Preparedness Club

This week is incredibly busy, trying to get the Preparedness Club off the ground as well as a few life issues to attend to. Today I want to give a quick update on the Preparedness Club and give a preparedness tip I learned while taking CERT.

All of the information made available to you today will continue to be free. The Preparedness Club is a separate venture that will act like a coupon book of sorts. There were some emails wondering about the price. We’ve decided to charge $40 per year or $4 per month. If money is tight and you want to take advantage of some of the discounts, save up! When you’re ready to make some purchases, join for a month and then cancel your account if you choose. We’re scrambling to get the finishing touches done and I am really hoping to have it running on 4-15, but it might end up the following week.

Below is a list of the companies who have agreed to support the Preparedness Club.

Ready Made Resources
LPC Survival (AKA The Berkey Guy)
AlertsUSA
Camping Survival
Portable Solar Power Biz
Lucky Gunner
Prepare NOW Outfitters
Mother Earth Products
Minimus.biz
Paladin Press
Quick Stove
Best Prices Storable Foods (AKA Internet Grocer)
Ready Reserve Food
Deepwood Handcraft
First Aid Products
Paracord City

Members will also receive 50% off on all future Prepared Christian eBooks. I am going to try and do 1-2 per year.

I will continue to reach out to companies to try and get the Preparedness Club more discounts and deals. If you have a company you would like to join the list of supporting companies, please let me know. If you have an eBook and would like to offer it at a reduced price, please let me know about that as well.

One of the other benefits of joining is that I will be giving away a minimum of one item a month to Preparedness Club members. All members will be automatically entered, a member is limited to winning one giveaway per year, in order to “spread the wealth” so to speak.

Some of the giveaways so far are: the Total Home Prep Now DVD, multiple preparedness and survival related books from Paladin Press, a copy of “Making the Best of Basics”, a Midland weather radio and more.

Thank you to everyone who entered the contest to receive one year of a free membership to the Preparedness Club, i have selected a winner and will contact them later today or possibly tomorrow.

Off Grid Survival

Rob from Off Grid Survival sent me a few questions about preparedness and faith and posted them as a Q/A. For those interested, you can find his column here: “Is Preparedness Biblical? A Talk with Chris Ray of Prepared Christian”.

Cribbing

Cribbing is a skill that I learned in CERT. I have since seen a few other ways to do it. Cribbing is something you would use if there was someone trapped under something very heavy. It involves a lever, a fulcrum, and supports durable enough to take the weight of the object you are trying raise. Here is a

This is a skill that could come in handy after severe weather or an auto accident, among other scenarios. Unfortunately, it isn’t something that I can explain very well just with text. Below are two resources, one directly from CitizenCorps.gov. The other is a video taken from one CERT training class. Many fire departments have pneumatic means of cribbing that can lift very heavy objects, but there could be a scenario where the fire department is overloaded and you may not have access to their means for quite some time.

You’ll notice in the video, they have perfectly cut cribbing. In a storm, you may have to make do with whatever is on scene.

CERT Leveraging and Cribbing. (Click the next button once done reading the text.)

I occasionally have a couple ideas for articles that are too short for me to post by themselves and I don’t want to send more than one email on an update per day, to keep you from feeling spammed. When this happens, I’ll just string them together and make one blog post, with one email going out.

I mentioned last week that I would be launching a premium membership that I’m calling “The Preparedness Club”. Today, I want to give you a little more information about it. This will be one way to support the Prepared Christian Ministry. I’ve been asked a few times about a donation button. After careful consideration and prayer, I have decided to include one, but I also want to have the Preparedness Club as an option to give something back to you.

This is where the cool part comes in; I have approached companies that offer goods and services in the preparedness market place and so far, 17 have offered discounts. My goal was to try and get you a discount on any product that you might want to buy and I’ve come close! From ammo, many kinds of food storage, water purification, paracord, first aid, and books; if you purchase items from the companies who have offered discounts, the Preparedness Club will save you money.

The Preparedness Club will have one giveaway a month, minimum. Some of the items so far are: a Midland weather radio, the Total Home Prep Now DVD’s, books from Paladin Press, and more.

For those of you not interested in The Preparedness Club, I haven’t forgotten about you. I have some giveaways planned for you as well. I hope to launch the Preparedness Club next week, or the week after at the latest. To celebrate I am going to give away a one year membership, to enter either fill out the form below, or send an email with the subject of Preparedness Club to chris (at) preparedchristian (dot) net and let me know that you would like to enter.

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Keeping In Touch With Prepared Christian

If you’re someone who uses Facebook or Google Reader to stay up to date, you might need to make some changes. It seems Google has decided to shut down Google Reader on July 1, 2013. If you use them to read my RSS or any RSS feed, you’ll want to find another reader.

Over the last months, Facebook has changed how updates are received. They want to charge companies for advertising, so only a small segment of people actually see my updates via Facebook. For example, as of the time of this writing, my last two posts have only been viewed by 101 and 185 people, respectively.

To make sure you see every update, it has been recommended that you create an “interest” list. I’ll give the steps below.

First, go to the page you want to create an interest list for. For this example, I went to Camping Survival.

Hover over the “like” button and click on “New List”.

Click the “Next List” button on the bottom right.

Name the new list and click “Done”

Your new Interest list will show up on the left hand side of Facebook.

Bulletproof Mind

I have recently discovered something some of you might already be familiar with; The Bulletproof Mind from Lt. Col. Dave Grossman. Lt. Col. Grossman travels 300 days a year, giving The Bulletproof Mind lecture but it is also available on DVD.

Here is what is mentioned about Lt. Col. Grossman and the Bulletproof Mind on the USCCA website, where you can also watch a video and purchase the Bulletproof Mind DVD.

“Most of the people in our society are sheep. They are kind, gentle, productive creatures who can only hurt one another by accident.” I mean nothing negative by calling them sheep. To me it is like the pretty, blue robin’s egg. Inside it is soft and gooey but someday it will grow into something wonderful. But the egg cannot survive without its hard blue shell. Police officers, soldiers, and other warriors are like that shell, and someday the civilization they protect will grow into something wonderful. But they need warriors to protect them from the predators.

Then there are the wolves, and the wolves feed on the sheep without mercy. Do you believe there are wolves out there who will feed on the flock without mercy? You better believe it. There are evil men in this world and they are capable of evil deeds. The moment you forget that or pretend it is not so, you become a sheep. There is no safety in denial.

Then there are sheepdogs, and I’m a sheepdog. I live to protect the flock and confront the wolf.

If you have no capacity for violence then you are a healthy productive citizen, a sheep. If you have a capacity for violence and no empathy for your fellow citizens, then you have defined an aggressive sociopath, a wolf. But what if you have a capacity for violence, and a deep love for your fellow citizens? What do you have then? A sheepdog, a warrior – someone who is walking the hero’s path – someone who can walk into the heart of darkness, into the universal human phobia, and walk out unscathed.”

I had read the above years ago, but wasn’t aware of The Bulletproof Mind. I will be attending the seminar this fall. I cannot wait! If you consider yourself a fellow sheepdog, you might consider checking out the seminar or buying the DVD. You can see Lt. Col. Grossman’s bio here and his calendar here. As I mentioned, you can find out more about the DVD at the USCCA website.

I will be giving my thoughts on the seminar afterward. Did I mention I was really looking forward to this?!

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