Please God Who Will Save My Children?????

Since my dream of homeschooling was just yanked out from under me, I trust the Lord has a better plan. I am disappointed that my kids have to go to public school but both Howard and my other ex are forcing me to put the kids into public school rather than homeschool. No one seems to think I have the skills to homeschool I guess.

I am going to do something unusual here and literally beg for someone to put in the funding for my kids to all three attend the Seventh-day Adventist school here. I know this is not apropos and Daryl you can place this wherever you wish, but my heart is breaking really! I can't stand the thought of them being in public school and they are such brilliant children. I know, I KNOW, someone out there has the resources to fully fund these beautiful three children through private school. Will you not listen to the Saviour's call and step forward to please pave the way for the christian's of tomrrow. These are the children that will be preaching from the table tops and calling the world to come into the ark with us. Please! Someone out there see and hear the cries of a mother who is so heart broken she doesn't know where else to reach or turn. Please! Your money could not be better spent.It would only take a few people putting in funding together to pay the monthly bill for these kids. It would NOT be hard for some of the wealthier members of our church. Is this or is it not what Mrs.White told us we should be doing for our children. She said it was shameful that our children could not afford to attend and that the churches would not take them under their wing. We are to be caring for the widow and the fatherless. Well, that is these children and they cannot ask for themselves so I am respectfully asking for them. These are the children that you will be able to walk with in Heaven. PLEASE! DON'T LET ONE CHILD BE LOST!!!!

GOD HELP US ALL!
WENDY FORSYTH
P.O.BOX 284
PETE BECK RD.
QUILCENE,WA.
98376
(360)765-0396


MRS. CAROL KLONTZ
CEDARBROOK SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST SCHOOL
(360)385-4610


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I have no doubt that God considers you to be one of His friends; otherwise He would not trust you with so many crosses, sufferings and humiliations. Crosses are God's means of drawing souls closer to Himself.

Fenelon

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Looking back, [my wife] Jan and I have learned that the wilderness is part of the landscape of faith, and every bit as essential as the mountaintop. On the mountaintop we are overwhelmed by God's presence. In the wilderness we are overwhelmed by his absence. Both places should bring us to our knees; the one, in utter awe; the other, in utter dependence.

Dave Dravecky


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When you accept rather than fight your circumstances ---even though you don't understand them --- you open your heart's gate to God's love, peace, joy and contentment.

Amy Carmichael

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God always answers us in the deeps, never in the shallows of our soul.

Amy Carmichael

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The disappointment has come...not because God desires to hurt you or make you miserable or to demoralize you or ruin your life or keep you from ever knowing happiness...He wants you to be perfect and complete in every aspect, lacking nothing...It's not the easy times that make you more like Jesus, but the hard times.

Kay Arthur

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Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God's most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth. Once we begin to understand this, and accept it as a spiritual fact of life, adversity becomes easier to bear.

Charles Stanley

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God may be in the process of pruning something out of your life at this very moment. If this is the case, don't fight it. Instead, welcome it, for His pruning will make you more fruitful and bring greater glory to the Father.

Rick Yohn

[ September 09, 2003, 05:39 PM: Message edited by: Wendy ]

You know, I thought about it and even 100 people at $5 a month could put my kids through school for the year. That is all it would take. Can someone spare a latte? Or maybe pick up one less pizza a week or something, so that a few beautiful children of God right here in our own country can stay close to his word?It isn't much. Will you help today? Please?
God bless you all,
Wendy

Wendy,

Please contact me. I would like your permission to forward your post on.
It would be a slim chance but there maybe someone that could help. Espeially if thers are willing to as well.


Bonnie

And, Wendy, there are times when it is appropriate to ask for financial assistance here, and this is one of those times. It is always appropriate to lend a helping hand in times of need, and I consider this a time of need.

If you open up a PayPal Account and advertise the link here, I am certain you will receive some responses in this forum. Also, if you asked for the same help in the other SDA type forums that are out here in cyberspace, I am quite certain that you will also receive some responses there.

