years of high school, Sarah is so thankful to the Lord Jesus Christ for the refining journey He has taken her on from ‘Christian feminism’ and a career mindset to one of joyful submission and obedience to the calling He has given women to be keepers at home for His glory.

Rebekah Zes

Rebekah Zes joyfully serves her father in their home while refining her homemaking skills under the guidance of her mother and alongside the companionship of her sisters. She began her home education journey when she was 14 years of age, and finished her formal education in 1999, though she continues to study and learn on her own at home under the direction of her father. She is very grateful to the Lord for the change that He has wrought in her life, heart, and thinking, and is endeavoring to live for His glory consistent with the Truth of the Scriptures as He continues to reveal it to her.

Hannah Zes

Hannah Zes finds the greatest delight and contentment in being a young lady in her father’s house. Aside from reading, she takes pleasure in using her hands, whether it is sketching or designing at her drafting table, writing, decorating, cooking, sewing, or working in her garden. In seeking to glorify the King of Kings, Hannah’s greatest mission as a daughter of the king of her home is to further him in his ministries and to serve her mother by applying her skills to the productivity and beauty of their household as she prepares herself for establishment in her own marriage someday.