SEMINARS OFFERED

1.  Basic and Advanced Equipping for Disasters, Sheltering at Home Hands-on Seminars

2.  Basic and Advanced Practicing Medicine by Physician House Calls Seminars

3.  Practicing Basic Wound Care for Nurses

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SEMINARS

BASIC and ADVANCED Equipping for Disasters, Sheltering at Home

Hands-on Seminars

(Revision Date: March 8, 2024)

 

SEMINAR Announcement: 

“BASIC Equipping for Disasters, Sheltering at Home”

(Revision Date: March 8, 2024)

Dear Neighbor,

 

These are very dangerous and perilous times.   We all see the dangers and have been warned.

 

Do not be afraid.  I have Good News to share.  Since 2007, we have confidentially taught many how to be fully prepared and ready to care for their families plus obediently love one another as Good Neighbors in any disaster.

 

After COVID-19 shut-downs and lock-downs, we resumed teaching our very well-received “BASIC Equipping for Disasters” Seminars and its follow-up “ADVANCED Equipping for Disasters” Seminars in private homes and in the workplace.  These Seminars teach and practice proven hands-on skills.  It is not some untested survival or prepper lecture.  Much of what we practice was done by me overseas as a missionary physician (Saved by Grace Ministry, Inc.) serving in the most remote areas of Sierra Leone post-Civil War, Honduras post-hurricane, the Dominican Republic with its Haitian Refugee crisis, and in Northern Canada.  These proven skills were also practiced by me as a former U.S. Navy Commander (operational medical and research Naval Officer).  Many methods we practice have passed my rigorous Test & Evaluation (M.D., Ph.D. research scientist). 

 

We teach our neighbors to become fully-equipped and confident to wisely care for their families and neighbors to safely shelter at home, "When the lights go out, and stay out" ™.  We also teach co-workers how to stay safe and healthy and how to remain open for business, during and recovering from any disaster, natural or man-made.    

 

We enjoy practicing all the hands-on skills ensuring everyone will succeed in meeting our Six Basic Needs: 1. Food, 2. Water, 3. Home or Shelter, 4. Clothing, 5. Medicine and Surgery, and 6. Visitation (Matthew Chapter 25: Verses 31-46).  This is explained below.

 

Here in WNY during our National Weather Service’s “five and a half months of winter weather,” life-threatening Arctic Weather emergencies with fatalities have been directly caused by Lake Effect blizzards, long-duration snowstorms, and sustained loss of electrical power and home heat from storms or grid failure.  In 2022, our blizzard in Buffalo at Christmas time claimed 47 lives.  As widely reported, Buffalo Fire-Rescue, EMS and Police were not adequately trained or equipped to emergently and timely respond.  Many people died especially frozen to death outdoors in WNY Arctic Weather. 

 

As a nation, we are also at greater risk from rapidly worsening threats of "sword, famine, and plague".  This includes the next global pandemic, a sustained loss of electricity, and loss of other public utilities and public services (water, sewage, natural and propane gas, streets plowed, garbage pick-up, hospitals, clinics, etc.). 

 

There may be few or a complete loss of critical first-responders, equipment, and their vehicles (e.g., police, sheriff, state police, fire-rescue, EMS, National Guard).  We may suffer from acts of terrorism and from conventional and asymmetric warfare, cyber warfare, tactical and strategic nuclear warfare, and radiologic, biologic, and chemical warfare.  There are accelerating catastrophic natural disasters, (e.g., severe storms, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and solar storms, called Coronal Mass Ejection-CME from the sun as it reaches it Solar Maximum in 2025). 

 

Our biggest threat to life in WNY is loss of electricity during our published 5 ½-months of winter weather (National Weather Service-NWS) resulting in a catastrophic loss of home heating with hypothermia and death.  This occurs from a sustained power failure or destruction of our weak and susceptible electrical power grid by storm, terrorism, or warfare.  Unheated homes and other residences (e.g., nursing homes) become uninhabitable in the dead of winter in as little as four hours for those at greatest risk of hypothermia (e.g., elderly, disabled, and young children). 

