Master Jesus' Mission House, Cortez BaseCampJesus.org Cortez

" So Overjoyed I am to show you the life-giving way I spent the day today. I can use rest in a safe place for similar work tomorrow. Can Master Jesus mission house help with that?" 

An emergency base camp for those on a mission that Jesus would be thrilled about.

Be ye not called Rabbi, for only one is your master, even christ, and all ye are brethren.

The laborer is worthy of his rest, Jesus. Paraphrase. Rest, restore, pray, meditate.. for the next day's work.

Jesus was the Good Samaritan, the good neighbor. I've come to realize that everything that Jesus spoke as though he was telling us how we should live, was the description of how he lived. He is the master. And like a true master would do, a true teacher would do, he teaches what he practices first. On a prominent appropriate plaques outside it might be called:

• Master Jesus Mission House 
• Kingdom of God
• Jesus' Way
• For Neighboring 
• A Base for Thriving 
• Thrivers Place
• A Base for Growth
• Servant's Rest
• Laborers Rest
• Base for Thriving 
• Jesus' Sacred Place
• A Thriving Base
• Good Neighbors House
• James' House [Jesus' brother] 
• Jesus' House
• Missions Base 
• Thrivers Base
• Base for Rebirth 
• House of Good Neighbors
• Jesus' Guest House.... 

Not sure the name, and it's important that the name communicate what it is. 

And that the name communicate what it is not:

• It is not something that any of us are entitled to, except by our labor.
• It is not comfortable or fun. In this dying writhing in pain world who's got funds, time, talents for that?
• It is not something that is ours. It is the property of Jesus and God that we have the sacred Trust of using to their delight.
• It is not a hangout. Jesus didn't hang out, ever.
• It is Jesus Sacred Space to be used as such.
• It is a place of sacred mutual respect for people that can do so, and never ever for people that even for an instant do not do so.
• It is a place of Jesus tough love, because he had no other type of love. Nor should anyone else.
• It is not anything but a base camp for neighboring.

Who and what it is for; what may achieve an invite for a place of rest, a safe secure legal place for a tent, 6:00 p.m. until 6:00 a.m. one night at a time:

• Laborers, servers, those moving themselves and or others toward thriving. Clear unmistakable verifiable obvious evidence that 6 hours that day has been spent serving self or others, and zero time serving the evil spirits within self and others.*
• Gainful low wage non-living wage employment
• Verifiable Library time
• Verifiable community service time
• Verifiable rec center time
• Counseling time
• Group recovery time
• Etc. Any time spent that reasonably moves one toward thriving and away from self-destruction
• - minus. for every hour hanging out in the day center.
• - minus. For any time that remotely looks like hanging out in known drinking and drugging areas. Etc.
• Co-workers. This will take even much more extreme care.
• Live in assistant(s) 
• Invalids
• Elderly
• The son of man has nowhere to rest his head. If Jesus example and words are to be believed, we are not here for one second for ourselves. We are here as God's servants. Every breath. Every single breath. And you know what? That's the only place that thriving is to be found. That's the only place that Joy is. Every step including shutting this thing down will be taken to be sure that this is a moral launching pad, not a moral hazard.

Important point of summarization: there are multiple groups that this kingdom of God project can help move toward full thriving, full joyful abundant life. Remember, this is never a home for anyone, it is a emergency Basecamp, stepping stone so people can achieve a home for themselves. No exceptions, except legally James must be a resident:

1. The board of advisors
2. The sleep-in staff
3. The community, all segments
4. The serving street siblings, 6+ hrs/day
5. The disabled, handicapped sleep-in servants
6. The disabled, handicapped that can and will behave themselves
7. Those returng from residential rehab during transition
8. Transiting thru folks in emergency
9. Those especially vulnerable to molestation, theft, robbery

To be continued. Yes I know it's futile for me to say so, but input desperately needed. James

* free mapping software can be used by those that want to make their use of time verifiable with free applications like this, this being an Android app. Yes, people would have to have a phone if they want to make their time during the day verifiable. Pretty much anyone not responsible enough to hold on to a phone, isn't yet qualified for using Jesus property in the sacred manner in which it was given to us.

