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Originally Posted by awareness
This reminds me of the big brothers house we had in the C. in Detroit.
My wife and I and another couple headed it up. We were bringing people in off the street "to the Lord" and to the church.
Trouble was, they were really rough around the edges ... heroin junkies and alcoholics.
We tried and tried to make it work, and went thru hell after hell, and none of them stuck to the lord or the church.
The ideal of the brothers' house was a good one ... the reality of it was ugly ugly ugly, and unlivable.
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I can second that. When my brother and I were still at home, we had some LRC grothers living in our house off an on. One of them turned out to be a heroin addict. While he was not in our house at the time, when virtually everyone vacated the city to go to the training in Anaheim (Winter 1975, I think), he robbed a whole collection of LRC houses, including ours. We got some stuff back from pawn shops, but not all.
And we pressed charges when he was caught.
I sure hope someone doesn't think we should just give him more chances and ask him back into our house.