As far as responses goes, without giving us any names, please keep us up to date right here in this topic on how things are going here.

Forum members:
This is a chance to let your light shine in a tangible way.

Based on what has been happening with Wendy over the past several months, I can personally vouch to the authenticity of Wendy's plea for help in a time of extreme need.

In our church we have a worthy student fund for cases like this. It seems to work better because people get to know the children.

Wendy,

Would your spouse or ex-spouse not mind placing your kids in the church school? It wasn't very clear from your post? Are you going to enroll your kids in the school you've listed?

Would you e-mail me or send me a private message? I want to help.

Keep your faith, sister.

I was Instant Chatting with Wendy this morning.

According to Wendy, the problem isn't whether or not they will let them go to Church School, but instead it is the financial aspect of sending them to church school.

Windy

re:"This school even kicked my kids out when Howard had just been injured because we couldn't pay."

WHY would anyone wish to send their kids to a school where anyone was so CRUEL as to have previously treated them in this fashion?

I don't know how public schools were back in EGW's day, perhaps they were bad, and the only recorse was to have "church schools." But I do KNOW how "Church Schools" were in my day. And the CRUELTY doesn't seem to have changed much.

Both of my children have been educated in Public Schools (admittedly we have an OUTSTANDING system here locally). While "church schools" are SUPPOSE to be "Christian", my personal experience was that they simply weren't (grade school through academy!) In all my supposedly "Christian" education, I can only recall one teacher who inspired me, challenged me, taught me, AND WHO REALLY SHOWED A CHRISTIAN SPIRIT IN HIS LIFE! The rest were simply DROSS, who simply couldn't have cut it in a public school situation. In my experience 48 years ago in "Church Schools," they were overcrowded, underfunded, and had INADEQUATE and UNQUALIFIED TEACHERS.

I could not be more pleased with the OUTSTANDING CHRISTIAN teachers of whom have been my childrens teachers in PUBLIC SCHOOLS. And I'll also tell you that the ETHICS and MORALITY of the pubic school teachers FAR EXCEED my experience of the "teachers" I had in Adventist Schools!

FWIW, I ALMOST considered sending my daughter to the academy I graduated from in Colorado. Unfortunately the principal who tried to convince me to send my daughter there, HAD to resign, due to inappropriate behavior with a young female student! Around here, if a Public School teacher engages in "inappropriate behavior" with a student, they go to JAIL, and don't simply have to resign, where they then can obtain a "Redemptive Transfer" and usually go to yet another Adventist "Church School" where they continue to again engage in "inappropriate behavior." Which WAS the case of that principal in Colorado I referred too!

I realize that my opinion won’t be accepted as popular around here. But Baptist, Lutherans, Nazarenes and a host of other “Fundamentalist” send their children to “Public Schools” with complete success in keeping their youth with-in their denominations. Our friend Bonny here, has met my 16 y/o daughter…and can attest that she is a very nice young lady who has not been CONTAMINATED by attending Public Schools. Likewise my 22 y/o son, another product of PUBLIC SCHOOLS, doesn’t drink, smoke, do drugs, attends College and pays his full way. Has a very beautiful fiancé and is a virgin……PUBLIC SCHOOLS didn’t ruin him either.

Frankly you should thank your stars that you can’t get your kids into “Church School.” They probably will be far better off!

[ September 02, 2003, 05:34 PM: Message edited by: J. R. Layman ]

Wendy,
My suggestion you contact me was based on my knowing a family that has made it their particular mission field to help what they consider at risk youth. Primarily this has been the high school level where they think the risk is the greatest for SDA young people.

While my boys attended both public and church school, they did equally well in both.

We did not have the options there are today. There are many fine private christian schools available now, teaching christian principals, without forcing specific doctrinal issues, and far more reasonably priced than ours.
SDA schools are not always the best or the only answer and others have a much better track record of helping worthy students than we do.

