Sunday, November the 30th, the year of our Lord 2025
The nation that I will focus on for a while is Bangladesh.
I'm going to slowly lead you, my gospel preaching friends, on intellectual and spiritual journey, that if you're patient enough and hang in there with me, I will turn you into the best fundraiser, public speaker, and team builder you could possibly be, because that's what Jesus did.
Team building starts right where you're born.
I was born in Springfield Illinois and the United States of America.
People look at the wealth of America and for some reason think we were always wealthy. Nothing could be further from the truth. On my father's side, Albert Dittmer lived in a shack that was also a 40 acre farm. That was a rundown Barn that came with the farm. Grandpa Albert Dittmer was a combination farmer and oil worker. On his farm there was an oil pump. My dad was William Michael Dittmer. My name was William Michael Dittmer Jr. My dad's oldest brother was John. When my dad was young, he came down with a common affliction called polio the same affliction that struck Franklin Roosevelt.
Like many siblings, John the oldest and Bill the youngest made a team. John appeared to be a pretty good fundraiser and was able very early to purchase a brand new car and also a Caterpillar tractor. Because they had picked up and elevated the same mechanical skills of their father in the deep south of Illinois they decided to start a business digging out tree stumps for farmers.
Back in those olden days Dynamite was readily available without a lot of legal supervision. Both my dad and uncle John were experts with both Dynamite and their old diesel caterpillar with a Capital c.
They offered to dig out the tree stumps that every farmer had to get rid of in order to have a tillable field. Dynamite and a bulldozer made it a lot easier. Farmers for glad to pay a generous amount and that's what my dad and uncle lived off together.
Dynamite sticks we're an invention of the guy Nobel. Nitroglycerin as a compound was extremely dangerous but Mr Nobel had figured out a process of soaking it into wood that made it safe to work with.
My dad and John were experts in Dynamite and bulldozing. Dad said that they could use a quarter stick of dynamite to blow out a stump but they used a handful which made an explosion which could be heard for miles. In the sparsely populated farmlands of Southern Illinois that was also dotted with oil wells and oil pumps, the loud explosions were effective free advertisement.
That's enough of this story for now. Stay with me boys and girls and gospel preachers and I will explain how God builds teams just like he built the team of the Dittmer siblings. Do I need to spell it out for you? You have been born into a nation and a family that has tremendous potential and will with time and God's patient instruction make you as wealthy and able to solve problems like the world leader the United States of America but you must be patient and don't call me on messenger repeat don't call me on messenger. As we say here in the Midwest of the United States, I love you guys. Stay tuned.