Israel has been in full-time ministry since January 1993. Since 1995 he has traveled the nation speaking on family, homeschooling, apologetics, spiritual awakening, discipleship, and cultural issues, at well over 600 events in the United States and around the world.
He is the Director of Family Renewal, which he co-founded with his wife Brook, and the Site Editor for ChristianWorldview.net. On the Family Renewal podcast he discusses life, theology, apologetics, education, family, and cultural issues from a biblical worldview.
Israel has been a regular columnist for Home School Digest, Home School Enrichment, and The Old Schoolhouse, and has written for Answers (Answers in Genesis), Revive (Life Action Ministries), UnChained (Pure Life Ministries), and Biblical Worldview (American Vision), among others.
He and Brook were joined in marriage without dating. Both are homeschool graduates, and together they are homeschooling their eleven children in Southwest Michigan.
1993Entered full-time ministry
1995First conference season
10Books authored or co-authored
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Brook Wayne
Author · Speaker · Co-founder of Family Renewal
Brook is a homeschool graduate and a homeschooling mother of eleven. At fifteen she began publishing Kindred Spirits, a national magazine for young women, and kept it going until she married.
She is co-author of Pitchin' a Fit and contributed chapters to Raising Them Up and Answers for Homeschooling. She has been a guest on Revive Our Hearts with Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth and The Harvest Show, among other national programs.
Training childrenInspiring listening skillsMeaningful conversationsGuiding a child's heart in correction