Seminar Descriptions

Our Mission As Speakers

Encouragement is the key to success as a homeschooler. Without it, we can all grow weary...or worried! Whether it's in person, in print, or through audio, we provide the encouragement to follow the calling to homeschool. Click here to read our workshop topics and descriptions. We hope to be have the chance to encourage you!

Debbie's Seminars

Reaching Your Potential as a Homeschool Family
Though the demands of daily life tend to hold us down, there are desires in all of us to reach higher than we thought we could. Yield to the call of adventure, passion and purpose that are keys to this great movement and be amazed by the power of vision in your lives.

Building the Foundation for Success
Homeschooling is about more than academics - it's about success in life! What does it take to be truly successful in life? Determination, confidence and wisdom! What better place to cultivate all three than in our homes. Find out how to strengthen, encourage and teach your children through the doors God opens and by His grace!

Keys to a Strong Homeschool Curriculum
Just starting to homeschool, or feel like you need to make some changes? Come to hear what makes a curriculum strong educationally, effective and motivating! Learn how to maximize the opportunity you have to make a plan that is perfect for your family!

Gaining Confidence to Teach
Whether you are a newcomer to homeschooling, or a veteran of many years, this talk will encourage and refresh you. Debbie Strayer speaks with humor and honesty about the homeschooling life and the confidence available to all who feel called to home school.

Overcoming Burnout and Walking in Your Calling
Homeschoolers today face many demands and it is easy to feel that your best just isn’t good enough sometimes. Feeling burned out can happen to the most diligent and dedicated among us. Come to this seminar to find solid scriptural solutions for times of discouragement and practical steps for experiencing hope and peace in your homeschooling life.

Understanding Teaching and Learning Styles
Our goal as homeschoolers is to teach as effectively as possible, so it can be stressful when the lessons we teach aren’t understood, or our children seem frustrated. Come to this workshop to learn how to overcome obstacles that may limit your ability to teach, and your children’s ability to understand. Shared with humor and honesty, Debbie will provide tips that can help your children achieve their greatest learning success.

Reviving Your Teaching and Your Students
Homeschooling can seem like an overwhelming and exhausting task, with one of the first casualties being creativity and the joy of learning. Come hear practical ways to encourage your children and enhance their learning at the same time. These ideas are useful with any curriculum or approach, so come hear how to bring greater enjoyment and success to your homeschooling.

The Natural Approach to Teaching Thinking
Thinking skills are buzzwords in education today – everyone wants to include them in their curriculum plans! In this seminar, Debbie will explain what thinking skills are and how to incorporate strategies into daily life that will bring great results in your child’s ability to think. Include these ideas to add critical thinking to any curriculum! For Christian homeschoolers, this is a great way to prepare your children to give an account for the hope that is in them.

Language Arts that Really Communicate
Children are born with a God-given desire to communicate! In this seminar, Debbie will talk about the key areas of communication and how to develop your child’s skills in each area. As Christian homeschooling parents, we have been freed from “worldly philosophies” and are able to do what is efficient and effective. Come and learn about ways to decrease stress and increase productivity in your language arts instruction!

The Unified Approach to Tying Teaching Together
Want to teach your child how to think and learn? The unified approach is your ticket! Show your child the connections between all areas of learning paving the way for lifelong learning. You can use science, history and worldview as your base while teaching the "tool skills" of reading and writing! Come to hear how you can increase efficiency, enjoyment and interest in your homeschooling life.

Encouraging Creativity
Most people do not think of themselves as creative, yet nothing could be further from the truth! Creativity is abundantly available to us all and can be a natural part of everyday life. Listen to hear how to recognize creativity, encourage it in our children and inspire lifelong learning!

Debbie's Leadership Seminars

Debbie has had the opportunity and pleasure of participating in various support groups throughout her 16 years of homeschooling.

Giving and Receiving Grace for Leadership
While the worldly model of leadership gives advice for success, servant leadership asks us to lay the groundwork for growth. As you lead and mentor leaders, grace is important in all you do. Come to hear ways to sow and reap a harvest of grace for your group, and more importantly, your family during your season of service!

