HOME FIELD SURVIVAL!     DO 2499  12/88
--Tips & Warnings for Recent Returnees!

         1. SOME OF OUR FOLKS WHO HAVE RECENTLY RETURNED TO THEIR HOME FIELDS MAY FEEL SAD ABOUT HAVING TO LEAVE THEIR FORMER FIELDS.--Although I wouldn't doubt that some of them are glad because it was pretty tough in some places. But things are going to get tough at home too. Jobs are going to be difficult & conditions are going to be difficult & even getting welfare is going to be difficult. Facing relatives in the System again is going to be difficult for some. They're going to be asking a lot of questions.
         2. YOU MIGHT BE ASKED SOME EMBARRASSING QUESTIONS, & I would like to know what kind of answers you've been able to give that seem to satisfy. The authorities can't just throw you out, but it looks to me like in some cases they might be apt to throw you IN!
         3. BUT IN SOME WAYS IT MIGHT EVEN BE EASIER BECAUSE YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO GET SUPPORT EASIER , or there may be more freedom than you had back on your former field. There are a few things that are going to be easier, but there are a few things that are going to be harder. So I'd like to see a report from you home fields. (See the "HOME FIELD SURVEY," No.2493.)
         4. WHAT ARE THE PROBLEMS YOU'RE FACING? What are the difficulties? What are the successes? What are the things to do & not to do in coming home?--What to say & what not to say.

HOME SCHOOLING TIPS, TESTIMONIES & CAUTIONS!

         5. (MARIA: AND BE CAREFUL HOW YOU TREAT YOUR KIDS!) Yes, that's an important point. What about the schooling, etc.?
         6. AT LEAST WE ARE ALREADY ADVISING THEM THAT THEY SHOULD PROCEED MORE OR LESS THE SAME AS THEY'VE BEEN PROCEEDING ON THEIR FOREIGN FIELDS. Set up a home for yourself & your family. Have your children in home schooling, or cooperate with other Homes in establishing schools for your children.
         7. WHEN I WAS TEACHING SCHOOL IN CALIFORNIA, I WAS SURPRISED AT HOW LENIENT THE LAWS WERE ABOUT FORMING YOUR OWN SCHOOL. The only requirements for a private school in California at that time were that you had to have sufficient space & equipment & teachers & textbooks. You had to have enough teachers & you had to have textbooks which paralleled the subjects taught in the public schools. You had to teach basically the same kind of curriculum, at least the same basic studies that the public schools were studying. And you had to keep the same quantity of hours, preferably the same hours as the public schools.--And that was all.
         8. THE TEACHERS WERE NOT EVEN REQUIRED TO HAVE CREDENTIALS. They preferred, of course, that they have college educations & credentials in teaching, if possible, but it wasn't required.
         9. SO, THEY'RE VERY LENIENT ABOUT PRIVATE SCHOOLS IN SOME PLACES. Of course, one reason for that was because the parents weren't given any tax breaks for starting a private school. They were given absolutely no help from the government. You still had to pay taxes to support the public schools, even if you took your kids out of them!
         10. THEY EVEN MAKE HOME-SCHOOLED KIDS REGISTER WITH PUBLIC SCHOOLS, it's kind of like registering for the Draft.--Nothing may happen right away, but they want to know who's there & how many & how old & whatnot, & therefore, you suspect that eventually you're probably going to be called up, especially in time of war!
         11. THEY DON'T INSIST THAT KIDS GET REGISTERED FOR NOTHING. They have some kind of PLAN, & you know the Antichrist will have a plan whereby he gets control of the education of ALL, & no doubt eventually they won't be so lenient as they were in the days when we had private schools, church schools, etc.

HOW TO SURVIVE & CARRY ON IN YOUR HOME FIELD!

         12. OUR PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING BACK HOME DON'T HAVE TO STOP WORKING FOR THE LORD. They don't have to give up the Lord's Work. We ministered in the United States for years before we ever went anywhere else! We thrived & grew & boomed right there at home, right where they are now.--Same places, same message, same ministry, same tactics, only they may not be able to be quite as wild & woolly & annoying with demonstrations & protests & sit-downs & sit-ins & pickets & all of that other stuff we used to do that the kids loved in those days!
         13. (Maria: It's a little hard not to let on because of our big families nowadays. We're some of the few people that have such big families, especially with two or three families living together in one place.
         14. (WE CAN SORT OF CHANGE OR TONE DOWN OUR MESSAGE & CHANGE SOME OF OUR METHODS.) But we cannot change our communal living, that's what helps keep us ALIVE!--Both economically & for schooling & fellowship & all of the rest.

USE WISDOM WITH YOUR NEIGHBOURS!

