Amen, Vinny.
Vicki

----- Original Message -----
From: "Vinny Samarco" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 6:23 AM
Subject: Re: [ECHURCH-USA] Update on Gretchen


> Hi Phil,
> Whatever the Lord leads you to do, go for it.
> Vinny
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 8:42 PM
> Subject: Update on Gretchen
>
>
> > For many months now, Gretchen has been drifting away from the Lord and
her
> > family.  By the way, I removed her from the list before writing this
> > message.  I don't think she was reading the echurch mail anyhow.
Gretchen
> > is back to lying all the time, associating with people with whom she
> > shouldn't, smoking, she has been caught more than once, and we don't
know
> > if
> > she has done any drugs but we have strong suspicions that she has been
> > drunk
> > when we were on our vacation and I would bet money that, at the very
> > least,
> > she has smoked some dope.  She is never where she claims she is when
away
> > from home either.  My son's drapery shop was doing extremely well when
> > they
> > hired Gretchen.  They were scheduled 6 to 8 weeks out.  Now, they have
> > lost
> > a lot of money and the business has steadily declined.  Now, they are
> > lucky
> > if they have one week of work in advance and last week, they were down
to
> > just two days of week.  They have gone without paychecks a couple of
times
> > recently in order to pay bills and taxes.  The business has had to
borrow
> > money to stay open.  Some of you already think I'm a screw ball so you
> > won't
> > mind what I am about to say.  I have told my son that I personally
believe
> > the lack in business has direct relationship to Gretchen's employment
> > since
> > it is a family owned business.  Additionally, I have known for several
> > weeks, that spiritual fiddling with relationships within my own family
> > realm, has been occurring, and even to the degree it has touched at
least
> > one of the people with whom I pray on a regular bases.  So, I am being
> > pressed, due to circumstances that are effecting my family, to make
> > another
> > decision that isn't going to be easy to make.  I'd appreciate your
prayers
> > because this involves two little boys who never did anything to deserve
> > what
> > they have had to face in their little lives.  By the way, I left out a
> > whole
> > ton of things that have been going on so what you just read is only the
> > tip
> > of the iceberg.
> >
> > Phil.
> >
>