I agree with J.R on the specific school you referenced. If kicking your children out in the circumstances you were in, is part of their christianity, I don't believe I would be to thrilled about that particular one.

And yes, Missy is an exceptional young lady.


Bonnie

From my observations, it's a great risk NOT sending children to an Adventist school; although home-schooling has now become a good option.

But of the families I know who choose public school for their children, very vew of the kids remained church members.

Adventist school is certainly no guarantee, but it helps. But the Christian home life is of primary importance in any situation. Kids understand financial problems, and parents prayers that God will help them to remain faithful, even in public school.

Stan:

I agree, the MOST important aspect of any children’s life, and the direction they take in their spiritual journey, IS the HOME.

OTOH, when only,LESS THEN 50% of Adventist Youth Stick around AFTER "Church School." The RECORD of "Church Schools" is not too encouraging!

It is interesting to note TODAY, another SCANDAL of "our schools" is occurring. This time in Helsinki Finland..

following this link!


"http://www.helsinki-hs.net/news.asp?id=20030902IE8,HELSINGIN SANOMAT"
Home - Tuesday 2.9.2003
Police investigate suspected child sexual abuse at Adventist Church boarding school

Do you want me to tell you about the Academy principal who attempted to seduce a friend of mine? Do you want me to tell you about the next academy principal at that same school, who seduced a very attractive young lady? Do you want me to tell you about the spinster English teacher at another Academy who had a special "Friendship" with an academy boy?

Do you wish to hear about the principal last year of the academy I graduated from 35 years ago, who had to RESIGN. the only problem it WASN'T the FIRST time he had had to resign for have inappropriate relationships with female students!!!

As I said previously, in PUBLIC SCHOOLS these PERVERTS and MOLESTERS of Adventist youth, would go to JAIL!!!! Does the fact they are "Seventh Day Adventist" and teachers of our youth, make them less of a CRIMINAL.....so they can get the old "Redemptive Transfer" and do it someplace else?

Actually I'm very SAD, that dear Wendy feels that her children will be "Lost" if she doesn't get them into that "Church School" this year. Doesn't she realize that her dear three little children are JUST AS AWARE AS SHE IS, as to how CRUEL that school was to her and her husband last year?

JR, I certainly understand the problems you present; but anyone with direct experience in such terrible events will react subjectively, and is therefore less qualified to give an objective evaluation.

I believe the following EGW comment on Christ's parable in Matthew 22:1-14 is worth considering. The gathering brings in to the church "BOTH BAD AND GOOD", but the SEPARATION is to be done by the ANGELS, except in extreme circumstances:

quote:

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Those in the byways and hedges came in response to the call of the messenger. The servants gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good, and the wedding was furnished with guests. So those who come to the gospel feast are a mixed company. Some are true believers; others have not on the wedding garment. Some will accept the invitation, and apparently take their stand as believers, who have never put on Christ. But the work of separation is not given to any human being. Yet there is laid upon the church the work of carrying out the Bible rule in regard to disorderly members." RH 5/8/1900.

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With this in mind, we should not be surprised to learn that "LESS THEN 50% of Adventist Youth Stick around AFTER 'Church School.'" But I'm sure that is MUCH higher than the number who "stick around" after going to public school.

I will never support criminal acts by anyone in our schools. Such people need to be properly prosecuted. And I will never be satisfied with inferior instructors, materials, or facilities in our schools. But I will continue to support SDA schools as superior to public schools.

Our children went to SDA schools through college and beyond. And yes, many of their teachers were poorly qualified.

We are grateful for the continuing Christian dedication of our children. But I do credit much of that to their good mother and a Christian home, with regular family worship and active involvement in church, plus a very active life in outdoor things kids enjoy - such as camping, skiing, water activities, mountain climbing, and even our farming hobby (which, they say, motivated them to go through college in order to get away from the hard work. Then they laugh).

Two of our 4 children now send their kids (14 of them) to SDA schools, and two do home schooling (one includes many mission trips). I see benefits both ways. But I am so very thankful that their education has a Christian focus.