Two New Boys in our Home

Next week we will have two boys moving in with us. One is from Bryan and one from Houston, neither want to go home, both want to change their lives. Having done this several times, we don't expect too much. You don't change eighteen years of dysfunction in a year. The thing that keeps us going is knowing that Jesus said, "If you do it to the least of these, you have done it unto me." So we don't look at the who or what, we just look to Jesus, His word does not come back void and He sends it out to accomplish the thing he sent it to accomplish.

Jeremy is eighteen, he has no idea who his father is, he has never had a room of his own, he was his brother in law's problem solver. In other words, his brother in law used him to take care of his business. Jeremy got a call from him about two months ago and the call was basically, "when you come home, you have to go take care of this person, because this is what they did." Jeremy's mother is an alcoholic and is dying of cancer.

Thankfully, Jeremy went to his caseworker after he received the phone call from his brother in law. He told him, "I don't want to take care of it, I don't want to live that life anymore, I can't do it anymore." He then comes to us after church one day and asks if there is any way he can come to our home to live. So we prayed about it, spoke with many counselors, caseworkers, staff and decided it was a go.

The first time he was in our home, he was so excited to see he had his own room. He kept saying on the way back to the Ranch that he tried to take eye pictures so he could remember every detail. He then talked about how he was going to try very hard to live a good life, he was going to go to AA meetings and he wanted to know when he could go apply for a job.

Then we have Junior, he is also eighteen and wants to travel the world. Both of his parents are incarcerated, he has a little brother and two older sisters. I tried many times to dissuade him from coming to our home, because knowing the holidays will be here and he won't be able to see his family, would be a very trying time for him. But he wouldn't hear of it, he kept telling me for the past six months that he wanted to change his life, so he will be here also.

We have had both boys in a program called Defining a Man, it is teaching them first to be Men of God, then How to be a Husband and lastly How to be a Father. We also have them in an intense discipleship program to learn the Word and also to learn how to disciple others. Junior has memorized over a hundred scriptures and knows them well. Jeremy has memorized about twenty. They are both growing and doing well. If you think of it will you pray for them. I will post pictures tomorrow. God Bless you all.