Hi Phil,
Thanks for sharing this.  I am glad things with Gretchen are going this way
instead of what I expected.  I'm afraid I was expecting that she would not
repent and that you would have to kick her onto the street again.
So, as long as she and her friends are crying out for help, their certainly
is great hope for them.
Vinny
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 11:34 AM
Subject: Report On Gretchen


> My youngest son, Everett, felt led to have all of us, last Friday night
> during our prayer meeting, go down to the apartment in our basement and
> pray
> for Gretchen.  She allowed us to do so.  The next morning, Gretchen asked
> me
> to pray with her.  In spite of all her emotional pain and fear, she did
> hear
> from the Lord and in church Sunday morning here at the house, she
> testified
> before everybody that the Lord did speak to her.  Sunday afternoon, while
> George and I were visiting, Gretchen asked me to talk with her privately.
> She admitted that she has been using drugs for the passed four weeks but
> she, and a bunch of her Christian friends who are involved in the same
> way,
> want help.  I am suppose to begin prayer sessions with the first person
> this
> evening.  Many of these young people have been off and on drugs so many
> times, they now believe there is no hope for them.  Dumb devil don't know
> much, does he?  Anyhow, be praying for Gretchen.  We have already begun to
> set rules of accountability with our daughter to assist her in walking
> free.
> If these other people she knows become involved, as they say they want to,
> similar situations will be going on with them as well.  All of these
> things,
> in my opinion, have seemed to come about since we bought that electronic
> piano and have spent 30 minutes, and sometimes an hour, singing and
> worshipping the Lord on Friday and Sundays here in our home.  Other things
> seem to be shifting at Safe Place Fellowship, too, but we are just taking
> things slow since we don't want to miss the Lord on anything he wants to
> do.
> Your continued prayers for Gretchen, and these other drug addicts, would
> be
> greatly appreciated.  Working with druggies isn't exactly what I thought I
> would be doing.  Gretchen told me that many of her friends are from good
> Christian homes but the drugs have just captured their lives.  She said
> probably 20 people she knows all have said, "You pray with your dad and if
> it is something that will work for you, then we want him to work with us,
> too."  Gretchen cried like a baby Sunday afternoon and told me about some
> of
> these people and how they have used drugs, given up drugs, and used drugs,
> and given up drugs, for many years, one lady for 23 years, she said, and
> yet, after even Christian drug treatment programs, they can't get free.
> Yes, I know why this is the case but I'll leave that for another message.
> For now, your prayers, even for Sandy and I, would be appreciated.
>
> Phil.
>
>
> Where there is pain, there is belief.  Truth is painless.
> www.SafePlaceFellowship.com
>