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I will do all I can to make sure my children can buy houses in our community, make enough money to get married and have children young, and build our family name into a shorthand for fruitful Christian faithfulness in their time—and teach their children to do the same in theirs. This requires a two-pronged approach to inheritance: The first major prong occurs when they are coming of age—helping them get established in the vocations of manhood and womanhood and start having children. The second major prong occurs when I die—blessing my children's children. The inheritance should land on the grandchildren when I die at least in strong part, because I have already helped my children get established. They are now working on their grandchildren's inheritance. The goal isn't primarily for me to have a ton of wealth in my old age that I still personally control, but to have built and manage a productive estate that includes my children and their children and which they increasingly manage. We're building something together—a good name—not a bunch of separated things alone.

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