THE STADEM VISION

THE BIBLE SAYS SO CLEARLY, THAT WITHOUT A VISION THE PEOPLE PERISH. THAT BEING TRUE FOR US AND ALL TIME, THEN WE MUST HAVE ONE OR WE WILL MISS OUR FULL DESTINY AS GOD'S CHILDREN. ISN'T THAT THE RIGHT INTERPRETATION OF WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS? IF THE BIBLE TRUTHS SUCH AS THIS ARE NOT APPLIED TO OUR LIVES, WHAT POSSIBLE GOOD ARE THEY? VERY LITTLE, INDEED! BUT IF WE HAVE A VISION, AND GO FORWARD VALIANTLY AND SACRIFICIALLY WITH IT, TO MAKE IT REALITY, WE KNOW WE ARE IN GOD'S PATH OF SERVICE TO OTHERS ON THIS SIN-SICK, NEEDY EARTH, RIGHT?

SOME MAY THINK DESPITE WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS THAT THEY CAN GET ALONG QUITE WELL WITHOUT A VISION, AND SO THEY TRY THAT, BUT THE BIBLE IS TRUE FOR THEM, AND THEY WILL BE VERY SORRY SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE WHEN THEY STAND BEFORE THE LORD AND HAVE TO ACCOUNT FOR NOT HEEDING HIS WORD AND FOR NOT HAVING A VISION. WE HAVE A VISION AS STADEMS, BUT WE MUST SUPPORT IT, IF WE ARE TO SEE OUR FULL POTENTIAL BLOSSOM FORTH. THIS VISION IS NOT JUST FOR ONE FAMILY OF US BUT FOR ALL OUR FAMILIES TO ENGAGE MIGHTILY IN--YES, WE ALL HAVE OUR INDIVIDUAL LIVES, AGENDAS, EVEN MINISTRIES, BUT YET THERE IS A STADEM VISION THAT ENCOMPASSES US ALL, IF WE HAVE EYES TO SEE. PUT ON YOUR SPIRITUAL GLASSES AND YOU CAN SEE IT, IF YOU THINK THIS IS JUST RON GINTHER'S OPINION. IT IS NOT HIS OPINION, HE CAN ASSURE YOU, IT IS GOD'S WORD TO US AS STADEMS. WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN MUCH, AND MORE THAN MUCH, WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN MANIFOLD SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS AND BEAR THE RESPONSIBILITY AND COMMISSION BEFORE GOD TO IMPART THEM TO OTHERS. CAN YOU DO THAT ALONE OR IN JUST YOUR FAMILY TO ONE ANOTHER? SURELY, BUT THAT IS NOT THE FULL POTENTIAL OF THE GRAND VISION FROM GOD. JOINING TOGETHER HAS NO SUBSTITUTE, IT IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY IN THIS ENDEAVOR--JUST AS ARTHUR HENDRICKSON THE GODLY FAMILY ATTORNEY FOR THE STADEMS SUGGESTED TO US IN A LETTER TO US ALL YEARS AGO. IF YOU WILL MEET AND PRAY ABOUT IT, ASKING GOD'S GUIDANCE AND WISDOM, WHO KNOWS HOW GOD WILL USE ALL OF YOU? HE SAID TO US.

JULY 27, 2010 NOTICE TO ALL STADEM AND HOLBEK FAMILY LINES AND MEMBERS: HOW DID OUR SCION ALFRED STADEM GO ABOUT BUILDING PLAIN VIEW FARM? WHAT WAS HIS LODESTONE HE USED TO KEEP ON TRACK WITH GOD'S WILL AND PLAN FOR THE STADEMS? It was his simple, stedfast faith that he used. Believing God for the means to build, while working any way he could to raise what was humanly possible, this is how my Grandpa Alfred Stadem built the second barn, starting in 1942, He worked and lived by faith in God's provision, and gained the money to buy what he could not obtain any other way by doing odd jobs in the area. God honored his simple but steadfast faith, and a new barn arose in God's own time to replace the one severely damaged in a thunderstorm by a tornado. Grandpa is still our example of how to go ahead with such a project as making a new barn-like Heritage Center on the site of Grandpa's barn! His barn was built on faith in God as a foundation, with prayer too by himself and Grandma Bergit. How can we do better or other than that and expect anything good to come?

