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Last Book Fair's Featured Speakers

These were the speakers for the General Workshops at the 2010 Home School Book Fair. Speakers for the 2011 Home School Book Fair will be posted in January.

Ken Ham
Answers in Genesis

Ken Ham, founder of Answers in Genesis (AiG) and the high-tech Creation Museum near the Cincinnati Airport, is one of the most in-demand Christian speakers in North America. A native Australian now residing near Cincinnati, Ken is the author of many books on Genesis, the accuracy and authority of the Bible, dinosaurs, and the destructive fruits of evolutionary thinking. He makes frequent guest appearances on Fox, CNN, ABC and BBC radio and TV to name a few. Ken hosts the daily radio program, “Answers … with Ken Ham,” heard on more than 800 stations in America and is one of the editors and contributing authors for AiG’s Answers magazine. www.answersingenesis.org

   
Tim & Lyndsay Lambert
Texas Home School Coalition


Tim Lambert, president of the Texas Home School Coalition, and his wife Lyndsay, have been leaders in the Texas home school movement for more than twenty years. They began as local home school leaders in the Lubbock area before Tim assumed leadership of the Texas Home School Coalition in 1990. They travel tirelessly around the state, encouraging home school families and training support group leaders. Tim also lobbies in Austin, having built strong working relationships with Texas state legislators and governmental agencies so as to protect the rights of parents to home school their children. The Lamberts have four grown children (including twins) whom they home schooled. www.thsc.org

   
Zan Tyler
Apologia Educational Ministries

Zan Tyler and her husband Joe homeschooled each of their three children from kindergarten through high school, for a total of 21 years. In 1990 they founded the South Carolina Association of Independent Home Schools, Zan serving as its president for the first 10 years. When Zan began homeschooling in 1984, she was threatened with jail by South Carolina authorities. Since that time, Zan has been a tireless advocate, lobbyist, political strategist, and media spokesperson for homeschooling. In 1987 she was honored as the South Carolina Homemaker of the Year. It is her heart's desire to encourage women in the area of marriage and motherhood as well. www.apologia.com

   
Rosie Watson
Center for Home Education

Rosie Watson is a home school mother of three grown children and has been teaching for over 25 years. As a featured convention speaker and author, Rosie brings home schoolers a wealth of knowledge and experience and a powerful message of inspiration. She is the founder and director of the Center for Home Education in NE Fort Worth, a home school haven that encompasses a curriculum store, learning center, performing arts theatre and coffee house. Rosie is a licensed facilitator for the Career Coaching for Students workshops, which provide home school students with the tools they need to discover their God-given purpose. Rosie is also the author of the writing program, The Wonder of Words. www.centerforhomeeducation.com

   
Todd Wilson
Familyman Ministries

Todd Wilson, author, speaker, and former pastor is the founder of Familyman Ministries. His passion is to remind dads and moms of what's most important through a weekly e-mail for dads, seminars, and books of encouragement, such as Lies Homeschooling Moms Believe, Help! I'm Married to a Homeschooling Mom and the Official Book of Homeschooling Cartoons. Todd's humor and gut honesty have made him a favorite speaker across the country and a guest on Focus on the Family. Together with wife Debbie, they homeschool their eight children (almost nine) in as they travel around America in the Familyman Mobile.www.familymanweb.com