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--- en:operating_principles:dtm:publishing_church_growth_model:location [2026/08/15 23:38] – [Supporting SOP Quotations] jpauldietrich
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 ====== Publishing House Location ======
-For a more general discussion, see [[..:..:bible_sop:city_or_country|Ministry in the City or in the Country?]]
+For a wider discussion that includes ministries other than publishing, see [[..:..:bible_sop:city_or_country|Ministry in the City or in the Country?]]
+A [[location_historical|historical evaluation]] of Adventist publishing house locations briefly shows examples of moving out of the city into the country.
 In choosing a location for a publishing house, we must consider multiple aspects. Below is a summary of the main points, followed by supporting quotations from SOP.
 ===== Property Selection =====
+Here are considerations in selecting a property:
   * Low-cost
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   * Access to transportation (near a paved road)
   * Climate/regional diseases
+  * Rainy season vs dry season: does the land flood in rainy season?
 ===== In Many Places =====
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 Implementing the concept of decentralization means establishing many smaller centers, thus expanding the reach and influence of the publishing houses.
-Establish publishing centers in many places. [[https://egwwritings.org/read?panels=p390.1038&index=0#highlight=390.1038,131:390.1038,196|PM 196.3]]
+> There is much to be done in the way of establishing centers for our work in new fields. Missionary printing offices should be established in many places. [[https://egwwritings.org/read?panels=p390.1038&index=0#highlight=390.1038,131:390.1038,196|PM 196.3]]
 ===== Outside the Cities =====
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 What are some of these temptations? (hurried lifestyle, refined/fast food, music, immorality, etc)
-What was the population of these cities in the time of EGW?
 ===== Near the Cities =====
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 > About six o'clock in the morning we reached Basle. Here we were met at the train by friends, and taken at once to the office of Les Signes des Temps, where we met old friends whom we had not seen for years. We are much pleased with the location of the new publishing house. **While sufficiently near the center of the town for all business purposes, it is far enough out to avoid the noise and confusion of the city**. The building faces the south, and directly opposite is a sixty-acre common of government land, bordered by trees. On the other side of the common are large buildings, behind which rise gently sloping hills covered with green fields and pretty groves. On one of the hills directly opposite us stands a quaint little church, and an old convent long since deserted, and occupied now only by a farmer. Back of all this rise higher mountains, covered with dark firs and forming a fine background to the lovely scene. (HS 169.1).
 ===== Country Living =====
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 >  Before the overflowing scourge shall come upon the dwellers of the earth, the Lord calls upon all who are Israelites indeed to prepare for that event. To parents He sends the warning cry, **Gather your children into your own houses**; gather them away from those who are disregarding the commandments of God, who are teaching and practicing evil. **Get out of the large cities as fast as possible**. Establish church schools. Give your children the Word of God as the foundation of all their education.—Testimonies for the Church 6:195. (CL 12.3).
+> “This land by the appointment of God, is for the benefit of the school. You have had evidences of the working of human nature and what it will reveal under temptation. The more families you settled around the school building, the more difficulties you found in the way of the teachers and students. The natural selfishness of the children of men is ready to spring into life if everything is not convenient for them. This land about the school is to be the school farm, and this farm is to occupy much more space than we have thought it would. Work in connection with study is to be given here, according to the counsels given.... Then let everything not essential to the work of the schools be kept at a distance, and thus prevent any disturbance or annoyance through the proximity of families and buildings. Let the school stand alone. There must not be this one and that one claiming personal property near it. It would be better for private families, however devoted they may be in  the service of the Lord, to be located at some distance from the school buildings. (PH140 45.1).
 ===== Agriculture, Self-support =====
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 > The Lord desires His people to move into the country, where they can settle on the land, and **raise their own fruit and vegetables**, and where their children can be brought in direct contact with the works of God in nature. Take your families away from the cities, is my message. LDE 99
+> Again and again the Lord has instructed that our people are to take their families away from the cities, into the country, **where they can raise their own provisions**, for in the future the problem of buying and selling will be a very serious one. We should now begin to heed the instruction given us over and over again: Get out of the cities into rural districts, **where the houses are not crowded closely together**, and where you will be free from the interference of enemies.—Selected Messages 2:141 (1904).
 ===== Connected with School =====
 Plan to eventually have a school or training center associated with the publishing house. Young people can come for practical education.
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-===== Supporting SOP Quotations =====
 Teach printing (theory and practical) in Adventist schools. [[https://egwwritings.org/read?panels=p390.1038&index=0#highlight=390.1038,131:390.1038,314|PM 196.3]]
-> “This land by the appointment of God, is for the benefit of the school. You have had evidences of the working of human nature and what it will reveal under temptation. The more families you settled around the school building, the more difficulties you found in the way of the teachers and students. The natural selfishness of the children of men is ready to spring into life if everything is not convenient for them. This land about the school is to be the school farm, and this farm is to occupy much more space than we have thought it would. Work in connection with study is to be given here, according to the counsels given.... Then let everything not essential to the work of the schools be kept at a distance, and thus prevent any disturbance or annoyance through the proximity of families and buildings. Let the school stand alone. There must not be this one and that one claiming personal property near it. It would be better for private families, however devoted they may be in  the service of the Lord, to be located at some distance from the school buildings. (PH140 45.1).