         15. NOW, THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THE NEIGHBOURHOOD YOU'RE GOING TO GET INTO WITH YOUR LITTLE ONE-HOUSE COMMUNE OF TWO OR THREE FAMILIES IS GOING TO NECESSARILY BE VERY THANKFUL that you're there & help you & accept you without any prejudice or problems!
         16. SO, IF I WERE YOU, I'D TRY TO KEEP IT DOWN AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE & OUT OF SIGHT so you'd be out of sight & out of mind. Especially don't be an annoyance to your NEIGHBOURS in any way by noise or meetings or singing or any kind of activities that are apt to annoy them & make you a nuisance & a pest, disturbing the peace! There are all kinds of laws they can spring on you.--"You're violating the zoning. You're not supposed to have more than so many people in this house." Or, "You're not supposed to have meetings here." All you can do is try.

ABSTAIN FROM ALL APPEARANCE OF EVIL!--ESPECIALLY REGARDING YOUR CHILDREN!

         17. (MARIA: THEY MIGHT EVEN TRY TO CHARGE YOU WITH CHILD ABUSE FOR HAVING TOO MANY KIDS LIVING IN ONE HOUSE.) Yes, just because they think you've got too many kids living in the house.--Or if they think the conditions are too poor in your Home. Don't let'm catch you with such poor conditions that everybody's sleeping on the floor. They're apt to go & look in your pantry & see how much food you've got or look in your fridge, things like that. So watch out about that.
         18. (MARIA: AND WATCH OUT IF THE BOYS & GIRLS ARE LIVING IN THE SAME ROOM.) Children? (Maria: Yes.) Imagine!--Good night! When I was a kid, in every big family, there were three or four kids sleeping together in a bed, boys & girls.--But not NOW!--They scream, "Child abuse, sexual abuse, blah blah blah! We don't know, we can't prove it, but it LOOKS like it!"
         19. OF COURSE, WITH US THEY WOULD LOVE TO USE THAT AS AN EXCUSE TO TRY & TAKE OUR CHILDREN AWAY. I'm sure that's why the Devil has raised this big issue today, this trying to get children away from Christian parents by one excuse or another.--Poor living conditions, possible child abuse situation, the children protest it's not but, "There's the potential. There's the possibility, the situation where it could happen."--God help us!
         20. BUT ANYWAY, WE'LL JUST HAVE TO DO THE BEST WE CAN, THAT'S ALL. [F]ind some city that's liberal enough where the situation is not that bad.

GO TO THE LIBERAL AREAS!

         21. APPARENTLY THERE ARE PARTS OF EUROPE & NORTH AMERICA THAT ARE MUCH MORE LIBERAL THAN OTHER PARTS, where the laws about schools & home teaching & all that sort of thing are much more relaxed than in neighbouring countries or states. So you're just going to have to find out which place is best for YOU & YOUR particular situation. There are certain countries of Europe that are much more liberal than others. The funny thing about it is that most of them seem to be the NORTHERNMOST parts of Europe, like the Scandinavian countries & even England & the rest of the UK.
         22. BUT THE FURTHER SOUTH YOU GET, THE MORE CATHOLIC THEY ARE & THE MORE CONSERVATIVE THEY ARE. They have fought us the most in the Southern countries of Europe, but the Northern tier of European countries seem to have been the most liberal & the most lenient in some ways.
         23. (MARIA: THE FUNNY THING ABOUT IT IS THAT SOME PLACES THAT ARE THE MOST LIBERAL IN ONE THING, like education, for example, are the TOUGHEST on ANOTHER thing, like child discipline, for example. In some of the Scandinavian countries, any kind of corporal punishment is completely out.) You can't spank your child at all. (Maria: So our folks need to do some research.) Right. You've got to be cautious about these things. (See the "School Compulsory Ages & Home School Permission" chart in FSM 133, No. American Supplement.)
         24. BUT GENERALLY SPEAKING, THOSE NORTHERN COUNTRIES LIKE BRITAIN & SCANDINAVIA, ETC., ARE AT LEAST MORE LENIENT ON SOME THINGS. The same holds true of many of the Northern States in North America, the Northern U.S. & Canada, they're more liberal in many ways than some of the States in the conservative South. Of course, they're ALL getting stirred up about this child abuse issue, which I think is the Devil's own trap to try to falsely accuse & trap us!
         25. SO "WALK IN WISDOM TOWARDS THEM THAT ARE WITHOUT!--And be WISE as SERPENTS & HARMLESS as DOVES!"--Col.4:5; Mat.10:16. Amen? GBY! WLY & PFY! HOMEGOERS BEWARE!


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