Surviving the Blessings of Leadership
Answering the call to lead requires much and sometimes the cost is high! While leadership may seem glamorous to some, those in the trenches know the truth. If God has called your family to leadership, come to hear ways to reap the blessings of laying down your life for others and meeting the needs of those most dear to you!

Leading the Next Generation of Homeschoolers
As leaders everywhere know, this generation of homeschoolers seems different from those who have come before them. While they may be different, they are also no less called than those who have gone before them are. Come hear ways to see the needs of this group and meet them with God's grace.

Mentoring the Leaders in Your Home
When you serve as a leader, your plate is full. It would be easy to overlook or put off mentoring the most accessible pool of applicants for leadership - your own children! Listen as Debbie shares ways to draw your children into your ministry of leadership, instead of requiring them to wait on the sidelines. Show your children their importance as teammates and see the fruit for the entire family!

Encouragement to Run the Race
Leaders of homeschoolers toil to serve groups both large and small all around the world. This work is not in vain though some days that may be hard to remember. As you answer the call to lead, know that you have an adversary who will resist you - but greater is He who is in you, than He who is in the world! Come hear encouragement for staying the course and doing with strength all God has called you to do!

Ashley and Debbie's Talks

It is our great pleasure to offer these seminars featuring both Debbie and Ashley together. Not only do their topics touch the hearts of listeners, but also the closeness of relationship that God has built.

Finding God's Path for Your Heart
The most important relationship choice in life begins with the relationships your child already has! Come and hear Debbie and Ashley tell the story of God's faithfulness and provision to a young woman as she sought God's path for her heart. Based on relationships with God and family, receive encouragement to walk with your young people in a way that honors God, strengthens family and gives grace for the journey!

Overcoming Learning Difficulties Together
Children love being successful, so when they aren't, how can you help. Come and listen to the personal homeschooling experiences of mother (a lifelong educator) and daughter when faced with obstacles to learning. This workshop tells how to overcome obstacles that may limit your ability to teach, and your children’s ability to understand. Shared with humor and honesty, Debbie and her daughter Ashley will provide tips, and insight from the student’s perspective that can help your children achieve their greatest learning success.

Seeing the Big Picture of Homeschooling
Perfect for parents of any age child, Debbie shares the vision, goals and challenges of home schooling through high school and on into life. Assisted by her daughter Ashley, a wife and graduate of home schooling, mother and daughter speak to issues on the hearts and minds of parents and children and bring encouragement for the journey ahead. The antidote to discouragement is hope, so come and lift your vision higher!

Gaining Confidence to Learn
In this workshop, Debbie Strayer and Ashley (Strayer) Wiggers share from their years of experience as homeschoolers and as educators and coaches of parents and children. Included are important qualities to have in your teaching, tips to help your children do their best as well as understanding of the hindrances to learning some students experience. Come to hear the teacher and student perspectives needed for success in homeschooling and life!

Ashley's Seminars

We are pleased to offer Ashley, a homeschool graduate, as a speaker. She has been mentored and trained over years of travel and speaking with her mother, with her insights deepened by the opportunities for coaching and ministry she has personally experienced. As a young married woman, she is a great encourager that homeschooling really works!

Making Geography Memorable
Teaching geography can be overwhelming for teachers and sometimes boring for students. In this workshop, Ashley Wiggers will offer helpful tips on making geography a memorable, and even fun experience. Ashley will share how to incorporate geography into everyday life and your other schooling subjects. With hands on activities and practical ideas, your children will start enjoying geography, and learning about the world, we live in!

Homeschooling through High School with Confidence
Are you struggling with teaching your high school student? Ashley Wiggers (a graduate of homeschooling) presents a down to earth talk about the faith and focus that worked in her homeschooling years. If you are need of a little encouragement and some proof that everything will work out for the best, please join Ashley for an uplifting workshop that will leave you with a new understanding of how to survive and thrive!