Disciplining the children

One of the important tasks we have here at the home is spending time punishing the children who have done wrong. Lately we have had many teens and children misbehaving which has been quite trying on Kevin who has been helping Greg in this challenging task. We are reminded of God's word in Proverbs 22:6 "Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it." Each child is different and unique which requires us to make wise decisions on how they should be punished. Please pray for us as we deal with this issue almost daily. From kids fighting with each other, stealing, lying, or disrespecting their Tias or in some cases us and Greg and Eva.

This 11 year old boy is being punished for fighting at school.

We have the kids do extra physical work besides their normal chores as a form of punishment for their bad behavior. Lately our house has been a great place to put many of these kids to work doing things like picking up the rocks out of the yard helping cleaning out the ditches and recently mixing up cement for our driveway entry.

In most cases for the older kids we make them write Bible verses or passages that pertain to what they did wrong. They have to write them up to 25 or 50 times each and are asked to explain what the verses teach them.

You can probably agree with approx. 200 kids at the home this can be quite demanding keeping up with all that goes on when the children misbehave. Thank you for lifting us up in this area of our ministry as we attempt to redirect them on the right path.