We are parents of a young lady that was enrolled at the Hephzibah House. First of all, let me state that the decision was not one that was taken lightly. We agonized over sending our daughter to a boarding school. We did not want to do this. We did not plan on doing this. But we soon realized that we had to either let her do what she wanted to do or take drastic measures to stop her downward spiral. We definitely felt that we were responsible for her and for her actions since she was still a minor.
She had been lying to us for about two years. She was able with the help of her friends to cover all of her lies up, but after two years of lying it gets harder and harder to cover things up. Things finally came to a head and we contacted Hephzibah House. Our lawyer had advised us that we needed to find a facility that was a lock down facility. Because of our daughter's history, even an unsaved lawyer knew she would try to run again. The lawyer also advised us that we needed to find a facility that would monitor calls and letters so that these friends would not be able to contact her or know where she was. Hephzibah House met all of these requirements. Our hearts were broken. We never wanted this for our daughter, but here we were. Dr. Williams said that there was an opening so we loaded up and took her. We stayed in a hotel and in the morning we told her why she was there. It was absolutely the hardest thing that we have ever done in our lives. We wept all the way home. Our hearts were broken.
Our daughter stayed at the Hephzibah House until about a month after her 18th birthday. She graduated from high school - a very big accomplishment for her. She had wanted to drop out, but by the grace of God she was able to get her diploma from Believer's Baptist Academy. She also got saved during her last month there. She attended Bible college for a semester and Jr. College. There are still ups and downs with our daughter, but without the Hephzibah House, I have no idea where she would be.
Because we did all that we could for our daughter when she was a minor, we will never have to look back with regrets. We appreciate very much the sacrifices of those that work at the home. Without your efforts, our daughter would have been lost at a very young age.
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Not only do these inspirational stories lack author's names, they lack subject names--no one says, "My daughter Mary (or Sue, or Sally, etc)" and they lack dates. Were these stories about girls enrolled this decade?
I noticed the one story where the girl comes home from HH & gets married months later.
And everyone's okaaaay with that?
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2 John 1:7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
blah, blah, blah, lies, half truths, all written by freedom soar, who has no names to post and therefore wrote them herself.
really!!!
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You are awful new to this forum to be throwing around such incredible accusations! Are you a former student of HH?
I will tell you this, I did not write these.
They are not lies.
They are taken directly from the HH website and I believe them. No one has to or has been forced to believe them. If you wish to believe the stories coming from a bunch of girls who have rejected the Lord of Glory and so many of whom are living abominable life styles....go ahead. I choose to believe those who have chosen to live for the Lord.
I see a group of ladies who need to be converted, or truly get right with the Lord and live for him. Anyone who rejects God has chosen to and can not blame ONE PERSON for choices they have made.
Time is short, we are in the last days. We will all stand before God and every one of us will give account to God.(regardless of what Bass says) " Ro 14:12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God."
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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but it is not everyone that sincerely wishes to be on the side of truth. -Whately
God used
Hephzibah House
to protect her
I wanted to write and tell you how God used your ministry in our family. We first turned to you when our oldest daughter was in rebellion. We had raised her in church and we were there for every service. We were active in the church and she attended the Christian school there, too. But she started getting in trouble. School personnel and church staff had been reluctant to tell us about her bad attitude and behavior. She was a pretty good actress. As more evidence of her rebellion came to our attention, I started snooping in her things. I was undone when I read a letter to her "boyfriend" that made it clear that they were sexually active. That was when we made the very difficult decision to send her to Hephzibah House. My husband and assistant pastor delivered her to you. I couldn't go, I don't think I could have driven away from her. Our assistant pastor said my husband wept all the way home and he is not the type to show emotion.
That was when God started to work. But it probably wasn't in the way that people would expect. Our daughter was already seventeen when she got there. She knew all she had to do was bide her time and she would be free and old enough to do as her wild heart pleased. The work that God did was in us -- as parents. We started reading the materials that Hephzibah House printed. We started requesting tapes of the preaching. We were so desperate to see a change in our daughter that we soaked up ever word that was preached. I am pretty certain that we ordered every sermon Pastor Williams had preached up to that date and every sermon he preached while our daughter was there. The sermons filled our hearts with Biblical truths about children and family and living for the Lord. We unhooked the TV from its antenna, I threw away my jeans, immodest clothing and gawdy jewelry. We made so many changes during that time. The outward changes were a reflection of the inward changes.
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