THE CHILDCARE REVOLUTION!                 DO 330B                   4/75
        
         1. YOU SHOULD BE THANKFUL WHEN YOU DON'T HEAR FROM ME PERSONALLY because then you probably haven't done anything too bad, whereas the people who have to hear from me personally have usually gotten into a pretty bad state & need a real bawling out!
         2. Like the Lord, I keep asking & pleading & admonishing & finally warning, & then I go silent--& if you wanna know what that means, read about it in your "Sun Signs" book on what to watch out for when an Aquarian suddenly goes silent!--It's like the ominous calm before the violent storm, or the deathly silence of a volcano just before it's about to explode!--And woe be unto those who stand in the way!
         3. IT'S LIKE THE WAY I'VE BEEN HAMMERING AWAY AGAINST THOSE BIG BLOBS for the past several years with Letter after Letter after Letter to which very few have paid the slightest bit of attention any more than if I were blowing a pleasant little breeze!
         4. ALL THEY SAY IS, "THAT WAS A HEAVY LETTER!"--"THAT NEARLY BLEW OUR MINDS!"--"That sure was the truth!" "Thanks for getting on our case, Dad!--We're really trying to do what you say!"--And then they go right on doing exactly as they have been before, just as though I'd never said a word, & I might as well have saved my breath!
         5. I'VE LOST COUNT OF THE NUMBER OF LETTERS I'VE NOW WRITTEN ON DECENTRALISATION, breaking up the Blobs, the advantages of small Homes, scatteration, democratisation & less dictatorship, with freedom & independence for our kids to operate locally according to their own faith & follow God according to their own personal individual leadings in each specific case according to the local situation.
         6. IN FACT, IT WAS JUST SUCH A SITUATION THAT INSPIRED THE FIRST REAL MO LETTER: "FOR GOD'S SAKE, FOLLOW GOD!" (SEE NO.4)--A request for a LOCAL problem had been asked for by Jeth about something at TSC when I was clear on the other side of the World in Rome on our first European survey tour 'way back in 1970!--And it seems I've had to constantly keep writing on the same subject ever since!
         7. WHEN WILL WE EVER GET THE POINT OF GENUINE INDIGENUITY?--That the LOCAL people should make their own LOCAL decisions about LOCAL problems & GOVERN themselves LOCALLY as well as support themselves, do their own witnessing, win their own disciples, pioneer their own areas & take care of themselves & their own kids without dictates from us from halfway around the World!
         8. I'VE BEEN HARPING ON THIS SAME TUNE SO MUCH & FOR SO LONG everyone must surely be weary of it by this time, & are probably feeling much like God's unheeding children of old when they said of Malachi's message & God's service: "What a weariness!...Wherein have we done all these things?...Were they ashamed?--Nay, they could not even blush!"--Mal.3:7-14; Jer.6:15.
         9. THEY HAD BECOME SO CALLOUSED TO THE ADMONITIONS OF GOD & had resisted them & disobeyed them so long, that they didn't even understand what He was talking about any more because their consciences were so hardened, having resisted the Truth so long.
         10. SO THEY WERE ACTUALLY OFFENDED BY GOD'S SCOLDINGS & felt that He was being unjust & unfair to them, & they didn't even see what they had done to deserve it, they were so blind by this time! They couldn't even see where they'd done anything wrong!
         11. SO FINALLY GOD JUST GOT TIRED OF TALKING TO THEM & shut up & didn't say another thing to them for three hundred years until His wrath finally boiled over in such an explosion that they were almost destroyed following their crowning crime of crucifying Christ!--His last Word to them!
         12. EVEN SO, MY LETTERS ON SOME OF THESE SUBJECTS HAVE BECOME SO REPETITIVE that each begins to have a familiar ring, & I begin to wonder, "Haven't I said that before?"--And I surely have!--MANY times before!--Until I've grown tired of saying it because nobody seems to be listening!
         13. THEY'VE OBEYED ABOUT SOME THINGS, BUT CONTINUE TO LEAVE THE OTHERS UNDONE, such as breaking up the Blobs, decentralising control, scattering our manpower into all the World to pioneer new countries & win more disciples with the Gospel to every creature!
         14. SO I JUST FELL SILENT FOR AWHILE, wondering what to do about it, until I finally decided they just didn't know HOW & I would have to do it FOR them by spelling it out SPECIFICALLY for them in no uncertain terms!
         15. SO I FINALLY EXPLODED IN THIS LATEST SERIES of Letters on "The New Revolution" telling them exactly how to do it, & that if they didn't I was going to crack the rod & excommunicate them from my Letters, which they refused to heed!
         16. I HAVE EXPLAINED TO THEM IN DETAIL EXACTLY HOW TO REORGANISE for better COOPERATION & better training of LEADERSHIP & better economy of MANPOWER by spreading out the load & pushing more responsibility down from the top & forcing up more leadership up from the bottom.
         17. I HAVE TOLD THEM EXACTLY HOW TO BREAK UP THOSE BIG BLOB HOMES into pioneer teams to evangelise the World.--And I have as good as told them that if they refuse to do it this time, I would have nothing further to do with them & they would be removed from the mailing list & no longer considered a part of the Revolution until they did!
         18. IT'S ANOTHER DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE--MY OWN!--From THEM if they will not OBEY! I am determined that this is either going to MAKE us or BREAK us, as I did in many past such declarations.
