What others are saying
"On the final evening, when back in our hotel room together, our 19 year old daughter, with tears coursing down her cheeks, joyfully exclaimed, 'This was the best thing we've ever done as a family.'"
"I, personally, loved every bit of the conference. I have heard a great deal about your father’s mentoring skills and was not disappointed in listening to ‘the modern-day sage’ calling men to fill the ranks for Christ. I thought his teaching was rich, relevant, and thought provoking."
"I feel very strongly that meeting your family and sharing time together was, and continues to be, a divine blessing for my family."
"We all realize the terrible spiritual battle that we are in. And as I was watching you talk to your son Noah, the Lord impressed on me how vital it is that we pray for each other. "The Lord is faithful and He will strengthen and protect you from the evil one." 2 Thes. 3:3 This verse suggests that it is the strong ones that especially need the protection. God has made your sons mighty on the earth. Therefore, they especially need protection from the evil one."
"We want you to know what huge blessing it was for our family to attend your conference and sit under your instruction!"
"The topics you covered were very appropriate for our family and has certainly had a powerful impact on all of us!"
"First, on behalf of my family, let me thank you and your family for the God-honoring Crossroads conference your family lead recently. Most of our extended family was in attendance, and all were blessed, strengthened, and encouraged."
"Our eldest two children have returned home from the conference thoroughly invigorated and we, as parents, returned home with hearts filled beyond all measure with joy in seeing them re-energized for the task the Lord has set before us as multi-generational visionaries."
"You and Mrs. Botkin have done a glorious job in raising your children in the admonition of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Your family is setting the footprint that we need in this country to bring back the Patriarchal family."
"Our minds continue thinking about what you shared. Our hearts have been encouraged and we trust our Lord Jesus will multiply the seeds you have sown in our family 30 - 60-100 fold. Thank you for giving testimony to the Lord's work in your lives. We appreciate each one of you for the comments you expressed and the actions of love and service portrayed so personally before us."
"Thank you for the renewed sense of urgency for educating our children and providing them with a God-centered home."
"We were encouraged, informed and exhorted in so many ways. Our eyes were opened further to the state of our country, and we are working to do what we can. We had been praying and asking God for wisdom, insight and direction before coming to this conference, and believe He spoke to us through the Botkin family."
"The opportunity to meet you all re-ignited my desire to do all the things that I ought with my family."
"We met several families from Indiana, South Carolina, Texas, Colorado, and Minnesota. I was in awe to see families come from so many different distances to be around brothers and sisters in Christ with shared pursuits."
"Perhaps one of the greatest blessings was simply watching and hearing your family ministering together in harmony; Imperfect servants, serving a perfect Savior. What a beautiful and encouraging example of one of God’s most powerful tools. God has already brought reform and growth into our home in just the 10 days since the conference. I have seen my young men take steps forward toward the front line, inspired by what they witnessed. My ladies have become more steadfast, encouraged to persevere. We have been changed forever. I cannot wait to see what God does through your family, and of course mine."
"I REALLY appreciated the talk on the second generation that David, Isaac, Ben, Anna, and Elizabeth gave. It was convicting and encouraging to me."
"Really great but too short. This conference needs to be three days."
"I only wish so many more people could learn the things we did. In our area a lot of things talked about at the conference have never been heard of."
"To us, one of the most important things the Botkin family stressed, and rightfully so, is that our children must realize that nothing hinges on their parent's coattails. Not their salvation, and ultimately not their vision. While we can and MUST lead them to Christ with all due diligence, to the foot of the cross, they must prostrate themselves before Him on their own, claiming Him as their personal Saviour. They must come to Christ as children, not as grandchildren. And then, they must take the vision the Lord has given their parents and make it their own, pressing into the Lord that He might make it even more real, more pertinent, to their lives and to the lives of their children."
