you really need to have a 20 to 30 year plan for how what what kind of investment assets are you

going to build up what's up guys welcome to another five into fatherhood so in our

Facebook group in the five into fathered Facebook group you guys can look for that if you want

to jump in there we got a great question from Rance. Can ministry professionals build family assets?

He says, hey, Jeff and Jeremy, my question is, is it possible to build a multi-generational family

team while serving as a missionary whose only income comes through the donations of ministry partners?

How would you encourage those who are called to this lifestyle to build assets and position

their family for maximum kingdom effectiveness.

Okay, so I do think not only is it possible, but it's critical for ministry professionals

to build family assets. I don't think that anyone is exempt. You know, it's interesting. I've,

I had a conversation with one of my friends who's a lifelong pastor, and he, he told me, he's like,

he read in, he was thinking about himself as a, as sort of a type of Levittical priest, and he said,

the Levites didn't have assets. The Levites didn't have land. And so just like me, you know,

those of us who were called in ministry, we're like

Levites. We don't have land. We don't have assets. But there are, there are like multiple chapters.

There are several chapters in Joshua. There's several chapters in the prophets and several

chapters in the Torah that specifically outline all of the assets that the Levites actually

owned. So what we know is that they didn't have a plot of land that was completely theirs.

All the other 11 tribes actually had a plot of land together.

The Levites had cities that were scattered throughout the 11 other 11 tribes,

and they were given all the land, the pasture land around those

cities. And so every single Levitical family had assets and had land. They only served in the

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