25th Year Celebration Convention
(you do not need to be a CHEO member to attend)
 will be held at:
Veterans Memorial Hall
  300 West Broad Street
Columbus, Ohio

 June 25-27, 2009

Rick & Marilyn Boyer, Featured Speakers for Family Discipleship Conference

2009 Keynote Speakers will be...

Andrew Pudewa

Andrew Pudewa, Director
Institute for Excellence in Writing

We are pleased to welcome Andrew Pudewa as our Keynote Speaker for our 25th Anniversary Convention! He is the director of the Institute for Excellence in Writing and a homeschooling father of seven. Presenting throughout North America, he addresses issues relating to teaching, writing, thinking, spelling, and music with clarity, insight, practical experience, and humor. His seminars for parents, students and teachers have helped transform many a reluctant writer and have equipped educators with powerful tools to dramatically improve students' skills.

Although he is a graduate of the Talent Education Institute in Japan and holds a Certificate of Child Brain Development from the Institute for the Achievement of Human Potential in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, his best endorsement is from a young Alaskan boy who called him "the funny man with the wonderful words." He and his beautiful, heroic wife Robin currently teach their four youngest children at home in Atascadero, California.

Andrew was interviewed by homeschool.com and gives not only a little about the program, but also a little of his background. You can listen to the interview (one hour) at http://www.audioacrobat.com/play/WZlV3tSs

CHEO welcome Phil Downer as our Keynote Speaker for the 25th Anniversary Celebration Convention! 

We are thrilled and privileged to serve you in our common desire to be more Christ-like in our marriage, family, church, work, and reaching others in a gentle and yet bold way with the love of Jesus Christ. God has called us to do this through Discipleship Network of America, ( DNA Ministries), a network of people committed to reaching and discipling others, serving pastors, church and denominational leaders, men's ministries, the homeschool community, and individuals ministering in their homes and at work.

We do not know where we would be if God had not reached us in the despair and pain of our broken marriage, the pressures of business, the crisis in relationships, the horror remaining from combat as a Marine machine gunner, and given us a purpose in our family, a biblical context for ambition and success, and tools and practical paths to follow in nurturing and discipling our six children and reaching others the way we were reached.

Because Christ reached us through godly and committed people, strategically placed in our lives, we are committed to spend our remaining days, not only doing the same with others, but assisting like-minded people, in addition to pastors and leaders, to be life multipliers. The theme of our ministry is Winning and Discipling People to Become Disciple Makers. Our product, with God's help, is spiritual reproduction in the lives of others who will pursue lifetime discipleship.

Now, in Discipleship Network of America, which we founded on the twins 14th birthday on February 14, 2001 , we continue with the same focus and passion with which God called us over 20 years ago, to go into all the world to make disciples. Matthew 28:19.

God has been gracious to us in His molding, pruning, and expanding, through the loss of loved ones, jobs, and expectations, through which we have seen His hand in a mighty way, turn suffering into significant growth and meaning.

Because we have lived out His ministry first as a husband and wife and then as parents, our marriage and family has not only been the crucible for life change, but has also been the medium through which we honestly, practically, and transparently share in a biblical context, life's challenges, joys, tears, failures, blessings, and eternally significant relationships and events that we trust will encourage you, equip you, free and release you to more completely be one of His special and dear life-changing disciples.  

Dianne Craft, Featured Speaker

CHEO welcomes Dianne Craft to our 25th Anniversary Convention. Dianne is a former homeschool mom who has 25 years’ experience teaching children who struggle with learning. She received her bachelor’s degree in Special Education from St. Cloud State University and her master’s degree in Special Education from the University of Northern Colorado. She is also a Certified Natural Health Professional. Discovering the reason for children’s struggles with learning and behavior has long been a passion of Dianne’s. Some children struggle because of a “glitch” in the processing of information (sometimes referred to as a learning disability). Others are affected by ADD/ADHD, dyslexia, sensory integration issues, autism, Asperger’s syndrome, Down syndrome, and Turner’s syndrome. Dianne approaches these problems in a unique way, applying the latest brain research as well as expertise in the biochemical factors that contribute to children’s behavioral, attention, and learning struggles. In 1988, Dianne created the Brain Integration Therapy for Children workshop for parents, educators, psychologists, speech therapists, and occupational therapists. In 1993 she began teaching these life-changing concepts directly to parents in her private consultation practice, so they could work with their children at home to remove learning blocks. Since 1997 Dianne has been working as an educational diagnostician and homeschool consultant in her private practice, Child Diagnostics, Inc., in Denver, Colorado. Dianne is the author of the Brain Integration Therapy Manual and the Right Brain Phonics Reading Book. She has also produced an audio tape series, “The Biology of Behavior,” the Teaching Your Right Brain Child video, the video series “Understanding and Helping the Struggling Learner,” and other teaching tools that make learning easier for children. Dianne lives in Denver, Colorado, with her husband Ron, a CPA.