 

Sustained power failure will cause supply chain disruptions and shut-downs, sudden lack of food, lack of chlorination for drinkable water, loss of prescription medications, and a shut-down of hospitals and emergency departments (EDs, ‘ERs’) after their usual three-day supply of diesel runs out to power hospital standby generators.

 

Many of these natural and man-made catastrophes occurred overseas in developing countries where I served.  Anarchy and a breakdown of public services happen immediately. 

 

The Good News is Jesus fully equipped me and sent me to tell you about Him and to train you how to trust and love our LORD, and how to love and care for our families and neighbors, anytime and anywhere.

 

These fast-paced evening “BASIC Equipping for Disasters” Seminars are conveniently offered after work for just 90-minutes, 7:30 P.M.-9:00 P.M.  They are hosted in someone’s home or work place for ideally three households (5-10 people) of like-minded people who want to learn how to work together.  However, due to demand from single households, I am now offering exceptions to teach only one or two households, as explained below.

 

Rest assured.  All names are kept strictly confidential of anyone who has taken either the “BASIC or follow-up ADVANCED Equipping for Disasters” Seminars.  There is no list of anybody’s names, or addresses, or a number of those people trained and prepared. 

 

This encouraging hands-on training Seminar, “BASIC Equipping for Disasters” allows us to become faithful Good Neighbors. 

 

We will obediently follow the two most important Commandments from God spoken by Jesus in the Word of God, The Holy Bible. 

 

This happened when an expert in the Law of Moses, a so-called ‘religious attorney’ confronted and questioned Jesus whether He knew the most important Commandment of God.  This expert did not believe Jesus was the Son of God, the Messiah, the Savior,

 

"Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.  This is the first and greatest commandment.  And the second is just like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’  All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” (Matthew Chapter 22: verses 37-39)

 

We are asked, 'What are your “BASIC Equipping for Disasters” Seminars like?”  We really do have fun!  We practice the hands-on skills together as Good Neighbors including how to prepare our homes, families, and neighbors wisely and economically.  This is based on the Bible’s Six Basic Needs mentioned above, which were spoken by Jesus, whose Name is “Word of God” in the Holy Bible,

 

“For when I was hungry, you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.” (Matthew Chapter 25: verses 35-36)

 

So, let us wisely prepare and be always ready with:

1. Food that is inexpensively purchased and wisely stored long-term.

2. Water that has been reliably filtered and chlorine-treated at-home to be safe-to-drink.

3. Home or Shelter that is safe, secure, and warm with safe heat.  In addition, we discuss long-term daily safe use of home-generators, and practice the hands-on skills of how to properly preserve and store gasoline (two-years) and how to maintain and refuel a generator, even at night or in the worst of weather.

4. Clothing that could also be shared for “Caring for those in greater need” ™ during a disaster or in time of need (hats, clothing, coats, shoes/boots, baby clothing, and diapers).

5. Medicine and Surgery for “Caring for those in greater need” ™ during a disaster who are sick or injured using tested and evaluated 45 home-care instructions.  I wrote them as an emergency physician, missionary, former special operations medical officer, and inventor of the Federally-Registered PORTABLE ER® and Trademarked Emergency Physician House Calls™.

6. Visitation to safely travel using preserved gasoline for “Caring for those in greater need” ™ often imprisoned at-home alone, unprepared, with little family to help during a disaster.

 

In your Seminar, “BASIC Equipping for Disasters,” it is required that every person, couple, or household must first purchase and study their own copy of the Sixth Revised Edition (© January 5, 2024), "Textbook of Equipping for Disasters. Sheltering at Home".  The "Textbook of Equipping for Disasters. Sheltering at Home" is a $60.00 tax-deductible donation to “Saved by Grace Ministry, Inc.,” a Public Charity.   Everyone must then write down their three most important questions or concerns in advance of their Seminar on the last pages, 251-252, “Notes”. 

