3. Dear Guests, prospective guests, those that might refer guests:

 June 5, 2026

Dear Guests, prospective guests, those that might refer guests:

I understand myself to be an apprentice of gospel Jesus. Since my earliest memory, though I'm only beginning to understand it.

I'm irresistibly drawn to his way because I think it is the joyful life, and I want that for me, but much more than that I'd like to be a tiny beacon that might lead someone else to the same. 

Every breath, every resource, every talent, every time that I have is for this purpose. And never to influence people away from the way that gospel Jesus lived, or to stay away from it. 

I'm learning. Slowly. I'm a work in progress. I'm at it every waking breath because I can't resist the joy of it. But I have so much to learn, and so much of man's way to unlearn. 

And it is obvious to anyone and everyone that cares to see the facts, that we are out of time. More than $35 billion dollars is being spent rapidly to establish forced labor camps around the country where as quickly as they can they will force every vulnerable person they can into work camps. They make money as soon as they get someone in there because they get taxpayers to pay them for it. And then they put them to slave labor to make more money. 

The purpose of Master Jesus Base camp is to be a stepping stone toward the joyful life of devotedly serving the community that gospel Jesus exemplifies, and away from the hellish life that Satan's minions are building in the form of these slave camps. 

If I could force vulnerable people to take advantage of Master Jesus base camp, a stepping stone to a better life, I wouldn't. I must never try and live another person's life for them. But as long as I can I will make it available.

Everyone here beside James who pays the mortgage etc, is a guest, here only when James says so, gone when James says so. Nothing changes that. 

But if guests are honest with themselves and James, there is never a time that they should worry. Although it takes some reading and thought, James has already been extremely clear as to the behavior that is likely to make a guest welcome, and that departing from that behavior will make them immediately unwelcome.

https://www.basecampjesus.org/2025/08/Master-Jesus-Mission-House-Cortez.html 

But as James learns from the spirit of our Father within him, he will continue to share. No surprises. 

Going forward guests are likely to find that James provides support for people in one of four phases (because he can't resist the joy of attempting to help people thrive): 

1. Rest, recovery, orientation. Up to 13 nights where a guest abiding by the way here, can be safe and secure resting up for their next day's work. Seeing if it is a fit for what they need, demonstrating whether it is a Fit For What Master Jesus base camp is here for.

2. Beginning to serve the community. Eligibility for additional nights of safety and security will be available for each 1/2 hour or hour that someone demonstrates that they have been serving the community, or themselves. See this post for an explanation.  This might be an approximately two week extension. This phase might last a couple of days or a couple of weeks.  https://www.basecampjesus.org/2025/08/Master-Jesus-Mission-House-Cortez.html

3. Longer term participation for the extremely rare individual that is passionately, fanatically, hooked on serving the community by developing themselves, and/or directly serving the community. 8 hours a day 5-7 days a week serving the community, including by developing themselves and their situation seriously. We are all members of the community, it can be that by advancing our own lives we are serving the community. And certainly each hour that we spend in meaningful service to Church of the Nazarene, Grace's kitchen, the salvation army, and the like, we are serving the community. [ if you click on the photo you should get a clearer version.] 

Many evenings, Maybe most, we'll have a quick wrap up for each other of our day. James will start. He will leave no one guessing as to what he's been doing and where he's been doing it. Including a heat map, of where it's been, and where he hasn't been, no drinking and drugging Hangout areas. Others that wish to be here will follow. Those that don't, won't come.

This is James wrap up from this morning: Spent the first couple of hours starting about 4:30 studying gospel Jesus Court teachings. Working toward mastery.

Went to the rec center where I continued that study listening to verses that I have prepared well I walked the track, sat in the lobby studying, and then did various workstations. And continued on to the library continuing the study. Momentarily will head over to retrieve lunch and then supper at Grace's kitchen where I'll make a monthly donation of funds. I'm experimenting with several free maps to create a heat map that demonstrate to me or anyone that I have not been spending time and known drinking and drugging areas. If there is any ever anyone that decides that Master Jesus base camp is a launch pad that they need, if they do not have a cell phone, and for a refundable deposit I will lend one for the Heat map.

[Note: I suspect it may be correct and true that I am the least nosy person alive. Other people's business is their business. But administering Master Jesus base camp, anyone that gives it even a little bit of thought knows that for this place to be reasonable and fair I have to know accurately and thoroughly and generously and credibly what people are doing to meet or go beyond the requirements of being here. I don't require anyone to be here. But if they're going to be here that has to be something that they're really really happy about.] 

4. Apprentice James prays for someone to emerge that is so passionately and fanatically hooked on serving the community, as gospel Jesus was, as James obviousl is, that they have pretty much the similar access to this facility 24 hours a day, as he does, sharing in the responsibilities.

It probably won't be soon that I, apprentice James, will be able to be more concise than I am so far in helping guests and prospective guests understand the way here to empower them to succeed if they so choose. But I'll continue to do my best and hope that occasionally it might work out. Having said all this, I am now probably 3:00 or 4,000 hours into studying 600 sentences from the man gospel jesus, and I feel like I'm just beginning to understand it. Was he a bad and cumbersome communicator? Or, are the things he cares about, things that take a lot of deep thought to understand? Deep thought that is necessary to converting ourselves back to the joyful servants that God intended us to be?

A note of caution. We all are inclined to it, I certainly am. The attitude of, gee, I hope I'm doing well enough, I hope my laps isn't noticed, I hope so and so cuts me some slack. None of us are expected to be perfect at Master Jesus Base camp. But if a guest is not sure that they are doing their share, or even much more than their share of the agreement, they should feel uneasy. Because they are probably making themselves unwelcome. If on the other hand they can honestly say to themselves, they are doing their part of the agreement tremendously well, behaving in a way that More than fulfills what is written on this site, and more importantly the spirit and example given us by gospel Jesus, then they have no cause for concern.

Apprentice James