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.