Share your talents at the 2020 Christian Heritage Conference

CHRISTIAN HERITAGE is interested in home educated students & families performing for the Friday evening Family Night or sometime throughout our annual state conference, April 23-25, 2020. We invite you to audition or if you know talented young people or families who could bless us at the conference, please urge them to audition as well. These can be musical, speech, or drama presentations or something unique as a performance by a ventriloquist. Those interested must submit their audition by March 13, 2020.

Performance Guidelines

Christian Heritage Men’s Chorus

ALL MEN! are invited to sing in the Christian Heritage Men’s Chorus to open the 2020 annual conference. This is a volunteer non-auditioned group. The music will not be difficult, so if you are able to sing one of the parts – you are in!

Music

  • Song: Tune Our Hearts to Sing
  • Music will be sent by mail.
  • Select the part you want to sing and know it very well when you come to the Thursday evening rehearsal.
  • Black music folders will be provided

Attire

  • Any shade of a solid blue shirt
  • Dark pants
  • Ties will be provided

Rehearsal

  • Thursday: 7:15 – 8:00 p.m.
  • Location: Chorale Room

Microphone Check

  • Friday: 8:00-8:30 a.m.
  • Location: On stage in the Worship Center
  • Singers need to be dressed in their performance attire

Performance

  • Friday: 8:50 a.m. – Assemble back stage in the Worship Center
  • Friday: 9:00 a.m. – Proceed to stage in the Worship Center
  • Friday: 9:03 a.m. – Perform

Christian Heritage Chorale

As in years past, this is an amazing opportunity to join other homeschoolers, ages 13+, and lift up your voices to the glory of God! You won’t want to miss participating in the stirring performance by the Chorale!

Music

  • Music will be sent by mail.
  • Practice in advance!

Attire

  • Ladies: White blouse; ankle-length black skirt (no high slits); black hose; black dress shoes.
  • Men: White long-sleeved shirt; black pants; black socks; dark dress shoes. Bow ties will be provided.

Requirements

  • A basic ability to read music and sing parts

Class Time

  • Two 1-hour sessions each day

Performance

  •  Closing the General Session on Saturday
  •  You won’t want to miss enjoying this stirring performance!

Christian Heritage Choristers

This children’s choir is for ages 6-12 who desire to sing in a children’s choir and perform during the 2020 annual conference. Your children are expected to memorize the music before they arrive.

Music

  • Songs: A Patriotic Medley and Children of the Heavenly Father
    • In addition to performing A Patriotic Medley on Friday Family Night, the Choristers will be singing Children of the Heavenly Father with the Christian Heritage Chorale during the final General Session on Saturday afternoon.
    • If you prefer to sing just one of the songs, please contact Logan Ownbey at L2086692211@gmail.com and let him know what song you want to sing. Otherwise, he will plan on you singing both songs.
  •  Music and a rehearsal CD will be sent by mail.
  •  Select the part that best fits the vocal range of the child.

Attire

  •  For the A Patriotic Medley (Friday night):
    • Red, white, or blue blouses/shirts or any combination of the 3 colors
    • Dark or beige skirts/pants
  • For the Children of the Heavenly Father (Saturday afternoon):
    • White blouses/shirts
    • Dark skirts/pants

Requirements

  •  The music must be memorized before the conference
  •  Able to sing their part with confidence
  •  Follow the dress code
  •  Prompt attendance at the Rehearsal, Microphone Check, and Performance

Purpose and Goal

  •  For the children to enjoy an experience that will encourage them in their musical journey and to see how their singing can bless others.

SCHEDULE

Rehearsal

  •  Friday: 12:45-1:30 p.m.
  •  Location: Chorale Room
  •  Songs: A Patriotic Medley and Children of the Heavenly Father

Microphone Check – A Patriotic Medley

  •  Friday: 5:45-6:00 p.m.
  •  Location: On stage in the Worship Center
  •  Singers need to be dressed in their performance attire

Performance – A Patriotic Medley

  •  Friday: 6:20 p.m. – Assemble on stage on the risers in the Worship Center to prepare to sing
  •  Friday: 6:30 p.m. – Sing as the first presentation on Family Night
  •  The children will be dismissed at the end of their song to join their parents.

Microphone Check – Children of the Heavenly Father

  •  Saturday: 3:30-4:00 p.m.
  •  Location: On the steps of the stage in the Worship Center
  •  Singers need to be dressed in their performance attire

Performance – Children of the Heavenly Father

  •  Saturday: 4:20 p.m. – Choristers are to be seated in the front rows in the Worship Center
  •  When the Chorale is ready to perform Children of the Heavenly Father, the Choristers will leave their seats and stand on the steps of the stage.
  •  The children will be dismissed at the end of their song to join their parents.

Christian Heritage Orchestra

Participation in the Christian Heritage Orchestra is by invitation only. To audition, record one of the following instrumental parts and send it along with your audition form.