 

Pre-reading the "Textbook of Equipping for Disasters" is required for all households before I will agree to schedule a Seminar.   Everyone must use their "Textbook of Equipping for Disasters" to take personal notes, fill-in the forms for their home’s Disaster Plans, and come up with at least three written questions in the “Notes” (pages 251-252). 

 

Being prepared takes commitment to first study at-home, then agreeing to practice together in a hands-on Lab setting to master key skills in 90-minutes. 

 

The Seminar is a hands-on skills Lab.  So, studying beforehand and knowing where to quickly look up information is required.  I do not answer many questions during this skills Seminar.  I only take time to answer those few remaining written questions at the end of the 90-minute Seminar.

 

For details on the required “Textbook of Equipping,” please see our website, www.PhysicianHouseCalls.org, under the Tab, “Seminars and Publications.”  

 

Two Costs: Textbook and Seminar

 

Cost, “Textbook of Equipping.” The required “Textbook of Equipping” is first purchased by each household making a tax-deductible donation of $60.00 by check payable to “Saved by Grace Ministry, Inc.” then mailing your “Textbook of Equipping” request and check to Dr. and Mrs. John and Janice Sterba, 226 Center Rd., East Aurora, NY 14052. 

 

People can also purchase the “Textbook of Equipping” on-line by PayPal or credit card making their tax-deductible electronic donation to “Saved by Grace Ministry, Inc.” using our website, www.PhysicianHouseCalls.org.

 

Also, please call us (716) 655-6854 or Email (PhysicianHouseCalls@roadrunner.com) how many “Textbooks of Equipping” you want mailed out and please confirm your mailing address.

The “Textbook of Equipping” will be mailed (USPS Priority Mail), or personally dropped off, with your tax-deductible Receipt and Thank You letter. 

 

The “Textbook of Equipping” is used for hands-on skills training, including:

1. How to inexpensively buy and safely store food long-term using double-freezer bags and evacuating air from the bags.  How to set up an inexpensive Food Pantry with labeling system, inexpensive see-through bins, and inexpensive five-level shelving units fully Tested and Evaluated and published in Chapter Five of the “Textbook of Equipping.”

2. How to safely use water filters and Clorox™ (regular and extra strength chlorine bleach) to purify contaminated water, labeling safe-to-drink water jugs, plus how to remove chlorine smell and taste prior to drinking purified, safe-to-drink (potable) water.

3. How to select the smallest possible, least expensive, and most efficient home generator (non-ethanol gasoline and/or liquid propane, or natural gas) by using a worksheet to add up the running and start-up (surge) Watts for only essential items at home (e.g., furnace blower, refrigerator/freezer, sump pump, key lights, washer, kitchen outlets, Keurig!, etc.)

4. How to correctly use proven gasoline additives to preserve gasoline for up to two-years.

5. How to mark and safely store plastic gasoline cans and rotate gasoline to keep your gasoline fresh.  Discuss reasons for non-ethanol gasoline.

6. How one small person can safely maintain and refuel a home gasoline generator using a gasoline-funnel and gasoline-approved hose for refueling at night, in the rain, using a headlamp.

7. How to set up a Disaster Plan of families and neighbors caring for each other, especially “Caring for those in greater need” ™ in the neighborhood.  This is done overseas, daily.

 

Cost, Seminar.  The “BASIC Equipping for Disasters” Seminar suggested tax-deductible donation is $200.00 per household (a family, or couple, or an individual) by check payable to “Saved by Grace Ministry, Inc.” 

 

The “BASIC Equipping for Disasters” Seminar is hosted in someone’s home or work place for ideally three households (5-10 people) of like-minded people who want to learn how to work together. 

 

Therefore, the Total Donation per household is $260.00 donation: $60.00 initially to study the required “Textbook of Equipping” and then $200.00 to schedule the “BASIC Equipping for Disasters” Seminar.  These two costs are payable by check to “Saved by Grace Ministry, Inc.,” or by cash, or on-line by PayPal or credit card making their tax-deductible donation to “Saved by Grace Ministry, Inc.” using our website, www.PhysicianHouseCalls.org.  

