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This is an outline of the 7-part “FAMILY PREP PLAN,” including about 20% of its details/links (most of Personal and Provision).   Once you decide this tremendous resource that will save you DAYS of effort is worth the cost of a couple hamburgers, then the remaining details and links are quickly accessible via the black PREPARE YOUR FAMILY buttons, and emailed password.

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  1. FREE OUTLINE/PERSONAL Heart, Soul, Mind, Strength
  2. FREE OUTLINE/PROVISIONS Real Money, Water, Food
  3. FREE OUTLINE/SHELTER Primary & Fallback
  4. FREE OUTLINE/PHYSICAL Immune, Medical, Conditioning
  5. FREE OUTLINE/EQUIPMENT Individual & Team
  6. FREE OUTLINE/MOBILITY Transportation Assets
  7. FREE OUTLINE/TEAM Family, Friends, Neighbors

1

FREE OUTLINE/PERSONAL Heart, Soul, Mind, Strength

  • Preparation starts with you!  Spiritual preparation of your heart and soul enables your mind to be able to see the truth in a world of lies ruled by the father of lies.    
  • Proper preparation of your heart, soul, and mind will commit you to fulfill your Biblical role in your family, and also enable you to acknowledge and hold fast to the true source of your strength.   
  • Develop a mindset of Extreme Ownership for all that God has called you to steward—your family and everything else for which you are accountable (time, talents, treasure). 
  • If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles” (Sun Tsu).  The Bible is the key to knowing your Enemy, knowing yourself, and NOT FEARING (Joshua 1:9).   
  • HEART AND SOUL—examine yourself:
  • MIND—feeding your mind truth in a world of lies requires discernment.    
    • Bible—Do you see our country through a Biblical lens?   Think about how these verses apply to the US in 2023:
      • Isaiah 8:12  “Do not call conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy, and do not fear what they fear, nor be in dread.”
      • Isaiah 28:15  “…we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter.”
      • Psalm 12:8  “On every side the wicked prowl, as vileness is exalted among the children of man.”
      • Psalm 94:20-21  “Can wicked rulers be allied with you, those who frame injustice by statute?  They band together against the life of the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.”
      • Rev 3:17   “For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.”
    • Books—Our current situation was predicted over a half-century ago by Orwell, Huxley, and Rand.   Their books help explain our predicament…but they don’t help your preps, so save them for after you’ve read a few “practical” books.     
    • Global ministry by Kevin and Kathi Zadai providing preaching, spiritual warfare training, homeschool curricula, regional events, and an accredited Bible college program.
    • “Resolute” men’s ministry providing resources and community to men around the world, daily.
      • Motto is “All In”—Live all in for the one who lived all in for you
      • Free daily email sign up here
    • Quotes to ponder (“there is nothing new under the sun”)
      • “The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.”  George Orwell  
      • “Most people are not just comfortable in their ignorance, but hostile to anyone who points it out.” Plato, The Allegory of the Cave
      • “The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.”   Fyodor Dostoevsky
      • “The first panacea of a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin.”  Ernest Hemingway
  • Heart + Soul + Mind = STRENGTH
    • Proper preparation of your heart, soul, and mind will commit you to fulfill your Biblical role in your family, and also enable you to acknowledge and hold fast to the true source of your strength.  Phil 4:13, Eph 6:10, Psalm 18:1-3

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FREE OUTLINE/PROVISIONS Real Money, Water, Food