Notice: I don't know that the inside of this place will ever be used. Maybe by a permanent staff member(s) whose compensation is being here rent free, and the infinite Joy of helping others. To avoid moral hazard this will be no one's legal residence ever, except for james, the one writing here. And James doesn't expect to ever live in it. He'll be living where he lives now, the only place life is to be found, out on the streets of Cortez serving his least of these siblings, but possibly parking on the property and sleeping in the back of his vehicle at night. Supervision. Or, sleeping on the floor inside the building on a mat so that the otherwise unoccupied building has supervision for people sleeping in tents outside, to come in and use the restroom. If there is ever Furniture in this beside sleeping mats, it might be a bed and chair for a staff member that is infirm and or elderly, and or an individual or small family in the rare case that they are in an emergency and need shelter for a couple of days. Much to figure out. Did I mention, thoughtful, constructive input needed?

Earlier updates -

Update 8/13/25:

Well, there was a known potential disaster and we have passed that. But there is an unlikely disaster ahead, a disaster that is unlikely, but possible, and we should know by early next week what it is, green light, or red light. 

There is every indication that there is no one that is passionately excited about this happening, beside James. It is evident that there are several that won't mind if it does. It remains to be seen if there are those that are vehemently opposed. Seems pretty likely that there will be.

My sense is that my street siblings that are aware of this are intimidated, fearful, somewhat averse. And I don't think that's bad. The Cortez environment makes people that otherwise might move toward joyful abundant life, accept the comfortable life of rotting and dying in Trump's america. And helping to enable their friends to do so as well. Who wants to summon the courage, decency, humanity to face that his Gestapo are now being unleashed on cities around the country, headline news, and it's only a matter of time before both the troops and the vicious sentiment descends on my street siblings in cortez. Who wants to face that? Who can summon the caring of their friends sufficient to propel leadership away? 

And, There is everything about the idea of Master Jesus house in cortez, that speaks an alternative. And change is frightening. And people are averse to change. 

And sometimes life is rekindled when people see the opportunity to change. 

If we get a green light early next week, then it is likely that base camp jesus, Master Jesus house, will be open in the unlikely event that anyone decides they want to relaunch their life toward joyful abundance, beginning mid september.

James will be the husbandman for master Jesus house in Cortez. He doesn't want a house. He doesn't want property. He needs to have both as a potential base camp in the unlikely event that a soul finds that it needs a base camp however briefly, to relaunch itself toward joyful abundant life. Such an interesting adventure. An awesome overwhelming privilege. The most likely outcome, James will simply be even more of a laughing stock of Cortez than he is now. Well, they laughed at Jesus to scorn, why not disciple james?

Update 8/8/2025:

Well, it's time for thoughts and prayers. Regarding the establishment of Jesus House, here in Cortez.

Regarding Jesus house in cortez, I believe that my team and I have done everything that we can to make it so. Final communication to the seller regarding expenses that were determined largely with the help of mark. Mark, please take no offense but I reduced the estimate by about 27% in good faith, not because I found your estimates incorrect. 

And the risk that is in God's hands having to do with the appraisal, well, I'm told that I should know by Wednesday how God is going to play that out. Although, this instant my realtor reminded via a message, lol, me that it isn't that cut and dried. Suffice it to say I am risking the $800 appraisal, funds that would otherwise go to my neediest Street siblings. A risk I will take.

If that property happens, it will physically have the capacity to help as many as half a dozen people a day maybe more. But unless those of passion as described in the post that I shared moments ago, unless people come alongside me with that passion because they can't resist attempting to help those living beating souls, then the capacity of that property will be limited to my ability to administer which will mean probably only one or two people a night at most. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16i7zGq2ti/

My judgment, my understanding, may be incorrect in the following. That what is therapeutic, what was most therapeutic about Jesus was exactly the fact that he saw and treated the neediest in front of him as immediate family in dire need. And that exactly what is the most crippling of the living beating soul is being in dire emergency, at the bottom, and being treated as other than immediate family in dire emergency. It is death blows. It doesn't have to be intended, but intended or not, when someone in life and death emergency is not treated as such, it is death blows to the living beating soul inside them. As near as I can tell Jesus never made that mistake, because he could not. He saw them as family and treated them as such.

Thoughts and prayers. James

7/29/2025:

[Notice: The offer I've made on a property here in Cortez has been respected by the buyer. We've come to terms. There is one major obstacle to get past that could kill the deal. Should know within a week or so. Plan B is A much less physically powerful base camp, is a lot that I probably could buy. If Creator makes this plan A happen, it could be base camp Jesus by mid september.]