This is the third part of a three part series in developing the systems of the home. We describe the system of purchasing, cleaning, and storing clothing.
This is part 3 of a 3-part series:
This video is part 2 of a 3 part series on developing systems of the home. The three systems of the home are food, clothing, and shelter.
This is part 2 of a 3-part series:
Raising Entrepreneurs!
Over the past twenty years of homeschooling we have watched the erosion of the family, and the affects of the school system on our young people. But this isn’t new – the Industrial Revolution has robbed our culture of the entrepreneurial mindset our country once embraced. The need for cooperative unskilled laborers during the Industrial Revolution led to the development of educational methods that were designed to produce an abundance of replaceable worker bees. Our country’s leaders did this by eliminating the possibility of creative thinking in the public school and instituting a testing and grading system that placed a large percentage of students in the “average” category; crushing self esteem, destroying leadership and courage, and rendering them passive and compliant.
This resulted in a mass production of workers who considered themselves followers, not entrepreneurial material. If they obtained a college education, it was to get a “good job” rather than to be a leader and initiator. There is a great need to take back and rebuild the entrepreneurial mindset on which our country once thrived. Fathers are experiencing a lack of job satisfaction. Young people are following the traditional path of education without a solid vision for their future. Families are struggling with their children’s transition from homeschool to career. As parents, we believe there is a growing need to change the course we are on, laying a foundation for our children’s future success, beginning while they are young.
To address these issues we have developed a FREE two-day conference called “Raising Entrepreneurs.” It will equip those who attend with an understanding of how to build an entrepreneurial mindset by covering topics such as: the parents’ role in building this mindset (beginning from a very young age,) assisting young people in developing a meaningful purpose and vision for their lives, and how to start and operate a successful business as an individual or family.
Entrepreneurs have a passion, a vision, and are driven to create. They are willing to take a risk to create something new, solve problems, challenge the status quo, and they think outside the box. They are self starting, determined, hard working, innovative…they have a purpose they are working toward and a vision to do something great. They are not satisfied going to work as a cog in a large organization filled with bureaucracy. These are the people who create something out of nothing…they see an opportunity and turn it into something great. They inspire others to do the same.
Our Mission:
God has given each of us unique gifts to create, innovate, and problem solve. Gifts that will be left behind if we don’t recapture a vision to use them – to challenge the status quo of our nation. The transition from homeschool to career is a difficult one. There are many roads to take. In these two days we hope to show you how to recapture this kind of thinking as follows:
Dates: May 4-5, 2012
Location: Waxhaw, NC (Near Charlotte, NC)
Read more and register at: http://raisingentrepreneursnc.eventbrite.com/
About the speakers: http://raisingentrepreneurs.net/about-2/ Raising Entrepreneurs Blog
http://davidstelzl.com/ Dave’s Business Blog
http://stelzlfamily.com/ Stelzl Family Blog
Mother Daughter Retreat 2012
Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation, Samuel Johnson, 1777.
What is growing in your garden? Scripture shows us over and over again that we reap what we sow. It is important to select your seeds carefully. What would you like to see coming up in your daughter’s life in the next year, 5 years and even 10 years down the road? Join us for our Mother Daughter Retreat in February a time of remembering the goodness of God and cultivating gardens of gratefulness and harvests of holiness.
Moms and daughters have enjoyed learning more about each other and about the Lord at the International ALERT Academy for the last 5 years. Our special blend of times of speaking, activities, workshops and personal time is designed to give a place and time for communication and fun.
This year we are excited to have the Martin ladies (Mom & Daughters) with us to share how the Lord has worked in their relationship as well as the fruit they have seen through exercising gratefulness.
We are excited to to see what the Lord is going to do in the lives of Mothers and Daughters through a getaway that will strengthen your family! So register now! For more information about this year’s retreat visit our website. International Alert Academy
Thursday, February 23, 2012 – Sunday, February 26, 2012
International ALERT Academy
One Academy Blvd., Box 482
Big Sandy, TX 75755
We are pleased to announce the release of CCC Home School Edition which makes the Christ-Centered Phonics and Math programs even better. The original edition, which IBLP purchased the rights to print from 1994–2008, has an excellent time-tested and proven track record of developing children spiritually, morally, and academically.
Now, Christ-Centered Curriculum has streamlined their phonics and math programs to provide home schoolers with even more teaching flexibility. Whether you choose to start educating early or later, Christ-Centered Curriculum will help you provide the strongest foundation possible during your children’s most formative years (K4–2nd grade). Find out more at http://www.christcenteredcurriculum.com/ or call 1-800-778-4318.
“Mothers do so much more than most of us even realize, and many times they’re the ones most in need of spiritual refreshing; but yet they are the least likely to actually get it. But here is just such a chance!
We’re blessed to be having our second full length Mothers Journey to the Heart September 10 – 20. This is an opportunity for ladies to get away and experience some beautiful time alone with the Lord.