  • Think about the WHY—why prepare and stock up on essentials and the means to acquire them?
    • You will have things of real value, when everyone else’s pantries are bare, their BMW’s gas tanks are empty, stock portfolios are worthless, and electricity is off.   
    • Your family will not perish from starvation, thirst, or preventable disease/sickness.
    • You will maintain strength to function and defend.
    • When the Government is handing out “free” food as your “savior” in exchange for your liberty, you can remain free.
    • You can outlast all the people who did not adequately plan.   In suburban and urban areas, within 30 days of a real grid-down SHTF event, most people will be starved and very weak; 60 days, dead.   Until then, they’ll also be desperate, which will why you need the “Shelter” and “Equipment” sections after “Provision.”   
    • You will have something to give out as charity.
    • You will survive, thrive, and continue to fulfill Matthew 28:19-20.    
  • Money and barter
    • If you have the right money, you can probably get what you need, even if you didn’t prep properly.
    • Consider the characteristics of true money:  durability, portability, divisibility, uniformity, limited supply, and acceptability
      • US Federal Reserve Notes (FRN; US paper fiat “Dollars”) are a currency (“anything that is generally accepted to have value as a medium of exchange so that it can be traded for goods and services”).  FRN’s are only backed by people’s faith in the Federal Reserve and US Govt.   They have not been backed by gold—redeemable for gold—in over 50 years!   So they may not be generally accepted once the US Govt’s insolvency is widely understood.  Or it may take a million FRN to buy a loaf of bread (e.g., Weimar Germany).  
      • “Durability” and “Acceptability”—FRN’s, BTC, and stocks may be worthless, depending on the SHTF scenario.
      • Real Money options = Pre-1965 US silver coins, precious metals, commodities (fuel, food, ammo).  
    • Recommendation
      • Have some FRN fiat cash on hand
        • Make multiple small withdrawals ($1000 or less) to build your reserve
        • At least a few denominations (maybe 100’s, 20’s, 5’s)
        • Don’t store all in one place.   
      • Get some precious metals 
        • Buy precious metals local in cash if able (pawn/jewelry/coin shops) 
        • Or get physical metal shipped to you (SDBullion is one option) 
        • Pre-1965 coins (“junk silver”) are great, you can get them in bulk on eBay or from coin shops.
        • Silver and gold, coins or bars of various sizes. 
        • Get a metals testing kit; if the grid goes down and most people don’t have precious metals, they’ll make fakes. Silver test kit; All metals.
  • Water
  • Food Acquisition Methods
    • I’ll provide links for descriptions and possible purchases.   TRY TO BUY LOCAL, especially with food.   Avoid Amazon if able but don’t feel bad if it helps expedite your preps and maximize your purchases, for the good of your family.   For most purchases there are higher-value online alternatives to Amazon for buying bulk food.   
    • Match quantities to the number in your family. Bare subsistence diet—each person needs 2-3 cups (uncooked) of grains per day. Wheat has about 1,600 calories per pound; 1 lb per person per day for subsistence; 2.5 cups per pound; cooking doubles the volume; one cooked cup is about 300 cal.  
    • Foods calories per pound
      • Rye 1,300 calories per pound
      • Groats/oatmeal 1000 calories per pound
      • Rice 1,600 calories per pound
      • Beans 750 calories per pound
      • Popcorn 1,600 calories per pound
      • Pasta, 1,600 cal per pound
      • Potatoes  1,700 cal/pound
    • Easy buttons—pre-packed food buckets/kits are probably 5x more expensive than accumulating items yourself, but can be obtained rapidly and stored easily.   
      • Pre-packed emergency food, various sizes
      • Pre-packed emergency food meal cans, sample here
      • Azure Standard is a natural health food distributor providing bulk and specialty health foods, shipped across a network of “drop sites.”   We have a drop site within 5 miles of our house, facilitated by a homesteading Christian family.   You can find your closest drop site on their website, or inquire with your local church and homeschooling groups. 
      • MyPatriotSupply.com is a great online source for food and equipment.
      • ReadyMadeResources is another great online source for equipment, and they also offer emergency foods.   
    • Buy bulk now
    • Grow it 
      • Seeds are cheap and available right now.   How will that change when everyone is trying to turn their backyards into gardens?   
      • Saving seeds article 
      • Homesteading
      • Garden dome (extend growing season; increase security)
      • Hydroponics
    • Barter and Parallel Economy
      • We should all be pursuing a local, parallel economy, to extract ourselves as much as possible from the impending Federal/Global digital currency system.    
      • Preserve business as a “voluntary transaction for mutual benefit between two parties” and don’t let the Govt insert themselves as a third party (only for its insatiable benefit).
      • Barter—your skills and things for theirs; your best value for their best value.
    • Hunting 
      • Game animals
      • Alternative animals—think about a grid down situation…what would you eat to stay alive?   Snakes, rodents, horses, dogs, bugs?    If you have traveled aboard to “austere” locations, you know that all these items (and more) are food.   
    • Fishing 
      • Poles and tackle—if you don’t have a dang fishing pole, get one at Walmart and check YouTube for how to use it.  
      • Nets
      • Trot Lines DIY page
      • Fish shocking system 1, system 2
      • Fish traps DIY videos
    • Foraging 
  • Essential Food items
    • Carbohydrates
    • Fats
    • Proteins
    • Fruits and Veggies
    • Eggs
    • Supplemental
  • Food Storage
    • Storage considerations 
    • Storage accessories:
      • (DETAILS AND LINKS)
      • SEE PHOTOS BELOW FOR FOOD STORAGE TUB EXAMPLE (1-month supply, family of 4)
      • Oxygen absorbers, nylon bags, food-safe bags and buckets, manual can openers, packing lists
      • Grains can keep for decades in this way!   Spend the money and time once, and be prepared for decades.   
    • Storage techniques
    • Food volume
    • Eggs
    • Meat drying, salting, curing, smoking, canning
    • Live “storage”