 

After the three households have pre-purchased and studied their “Textbook of Equipping” ($60.00/each household), the BASIC Seminar donation ($200.00/each household) is then required.  Grand Total tax-deductible donation for all three households would be $780.00. 

 

However, due to growing demand from single households, I am now offering exceptions to teach only one household, or only two households.  Special consideration is now offered for only one household with a $400.00 suggested Seminar donation and $500.00 suggested Seminar donation for only two households for the “BASIC Equipping for Disasters” Seminar.  Each household must pre-purchase their “Textbook of Equipping.”  Likewise, tax-deductible donations to “Saved by Grace Ministry, Inc.” can be sent by mailed check or done electronically.

 

Dr. Sterba will either mail or hand out tax-deductible Receipts and Thank You Letters at the “BASIC Equipping for Disasters” Seminar.

 

Host Responsibilities.  The “BASIC Equipping for Disasters” Seminar host responsibilities include arranging the group meeting of at least three households (5-10 people) at the host’s home.  The host must confirm with Dr. Sterba that every household (family, couple, or individual) had already pre-purchased and thoroughly studied their “Textbook of Equipping” writing down their key three questions or concerns in the “Notes,” pages 251-252. 

 

For more information or if you have any questions about your hands-on Seminar, “BASIC Equipping for Disasters,” please call (716) 655-6854, Monday-Friday, 9:00 A.M.-5:00 P.M., or Email (PhysicianHouseCalls@roadrunner.com)

 

I understand people are now very anxious to prepare and want answers fast.  However, I must apologize in advance.  I do not have enough time to teach over the internet, or by Email, or over-the-phone, or casually.  People’s questions are most often better explained in detail in our Sixth Revised Edition (© January 5, 2024) of the “Textbook of Equipping for Disasters.”  For any new questions, I am preparing the Seventh Revised Edition.  I welcome your written suggestions, which I will personally research and then Test & Evaluate for consideration to be published by Saved by Grace Ministry, In.  In addition, I am commanded by Jesus to provide .pdf files of any Chapter from the “Textbook of Equipping for Disasters” for free to those in need.  So, please email me what Chapters you want at PhysicianHouseCalls@roadrunner.com.  To preview the “Textbook of Equipping for Disasters,” please go to our website www.PhysicianHouseCalls.org, Tab, “Seminars and Publications.” 

 

Thank you!

 

In His service,

‘Dr. John’

John A. Sterba, M.D., Ph.D., FACEP, FACCWS

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President & CEO; Medical & Scientific Director; NYS DOH Clinical Laboratory Director,

Saved by Grace Ministry, Inc. Emergency Physician House Calls™ using the PORTABLE ER®

Commander, Medical Corps, U.S. Navy-Reserves (Hon. Disch), Undersea & Arctic Warfare, Operational Medicine

Missionary Physician, trained at Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL and in St. Lucia, West Indies

Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Paediatrics, College of Medicine & Allied Health Sciences,

        University of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa

Board-Certifications: American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM), American Board of Wound Medicine and

       Surgery (ABWMS), American Board of Urgent Care Medicine (ABUCM), and Undersea Medicine Board-

       Certified Equivalency-U.S. Navy

Fellow, American College of Emergency Physicians (FACEP); and Fellow, American College of Clinical Wound

       Specialists (FACCWS)     

Member, American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), American College of Clinical Wound Specialists

       (ACCWS), American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), and American Academy of Urgent Care Medicine (AAUCM)

 

 

ADVANCED Seminar, Equipping for Disasters. Sheltering at Home

 

The hands-on skills in the Advanced Seminar are tailor-made answering questions that came from those who already took the Basic Seminar. 

 

The Advance Seminar usually last two+ hours, 7:30 pm to 9:00-9:30 pm. 

 

As with the Basic Seminar, there is a minimum of three households (every person, or couple, or household).  These three households already have their "Textbook of Equipping for Disasters". 

