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why business? why here?

Well, let me share with you a little scenario. You have a child (or many) and the Lord puts it upon you and your husbands heart to raise your children for Him. You homeschool so that you can teach them the right things, according to God's Word. The right way to live, the right way to love, the right way to talk, and the right way to treat others. You pour your life into teaching and discipling your child. Then they graduate from homeschool and you think, "What's next". You have to further plan because you hadn't thought that far. So you find a "what you think is a good" so called "Christian College". They spend the next 4 years questioning everything you have taught them, everything the Lord has ever instilled in them. For what? So they can go work for somebody else? They finally graduate there with barely anything from the Lord still intact, and now it is on to the work force! They find a "good?" job working for a well known company. They are taught to "live and die" for that company, "give it all you got". They are too busy for the Lord, too busy for the family He brought them, they finally succumb to the ways of the world, have 2.5 children, put them in day care, then public school. Why? Why? Why? There is a better way! The above scenario isn't just typical for sons but also for daughters! Why? Why? Why? Because the bible says His people die for lack of vision!! Do you want all that you have done to die? Just because they graduated highschool? Get a vision! A plan! Start today!

Home Business Thinking 101

Part of our homeschooling involves business. Not learning "about" business. Learning how to have one. Learning how to run one. There are two types of businesses, one that runs you, or one that you run. Working for someone else's business runs you. Working for yourself, rather for Jesus, allows to you obey Him. There is no one else telling you you cannot witness to the customers, or that you cannot stop to pray. There is no one but Jesus to govern your hours. You have plenty of time for your family. You can work at midnight or you can work at 9 am, you can work overtime or you can take time off. So how does this all happen? with a plan, a vision. Write down your goals then learn how to make it happen. My daughter was 14 when she started her first business. She wanted a new guitar. Great motivation for a young person. So we looked at her talents. She had many abilities. We looked for one that we knew could serve others. She knew how to sew and had some patterns from me that we had been making for years. We knew lots of families like ours who would like to dress their little girls modestly. We started to tell a few friends and I helped her put together a website. jumpinbloomers.com was born! She put that $350 guitar on lay-away and ended up getting it within 3 weeks! You see you have to start with a goal. Her goal was to buy a guitar. And as with all learning, hands on is best. If I had sat her down and said, "Let's learn business" it might very well have gone in one ear and out the other. But there was a purpose, a goal! That was 2 years ago. Her business has grown. She can work as many hours as she wants, when she wants. We have never really advertised but now many other sites have a link to hers. when she gets real busy she has her sister help her. Georgia is in the process of starting her own business, jumpinbabies.com making doll clothes that match what April makes. She has a built in customer base with April's business. Our oldest son Beau has been looking for a business for awhile. He can do lots of things and is a very intelligent, hardworking, strong young man. Around here there are lot's of farmers who would love to have his help. But let's look at that. Say the farmer lives 10 miles from us. That is 20 miles round trip, if we stay with him. Now y'all probably know me well enough by now to know I am not going to just drop my son off with just anyone. He is a very annointed young man who is very sensitive to God's Spirit. Would it be a wise thing to do to drop him off somewhere he can here too much "guy talk", etc. ? With someone I don't know real well? So that he can muck stables for $4 an hour? And it costs me $6 - $12 in gas? Or would it be better to teach him how to sell the millions of extra things around here on e-bay? We need to learn to change our thinking. My son loves to ride horses, and he is good at it, very good at it. He has a way with animals because he is so loving. He has broken (trained to be ridden) many a horse around here. Recently an opportunity arose for him to train someone else's horses. That would be his dream come true. He also has a goal, to finsh paying off the new stallion he just bought. So this new opportunity calls and he can train 5 horses for $500. They would drop off 1 horse for one month and he would ride it everyday for 1 month for $100. Sounds good huh? Well lets do some math. That would be $3.33 a day. For about 2-3 hours a day. So we are talking $1 an hour. Doesn't sound so good now huh? BUT, if he gets paid to learn, and gains some experience AND gets to use this guy as reference, it sounds better! It is really like getting to start a business with someone else paying for all the start up costs, all he would need after that is business cards. he would gain a name at the sale barn, and already have a following after that. For the next group of horses he could name his own price.

Preparing Young People

If you notice, I don't call them teenagers. That is another whole article in itself and I will put a link to it here when I get it ready. But you can pretty well sum it up by this, what do you think of when you hear the word "teenager"? Well that is why I don't call them that. So now that we have established that they are young people, are you preparing them? I know some things about my children's future. Some things you know, some things you hope for. But true faith is knowing that what you hope for (even if you don't see it yet) will be true! I know I will have grandchildren. I know my children will love and serve the Lord. I know that they will continue in the things I have taught them if I am diligent. We have to train our young people with the "knowing" of what they will become. I know that my son will preach the gospel, so I don't want to teach him to go in a different direction that would distract from that. I know that my oldest daughter is called to the mission field, either before she has children or with her family, so I don't want to "only" teach her to stay home and bake bread. (although they do bake bread) That would not be preparing her. She should know how to "consider a field and purchase it, and out of her earnings plant a vineyard" (proverbs 31), in addition to sewing, cooking, and tending her children. My sons should not only know how to build a barn and fix a truck, they should also know how to teach their own children, and pray for a drug addict that needs help. There are too many in the homechool movement that have taught their children to grow up in a "make believe" world. A world where there are no sinners and everybody wears the same style of clothes. I know that my children will change those around them, and we are preparing them for that. I already see it happen everyday. But they cannot focus on what God has for them if they are too busy working for someone else whose goal is more money.

in the right column you can find many resources that will help you to get your "thinking" in the right direction, enjoy!

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