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FREE OUTLINE/SHELTER Primary & Fallback

  • First plan of action is to stay in place, your current home.  
  • Consider improving/changing your primary location. 
  • Population considerations, and distance from cities for your location.
  • Weather considerations
  • Neighbors
  • Resources 
  • Fallback position 
  • Heating and cooling
    • Cooling is probably not your primary concern.   Heat should be, even in the US South it can get sub-freezing in the winter.  Not often, but all it takes is once to create a survival situation.  
    • Which room(s) do you heat, and how?  A basement room in the core of the house would be optimal, for maximizing insulation (home and earth) on all sides.   Consider ventilation, space available, emergency exits, location of stove, flooring (put down fire brick if able), nearby combustibles, smoke/pipes’ route to outside, and how to get wood to the room.
    • Wood stove retrofit   
    • Fire-starters
    • Frugal option for emergency use, and camping use, is a rocket stove (example on Amazon here)
    • 55-gal barrel stove is a cheap option 
    • Propane heater   
  • Security and defense—hard targets are less inviting to scumbags
    • Articles (DETAILS AND LINKS)
    • Rural/remote considerations
    • Obstacles/traps/tripwires
    • Watchdogs  
    • Cameras and motion sensors
    • Drones
    • Radiation and fallout—this is becoming more of a concern, with the idiocy playing out over Ukraine in DC and Brussels.
    • Lighting and backups
    • Cover and concealment
    • Structural resilience to bullets and fire
    • Suburban/urban considerations
  • Electrical
    • Buy consumable and re-chargeable batteries in bulk; store in heated area of house; store in metal ammo cans if concerned about an EMP event.   
    • Buy battery packs with USB and 110v options to give power to phones or small appliances for a short period, and spare deep-cycle 12v batteries and inverters for 110v plug use.   Clearly, these will only get you through a few days of power requirements.   
  • Rendezvous/RTB/Lost-comm-lost-sight plan 
  • Bug-out

4

FREE OUTLINE/PHYSICAL Immune, Medical, Conditioning

  • Good nutrition habits WILL boost your immune system and leave you less vulnerable.   
    • (DETAILS AND LINKS)
  • Medical needs 
    • First aid 
      • Ranger medical handbook has some unneeded Army material, but is great resource (and affordable)
      • Find a good YouTube first aid/EMT video series (sample promo video here)
      • CPR training videos
      • Individual First Aid Kit (IFAK)
        • Wound care in austere environments
        • Suturing
        • Field blood transfusions
        • Blood type compatibility chart:
        • Blood type testing kit
    • Critical and available meds and supplements
      • Your prescription meds—stock up as able
      • Vitamin supplements are proven to help vs virus/COVID: C, D, B, Zinc, Quercetin.    
      • Ivermectin (DETAILS AND LINKS)
      • Antibiotics (DETAILS AND LINKS)
      • Lumbrokinase (anti-clotting supplement; DETAILS AND LINKS)
  • Health resources:  
  • Strength and stamina—exercise! If the SHTF your life–and your family’s lives–will depend on your fitness.
    • More

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FREE OUTLINE/EQUIPMENT Individual & Team

