Mark S. Williams
Chief Juvenile Probation Office
Tom Green County, San Angelo, TX
In my job as Chief Juvenile Probation Officer for Tom Green County and six adjacent rural counties, I continue to see the effect of broken homes, drugs, gangs, teen pregnancy and lack of education. I come in contact regularly with families who have few or no family values, who do not have any concept of a disciplined life, who think only of their own needs and desires, and who seem to have no understanding of what it means to take responsibility for their own future. It is an ongoing struggle to aid these adolescents and try to help them turn their lives around. We do all that we can to restructure their thinking, encourage positive responses, and in some instances, even implement outside control of their activities and actions, but in many cases these things are not enough.
Praise God that there are people in our community who have a heart for children and youth, who work endless hours to change kids from the inside out—the only real way to effectively solve the moral and spiritual corruption that seems to have almost overtaken our society.
My friend Kevin has written this account of the House of Faith, chronicling God’s establishment of the ministry and the ways He has then brought glory to His name by expanding it. In it are chapter after chapter of details and heartwarming stories of how God is using ordinary people to change the lives of children, youth and families, give them hope and offer them something eternal. What Juvenile Probation and many other social programs cannot do to prevent children from becoming trapped in destructive lifestyles, the House of Faith does every day as it reaches out to children in some of the lower socio-economic areas of our community.
House of Faith changes lives from the inside out.
Here lies the story of God’s building of the House of Faith and of the many lives changed in the process. You will be blessed by the time you spend reading this book, and I hope that you, too, will be motivated to step out in faith as His hands and feet in your own community—however God calls you to the work He has set out before you.
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