Have you ever noticed that the warm fuzzy sensation you get from hugging someone you love intensely, is very similar to the warm fuzzy sensation that we often get when God is communicating with us? That's because love has a specific vibrational frequency.
Einstein stated, to paraphrase, that if we want something, find someone who has that, whatever it is, and duplicate their frequency, and we can't help but to duplicate their results. He went on to say that it can be no other way, because this is not a philosophical statement, it's scientific fact.
Neuro Linguistic Programing (NLP) is based on a similar notion. The idea behind NLP is that if you want to communicate effectively with someone, just replicate their body language, mannerisms, and energy level (frequency), and they will feel a connection/bond that enables you to convey your message in a way that will resonate with them. Tony Robbins has made a career out of teaching NLP techniques, among other things.
We will discuss this further in the Psychological and Social portions of this site. For now, the main takeaway, is that everything operates on frequencies. Nothing is static. Everything vibrates, and certain frequencies create certain results.
Love has a frequency. It can be felt. You can read the definition of "love" in a dictionary, but you can't fully understand what it is on a purely intellectual level. It's something that must be experienced (felt) to be understood. It is a Spiritual experience.
There are many blessings which come into our lives, that onlookers may not see as Divinely orchestrated, but we see clearly as such.
One of the most blatant examples of this, for SDS, is Dennis' fascination with high yield income projects. He did not come to find these income streams of his own volition. In fact, when God put the passion in his heart for researching such things, he had no idea that they even existed.
Dennis was doing job placement, and job coaching, for people with disabilities, working primarily with people who are visually impaired, and blind. However, many had additional disabilities as well.
To complicate matters even more, many of the people he worked with, lived in rural areas, where there was no public transportation. This makes finding a job for a person who is visually impaired, even more challenging.
Dennis noticed that most of the rural clients had been in the State's Vocational Rehabilitation system for many years, and pretty much every other Job Placement vendor in the area had already attempted, unsuccessfully, to find them employment. This meant, that year after year, professionals in the VR system were making money to help these individuals, but yet their situations weren't improving.
Dennis was convicted by God to be different. God placed it on his heart to do his best to insure that the people SDS served, were better off, than they started, as a result of our services. One of the primary ways he did this was to search for ways for people we served to make extra money from home, since transportation was such an issue, for so many.
This research lead him to both, MLM, and also, more passive income streams. Not all of our clients were good matches for the types of things he was finding, but in some cases, he was able to use these sources to benefit even those clients.
Case in point, Dennis once had a client referred to SDS who lived in a group home, for people with developmental disabilities, down in Waxahachie, TX. Dennis didn't know anyone in Waxahachie, so his first instinct was to stop at a church. Bethel Baptist Church to be exact.
Having worked for the Greater Dallas Community of Churches, had given Dennis a firm foundation in working with churches to achieve community outreach goals. He feels God definitely led him to AmeriCorps, GDCC, creating SDS, and, to that specific church. He walked in, went to the office, and asked to speak with the Pastor. When Rev. Dick Bass, walked out to meet him, his heart smiled, because Brother Bass had a slightly, but noticeably, disfigured hand/arm. That may sound odd, but Dennis knew immediately, that he would be able to relate to the needs of our client better than someone who had been "sheltered" from exposure to people with disabilities.
Dennis explained our clients situation, and Brother Bass was very receptive, interested, and empathetic, as Dennis had suspected he would be. Turns out, Reverend Bass and his wife had even adopted several children with disabilities. He was a kindred spirit, genuinely sad when he told Dennis that he would love to hire the client himself, to help out around the Church, but, that unfortunately, there was no money in the Churches budget to cover such an expense.
They left it with the agreement that he would ask some of the congregation who were in positions to hire, if any had openings, which was Dennis' original request, to begin with. They agreed to stay in touch, and brainstorm further options. This was in the immediate post 9/11 economy, so unfortunately, none of the congregation came forward with job offers.
