Indiana Trip - Day 2

On Wednesday, the second day of our trip, we started out eating breakfast at the Damings. Then, while Daddy and Mr. Brown worked, Anthony, Nathaniel, Stephen and I played around their house. We rode bikes, crossed their creek and played games in their gym. Then we went by Mr. Daming's office, where he keeps his equipment for the excavating business, and picked up an excavator and dropped it off at a house that he was going to knock down. We ate lunch at Taco Bell, and Daddy had lunch with one of his employees who lives in Indiana.

In the afternoon we went back to the house that Mr. Daming was going to knock down. We walked through it, and the owner of the house, Mr. Daming's friend, wanted to keep some of the doorknobs, so we helped him take them of. Then we started ripping the house down with the excavator. It was really fun! The excavator is so powerful that if you were good at driving it, you could probably rip a house down in ten minutes. Stephen and I both got to operate it. Here are some pictures:

Stephen is the one operating the excavator in this picture

Me driving

David knocking down the chimney

After we knocked down most of the house, we left for Indianapolis where the conference was. The dinner at the conference was very good. We saw a lot of people that we already knew. After dinner, we heard two speakers, Mr. Voddie Baucham and Kevin Swanson. They were good messages, but I will talk about the conference more in the next post.

How the Church can Stengthen the Family Conference

This past weekend we had a NCFIC conference at our church called, How can the Church Strengthen the Family in the 21st Century. This was the biggest conference we did this year. We had several speakers in from out of town, including Kevin Swanson, Jeff Pollard and Bill Einwechter. Scott Brown, Steve Breagy, Jason Dohm and my father, the elders at our church, also spoke. About 300 people from all over the country attended.

My father gave two breakout messages, one on the Lord's Supper, and one on Family Worship. During his talk on Family Worship, he got so animated that people could here him in other rooms! Here are some pictures:




Kevin Swanson was one of my favorite speakers. He is a pastor from Colorado, and he is the leader of the homeschool group in that state. He is very active in his preaching. My favorite message that he gave was called Surviving Tough Economic Times. In that message he spoke on the current economic crisis, and his main point was that even though things are not going well, we should trust God and obey his commands regarding money. It was very good.





Bill Einwechter and some of his family stayed with us during the conference. He gave two messages on women in civil leadership. Here are two of his articles on the subject, on Women Magistrates, and What about Deborah.




Stephen and I helped David Brown to record the messages. Everyone who was on the recording staff had to wear a white shirt, black pants and a black bow-tie. I was in charge of one of the breakout rooms, and I also edited a lot of the messages. It was a lot of fun!

Here are the CD sets we made

Stephen Breagy helping my brother, Stephen Horn, edit

Me during one of the sessions