"One comment David Botkin made really stuck with me. He said (and I'm very liberally paraphrasing here), "I am fairly confident, in and through the strength and enabling power of the Lord, that I will not eschew the vision my parents have imparted to me, but where I MUST NOT fall down is in passing that vision along to my children in such a way that they become even more passionate than I am, in order that my grandchildren become even more convinced than their parents, grandparents, and great grandparents are/were."
"The Botkin children all spoke very, very convincingly of the absolute need for walking in integrity and without compromise before the Lord."
"We are excited about all the new concepts we learned and are already implementing them into our family’s lives."
"I loved the challenge to be reformers."
"God certainly brought your family to this place “for such a time as this.”
"I was once again encouraged and challenged find ways to honor my parents, something I have been convicted of lately."
"We know from experience that the work you are doing is a difficult, dangerous, and sometimes lonely. We want to encourage your family to keep striving."
"I feel like I have been looking at the front cover of a book seeing how neat the book is (in regards to multigenerational thinking) and you have helped me to open it up and start digging and reading. We want to build a future for future generations and give them hope and I am understanding deeper, with vision. Thank you."
"I wanted to thank you for the many blessings we have received from the Crossroads conference as well as the Strategic Planning Briefing. You are a faithful minister to Christian families."
"I am so weary of the post-modern American church. The teaching of last weekend is radically different from anything heard in my area. Last weekend was a totally different experience, it ended too soon."
"Thank-you again for the time your family spent ministering at the conference! Our hearts were thoroughly encouraged and our spirits buoyed to continue to stand fast and increase our fervor in dominion work!"
"It was such a blessing to get to meet you at the Crossroads conference! I can't tell you how much you uplifted and emboldened my spirit. ...God was so gracious in allowing me to talk with you and watch you interact with other young ladies. So refreshing to my soul!"
"I was so encouraged to listen to you all. All of the talks you had were very helpful. I was especially encouraged by the talk you and your brothers and sister did on siblings."
"We would like to thank you for all your ministry this past week; we praise our Lord for His goodness to us and giving us vision through the Botkin family and others at this crossroads, receiving His Word for how to live and warnings for our family to heed as we seek to advance His Gospel."
"It was such a pleasure seeing you and your wonderful family at the 'Christians at the Crossroads' conference in Georgia. It is always such a pleasure to be able to listen and glean from your teaching."
"Thank you for the conference this past weekend. I and my family were inspired and challenged by all that we saw and heard. I have been watching the Father-Son DVD's. Very wonderful!"
"It was profitable...just seeing you and your family in action, together, working to bring to other families insights and applications that serve to build a strong Christian family. Seeing your daughters and sons carry themselves in ways that are honoring both to their parents and the God they serve. This being the obvious gift of God's grace to you and your wife as you sacrificed to raise godly seed."
"[It was great] being able to meet new families that are like-minded in their zeal to follow Christ and to raise godly offspring to do the same. We met several: families from Indiana, South Carolina, Texas, Colorado, and Minnesota. I was in awe to see families come from so many different distances to be around brothers and sisters in Christ with shared pursuits."
"The topics presented were very relevant to families who desire to build a godly heritage. I love the fact that as a family you have surveyed the condition of our culture and considered how you, as a family, can engage the culture in a way that calls men and women to think and act biblically. That kind of Christianity is desperately needed. "
"Thank you Mr. and Mrs. Botkin for your faithfulness in raising your children in such a way that they have become bold spokesmen and women for the cause of Christ. And thank you to the Botkin children, for encouraging the hearts of our precious son and daughter, for reminding them that they are not alone, that there is a community of faithful visionaries out there who are waging war on the anti-Christ culture in which they are surrounded."
"I can’t thank you enough for your courage and strength of conviction. It is so encouraging in what often seems like a desolate wasteland. Thank you for the honor and glory you bring to our precious Savior."
"Thank you for inspiring our family, we left the conference energized and encouraged to be "always reforming" in our family, our church, and in our individual lives."
"Isn’t it interesting that when Christ transforms the heart and a father begins to work on biblical changes in his home, family reformation is the byproduct and a fully reformed family looks for ways to reform its church and culture."
