Shepherd's Hill Farm

Serving Hurting Families is a radio talk show hosted by Trace Embry and Walter Reed.  Trace is the founder and director of Shepherd’s Hill Farm.  SHF is a one year Christ-centered, biblically-based residential outdoor-experience discipleship ministry designed to provide an atmosphere that promotes spiritual, emotional, psychological and physical health and healing to troubled teenagers and their families.  Walt is SHF’s music teacher and counselor.  He also plays a utility role at SHF wearing many hats and performing many responsibilities, ministering wherever he is needed in a true sense of servanthood. Continue Reading »

Help For Troubled Parents

Troubled parents have a reason to be troubled, today.  The entire culture has allied itself with the teen mentality.  It began with the baby boomers—a generation who never grew up.  This is largely because their depression-era parents didn’t want their little “Throckmortons” to have to go through what they went through—unfortunately, this included some of the tough character-building experiences.  But, what these depression-era parents had going for them was an entire culture that allied themselves with most of their parenting ideologies.  Kids knew it too.   Continue Reading »

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Georgia Troubled Teen Boarding School

If you are looking for a Georgia troubled teen boarding school, Shepherd’s Hill Academy at Shepherd’s Hill Farm is staffed with men and women that the Old Testament would call the Sons of Issachar.  The sons of Issachar were men who understood the times and knew what to do.  There aren’t too many Georgia troubled teen boarding schools that really do understand the incredible impact today’s American culture is having on, not just our kids, but the church as well.  Troubled teens from all over the world have come to Shepherd’s Hill Academy at Shepherd’s Hill Farm to be healed for this very reason.  Continue Reading »

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Some have called Shepherd’s Hill Farm a Christian counseling boarding school.  It’s actually a cross between a therapeutic wilderness program and a Christian counseling boarding school.  There is an incredible advantage to these kids building, maintaining, and living in their own self-made communities in the woods.  Troubled teens are often troubled teens because they have never been required to accomplish much at home.  Continue Reading »

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What Makes a Troubled Teen School Christian?

Christian troubled teen schools are a dime a dozen.  But, what really makes a troubled teen school Christian?  The question is asked, because so many troubled teen schools have compromised biblical principles for secular theory and political correctness.  In some cases they have compromised for the sake of funds or enrollment.  There aren’t a lot of parents who are willing to be stretched by enrolling a troubled teen in a place that may actually stretch them! Continue Reading »

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Because of my burden for America, my prayer for Shepherd’s Hill Farm as a Christian wilderness program for troubled youth, from the beginning, was that God would give us a ministry that would impact, not just our community, but, in some way, the entire nation—perhaps the world.  In the eyes of the world, we are nobodies teaching other nobodies about Christ.  But, God, of course, sees us as somebody.  He sees a troubled teen as somebody.  Somebody was Billy Graham’s Sunday school teacher; somebody told D.L. Moody about Christ; and, somebody shared Jesus with John Newton—a troubled teen if there ever was one– the very troubled youth who became the once troubled man who wrote “Amazing Grace”. Continue Reading »

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In an on-going effort to be transparent in a world that continues to attack Christ-centered residential programs, Shepherd’s Hill Farm proudly and confidently stands behind its open door policy for parents.

This gives the parents of currently enrolled students the option of visiting Shepherd’s Hill Farm, day or night, for the duration of their teen’s stay.

Most Atlanta area boarding schools for teens are not Christ-centered. And most, if any, are not wilderness-type programs. Shepherd’s Hill Farm is all that and more. With an emphasis on Christian apologetics, Shepherd’s Hill farm offers a unique approach to ministry—particularly as it pertains to troubled teens. There are a very few Atlanta area boarding schools for teens that stress the importance of adopting a biblical worldview for life; nor, do many understand the spiritual nature of a human being from the biblical, as well as from the scientific, perspective. Continue Reading »

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When it comes to Christian wilderness programs for troubled youth, Shepherd’s Hill Farm is the cream of the crop. Shepherd’s Hill Farm serves troubled teens ages 13-17 and helps the entire family grow as well. With an emphasis on Christian apologetics, Shepherd’s Hill farm offers troubled teens a unique approach to ministry. Few Christian wilderness programs for troubled youth stress the importance of adopting a biblical worldview for life to the degree that the staff at Shepherd’s Hill Farm do. Even fewer understand the spiritual nature of a human being from the biblical, as well as from the scientific, perspective. Continue Reading »

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A wonderful Georgia high school for teens in trouble is Shepherd’s Hill Farm/Academy. Shepherd’s Hill Farm/Academy serves troubled teens ages 13-17 and helps the entire family grow as well. With an emphasis on Christian apologetics, Shepherd’s Hill farm offers troubled teens a unique approach to ministry. A Georgia high school for teens in trouble that stresses the importance of adopting a biblical worldview for life is not so common anymore. Few understand the spiritual nature of a human being from the biblical, as well as from the scientific, perspective.

Though most secular theorists would probably label SHF “old school” or “politically incorrect” because of Continue Reading »

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Although Shepherd’s Hill Farm is exclusively a Georgia high shool for teens in trouble, I believe that most teens attending American public high schools today are troubled teens today–they just don’t know it.  Let me explain why I say this.   When one considers what our teens are exposed today, day in and day out, in their public schools, how could they not be troubled teens?  Being exposed to things in Georgia high schools and other public high schools across America is one thing.  But, what our teens are actually engaged in in these schools is quite another.  It’s no wonder there are so many troubled teens in our nation today.  Continue Reading »

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