Leave about one centimeter between your foot and the edges of the tire slab so that your developing sandal will not be too tight or too big. Similarly, cut from the tire, thin shreds that will save as straps for your sandals and nail them to the sole of your new sandal. Now, you have your summer sandals.

Experiment and see if you can safely harvest grasses from the marshes to stump into a paste that you could process into a paint. The children could thus paint the car tire sandals that they produce in their Community Youth Club to create different colors and sell the sandals to the members of their community as well as grow a market base involving other communities beyond their own villages.

Do the same in creating your school writing supplies and other items needed for your school-based or church-based education, with the guidance of your respected adults. You could create clay tablets to write on; limestone chalk to write with; charcoal pencils from your family fireplaces and writing paper from river reeds that you stump into a mush and spread into a thin paste on trays made of wood.

Experiment until you have paper to write on, made right there, in your village.

You could also collaborate on building nice huts for each family, where children can live with dignity, in the countryside, in small towns, or in the city.

While these are great ideas, the Honorable Lord Holy Spirit’s philosophy of life and business seems to be taking us from modernized ways of doing things, going backward to antiquated methods of producing items that we need. Making clay tablets and charcoal pencils? We could just purchase paper, pens, and pencils from the nearest store and save time. These items are plentiful in the stores and are more convenient because they are cheap.

Well said in this counter argument. Nevertheless, according to the philosophy of life and doing business that the Lord offers here as a sustainable alternative, communities and nations that don’t know how to make the items that they need to live by will always be dependent on distant people to guide them on how to live, sometimes destroying their cultures; sometimes stealing their lands and mineral wealth; because the local people never taught themselves how to produce these things to meet their own local needs.

The same can be said regarding growing the food that your families and communities need to live healthy lives. Growing vegetables and fruits in your fields and gardens for local use and for you to serve as suppliers for boarding schools and hospitals; as well as being suppliers for town supermarkets. This is a great way to build economic wealth for yourselves and for your nation.