If any of you know of ladies in your church who would be blessed by this opportunity then let them know. But don’t forget the ladies in your own family! Helping them to go on this Journey could be an incredible investment not only in their lives, but also in the lives of every member of the family!
For more information about this Mother’s Journey and to get to the registration page, you can visit http://iblp.org/iblp/discipleship/journeytotheheart/mothers/
If you have any questions feel free to give us a call or send us an email!!!
In His grace,
The Journey Office
630-323-9800 Ext. 522
I have always been in church, and I could talk about God with anyone, I “knew” how to pray, I sang in the choir, and my dad is on staff at our church, but I was not a Christian. I was a Christian by association, but I really didn’t want to be one at all. So, I tried everything within my power to desensitize myself. I rebelled secretly against my parents and many other authorities. I was doing all kinds of ungodly things. I called myself Christian, but I was not a Christian. People thought that I was a “great kid” but I was just being a hypocrite. I thought I had the world fooled, and I probably did…but I didn’t once fool God.
My dad told me about the Journey and asked if I wanted to go. I agreed to go because I knew that if I didn’t, he would wonder why I didn’t want to get to know God better. I don’t know how I avoided God for so long, but I guess I just acted like He wasn’t really there. When the plane took off and we were airborne, I thought, “What would happen to me if this plane ran into the ground right now?” I was genuinely concerned about my life at that point.
When I got to the Headquarters, I started thinking, “Whoa, this is actually real, God is really here.” I was very, very unsure about my salvation, and this was one of the few times that I had really taken some time to think about it. On Monday we got to the Northwoods, and God immediately started to burden my heart. I was pretty miserable the whole day until Monday night, when I became so miserable of my depraved state that I called my parents and told them that I was undoubtedly unsaved and that I needed to be saved. I cried to the Lord Monday night, May 16, 2011 and He saved me…a new creature in Christ. I am forever changed and destined to be with my Savior Jesus Christ.
The Lord started convicting me about past offenses to others and about my rebellion against my parents, and I started confessing. But on Tuesday (the next day), I still was holding on to one thing that I just wouldn’t confess to my parents. I was believing Satan’s lie that I didn’t have to tell anyone about it because “what harm would it do?” In reality, it was greatly affecting the Holy Spirit, and I knew it so I told my parents that afternoon. After I got it out of my hands and into the hands of Christ, I was overflowing with joy in my heart. That night at around seven, I think, we (my team) started praying in our meeting room, and soon it was my turn to pray. Before I started praying I was already crying, but it was tears of joy that were flowing. I knew that my name was written in the Book of Life, and that the One who made me, made the earth, made gravity, made the air that I breath, and made my parents. He gave me the kind of parents that I needed. He cared enough about me out of billions of people and showed me His Love, and comforted me, and died for me. He bought me after I sold myself to the devil and the world, gave me His peace, showed me His power, protected me, fed me, clothed me, and gave me a Book that I can read that tells me more about Himself and who He is. He gave me the liberty to tell others about Him so that they can experience Him also. I knew that this wasn’t even the beginning too. So, after much crying and praising Him, I sat back up and looked at the clock, and if I remember right, it was ten o clock. I had prayed the longest I had ever even attempted to pray, and for the first time, I didn’t even care about how long it took.
The Lord showed me so much that week even after those two days. I was being fed by His Words all week and I couldn’t get enough. He showed me that I don’t have to rely on myself in my struggles, because He has already won the race, all I have to do is claim the victory through Him. “Lean not unto thine own understanding, in all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths”, “Nay, in all things we are made more than conquerors through Him that loved us…”, “the name of the Lord is a strong tower, the righteous runneth to it, and are safe” He is my strong tower, I can call on Him and He will answer, I can run to Him and be safe, I don’t have to rely on myself because He said that He would direct me, I am more than a conqueror, but only through Him that has already conquered. “Abide in Me, and I in you, as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in Me. I am the vine, and ye are the branches, He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing.” I am living proof of that principle.
When I got home, I talked to one of my best friends and asked him to forgive me for being a hypocrite and not living the way Christ did. I told him what had happened to me, and he was so amazed at how much I had changed that he wanted to get saved!! I got to lead him to Christ and he is a new creature. After about a week, my other friend came to Christ! And just this week, two of my other friends got saved too! God is so good. He has shown me in my life that when I am completely sold out to him and I don’t care about what other people think, He can really use me. In truth and honesty before Him and others, there is power because the Holy Spirit can move about freely.
Other things are being revealed as I abide in Him and meditate on His gift to me, the Word. I am learning things from the wisdom and failures of others and myself, but the best way to learn is to read God’s living Word, the Bible. If I listen to what God has to say and obey, I don’t have to learn the hard way. The way of a believer is intense and hard, but made easy through obedience. It is better to obey than to sacrifice, because if I am obeying, then I will probably be sacrificing too. If there was one thing I could say to anyone for the rest of my life it would be to know God, love Him and seek Him, and see what happens.
- Josh Hoyle
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