Mother/daughter Vintage Homemaking Skills Workshop

The Heritage Ministry Center will be hosting two more exciting workshops in August, developed with the goal of strengthening family relationships while working together to learn new skills!

Our Mother/Daughter: Vintage Homemaking Skills Workshop  will be held August 11-13, 2014 (Monday noon through Wednesday).  Mothers and their daughters will have the opportunity to learn old-fashioned homemaking skills such as baking artisan breads, making butter, cheese, yogurt, and kefir, canning, making natural soaps and cleaning products, and beginning sewing, spinning, knitting, and crocheting.  Come learn new skills, spend quality time together, and meet and enjoy fellowship with others as well!


The Vintage Homemaking Skills Workshop for Mothers and Daughters will be held August 11 -13, 2014 at the Heritage Ministry Center in Madison, Tennessee (Nashville area).  Workshops will start Monday at noon and will run through 4:00 Wednesday afternoon.

The cost for the workshop, including housing and meals is $150 for a mother and a daughter. (Additional daughters may attend for $25 each.)  The cost for local drive-in families will be $75 for a mother/daughter, which will include lunch all three days.  Additional daughters will be $5 each.

            Please call or email for additional information or to make reservations:

           Heritage Ministry Center,  612 Due West Ave., Madison, TN 37115

                                 (615) 865-4300    or     (615) 636-2144.
                              Email:  heritageministrycenter@gmail.com

Family Farmstead Workshop, August 4-6

Has your family desired to learn how to have a more self-sustainable, frugal family lifestyle, while at the same time seeing improvements in your family food choices through simpler, healthier, organic living?


Our new Family Farmstead:  the "Suburban Farmette" - a Beginner's guide to Sustainable Living with Smaller (or even tiny!) Yards will help you  not only see the wisdom of eating as God intended, but will also give you the foundation needed to raise and prepare your own organic vegetables, fruits and berries, and honey, as well as grass-based meat, eggs, and dairy products on a very small piece of property (or even in your backyard!!).  Topics will include organic gardening, small-scale dairying, backyard poultry, bees, rabbits, composting, worm beds, farmstead cheeses and soapmaking, and marketing your extra products!

This practical, hands-on class will be a fun time of exploring the concept of old-fashioned family farmsteading, realizing the great need to produce food that is both nourishing and economical, and learning how to be good stewards of our land, our time, and our resources. 

Come and have an enjoyable time of fellowship with other families as you learn not only how to work together as a family producing your own food but also the rewards of drawing closer together once you go home as you work and fellowship as a family team to achieve a more self-sustaining lifestyle.

This two and one half day workshop will teach you the basics you will need to  know to learn how to begin gardening organically, raise clean, healthy meat, eggs, and dairy products, produce your own cheeses and butter, and learn how to turn your excess products into cottage-industry opportunities for extra family income.

Family Homestead: the "Suburban Farmette" will be held on August 4 - 6, 2014, (Monday evening through Wednesday) at the Heritage Ministry Center in Madison, TN (Nashville area), with a field trip scheduled to a local family-run goat dairy/farmstead cheese plant in the area.  

This is a workshop for the entire family!  The cost will be $125 per family.  On-site family-friendly hotel rooms will be available at $55 per room each night (rooms sleep up to five).  All meals starting with Monday dinner and through Wednesday lunch will be included in the room rates for those staying on-site.  (A meal ticket option will be available for drive-in attendees - sign up when you make your class reservations.)

For more information, or to make reservations, please call (615) 865-4300 or (615) 636-2144 or email us at:  heritageministrycenter@gmail.com


 Heritage Ministry Center, 612 Due West Ave., Madison, Tennessee, 37115
                    Phone: (615) 865-4300   or   (615) 636-2144  
                      Email:  heritageministrycenter@gmail.com

Upcoming Scheduled Workshops for 2014!

Here is an updated list of our upcoming events, workshops, classes, and conferences for 2014 here at the Heritage Conference Center in Madison, TN. We are located in the greater Nashville area, and on-site family-friendly accommodations are available!

We will be adding more dates/events to this list every week, and will be blogging the course descriptions and details as we get the information, so check back often or give us a call!

July 18-19:       God and Country Conference with Bill Federer, for families and individuals

August 4 -6:     Family Farmstead: the "Suburban Farmette" Workshop, - Families

August 11-13:  Vintage Homemaking Skills Workshop, - Mothers/Daughters  (See our June 16 post for more details!)
                       
August 11-13:  Basic Skills for Guys Workshop, - Fathers/Sons (See our June 16 post for more
details!)

August 16:  August's Homeschool Family Fellowship Day & Curriculum Fair (See our July 16th blog for more details!)
                     
August 30th:  Tri-State ATI Enrichment and Fellowship Weekend, for ATI families and any others who would like to attend! (See our blog for August 22 for details!)

   
Sept. 15-17:      Dairy Goat Basics - Selection, Care, Dairying, for youth, families
                   
September 20:   September's Homeschool Family Fellowship Day (for the Middle Tennessee area)

Sept. 22-26:      Basic Farmsteading Skills for Family Health and Sustainable Living, for youth

                   
Oct. 17-18:       Mother/Daughter - Gaining Hearts, Making Godly Commitments Sewing Tea
                                               
October 18:      October's Homeschool Family Fellowship Day (for the Middle Tennessee area)
                         
Oct. 20-31:       Basic Building Construction and Interior Finish Work, (Two week apprenticeship opportunity for young men.)