Family Night

Free to the Public

Friday, April 24th, 6:30pm – 8:30pm

This special evening has something for every member of your family to enjoy and it’s FREE to the public so bring your young children, friends and neighbors too! We’ll start with a mini-concert of a variety of presentations all performed by homeschool students.

Rick Green – Restoring American Exceptionalism One Family at a Time

With passion and humor, Rick outlines the timeless principles of liberty allowing America to become the most successful nation in history; not perfect, not infallible, and certainly not indestructible, but something exceptional and extraordinary… truly unique in all of history.

Father and Son Breakfast

Infusing the Traits of a Conqueror

Saturday, April 25, 6:45 a.m.

Rick Green and his sons share lessons learned – failures and triumphs! – in building iron-sharpened relationships between fathers and sons. Their encouraging fresh insights can help you experience strong father-son relationships too! This is a great time to connect with other men on the same journey. Pre-registration is required so be sure to sign up during your pre-registration. Doors open at 6:45 a.m. for a prompt morning breakfast. See you there!

Writing Seminar - New This Year!

Author Douglas Bond believes there is no more important single skill to master, for parents or children, than writing. Don’t miss this five-session Writing Seminar with award-winning teacher and, according to one fellow author, “…one of America’s most impressive Christian storytellers,” who writes “historical fiction at its mesmerizing best.” Space is limited and pre-registration is required. This seminar is FREE with a Family Full Conference Pass – just bring paper and pencil!

Author Douglas Bond believes there is no more important single skill to master, for parents and for children, than writing. Don’t miss this five-session Special Event Writing Seminar with award-winning teacher and, according to one fellow author, “…one of America’s most impressive Christian storytellers,” who writes “historical fiction at its mesmerizing best.

Douglas Bond will elucidate important observations about writing and communication from the letters, devotions, sermons, and books of the author with more published volumes than any other writer in the 19th century.

Author Douglas Bond will give insider information and instruction on preparing to write the common application essays for university entrance, as well as the SAT essay. This seminar will include the relationship between essay writing and journalism, writing news reports, opinion/editorial, commentary. You will learn the importance of logic, supporting statements with three levels of evidence, and the importance of demonstrating how evidence supports the theses statement and subordinate statements in essays and articles.

Author Douglas Bond will reveal his own method of writing historical fiction, research and preparation for writing, and how this method relates to other genre of fiction writing. You will learn Bond’s C4: Explosive Writing formula in this session.

Author Douglas Bond will take you back to the mead hall of 8th century Northumbria and explain the roots of English poetic conventions and why it is of critical importance that you learn and teach poetry in the homeschool curriculum.

Douglas Bond, hymn writer and author of the Mr. Pipes series on the history of Christian hymnody, will define what a hymn is and teach you how to measure the quality of a hymn. You will learn why the most enduring literature any generation can produce is its hymnody, why a healthy church will sing the best hymns from the past, and will produce Psalm-like new hymns. Few have ever read a sermon of Isaac Watts or Charles Wesley or John Newton, but you sing their hymns (or ought to be doing so). In this session you will learn one of Bond’s New Reformation Hymns and how he sets about writing a new hymn. Bond will give away several free copies of his new Rise & Worship CD album during this session.

Hands-on Science Labs - New This Year!

Joel Thomas, of Glen’s Gizmos Homeschool Hub, engages students interested in science. Elementary and middle school ages have these labs to choose from: Bug Pinning, Frog Dissections, Battery Cells, Electromagnets, and Electric Motors. (A parent must accompany students 12 and under and is encouraged to attend for ages 13+.) Electromagnets is a recommended prerequisite for Electric Motors. Space is limited so pre-register early!

Sign up required. Join us to learn how to collect and pin bugs in an insect collection. In this study of entomology participants will go home with their first beetle pinned and ready for a collection, along with the knowledge to expand on their collection.

Sign up required. We will build and test wet and dry cell batteries. It’s helpful to have an understanding of pH before taking this lab, though it’s not required. We will tackle the following questions: How were batteries invented? What is inside a battery? Where does the power come from? How on earth does a potato produce electricity? What is electricity? and Why is a 9 Volt so powerful when it is smaller than a 1.5 Volt D cell?

Sign up required. In this family friendly lab we are building and testing electromagnets. It will help if you have a solid understanding of batteries prior to taking this lab, though it isn’t required. Together we will tackle questions including: How were electromagnets invented? Why do electromagnets work? What metals can be used in an electromagnet and what applications do electromagnets have? Students will construct and take home a simple electromagnet.

Sign up required. In this family-friendly lab, we are building and testing simple electric motors. A solid understanding of electromagnetism is helpful but not required. Together we will tackle questions including; when were electric motors invented and how does an electromagnet drive a motor. Students will create and take home a simple working electric motor.

Sign up required. Students have the opportunity to dissect a frog! Young children can be successful in this activity with direct parent support. Students must take directions and safety seriously in order to participate. How are amphibians able to survive in and out of water? What does the word metamorphosis really mean? How does metamorphosis point to God as Creator? What is the difference between incomplete and complete metamorphosis?