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Hands-On Training Model
One of the hallmarks of the ALERT experience is our strong emphasis on hands-on training. Even courses that are heavily academic incorporate a significant amount of experiential learning. For example, in our EMT course, which is one of the more academically...
Responding to Hardship
When hardship comes into our lives, we don’t get to decide when it arrives, and we don’t always understand why it’s happening. Yet it comes regardless. Here at ALERT, we often format our training to include simulated hardships in an endeavor to teach vital life...
washington’s Prayer for the Nation
As we celebrate our nation's Independence Day, I wanted to share a prayer for the nation given by George Washington in 1783*: "I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have the United States in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the...
We Never Graduate From the Gospel
"Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel... For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with...
Our Calling to Serve
Adam was placed in the Garden of Eden to work and serve God. In the millennia since then, our work as humans has changed from tending a garden to being ministers of the Gospel. We seek, as Paul did in Colossians 1:24-29, to labor through Christ's strength to serve...
Spring Training Quarter Recap
Thank you for your prayers and support throughout the last semester. It's been a very busy season, but God has also done much in the lives of the men. In addition to the training highlighted below, men also benefited from the staples of ALERT Battalion life—memorizing...