Montana Home Educators Convention and Curriculum Fair
Keynote Speakers
Founder of Familyman Ministries, Dad, Writer, Conference Speaker & Pastor You can visit Familyman Ministries at www.familymanweb.com.
Todd Wilson
Todd is the author of Lies Homeschooling Moms Believe, Help! I’m Married to a Homeschooling Mom and The Official Book of Homeschooling Cartoons, vols. 1,2, & 3. He is a dad, writer, conference speaker, and former pastor. Todd’s humor and gut-honest realness have made him a favorite speaker at homeschool conventions across the country and a guest on Focus on the Family. As founder of Familyman Ministries, his passion and mission are to remind dads and moms of what’s most important through The Familyman Weekly (a weekly e-mail sent to thousands of dads), seminars, and books that encourage parents. Todd, and his wife Debbie, homeschool their eight children in northern Indiana.
Mary Hood
Nationally Known as “The Relaxed Home Schooler”
Mary believes that a “relaxed home school” develops out of the mindset that you are a family, not a school; a dad, not a principal; a mom, not a teacher; and that you have individual relationships with your children, not a classroom. This mindset helps you to stress out less over school-like expectations, and relax and enjoy your family. Mary Hood and her husband, Roy, have been homeschooling their five children since the early 1980s. The older children have successfully made the transition to college and adult life. Mary has a Ph.D. in education, and is a nationally-known speaker and the author of such books as The Relaxed Home School, The Joyful Home Schooler, and The Enthusiastic Home Schooler.
Founder of Communicators for Christ, Nationally Featured Seminar Speaker and Author
Teresa Moon
Mrs. Teresa Moon graduated with Master of Arts degrees in Curriculum/Instruction and Administration and has worked in public, private and home education institutions for nearly 27 years. As an educator, she became aware of a growing problem: Today’s youth receive little or no training in basic communication skills. Moreover, she realized that even Christian students lacked the ability to articulate truth effectively. Now, as founder of Communicators for Christ, she lives out the CFC mission to “coach cultural communicators.” While she is a nationally featured seminar speaker, author, and founder of CFC, her favorite title remains Mom to her two sons Wendell (college senior & film maker) & Devin (studying abroad).
Rick Jore
Business Owner, Legislator
Rick Jore is uncompromisingly committed to the fact that our rights come from God and that the purpose of civil government is to secure those rights, truths which are clearly recognized in the Declaration of Independence. He is firmly committed to the God-given right and responsibility of parents to train and educate their children and recognizes that this authority is granted by God to parents, not to the civil government. Montana Representative Jore is Chairman of the House Education Committee. Rick resides with Nancy, his beautiful wife of 32 years in Ronan, MT where he was born & raised, and where they own and operate Westslope Trout Company. They have 4 daughters and one son, all of whom were schooled at home. They also are blessed with 9 beautiful grandchildren who are also being home educated.