Speakers

Randy Sims

Randy Sims, executive director of Worldview Academy, has trained Christian students and adults in camps and ministries for almost 30 years. He has served as a leadership staff member with Kanakuk Kamps, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and T Bar M Sports Camp. As executive director of Worldview Academy, Randy is responsible for the leadership training of 5,000 students and adults each year. He is the author of The Greatest Among You, a student’s guide to servant leadership. Randy’s work has afforded him the opportunity to lead chapel services for both college and professional sports teams, and to participate with the Billy Graham Crusade as a platform speaker. Randy lives with his wife, Amy, and their four children in Texas.

www.worldview.org

Zan Tyler

Zan Tyler and husband, Joe, homeschooled their three children from kindergarten through high school, for a total of 21 years. When Zan began homeschooling in 1984, she was threatened with jail by the South Carolina State Superintendent of Education. Zan founded the South Carolina Association of Independent Home Schools in 1990 and served as its president for 10 years. In 1987, she was honored as the South Carolina Homemaker of the Year. The governor of South Carolina awarded Zan the Order of the Palmetto in 1998, the highest honor a civilian can receive. Zan formerly served as the National Grassroots Director for ParentalRights.org. Zan is the president of Apologia Press and Apologia Educational Ministries.

www.apologia.com

Vicki Bentley

Vicki Bentley, the mother of eight daughters, foster mom of over fifty since 1985, and grandma to fifteen wonderful grandbabies (so far) has homeschooled 17 children over the last 20+ years, alongside her husband Jim. She served for fourteen years as leader of her local support group of over 250 families, and has written Home Education 101: A Mentoring Program for New Homeschoolers, as well as other materials to help families. She has served on the executive board of the Home Educators Association of Virginia and has addressed state and national conventions, university teacher organizations, and many mothers’ groups; she currently serves as HSLDA’s Early Years consultant and Group Services director. Vicki has a heart for moms, with strong practical wisdom and encouraging words

www.hslda.org www.everydayhomemaking.com

Kevin Swanson

Kevin Swanson, who was homeschooled himself in the 1960s and 70s, now homeschools his five children with his wife, Brenda. Since graduating from his homeschool and then serving as student body president of a large west coast university, he has gone on to other leadership positions in corporate management, church, and other non-profits. Kevin has 35 years of experience in the homeschooling movement and serves as the director of Generations with Vision, a ministry he founded to strengthen homeschool families around the country. As a father who wants to leave a godly heritage for his own five children, Kevin’s passion is to strengthen and encourage the homeschooling movement all over the world, and to cast a vision for generations to come. For the last seven years Kevin has hosted a daily radio program –Generations Radio