Oct. 27-Nov.1: Basic, Advanced, and Anger Resolution Seminars w/ Children's Program



Nov. 3-7:          The Deeper Walk - Abiding in the Vine Discipleship Conference, with Evangelist Keith Daniel from South Africa, Otto Koning (the Pineapple Story!), Casper Koning, and several pastors and missionaries - for youth (families/parents welcome also)
                       
Nov. 13-15:    Cottage Industry Skills - Producing Products for Profit and Gift-giving Workshop, for Mothers and Daughters
                     
Nov. 13-15:      Woodshop Creations for Gift-Giving Workshop, for Fathers/sons

November 15:  November's Homeschool Family Fellowship Day


On-site accommodations are available for all of our events and workshops.  Call for reservations!

Heritage Conference Center    ~   612 Due West Ave., Madison, TN 37115   ~   (615) 636-2144
                                   
                                     Email:  heritageministrycenter@gmail.com

August Homeschool Family Fellowship Day

Announcing our August "Homeschool Family Fellowship Day"!

Greetings to all fellow homeschool families living in the Greater Nashville area and the surrounding communities!

Many of you have already heard the news, but for those who might not have, we are organizing   "Homeschool Family Fellowship Days" to be held during the coming school year.  These fellowship days will usually be held the third Saturday of each month at the Heritage Conference Center in Madison, TN (north Nashville area).  Each month will feature a topic/theme that the whole family will enjoy learning about, as well as provide fun activities for the children and provide a great time of meeting and fellowshiping with other homeschool families in the area!  These are being organized by a homeschool mother of 12, with over thirty years homeschool experience!

We are using the "God and Country" Conference as the family fellowship time for July (see our previous blog).  Future themes will include "Creation Science", "Frugal Family Living",  "A Godly Home", "Agriculture for the Homeschool Family", "Developing a Family Ministry Mindset", etc.  We are open to all ideas!

Our August 16th fellowship will be on the theme:  "Homeschool Bootcamp" and will include practical instruction for new homeschool families, encouragement/refreshment/re-focus for veteran families, tips on scheduling and home organization, and will conclude with a question and answer panel, where beginning homeschool parents can ask questions of a panel of veteran father and mother home educators.  (We need experienced parents for our panel!)

This will be great preparation and encouragement as you head into your next year of adventure in homeschooling!  Come with all your questions and/or wisdom to share!!

The cost for the August fellowship will be $25 for the family, which will include refreshments throughout the day, paper goods/drinks for the fellowship lunch, and the children's activity.  Please bring a sack lunch for your family to eat in our fellowship hall.  The hours for the day's events will run from 10:00 am until 2:00 pm, with family fellowship and children's playtime from 2:00 on.

There will also be a used curriculum sale/exchange at this fellowship!  Sellers will be charged $10 per two rectangular tables.  Buyers shop for free!!  The curriculum fair will be open from 8:30 - 10:00 am,  and from 3:30 - 5:00 pm.  Set up for Sellers can take place on Friday, July 15th from 1:00 until 5:00, or Saturday morning.

Early registration would be helpful as we plan this event, but you may also register at the door.  To register early, simply email or call and give us your family's name and the number attending.

Heritage Conference Center      612 Due West Ave., Madison, TN  37115     (615) 636.2144

This week: God & Country Conference with Bill Federer

"God and Country:  'We the People' - Making a Difference!"

Our "God and Country: 'We the People' - Making a Difference" Conference is just about here!  Join us for an immersive look at America's Godly heritage, the foundations of our government, how we got to where we are, and through our faith how we can make a difference and bring about change.  This will be a great opportunity for homeschool families to come and learn together while enjoying fellowship with other families!  The conference will be held Friday evening 7:00 - 9:15, and Saturday 9:00 - 4:30.  There will be a "Meet and Greet" fellowship with the speakers after the Friday evening session and a complimentary coffee and muffins fellowship time Saturday morning from 8:30 - 9:00.

Keynote speaker both Friday night and Saturday will be William (Bill) Federer - Historian, Speaker, Author, and host of the "American Minute" daily radio feature.  Mr. Federer will be speaking on "America's Godly Heritage" and "Foundations of Our Government".

Some of the additional speakers and topics will include:

Mr. Dan Zimmerle  (Host of "One Nation Under God" radio) - "God and Country: One Nation Under God"

Dr. Carol Swain  (Professor of Political Science and Law, Vanderbilt University, and television and radio host of "Be the People") - "Be the People: A Call to Reclaim America's Faith and Promise"

Rep. Rick Womick (TN State Representative) - "How One Concerned Father Got Involved (and is Making a Difference)

Lt. Col. Courtney Rogers (TN State Representative) - "Foundations of Liberty"

Mr. Randy James (Educator) - "How Did We Get to this Point, Anyways?"

Mr. Randell Bracey (Educator) - "Warnings from the Past, Exhortation for the Future"

Pastor Ben Graham (Music City Baptist Church) - "Christians - You Must Make a Difference!"

Pastor Joe Lang (Berean Baptist Church) - "Responsibility, Challenge, Hope - Let's All Make a Difference!"

This event is open to both homeschoolers and the general public.  Registration will be at the door, and the conference fee is $15 per attendee (under six free), with a family max of $45.  Onsite hotel accommodations  will be available - call for details.  Meal tickets for Saturday's fellowship luncheon are $6/adults and $4/child (under 13), and will be sold at the door Friday evening.

 This event will be held at the Heritage Conference Center, 612 Due West Ave., Madison, TN 37115

                        For more information, please call Terri Kelly at 615.636.2144