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States We Plan To Visit Soon

IL – IN – KY – MN – MO – NC – OH – SC – TN – VA – WV

SEPTEMBER 2011

September 18-21
Alliance of Christian Home Education Leaders
Roach, Missouri

September 21-24
HSLDA National Leaders’ Conference
Branson, Missouri

This is our general planned itinerary for September 2011. If you live somewhere along this route (we’re known to make significant detours sometimes) and you’d like us to speak to your homeschool group, church, or other organization (or even group of friends) for FREE, why not drop us a line and let us see if we can work something out? Use the contact form at the very bottom of this page. Check out this page to learn more.

Raising Real Men has been named Christian Small Publishers 2011 Book of the Year!!

We can hardly believe it ourselves, but it’s true! Won’t you come celebrate with us at our first ever Facebook Party tonight at 8pm EST?

All you have to do is go to the Raising Real Men Facebook Page, login to Facebook, “Like” the page, and join the fun!

Hal and Melanie will be there the whole time to answer your questions and enjoy your fellowship and so will quite a few special guests we’ve invited!

We’ve also got some party favors (freebies) planned, and a whole host of giveaways! Including items from:

• Daniel Forster of Doorposts is going to let a winner have Their Choice of any one book in their For Boys Section!
• Joe & Teresa Wirtz of Lighthouse Productions (formerly Home 4 School Gear) is giving away a Petri Dish & Agar Experiment Kit and a boss Owl Pellet Kit!
• Joan Rudder of Visual Psalms is offering one of their gorgeous prints!
• Candace Allgood of SONbeams is donating a copy of both The Get It All package of their Let’s Learn preschool curriculum and ABC Bible Memory Verse Songs in the download forms. Wow!
• Diane Hurst of Gentle Shepherd is giving away four copies of My Alphabet and Number Pictures!
• Chautona Havig is giving away a complete set of her Wynnewood series of novels set in Medieval England!
• Felice Gerwitz of Media Angels is giving away a complete set of the Truth Seekers mystery novels!
• Nancy Sasser of Savory Favors is going to customize five free Hershey’s bars for a blessed winner! 
• Catherine Jaime of Creative Learning Connection is donating a copy of York Proceeded On and Leonardo the Florentine! See our review of York here and Leonardo here.
• Kate Estes of Hands and Hearts is donating a 25% gift certificate to her wonderful store of history kits and more! And check out the party favor below!
• Lisa Hogden of Me and My House Ministries is giving away a Freedom & Simplicity of Lifestyle Education through Discipleship (Biblical home ed) Seminar (downloadable OR LIVE, if they want to come to North Platte, NE on the 28th!) And see the Party Favor below!
• Marie Rippel of All About Spelling will give away a complete “All About Spelling Level 1″ plus a Deluxe Interactive Kit. This is everything that you need to teach Level 1 of their spelling program. This is a $79.90 value!
• Sybil Lane of Baby Signs will donate a Baby Signs Complete Starter Kit! And see below for their favor!
• Anita Mellot is going to giveaway a copy of her soon-to-be-released new devotional book, School Is Where the Home Is: 180 Devotions for Parents
• Chris of Teach with Games is giving away three sets of Printable Games!
• Brooke McGlothlin is giving away a copy of her great new book Warrior Prayers: Praying the Word for Boys in the Areas They Need it Most
• Dan & Deb Deffinbaugh of Timberdoodle are donating a copy of Naked Eggs and Flying Potatoes: Unforgettable Experiments that Make Science Fun!
• Terri Johnson of Knowledge Quest is giving away a copy of Map Trek! We loved this resource!

And wow! Harvey & Laurie Bluedorn of Trivium Pursuit are offering us a wonderful collection of their fantastic resources! Highly recommended stuff here!

• 4 copies of Teaching the Trivium: Christian Homeschooling in a Classical Style by Harvey and Laurie Bluedorn On Sale this Week!
• 4 copies of The Fallacy Detective by Nathaniel Bluedorn and Hans Bluedorn – Our guys loved this!
• 4 copies of The Thinking Toolbox by Nathaniel Bluedorn and Hans Bluedorn
• 4 copies of Bless the Lord by Johannah Bluedorn Stanford

Why don’t you head over to their Teaching with the Trivium Facebook Page and “Like” it as a thank you?

Party Favors

Everyone who gets there before they run out gets the Party Favors! Show up at our Facebook Page at 8-10pm to get these treats!

Kim Kautzer of WriteShop is joining the celebration by offering 50 World of Sports StoryBuilders for just $1 ($7.95 value) tonight for 1 hr ONLY (8-9 pm EDT) for the first fifty attendees of our Facebook Party to sign up!

Kate Estes of Hands and Hearts is giving everyone who attends a 15% off coupon!! How wonderful!!

Lisa Hogden of Me and My House Ministries is giving us ALL her Freedom & Simplicity™ for Homeschool Conventions (ebook). Good through this weekend (May 15th!)

Sybil Lane of Baby Signs will offer a 15% discount to Party goers!

Laurie Neumann of the Christian Home Business Connection is giving away a copy of Lessons from the Proverbs 31 Woman for Homeschoolers to everyone!

We are going to offer a wonderful discount on our summer LIVE webinar series for parents wanting to get geared up for the teen years – BootCamp 9-12! You’ll have to come to the party to see how much!

Keep checking back for more!

Join us tomorrow for a brand new session for teens and their parents: Do Real Things! Fight back against the culture of low expectations and start impacting the world for Christ right now!

Sign up for the Expo here!

Check out our great deals for Expo attendees here!

You can hear Hal and Melanie live on 92.3 “The Eagle”, WETX-FM, bright and early Monday morning! We’ll be guests on “OutCast Radio” with Don Campbell in the 7:00 to 7:30 am segment and you can listen online here!

Hal and Melanie are featured speakers this weekend!