One day, it dawned on Dennis, that he could donate money to the church, specifically designated, to cover the client's salary. Since the state paid SDS to search for jobs, and/or train the clients in jobs, if obtained, and SDS paid Dennis a salary, which, was his to do with as he pleased, he decided that he could invest some of that money SDS paid him, and use the earnings to donate to the Church, to cover the client's salary.
Dennis called Rev. Bass, and presented the idea of a donation to cover the client's salary, but without disclosing who the donor was. Brother Bass eagerly agreed to this arrangement. Dennis didn't explain that he would be the one donating the money, because that was only one of several options. He just asked, that if he could find a donor, would the Church be open to such an arrangement. Brother Bass enthusiastically accepted. Dennis did try to locate other donors, but knew that he had a plan to make this work, with, or without, outside help.
The client started to work the next day. You never saw anyone so excited to go to work. As a member of the group home, he also had been working at the sheltered workshop, getting paid piece rate, for repetitive, mundane tasks, with the same people he lived in the group home with. It was the same routine, day in, and day out, with the exact same social contacts, every single day. He was high enough functioning to feel the need to break free from this routine. And break free he did.
Everyone at the church greeted him daily, and made a point to mention how glad they were he was there, and what a good job he was doing. They also included him in staff prayer times, and other discussions about God.
As a result of all the positive feedback, surrounding him with Godly people, and exposing him to God's word, he blossomed, and exhibited a glow, and had a sparkle in his eyes, and a spring in his gate, that had not been there before. He started attending services, on Sundays and Wednesdays.
Many people from his group home noticed the changes in him and wanted what he had. This led to many of the other group home members wanting to go to the church also. Obviously, they couldn't hire them all to work there, but they could invite them to church, and special events, and make them feel welcome.
A bond developed between the congregation and the group home residents, and staff. This bond opened up doors for God's word to be shared with people who might not have ever heard it otherwise. The group home was funded through the state, and therefore, did not offer religious services on premises, on the basis of separation of church and state considerations. Fortunately, they would transport clients to church, upon request.
The Church congregation pretty much adopted the group home, as a missions project, and made sure to invite the residents for Thanksgiving dinner, and other special services and events.
All of that evolved because of a seemingly unrelated passion God gave Dennis for researching ways for people with disabilities to make money from home.
Fast forward to present day, and Dennis using these same strategies to survive and support SDS projects, now. Dennis' ability to do physical work was greatly diminished in an automobile accident in December 2019.
For the last few years Dennis has been on a roller coaster, of back pain, and fatigue, giving way ever once in a while, just enough for him to get over confident, and try to do some physical work, only to wind up flat on his back again.
Thank God for putting the passion on Dennis' heart all those years ago to research passive income streams, because at present, those are our primary income streams. Fortunately, at a time when inflation, a pandemic, supply chain issues, and economic insecurity, is creating havoc with many people's finances, we have about fifteen different income streams that give us an average of around 15-20% per month return. This is unheard of in traditional investment circles.
Many people want to snap their minds closed, and some even consider Dennis a scammer for suggesting such rewards are possible. We take all of that in stride, because we knows from Whom his guidance came, and what his motives are.
If you're open minded enough, feel free to contact us about using some, or all of these sources to cushion your own nest egg, or even create an income for immediate needs. By doing so, through us, you'll also be supporting SDSs ongoing efforts to use these same income sources to spread Economic Development, and Profitable Philanthropy solutions, worldwide.
We realize that it's hard to believe such opportunities exist, but we're here to tell that they do. We have plans for using these strategies to transform whole villages in African countries, and beyond. The economic development potential is off the charts. So, even if you aren't interested in what these projects can do for you, think about the good you could do for others, if your philanthropic activities, were self funded, or, even profitable! How many people would you help, if you could get paid well for doing it?
You never know how God might use you, and/or your resources to bless you and others! Dennis had no idea that the simple act of getting one resident of a group home, a job at a church would result in such wide spread blessings for both, the group home, and the congregation, but God did!