Dr. David Bedell:  Homeschool Conference Speaker and Workshop Leader Details

How To Teach Everything From the Bible
Many parents sense that the Bible should be the center of their children’s education. Dr. Bedell will explain how the entire family can read through the Bible from beginning to end and cover three subjects (Bible, science, and history) on all grade levels.

Owner and Developer:  The Bedell Curriculum
Former principal:  West Florida Christian School
Ph.D. in Educational Administration from the University of Florida

David Bedell was born in Miami, Florida.  He attended public schools in Miami-Dade county.  He was saved at age five and called to preach at age twelve.  His father suggested that he get a degree in education before going to Bible college.   As a result of his father's advice, he majored in biology at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida and received a Bacher of Science Degree in Biology Education.  He then went on to Baptist Bible College in Springfield, Missouri, where he received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Theology.  While attending Bible college,  David Bedell acquired a master's degree in Educational Administration from Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri.  Upon graduation from these two schools in Missouri, he returned to Florida and became a teacher and principal at West Florida Christian School in Sarasota, Florida.  At the same time, he became the associate pastor of Temple Baptist Church.  In 1985, he received a Ph.D. in Educational Administration from the University of Florida.  After twenty-one years in Sarasota, he moved fifty miles east to to the small country town of Arcadia.  In 2008, he married Felicia Raborn, a pre-school teacher at West Florida Christian School.  David Bedell is currently the pastor of Heritage Baptist Church in Arcadia, Florida, and the headmaster of Desoto Christian School.