WHY IS A FOUNDATION A GOOD IDEA FOR PLAIN VIEW FARM'S FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIP? After many years of talking up the idea of making PVF a Foundation, talked about on an occasional basis only, and the Foundation established already in name only in the Financial Accounts of Plain View Farm, it is time to declare it done and see what our Great God, Jesus Christ, will do for us on the behalf of His glory and His everlasting, saving Gospel and Kingdom! We mean with all our heart all these words expressed; my God knows they are birthed in blood, sweat, tears, and countless prayers and labors. This is not superficial, self-centered verbiage or "hot air," or thrown out by someone with an ax to grind. God is my witness! My relatives in heaven are my witnesses too! They surely know about all my prayers still waiting there, besides Grandma's and my mother's, to name just a few people involved, at God's altar for His fulfilment! Hasn't God put my tears for this enterprise in His bottle for safekeeping? Call me a sissy for crying, but God isn't ashamed of his crying (he cried over Jerusalem, he cried for a friend Lazarus who died), why should we be? God isn't a sissy, when Jesus cried, it was God's tears for us in a lost condition. Many of us may recall that Grandpa was a tearful guy, and those tears were shed for others, for lost souls, for the work of God in missions. I thank God for his tears, which were an expression of a manly man who had a great heart for the Lord and the work of evangelism. For those who are genuinely interested, for all those who have hearts like children still able to grasp God's wonderful ways and glorious vision for us, this is the first day, July 27, 2010, of the PLAIN VIEW HERITAGE FARM AND CENTER FOUNDATION, hereby established on the Internet and Plain View Heritage website domain but also in a spiritual sense, regarding PVF and the Heritage Center.

Foundation Principles:

1. to involve ALL Stadem descendants and friends and "honorary" members of the PVF fellowship who wish to take part;

2. To glorify the Lord Jesus Christ in everything, with the leading of the Holy Spirit in reality, not in lip service only;

3. To cultivate, restore, and share with the SD community, with the nation, with the world ultimately, the rich godly pioneer and Scandinavian heritage of this farm and the Stadem-Holbek family lines, immigrants to America in the 19th and 20th centuries (called the Second Wave of Stadems, as the First Wave came over in the 1790s or so, soon after the nation was declared independent of Britain);

4. To instill the values and beliefs of the Christian faith and the godly pioneering farm family on the Dakota prairie to the younger generation, for this is our future as a people of God and a nation and as families and individuals;

5. To provide a Scandinavian style barn venue and attractive, multi-function center either at the Farm homestead or nearby in the Bryant area, or possibly elsewhere, for the ministry and outreach of the Gospel of Jesus Christ;

6. to provide outreach to the physical, cultural, and spiritual needs of people both in the family and in the wider community and nation

This is everyone's Heritage Foundation, not mine. Holbeks of Norway, cousins on our Bergit Holbek Stadem's side, are also invited to join and be active, voting and participating members! I am merely seeking to speak for all our beloved family members (Stadem and Holbek) who have gone home to the Lord's presence (whom I am convinced would surely love and support this effort), and for all those living now who have no voice at present in the co-ownership system at PVF, and for all those who have yet to hear about this Foundation. I will not be the President, as I am an idea man chiefly, but am willing to serve as the Interim Director until a President is voted on by all who join this Foundation. I ask your prayers for this new Foundation established July 27, 2010. If you feel God leading you to declare yourself a member supportive of the principles outlined above, if you want to see PVF and the Fellowship and Center become all that God has given to us in visionary form, then contact me, please. I will not be your judge in this decision of yours, I will just confirm it by accepting it and adding your name to the membership list. All are called to this work and vision. All! God richly bless you with His grace and mercy! You may email me at: ronald.ginther@oaringintheriver.com or write: Ron Ginther, P.O. Box 212, Puyallup, WA 98371--Ronald Ginther

If anyone believes in this and wants to give a bequest to it that will enable it to become a reality, then do so. Eloise Hefty will be notified, and she can receive the check you sent, or the assets to be conferred, with the stipulations that the monies go for the Foundation and its venue (wherever that can be arranged, either on the present co-owned farmstead, or nearby). Here is an investment that will bear rich fruit of the kind that will never pass away, as it will be investment in the spiritual life of many, many people.

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