Speakers
Dr. Voddie Baucham
Voddie Baucham has been referred to as an “Evangelist to intellectuals.” He is one of the most sought-after preachers of his generation. His unique blend of sound biblical exposition, theological content, down-to-earth demeanor and engaging presence make it clear why this man is considered a modern day prophet.
Dr. Baucham is a graduate of Southwestern and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminaries. He has also done additional post-graduate study at the University of Oxford in England. He is a Bible teacher, professor, church planter, and an elder in a local church. He currently serves as the Pastor of Preaching at Grace Family Baptist Church in Houston, Texas. More importantly, he is a husband and father who is actively involved in his children’s home education.
Geoffrey Botkin
Geoffrey Botkin is a Christian leader and mentor to pastors in New Zealand, a nation that holds promise for the reformation of Christian civilization. Since his conversion three decades ago in the United States, Geoffrey has been occupied with the difficult ecclesiological arguments of modern Evangelicalism. He believes Western Protestantism can and will benefit from reforms that re-integrate the family into local church life. He has served as senior pastor of a 150-year old American church and has guided the formation of several new, family-integrated churches. He has dealt with the unique challenges of young churches made up exclusively with refugees from contemporary churches as well as churches of new, “unchurched” believers.
Geoffrey is currently traveling in the United States with his wife Victoria and seven children. He has lectured on philosophy and history at Hillsdale College, on politics at the Heritage Foundation, on film at the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival, and on theology at worldview conferences in the U.S. and New Zealand.
Geoffrey is the father of Anna Sophia and Elizabeth Botkin, recent co-authors of Vision Forum’s best-selling book, So Much More, a book which is reintroducing the West to concepts of multigenerational family fruitfulness and the ways daughters can become cultural leaders by becoming dynamic assets of family and church.
Scott Brown
Scott T. Brown is the director of the National Center for Family Integrated Churches and elder at Hope Baptist Church in Wake Forest, North Carolina. Scott graduated from California State University in Fullerton in History and received a Master of Divinity from Talbot School of Theology. 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.
William Einwechter
William Einwechter (Th.M.) is an ordained minister and an elder at Immanuel Free Reformed Church in Ephrata, Pennsylvania. He is vice president of the National Reform Association and editor of The Christian Statesman. He is also the author of Ethics and God’s Law, English Bible Translations, and A Conquering Faith, and the editor of the book, Explicitly Christian Politics. His essays and articles have appeared in Chalcedon Report, The Christian
Statesman, and Patriarch. He and his wife, Linda, are the homeschooling parents of ten children.
Don Hart, Esq.
Don is a devoted husband, father, attorney, and faithful board member for Vision Forum Ministries. Don is blessed to serve as an elder in a family integrated assembly where he enjoys the distinct pleasure of worshiping and ministering with a number of dear and faithful families, including his father and mother who passed to him a legacy of faithfulness to God, church, and family. Don’s efforts as a church leader and attorney are directed toward encouraging and promoting the return of the church and the Christian family to their biblical foundations for the glory of God. Don resides in the Austin, Texas area with his loving wife D’Ann and their five children whom they are privileged to educate at home.
Wade Myers
Wade became a Christian in his mid-thirties when he finally submitted to the lordship of Christ after pursuing his own selfish agenda for many years. As a first-generation Christian, he has come to understand his role as family leader with the responsibility of building a firm biblical foundation for his family’s future generations in order that they may live out their lives in a more excellent way. Recently, he was blessed with the experience of assisting with the planting of a new family-integrated church in the Dallas area where he and his family worship with several other like-minded families that are all part of this new and wonderful work.
Arnold Pent
Arnold Pent is author of Ten P’s in a Pod, written during his late teen years recounting the unusual life he shared with a family of ten members traveling around the U.S. in the 1950s and ’60s singing, quoting Scripture, and playing instruments. The book was republished forty-five years later by Vision Forum. One of Arnold Pent’s passions is passing on the vision God gave him as a young man to become an entrepreneur and train his children both in knowledge of the Word of God and to serve the Lord in ministry and business. Another passion is to encourage the memorizing of Scripture by chapters and books with families working together, sharing with each other what they have memorized thereby multiplying the effect for each family member. Arnold and Esther, married thirty-six years, are parents of three sons, a daughter, and grandparents to five grandchildren. They are members of a small country church near their farm in Virginia.
Douglas W. Phillips
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. He is the author/editor of Robert Louis Dabney: The Prophet Speaks; Poems for Patriarchs; The Birkenhead Drill; The Letters & Lessons of Teddy Roosevelt for His Sons. His writings have appeared in numerous publications including WORLD, Acts and Facts, The Houston Chronicle, Education Reporter, Quit You Like Men, The Home School Court Report, The Teaching Home, Home School Digest, Home Schooling Today, Citizen Magazine, and Patriarch magazine. 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 and his wife, Beall, live with their seven children, Joshua, Justice, Liberty, Jubilee, Faith Evangeline, Honor, and new arrival Providence, in San Antonio, Texas.
Jeff Pollard
By God’s grace Jeff Pollard was converted to Jesus Christ from a career in rock music in the early 1980s. Though religious from his youth, his true conversion at age thirty brought him to understand and then to preach God’s sovereign grace. God’s Spirit and Word awakened him to his responsibilities as husband and father as well as to God’s vision for families. He and his wife Myra home-schooled their children, Lacey, and Jordan. After years of conducting home and campus Bible studies, street and prison ministries, and interim pastoral work, he pastored
Providence Baptist Church in Ball, Louisiana, for seven years. Jeff is now an elder of Mt. Zion Bible Church, Pensacola, Florida, the home of Chapel Library, which is a literature and tape ministry dedicated to reprinting Christ-centered literature from great authors and preachers of the past and distributing it free of charge. He is the editor of the Free Grace Broadcaster and author of Christian Modesty and the Public Undressing of America and Do You Know Jesus Christ?
Alexander Strauch
Alexander Strauch was raised in New Jersey and converted to Christ at a Bible camp in New York State. He received his undergraduate degree from Colorado Christian University and went on to earn his Master’s in Divinity degree from Denver Seminary. For over thirty years he has served as an elder at Littleton Bible Chapel near Denver, Colorado. Additionally, he has taught philosophy and New Testament literature at Colorado Christian University. A gifted Bible teacher and popular speaker, Mr. Strauch has helped thousands of churches worldwide through his expository, writing ministry. He is the author of Biblical Eldership, The New Testament Deacon, Men and Women: Equal Yet Different, The Hospitality Commands, Agape Leadership (with Robert L. Peterson), and Meetings That Work. Mr. Strauch and his wife, Marilyn, reside in Littleton, Colorado, near their four adult daughters.
Kevin Swanson
Kevin Swanson is the author of two books, The Second Mayflower and Upgrade: The Ten Secrets to the Best Education for Your Child. He has worked in radio and television media for twenty-two years and now hosts a daily radio program networked across western states and the Web, called “Generations with Kevin Swanson.” With a vision toward biblical reformation of education and all of culture, Kevin serves as a pastor of Reformation Church in Castle Rock and as executive director of Christian Home Educators of Colorado. Kevin and his wife, Brenda, home school five children in their home on the eastern plains of Colorado.