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Agriculture

Preparing to Make the Jump

Alan Seiler

Ricky Seiler

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Lynn Hoag

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Jonathan Dysinger

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Jennifer Dysinger

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Father God, we are thankful to be alive today.

It's a lot of information, Lord, and we just ask that you can impress each 1 of us where we are right now, as far as what the decision is and where you're leading us, what direction you'd like to invite us to go to follow you.

And that may be a little different direction for each 1 of us here.

I just ask in a special way you'd be with us this morning during this first presentation in preparing to make the jump.

I hope it's encouraging, Lord, and most importantly, it lifts you up in the way that you deserve and the honor that you deserve as well, Lord, is our prayer, amen.

Okay, first of all, There's 6 classes that'll be taking place in this room, right, throughout the whole day.

If you like what you see and what's going on here, my son and I, Alan will be in here just a moment, we're doing 2 of the classes.

But you're not obligated to stay in any class, so if you don't like what you're hearing, we won't take it personal.

If you want to go somewhere else, you're welcome to head out.

But you can skip around, so don't feel like you're locked into 1 particular track if you'd like to move around.

First of all, we just want to welcome you.

I'm glad you're even thinking about making the jump.

I can tell you, it can be kind of spooky, okay?

Because most of us, we're going to share a little bit about our journey, okay?

Some of these things may be relative to you, some of them might not be, but at least you kind of get an idea of some of the things we thought through and we continue to think through as we're going through this process, because this is really a journey.

I don't know how that makes people feel, but a lot of us like very concrete.

I want to go here, I want to do this, I want it to work out like this.

Certainly with what we're asking and hoping the Lord is leading us.

But there's a really unique process here.

Today we're going to be talking about this, 4 signs to heed before you make the jump.

Now, Alan is going to be in here, he's helping get some people situated out there, and he'll be in just a few minutes.

But 1 of the things we were going to demonstrate is when you're thinking about preparing to make the jump, maybe a better title for this talk would have been preparing to make a series of small hops.

Instead of 1 big jump, Like I'm living in the city today and tomorrow I'm living in the country.

If you try to make that type of jump, it's probably going to be, well, you'll probably end up back in the city.

Think of it like, you take a hop, you take a hop, and you might actually take a hop backwards.

And then hopefully you take another hop, hop, hop, right?

Because here's the thing, guys, we're not educated to live in the country.

Most of us have been educated to not live in the country.

We don't have the skills to live in the country.

We don't know what it takes to live in the country.

We have not a clue of the first thing to do about growing anything.

You guys may be in a little different area in your life, but we'll just walk you through our little journey.

As you can see there, my wife is on the far right.

Vivian's folks actually don't live with us.

And then our daughter, Aubrey, and then our son, Alan.

I used to work for a hospital organization.

And then about 22 years ago, the Lord was convicting my wife and I.

Our kids were very small at the time they were like 1 and 2, 1 and 3 years old and I don't know we just kind of I can't tell you we had this moment in time where we just all of a sudden just like we need to move the country it really wasn't quite that crystal clear but the Lord was wooing us and we ended up making a transition We used to live in Texas in an urban setting, kind of like a typical housing area where the houses are all close together, and those types of things.

We had an opportunity to take another job that took us to a rural location in Oklahoma.

I never had any interest growing up as a Texan of ever living in Oklahoma.

But the thought is that we made this transition The kids were small, but here's the thing We lived in the country for 13 years before really we ever really put anything in the soil to actually consider growing anything.

I mean, I did kill a few tomato plants in a raised bed garden for a couple of years in a row, but that was about it.

Yeah, we're still good at killing tomatoes.

This is my son, Alan, by the way, he just slipped in.

So the reality was we physically had a home in the country, but we still live very much like somebody in the city.

So it wasn't until Alan was 14 years old that we were down visiting my mom's house, his grandmother's house, and she had in her garage a book, a Black and Decker backyard gardening book.

Basically, I was just in the garage and my grandma put stuff in the garage for us to find.

My parents didn't like us just giving us stuff, so she'd put things in the garage.

She'd say, if you find anything in there, you can take it home, you know, type of thing.

So I was doing my visit search in the garage, and I came upon the book and opened it and it just started introducing some principles like putting things back in the soil I mean it seems so mundane now, but like then it's like oh the soil just doesn't have everything in it You know that's amazing so you know the simplicity of things But yeah, that's that's how I how I got interested so so he got started and Kind of just kind of eventually it ran down the path where We started kind of paying attention to some of the counsel that we had been given as a church that we were totally oblivious to.

I mean I was raised in the Adventist faith.

I went through Adventist schools my entire life.

How could I think about it if I couldn't even think about it?

We're going to show you in here in just a few minutes kind of a little bit about our journey in our garden.

So you can kind of get a sense of what that looked like.

So just to get an idea, we're from Oklahoma, of course.

That's Good to know, since we're in Florida.

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Preparing to Make the Jump

Whoa, Nellie! 4 Must-Haves Before you Make Your Move

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Homesteading Track

Making the Country Move Painfully or with Pleasure?

1h 9m

Level 1 Homesteading and Home Gardening

Too Expensive? How to Find An Affordable Country Home/Farm

1h 5m

Covid and the Little Time of Trouble

46m

Daniel 12 and the 1335 with Q&A

1h 28m

The Powerful Potentials of Homeschool

Setting Priorities and Successful Planning

54m

The Ideal Homestead: Country Living with a Mission

1h 5m

The Doctrine of Personal Ministries

Part 3 - The Church of Acts

1h 18m

Plenary

Tens of Thousands

1h

The Almost Overmastering Delusion

54m

The Mind of Christ

Natural Healing and the Brain

30m

Seminars

Leaving the Cities: Why, When, How?

46m

Signs of the Time

43m

Sound Doctrine