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Country Living
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Gain a better understanding of the counsel given in the Spirit of Prophecy regarding the importance of Country Living. Learn hands-on what it takes to run a homestead and how to prepare for some of the challenges of this lifestyle.
Week 1
Define what EG White identifies as the various components of an outpost including a homestead, ministry and missional business. Explore the various types of ministries we are called to start and reflect on what God may be calling you towards.
Decision Making
Leadership
Organization
Proactivity
Sense of Urgency
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Identify questions to be asked and practical steps for physically and mentally preparing to take the next steps towards country living.
Decision Making
Organization
Proactivity
Self Denial
Sense of Urgency
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A first aid training course prepares you to deal with a range of medical emergencies, from common injuries such as cuts, scrapes, and burns to major injuries such as trauma to the head and cardiac arrest.
Alertness
Confidence
Coordination
Problem Solving
Sense of Urgency
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Learn how to safely use a chainsaw, sharpen the chain, fall a tree and split or mill the lumber. Run a wood chipper and learn which types of chips can be used in the garden.
Alertness
Confidence
Coordination
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Week 2
Discover how succession planting can provide a harvest throughout the year by staggering the planting times. Plant next cohort of crops in the greenhouse and directly into the garden.
Organization
Proactivity
Problem Solving
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Identify the challenges of country living, individual limitations, embracing our gifts and the solutions found in community.
Generosity
Organization
Self Denial
Teamwork
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Learn the benefits and challenges of different types of homestead animals. Raise baby chickens and learn about caring for them. Build a chicken coop, run and composting system.
Problem Solving
Responsibility
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Week 3
Learn how an off grid energy system works, and which design steps and considerations you should be aware of. Providing technical knowledge and hands on implementation of a PV solar and battery setup.
Confidence
Resourcefulness
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Learn about the various cognitive bias that help us shortcut the analysis of repetitive decisions but can also inhibit our ability to clearly see a situation objectively. Contemplate what illusory truths we have been conditioned to believe and how to take a childlike approach to information as the Bible describes.
Alertness
Data Collection & Analysis
Decision Making
Thinking
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Week 4
Discover the process of planning, developing, and managing water resources, in terms of both water quantity and quality, across all water uses. With hands on training on rainwater harvesting and drip irrigation systems.
Confidence
Organization
Proactivity
Problem Solving
Stewardship
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Discover precautions to minimize the risk of fires, how fires are caused and the first means of extinguishing them.
Alertness
Proactivity
Sense of Urgency
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In the great spiritual battle which is waged around us, discover the various warfare methods which are used to control us including group think, hypnosis through overcommitment and the engineering of our attention, control through debt, disease, false worldly hopes, fear and shame.
Alertness
Data Collection & Analysis
Decision Making
Loyalty
Thinking
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Week 5
Plant the seedlings from the greenhouse into the garden after the last frost.
Organization
Responsibility
Time Management
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Discuss the importance of beneficials in the garden, what types of animals and insects are given to us by God as garden guardians and their roles. How to attract them through plants, habitats, nesting boxes and wetland projects.
Organization
Problem Solving
Resourcefulness
Teamwork
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Discuss the importance of credibility and how to this earn trust, how to become informed and how to maintain credibility by avoiding traps set by the deceiver to strip away our reputation. Find what the Spirit of Prophecy says about avoiding unnecessary conflict, how to help others in a productive way who are trapped in a conspiracy theory and how we can be prepared for what is described in Matthew 24:24.
Alertness
Data Collection & Analysis
Decision Making
Leadership
Responsibility
Thinking
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Week 6
Develop a routine of watering, weeding, refreshing the mulch layers as necessary, pruning, training and/or trellising the plants as they grow.
Responsibility
Stewardship
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Analyze the psychological need to belong and how our desire to be accepted by the world goes against the instructions given in the Bible and Spirit of Prophecy. We will briefly cover some of the feeder organizations for secret societies and cover how they use esoteric meanings and hidden symbols to collect, confuse and control the masses but how the Bible is our sure word to avoid this confusion.
Alertness
Thinking
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Week 7
This week is spent in finishing up previous weeks tasks, no new curriculum is introduced instead students reflect on how to apply lessons learned to their lives with more time devoted to prayer, fasting and connecting with God.
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