Beliefs

Our activities proclaim charity, compassion, understanding, and love towards all peoples, nations, kindreds and tongues. We are true friends to all people everywhere.

We strive to teach true and correct principles that lift and inspire others to greater heights of positive personal and professional achievement. First and foremost we are people builders.

We believe that we are spiritual beings experiencing and learning from a physical life rather than physical beings trying to develop a spiritual life.

We seek to create an atmosphere that promotes and teaches growth and prosperity in all areas of life: mental, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, social, physical and financial.

We do not believe in the concept of scarcity, i.e., that there is a finite amount of fixed and unchanging resources in the world. We believe that there is enough and more resources for all of the world and its people. (We simply have yet to grasp and understand most of these resources.) God has not created a world of fixed and limited resources in which one person's gain will require another person's loss. Our only limit is our failure to understand and properly use the gifts, knowledge, materials, and tools that God has given us.

We believe in the free agency of all people everywhere, wherein that agency is tempered by love, respect and charity towards others. Gain should never be acquired by unknowing or involuntary loss on the part of another. We believe that the only true and lasting way for all to prosper is through knowledgeable win-win actions.

We teach a lifestyle of family unity, focused direction, positive goals, and uplifting achievement.

We teach others how to develop a personal and family lifestyle of safety and security that prepares them to meet any future without fear.

We practice and teach provident living.

We strive to teach others about themselves and their relationship with the world around them, particularly in winter, cold weather, and emergency situations. We trust that our students will be more functional, reliable, and safe, especially in the cold, snow, winter, and all types of emergencies and disasters. We do not want them to just endure the cold or survive a crises, but to find joy and adventure in it (even at its most severe) through heightened awareness, acute understanding, relevant knowledge, and appropriate skills. It is also our wish that our students pass this understanding and joy onto others and thereby magnify our efforts.

We believe that life is an adventure to be experienced and enjoyed to its fullest. There is no doubt that tomorrow will come and there is no dispute that "things" happen, but how you are prepared to meet tomorrow will make all the difference in the world. If you are prepared for the worst, then no matter what happens, it will be an adventure.

We believe that there is no tragedy in the loss of wealth, possessions, health, or even life. Although loss of these things can be painful, inconvenient, or life changing, there is only tragedy in losing who you are, what you stand for, and where you are going.

We strive to make a permanent positive difference in the lives of individuals and families and thereby societies and nations.

We believe that in some measure, both great and small, the world will be a better place for our having passed through here. In this manner we have become a tool in the Master's hand.

Jim Phillips, (1992) Rev. Oct. 2006