  • Two is one, one is none
  • Buy new or used—local gun stores, local gun shows, Craigslist, flea markets, pawn shops, eBay, Palmetto State Armory, Gunbroker.com (need an account), Cabela’s, Midway USA, Brownells.
  • Individual equipment
    • Weapons, mags, ammo, accessories (in priority order) (all ideally x2+)
    • Primary pistol 
      • Why—A pistol is the most utilitarian defense weapon—affordable, small, and concealable.   But unlike Hollywood depicts, it is actually very hard to hit anything with a pistol outside of 10 yards, especially if it’s a dynamic situation.   So train with it!
      • Recommended caliber: 9mm unless you already have one or more pistols in other calibers.   9mm is affordable, available, and will be the most common post-SHTF.   Recoil is low, so novice pistol shooters can handle it.   
      • Recommended type:   many excellent types exist; you can’t go wrong with a Smith & Wesson M&P full size or small M&P Shield.   
      • Mags:  Minimum 5 mags per pistol; don’t get cheap non-manufacturer mags unless they have great reviews.  
      • Ammo:  “duty” ammo (expanding, more deadly) is expensive, often $1 per round; full-metal-jacket ammo is more affordable.   Start with 50 rounds duty ammo (example:  Hornady Critical Defense) and 200 rounds FMJ, at least.  
      • Spares—semi-auto pistols are every simple, and you are probably not putting very many rounds downrange, but get a spare set of springs for your type pistol at least.   Vendor Wolff Gunsprings M&P pistol list here.  
      • Accessories
        • Cleaning kit
        • Holster—many options exist; just get a basic holster with MOLLE straps so you can mount to a belt or load bearing vest, plus maybe an IWB (inside waist band/belt) holster for concealed carry.  Blackhawk is a great brand, as is Crossbreed.
        • Night sights (if you are handy, you can install yourself with a pistol sight tool, but a gun smith is a good call).   Need to be able to deliver aimed rounds at night.   
        • Light (make sure your holster still fits!)
        • Laser (check holster)
        • Light/Laser one option here (check holster)
        • Mag extenders (these add 2 rounds per mag) are made for many types
    • Primary semi-auto rifle
      • Why      
      • Recommended caliber
      • Recommended type   
      • Optics
      • Mags  
      • Ammo
      • Spares
      • Accessories
    • .22 pistol
    • .22 rifle
    • Shotgun 12gage
    • Precision rifle
    • .308 semi-auto rifle
    • Archery
    • Load bearing modular vest  
    • Armor plate carrier vest 
    • Clothes 
    • Back packs
    • Night Vision 
    • Comms 
    • Belt   
    • “Go” bags (esp if traveling)
    • “Money” belt per person
    • (DETAILS AND LINKS)
  • General equipment
    • Food preparation
    • Electrical (battery packs, generator, solar, chargeable batteries, stoves that charge)
    • Food growing
    • Tools 
    • Secure storage (safes, lockable metal cabinets)
    • Ammo cans 

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FREE OUTLINE/MOBILITY Transportation Assets

  • You’ll need to move around, of course. Fuel may be expensive/scarce, so human power will be advantageous. Simplicity, reliability, and economy will be key.
  • Again—two is one, one is none
  • Buy new or used—eBay, Craigslist, flea markets, etc. 
  • Mountain bikes
  • Additional options for individual/pair transport–motorcycles, ATV, scooters, snowmobiles, canoes, boats
  • Cross-country “Nordic” skis and snowshoes
  • Trucks
    • Vehicle considerations
    • Vehicle spares
    • Vehicle accessories and mods 
  • Trailer
  • Airplanes, ultralights   
  • Fuel storage

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FREE OUTLINE/TEAM Family, Friends, Neighbors

  • SuperHusband/SuperDad, even you can’t protect your family alone in a SHTF situation.    You need a team!   Start assembling a team now for mutual support (Eccl 4:9-12).   Start with family members and close friends.   If you plan to stay in place (i.e., your current home location is your SHTF location), then like-minded neighbors will be critical.   
  • TEAM for Connecting, Training, Equipping, Activating–check out this new group, Refiners Army. They are establishing a nationwide network of men that will join together in action, to serve their communities and beyond.
  • Team size  
  • Praying and Bible study  
  • Complementary skills
  • Responsibilities
  • Security/Confidentiality
  • Purchasing in bulk together
  • Expensive asset acquisitions 
  • Training—Talk about your plans together.   Execute the prep plans together (e.g., Costco runs).   Practice with the firearms and other equipment together.

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