 

Costs, ADVANCED Equipping for Disasters Seminar 

 

Suggested donation for the Advanced Seminar is $300.00 per each of the three households, totally $900.00.  Special consideration is now given for only one household with a $500.00 suggested donation and $700.00 suggested donation for only two households.  All tax-deductible donations made to the Public Charity, "Saved by Grace Ministry, Inc.", are used 100% to "care for those in greater need", not any salary.

 

For example, in the Advanced Seminar, we have all practiced these hands-on skills and others:

1.  Food. 25-year shelf-life food in sealed buckets; Making freshly ground wheat by using electrical and hand-cranking grinders of non-GMO ancient grain wheat (Einkorn Wheat) that is long-term stored in buckets; and Solve specific problems with Food Pantries.

2.  Water. Advanced water purification of contaminated creek with commonly used 0.1 micron filter, filter flushing and maintenance, and making chlorine stock solutions using granular swimming pool chlorine compounds (sodium hypochlorite, tri-chlor., etc.) using U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and missionary methods to make safe-to-drink water (potable water) from dirty water.

3.  Shelter.  Advanced generator long-term use (hook-up and safe operations) simulating common disasters, refueling, and maintenance for all types of portable and stand-alone back-up generators (e.g., portable generators using gasoline, or liquid propane (LP), or dual-fuels (gasoline switching to/from LP), and stand-alone automatic natural gas generators).  Practicing using fuel-less deep-cycle lithium-battery generators (400-600 Watt) with charging by linking up 100 Watt solar panels in series.  Places to buy much less expensive re-furbished fuel-less deep-cycle lithium-battery generators with new batteries.

4.  Shelter.  Home defense questions of gun safety, authorized defensive gun training and permitting, gun maintenance, and all the common home safety disaster scenarios from overseas including anarchy. 

5.  Medical and Surgical Care.  Long-term procurement and storage of prescription and OTC medications, 

Basic Wound Care hands-on training, and medical care of people's specific medical and surgical problems at-home.

6.  Visitation. Transportation done overseas during travel bans, loss of fuel and public services, during disasters, and anarchy.  

 

For more information, or if you have any questions about your hands-on Seminars, "BASIC and ADVANCED Equipping for Disasters. Sheltering at Home" including security, please call me at (716) 655-6854 (office) or (716) 998-7474 (cell/txt), Monday-Friday, 9:00 A.M.-5:00 P.M., or Email me at PhysicianHouseCalls@roadrunner.com.

 

Rest assured, as mentioned above, all names are kept strictly confidential of everyone who has taken these Seminars, "BASIC and ADVANCED Equipping for Disasters. Sheltering at Home".  And, there is no list of anybody’s names.  I am experienced protecting this confidential and protected information about anyone.

 

I apologize in advance; I do not have time to teach over the internet, by email, over-the-phone, or casually.  People’s questions are most often found in our Sixth Revised Edition © January 5, 2024 of “Textbook of Equipping for Disasters. Sheltering at Home.”  For any new questions, I am preparing the Seventh Revised Edition.  I welcome your written suggestions, which I will personally research and Test & Evaluate for consideration.

 

Sincerely,

‘Dr. John’

John A. Sterba, M.D., Ph.D., FACEP, FACCWS

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President & CEO; Medical & Scientific Director; NYS DOH Clinical Laboratory Director,

Saved by Grace Ministry, Inc. Emergency Physician House Calls™ using the PORTABLE ER®

Commander, Medical Corps, U.S. Navy-Reserves (Hon. Disch), Undersea & Arctic Warfare, Operational Medicine

Missionary Physician, trained at Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL and in St. Lucia, West Indies

Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Paediatrics, College of Medicine & Allied Health Sciences,

        University of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa

Board-Certifications: American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM), American Board of Wound Medicine and

       Surgery (ABWMS), American Board of Urgent Care Medicine (ABUCM), and Undersea Medicine Board-

       Certified Equivalency-U.S. Navy

Fellow, American College of Emergency Physicians (FACEP); and Fellow, American College of Clinical Wound

       Specialists (FACCWS)     

Member, American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), American College of Clinical Wound Specialists

       (ACCWS), American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), and American Academy of Urgent Care

      Medicine (AAUCM)