         19. THUS FAR, THANK THE LORD, EACH NEW DECLARATION HAS RESULTED IN A NEW & GREATER EXPLOSION into new & greater efforts to reach the whole World & every creature!--And I'm trusting God that if they will obey this time, too, that this NEW shove from me & the Lord will push us AGAIN into MORE HOMES in MORE COUNTRIES with MORE DISCIPLES than ever before to reach the WHOLE World & EVERY creature!
         20. IN CASE YOU MISSED THE POINT OF "THE NEW REVOLUTION", THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT! As you can see by these latest Letters on the same, we have exploded the myth that there needs to be such tight controls by so few at the top in any area or department of our work. We are now insisting that LOCAL affairs of ALL kinds be handled ONLY at the local level & not dictated by someone ten thousand miles away!
         21. THE NEW LEADERSHIP WILL BE MORE NUMEROUS IN NUMBER SO THAT NO LOAD WILL BE TOO GREAT on any single pair of shoulders & we shall be able to get on immediately with the serious & difficult task of evangelising the WHOLE World at the LOCAL level with the mere help & supervision of those above, with the primary source of counsel & guidance coming from the Lord's Own LETTERS & not a few dictatorial individuals!
         22. THE DEPARTMENT, FOR EXAMPLE, FORMERLY KNOWN AS CHILDCARE WILL NOW BE CALLED FAMILY SERVICES because we believe that the MOTHERS & FATHERS & MARITAL RELATIONSHIPS need care too!
         23. BUT THE CARE THEY NEED IS NOT PERSONAL, DIRECT, DICTATORIAL DICTATION in each individual case by personal letters from someone at the top thousands of miles away to someone at the bottom in every little case of some baby with a runny nose!
         24. THE LITTLE LOCAL MOTHER IS NO LONGER TO HAVE TO ASK WHAT TO DO FROM SOMEONE THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY from whom she could not possibly get an answer before her personal emergency is long past & the child has already survived it by several months!--Or has NOT survived it, as has sadly occurred in some cases while waiting for a decision from the top!
         25. WE ARE NOW INSISTING THAT THESE LOCAL NEEDS & EMERGENCIES BE HANDLED LOCALLY where they SHOULD be by the LOCAL shepherds in charge & the LOCAL medical services involved without any consultation whatsoever with anyone at all any further away who is not actually ON THE SCENE & who could not possibly know enough about what is going on to be of much help or know what kind of a decision to make!
         26. THE PARENTS THEMSELVES MUST MAKE THEIR OWN DECISIONS under the counsel & guidance of their own local Shepherd & local Family Service Mothers with the help of the local System's own MEDICAL SERVICES, IMMEDIATELY & ON THE SPOT, & NOT by emergency long-distance phone calls to someone hundreds or thousands of miles away who knows nothing about the situation & has absolutely no right to make any decision about it whatsoever, much less by lengthy, time-consuming personal correspondence!
         27. FURTHERMORE, ALL SUPERVISION OF LOCAL FAMILIES, CHILDREN, HOMES ETC., IS NOW TO BE DONE ENTIRELY BY THE LOCAL OFFICERS who are to be held responsible for them, & not by some distant official or little secretary thousands of miles away reading every little individual report of someone who is absolutely none of his or her business!
         28. AS WITH HOME REPORTS & ALL OTHER REPORTS FROM NOW ON, THESE ARE ONLY TO BE LOCALLY READ & handled & administrated by the LOCAL officials involved without any interference or further meddling in their LOCAL affairs by high-handed officials thousands of miles away!
         29. IT'S A NEW DAY & THERE'S TO BE A NEW WAY, & THE OLD ONE IS NO MORE! I never liked it anyhow & I've been trying to get away from it for years, & our new Revolutionary Government, Chain-of-Cooperation & Plan of Reporting & who's to read these reports & be responsible for supervising these local situations is going to be totally different from now on, the way we have been TRYING to make it for YEARS!
         30. OLD BOTTLE-IN-A-RUT LEADERSHIP AT THE TOP HAS USUALLY STOOD IN THE WAY so their positions have had to be changed & their power reduced so they could no longer stand in the way of the wheels of progress, including you & yours--for which you should be very thankful!
         31. SO THE NEW FAMILY SERVICES WILL NO LONGER BE AN ADMINISTRATIVE BODY receiving & reading personal individual reports directly from mothers all over the Earth & personally trying to reply to every single one & make decisions thousands of miles away!
         32. THE NEW FAMILY SERVICES OFFICE WILL HAVE NO PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE TOP WITH THE HOMES or lower level "Home Mothers" whatsoever. Reports & correspondence at the local level will be handled entirely by the local supervisory officers involved.
         33. THERE WILL BE ABSOLUTELY NO ADMINISTRATIVE GOVERNMENT FROM THE TOP other than through the normal Chain-of-Cooperation through the normal channels from level to level. g
         34. TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE & MANY HEADS ARE FAR BETTER YET, & we do not believe that all the rules have to be the same for everybody everywhere! So there may be a very great variety of opinion expressed democratically by many mothers, midwives & Family Services experts from many sources, not only our own but also from many good books on the subject.
         35. WE HAVE WOEFULLY FAILED OUR OWN PARENTS & THEIR CHILDREN & have a whole new generation growing up with very little help, advice or information from us, although they live in a totally different type of community & life from most of the rest of the World & need specific instruction on how to survive & thrive under the conditions of such communal living & its ministry.
         36. THEREFORE, WE HOPE THAT OUR SOON-COMING FAMILY SERVICES PUBLICATIONS will not only deal with the physical aspects of Family care under Home conditions, but also the many spiritual problems entailed. (Ed: TTL! This vision has now been fulfilled; with many childcare volumes & other material since produced by WS.)

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