Acrobatic Network and Economy
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God’s Call on Me to Acrobatics
When I first became a Christian in 1985 I was training as an Elite Mixed Pair in Sports Acrobatics. My coaches, Igor Ashkinazi and Tom Burns (who graciously let me compete with his wife, Jan) led me to Christ when I first began training. After finishing my competition season in 1986, I walked away from the sport to seek the will of God for my life.
At that time I was still working for the Jewish Community Center on St. Charles in New Orleans. I came home from work one night and prayed. What was I to do with my life? While lying in bed, the Lord spoke to my heart and said to teach His Word. That was fine, but how was I to make my living? Then I had a mental image with my eyes closed of Jesus in a long white robe running down a tumbling platform performing a round off back handspring back layout. I thought that was the funniest thing to see. Then I saw an image of the drawing, “The Laughing Jesus” in my mind and He spoke to my heart, “Keep teaching gymnastics, it is a good sport.”
At the leading of the Lord I moved to Dallas to attend Christ for the Nations. There I read Watchman’s Nee, “Spiritual Man” and realized that anything that I did that was not led by the Spirit would be a work of the flesh and would not further the Kingdom of God. Even though I knew that Father had sent me to Bible School, He never told me to be a professional minister. So, after graduating, I went back to coaching gymnastics. I had the opportunity to start an acrobatic team and went back to the Nationals with the first Texas team. That spawned the formation of Texas Acro as a non profit organization to promote acrobatics in Texas.
In 2004 at the last Nationals I attended, the Lord spoke to me again about reaching the acrobatic community. I did not understand what that meant. In 2006 I began my own acrobatic school and did so with the intention of my school being a working ministry, too. All of my students and their families are believers in Christ, with most of them being home school families. Then I realized that my school was the acrobatic community that the Lord was speaking about.
The Acrobatic Network and Acro Business Forum
A few weeks ago I set up the Acrobatic Network through the Ning system of social networking. I did this for two reasons. One, it is an open network for all of the acrobatic community nationwide. Everyone who joins can do so for free simply by registering. Clubs can communicate with each other and share information about the sport and industry. Futhermore, all who join can set up their own club groups which requires registering again, so that each club can keep their groups private to their own clientele. My own business, the Stunt Gym, has already set up a private group for our own needs.
Prior to setting up this network, I had already set up the Acro Business forum through Texas Acro so club owners can share business and coaching ideas with one another to build our industry.
Economics 101
Now we come to the crossroads of faith and industry. We live in an unconstitutional economic system. It is a fiat money system that is controlled by private banking family dynasties. We have all experienced the ups and downs of bull and bear markets, recession and growth. These ups and downs are artificially created by these banking dynasties (in the USA, the Federal Reserve system), in the control of interest rates in loaning us our own money, and in the printing of Federal Reserve notes that we call dollars.
Inflation at its root is created by the amount of dollars that the Treasury Department prints for the Federal Reserve. The value of money is increased by its scarcity and decreased by its abundance, which is the basic law of supply and demand. Constitutionally, we are supposed to function on a gold standard. Metal is limited as a resource, hence keeps its value. But we came off the gold standard domestically with FDR and internationally with Nixon. When that occurred we went to a fiat money system that is based upon nothing but how much money is printed.
We mistakenly think that our dollars are US currency, so the amount printed will be limited to the needs of this country. However, in 1944 the Bretton Woods Agreement was made in Connecticut by the international banking communities and the heads of states internationally. They agreed that the Federal Reserve Note would be the international currency used in the sale of oil and petroleum products. So, the amount of Federal Reserve Notes printed is enormous because they are scattered around the world.
The economic collapse that we are facing is not limited to the USA, but will be global because all the world is tied to this system. It is forgotten that the Great Depression of the 1930′s was a global depression because the central banking system was set up all over the world. There are some significant differences between then and now, however. At that time the banks were all on the gold standard. What that means is that people actually brought gold into the banks for deposit, then the banks gave them receipts for the gold (Federal Reserve Notes). Our grand parents’ generation got wind that the banks were handing out more receipts than gold that was actually deposited. So many wanted their gold back, which was the run on the banks that forced the banking holiday declared by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Then using the authority of executive order, which came from martial law declared by Abraham Lincoln, FDR confiscated everyone’s gold.
Today, we can not have a run on the bank, apart from trying to collect the receipts (dollars) and cash out. Because there is no gold, they will simply print enough receipts to prevent panic. And there is the good chance that many of these nations will want to dump the dollar for Euros or some other currency which glut our nation with more dollars. The increase of dollars would increase the cost of everything since the value of the dollar will diminish even further, creating hyper inflation.
The natural response of the government to quell the cry of these outrageous price increases will be to impose price controls. Price controls force manufacturers to sell below cost of manufacturing suffering loss. Their response will be to stop manufacturing, thus causing shortages of goods and scarcities.
Kingdom Economics
The day is soon coming when we may have to make the decision to accept the Mark of the Beast. Without this mark you will not be able to buy or sell. What will we do? We need to establish an alternative economy now. There already is an underground economy and this is what I wish to encourage my customers and my peers in the industry to consider.
We all have been duped into functioning completely in the banker’s system which controls the entire economy. We have been conditioned to think inside the box and need to start thinking outside the box. Here is an example of when I saw how God could take care of me outside the box. When I first came to Christ, I got fired for praying in the name of Jesus at the Jewish Community Center. I sought God to take care of me by providing me with another job. Instead He prompted a brother who owned several unoccupied duplexes to allow me to stay for free for as long as I wanted. It never occurred to me that God could remove an expense instead of increasing my income. God took me out my my box with that experience.
The Stunt Gym group within the Network has been set up so families within my school may contact one another to help each other out. I am not talking about giving each other freebies, although there is a place for that, but to interconnect in offering services to one another. Services that can either be paid by money, bartering, or swapping services.
We should be leaders in the business world. We should not be employees, but the employers. I want to encourage everyone in my school to think as entrepreneurs. For example, one parent found a whole bag of leotards on ebay for a low price. I want her to sell them to my kids, with me taking a commission, for $10 or $15 dollars each. New leos can easily cost $65 and up. My families all save money, I make money and the mother makes money.
But we have to network together to discover the options available. So I encourage all my families to join the Acrobatic Network, all clubs in Texas, and nationwide.
