Dear Phil,

Oh, how awful. I will certainly be praying for Everett. I also will 
be praying for Gretchan, and for you and Sandy.

I know this is hard on all of you, and things like this really break 
our hearts.

Thanks for being loving.

I will call you some time.

god bless you and Sandy.

Love,

Pat Ferguson



At 08:44 PM 8/1/2010, you wrote:
>This is a request for both my 14 year old grandson and his mom, 
>Gretchen, whom many of you have been praying for 14 years or more.
>
>Everett has been going to public school for the last few years.  He 
>has drifted away from spiritual things and been hanging around with 
>the wrong types of kids.  A few weeks ago, he was at a shopping maul 
>with three other boys and one of the boys snatched a woman's purse 
>and ran.  The other three boys ran off, too, of course, but it all 
>was caught on security cameras so eventually, all the boys were 
>arrested.  When Everett was taken to the police station by his mom, 
>once the police traced her down and after finding out Everett's 
>name, the police did a urine analysis and at that very moment, he 
>was super high on Marijuana.  Last Wednesday, since Sandy and I are 
>his legal guardian, I had to go with Gretchen and her son to 
>juvenile court.  He pleaded guilty and was offered a program called 
>diversion.  This means you take classes on drug and alcohol 
>prevention, as well as other things, and you are assigned something 
>like a probation officer who calls you in at weird and various times 
>to have you give UA's.  This insures the court that you are 
>following diversionary rules and guidelines, aren't doing dope, or 
>hanging out with the other kids with whom you were getting in 
>trouble with in the first place.  If you go through this program 
>without any further problems, it is erased from police computers and 
>you won't have an arrest record.  We'd appreciate your prayers for 
>him because he doesn't seem to think this whole thing is a big deal 
>but what he did is a felony.  Gretchen is a nervous wreck because 
>this is the sort of thing she went through when she was his age so 
>pray for her, too.  I had a long talk with my grandson before going 
>to court last weekend but he just sat there and didn't say anything 
>so I doubt he got much out of it and likely didn't listen.
>
>Phil.