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.
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