"TEACHING THE CHILDREN" DREAM!
DO 2845 2/93
1. I had a wonderful dream! We were on a beach and we had all these different children's classes going on. It was just like we were camping out. We just had tarps and curtains dividing the different classes, but you could go and look over into each class at what was going on. The teachers were volunteers of different ages, they weren't very trained or educated, but they were doing a good job. They were all really going at it, and the kids were really listening, fascinated! Some of the teachers were teens, including David and Techi.
2. We were walking down the beach and saw these two little toddlers playing around, away all on their own, and the face of one of them was real dirty. It was the son of somebody important, like Fred Jordan's little boy, and I fussed at him, "What are you doing out here? How come you're not in class, and how come you're all dirty?" He knew he was being naughty. And we grabbed them both and took them over to the classes and fussed at the teachers for letting them get away and get all messed up, and stuck them back in class.
3. Then somebody else was working on the beach; a couple of young people were laying gravel, making a gravel walk along a straight line down the beach by the street.
4. Everybody was very busy, and the main thing of the dream was the kids and teaching the kids. And I thought of all the things they'd need, such as more literature, and more working materials, like workbooks and teaching materials. That was the most important thing they needed. The most important thing they had to do was to teach the kids, and the most important things they needed to have were workbooks and teaching materials for them to work on. (Mama: Were you thinking about scholastics or Word?) Both!--All kinds of teaching and education.
5. This was right out in such a public place, right on a beach like Miami or someplace, and all the public was passing by, looking in at these classes going on, and they were very impressed. It was like our children's schooling was the most important thing there was, as well as materials for them to learn with. (Mama: It could be symbolic of how our Homes are getting so much more open now and the public is scrutinizing our schooling.) Exactly. And that materials for them to work with are the most important kind of literature we need, and they shouldn't neglect their little rascals and let them be running around just playing on the beach and getting dirty on their own. Everybody had to be in class, everybody had to be taught.
6. One of the most important jobs our teens can be trained for is teaching our little ones. I was a Sunday school teacher when I was about 12. I was teaching 8- and 9-year-olds, from the time I was about 12 to 14, and I really took it seriously and I really made it work.
7. The most important thing we have to do right now is to train our children and supply them with all the materials they need--workbooks and whatever else they have to have. We can buy workbooks for the standard subjects that are already made; we don't have time to make them. And in the meantime we can be working on workbooks for our own subjects. We've got to do it right now!
8. We've got to put on a drive, a crash course to train our kids so that no matter what happens to them, they'll be able to stand, even if they're taken away from us. We have to have that in mind, that it's urgent, it's an emergency. It's got to be done quickly because we don't have much more time. We've got to spend whatever it takes to get materials for them to work with. It should be our biggest emphasis.
9. They need workbooks; they need the materials that they can work on! They need them right now, so we need to put that first, top priority: teaching the kids and materials to teach them with, and teachers to teach them! Schools are to be our very top priority!
10. Look what our kids have already done in being a witness to the System, a counterattack on our attackers! Our greatest witness is our kids, our schools, our young people!--The teens, demonstrations, activism, protests downtown to the general public and on television, and the witness of our little kids being taught in our schools.
11. There's nothing new about this school vision, of course. I got this revelation over five years ago! (See "The School Vision!" ML #2430.) I said then that schools and teachers and materials and the training of our own children should be our emphasis! We've been doing it, but we've now got to make it top priority, the top emphasis, put top funds into it, top personnel and top accommodations.--Whatever we have to have!
12. Our top priority now is to be our children!--And putting our teenagers to work teaching them.--Helping them feel the responsibility and know what they have to do. And we need to provide whatever they need--the facilities, some support staff, some provisioning, some teaching, outreach, whatever. We still have to do our various ministries, but the top priority has to be put on the kids!
13. We've got to teach them everything--not only scholastics, but Scripture and music and witnessing and everything we need for our task, and we've got to do it now or it'll be too late! We've got to put everybody to work on it. That's top priority--support staff, provisioning staff, outreach, literature, everything we need for the children. The kids come first! That was the burden the Lord gave me as far back as five years ago.
14. (Mama: The teens enjoy caring for the children and they're good at it, but a big desire of theirs right now is to witness. So maybe they can do both.) Yes, of course! Teens need lots of variety. They love to get out there on the witnessing front and do Holy Ghost samples and demonstrations and skits.
15. It was like a little bit of Heaven with all those children there and all those teachers busy teaching them. Even though they had no place but the public beach with little cloth partitions between them, and insufficient materials, they were really socking it to them and the kids were really listening! And these two little rascals were out playing around on their own. They'd been unsupervised and had gotten away somehow, and I really scolded them because they knew they were being naughty, and I pulled them back to the class.
16. Maybe Fred Jordan was like a symbol.--Like it doesn't matter who the important people are, or whose kids they are, they've got to knuckle down and get down to business and behave and obey, and not be thinking they can get away with anything because they're some top person's children. It meant that nobody gets away with anything!
17. Time is short. We don't have much time, we've got to do it now! Tomorrow will be too late. We've got to be able to train our kids to stand on their own against the Devil and all of his demons!
18. We've got to make sure we're taking care of our young people, and be sure we're giving them what they need.--Not only good training in childcare, but in witnessing as well. We don't want to give them so much to do that they can't handle it and become frustrated, but when we do give them responsibilities, we need to give them some authority to go along with it. If they're old enough to do adult jobs, they're old enough to make the decisions that go along with them, whether it be in childcare or witnessing.
19. If you've trained them well, then you should be able to step back and let them do it--just keeping an eye on them, of course, and being there if they need your help. Let's stop treating our older teens and YAs like children, when they're in many cases just as capable and responsible as our older people. They want to grow up! Let's let them! We need to think of what we were doing when we were their age, and loosen up a little and let them burn free. God bless'm! So I guess the emphasis is on all of our kids, from baby up to adult. We've got to take care of them all! Thank You Jesus!
--Are you willing to answer the call?
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