Just a bumpity bump to ask for prayer support for a dear family who is being persecuted for implementing God's Perfect Parenting.
A Sedro-Woolley couple were convicted Monday in the malnutrition-and-hypothermia death of a teenage girl they had adopted from Ethiopia:
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Hana collapsed face down in the mud in May 2011 in the family’s backyard. An autopsy showed she died of hypothermia, with malnutrition and a stomach condition as contributing factors. Her emaciated body was covered in scratches and bruises.
The 5-foot-tall girl, believed to be at least 13 years old, weighed just 78 pounds.
Carri Williams testified that she thought Hana was healthy, and that she was unaware of the extent of her weight loss — 30 pounds in the year before she died.
Witnesses throughout the trial described the adopted children being starved, beaten and tortured.
Hana spent her final months sleeping in a locked closet, showering outside with a hose, being forced to use a portable toilet behind a barn, being hit as many as 40 times a day and at times being barred from speaking to anyone.
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Clearly this family, using the Pearl's landmark guide, To Train Up A Child, were doing so in loving care for the soul of their defiant child.
Mr. Pearl explains his love for children:
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When your children apply for a job it will be at a company our children founded. When they go to a doctor, it will be one of our Christian children that heals them with cutting edge innovation. When your adult kids go for therapy it will be one of our kids-become-psychologist that directs them to the couch and challenges them to release their self-loathing and embrace hope for a better tomorrow. When your children grow old and realize their mortality and seek to make peace with their Creator, it will be one of our children that shares with them the message of God’s love and forgiveness.
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Only to the hippy, "free-spirit," negligent liberal will sharing the message of God's love and forgiveness be seen as a negative thing.
As you come across this news story, pray for the parents who are being actively persecuted for following the Faith of Christ, and pray for all parents who feel their children are getting out of control and are afraid to give their children the gift of discipline.