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Recognizing the importance of building a cadre of trained mentors -- expert classroom teachers -- to support new and developing educators, the Department launched a statewide training opportunity in fall In , nearly mentor teachers will receive professional development to support yearlong classroom residents and other teachers-in-training.
An additional 1, mentors will be trained in , and also in By the end of three years, Louisiana will have established a cadre of 2, trained mentor teachers. In response to conversations with school system leaders, and as an extension of Believe and Prepare, the Department launched an effort in , to further explore teacher workforce strengths and challenges in rural school systems, and to identify potential supports for these communities.
To that end, the Department surveyed more than 1, educators statewide in summer In August , these pilots began supporting 38 alternate certification candidates who teach in 16 schools across rural Louisiana. This time may include co-teaching, observation and feedback sessions, or collaborative planning time. These changes are the result of cost-neutral adjusted class schedules and teaching assignments. The Canada Palestine Cultural Association has applied to have a tent at the festival three times, but was rejected each time.
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We thank God for them. Nevertheless we believe that God wants most people to marry and have families. We openly encourage the married state and commit ourselves to doing what we can to lead our young people into it.
We encourage them to find suitable partners with the advice of their parents and the church leadership—while assuming full responsibility for the choice they make and promising to stick with it as long as they both shall live. We do not permit our members to initiate divorce, or to get remarried as long as a divorced partner remains alive. If divorced or divorced and remarried people wish to join us, we ask them to live a celibate life among us. If they have children to raise, we will help them do it in as far as we are able.
Depending on the situation, divorced and remarried couples visiting our community may be accommodated as single guests.
Courtship We expect our young men and women to conduct their courtship and make plans for marriage in a completely open way—not in secrecy, spending long periods together alone, or in the dark, but among the rest of the brothers and sisters in the light of day. That couples planning to get married will need some time to themselves, we understand, but there are not to be physical before marriage, Hands Off Courtship and we encourage them to keep their courtship brief not much longer than a year.
Then we go by the voice of this local church. We believe marriage is of God. Children Parents take first responsibility in training their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Yet all parents in our community recognize that in ourselves we are incomplete.
Our children must also become integrated into the lives of others, the work, and social order of something higher and greater than the natural family. For this reason, we entrust our children to caretakers, teachers, and work supervisors outside our family circles. We believe it our responsibility not that of the state to operate our own school, choose our own curriculum, and have brothers and sisters of our own congregation as teachers and role models for our children. We expect all families in our community to support and co-operate in the work of the school.
In training our children at home, in school, and throughout the community we use love and discipline—corporal discipline spanking if necessary. He that spares the rod hates his son. We believe it important for families to spend time together throughout the day, eating together, working together where possible fathers with sons and mothers with daughters , and spending their evenings together at home, where we expect them to gather around the Scriptures, singing, and praying together before they go to bed. We believe children are a gift from God and love all the Lord gives us.
We sing together, have at least two brothers share publicly an opening and a main message and leave time in every meeting for testimonies and prayer. At other times we have a Bible Study meeting. Several evenings a week, we expect the congregation to gather for Scripture reading and common prayer. In these meetings we expect the active participation of all that attend, in singing, in leading in prayer, and in sharing what the Lord has laid upon their hearts. The leaders of our community meet every weekday morning to decide on schedules for the day and make practical decisions.
Once a week all the brothers meet to discuss and handle what affects the community as a whole. Only our men give instruction and share inspirational thoughts in our worship meetings. We do not mind if our sisters ask questions, share testimonies, pray, or make confessions when we come together informally, but we do not have them teach or exercise authority over the men. Special Days In commemoration of special events in the life our Lord Jesus we celebrate his birth, his resurrection, his ascension to heaven, the falling of the Holy Ghost at Pentecost, and sometimes other days.
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But we do not agree with pagan practices that have invaded and corrupted these celebrations. Neither do we judge or criticize those that do not keep these special days. Like all other days in the year we expect our days of celebration to be conducted in holiness, true joy and godly fear.
Visiting and Joining our Community We welcome all seekers to visit our community—at least once.
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Subsequent visits of an extended or indefinite duration should be petitioned for and arranged. We do not welcome teachers of doctrines opposed to what we teach, or visitors that contradict and undermine what we believe.
Neither do we feel obligated to receive all that would come to us for strictly intellectual or academic pursuits. We reserve the right to ask anybody to leave. Before coming to live in our community, arrangements must be made. After new residents have lived among or near us for eight months to 3 years. New members will only be received after everyone in our community feels comfortable with their life and testimony.
On becoming part of our community, new members submit all their possessions except household and personal items to the church. The church may keep or dispose of them. Goods cannot be reclaimed on leaving, or at a later date.
New members also need to commit to submit to whatever the brotherhood requires of them.