Shepherd's Hill Farm

Trace Embry Interviewed by Bob Crittenden of Faith Radio at NRB

Trace Embry at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention

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Listen to Trace Embry interviewed in Nashville, TN at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention by Bob Crittenden of Faith Radio.  Bob speaks of Faith & Culture at The Meeting House.

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License To Parent is a radio talk show hosted by Trace Embry and Walter Reed to give biblical guidance and advice to parents with struggling teenagers.  Trace is the founder and director of Shepherd’s Hill Farm (SHF), a Christian boarding school for troubled teens.  SHF is also 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 teens 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 »

Shepherd’s Hill Farm is honored to announce guest speaker, Ashley Smith Robinson. We are inviting everyone to come & listen to Ashley speak.  Please spread the word & invite your friends to join us.  ♥

Date:  March 11, 2010

Time:  6:30 pm

Where:  SHF Chapel, 2200 Price Road, Martin, GA 30557

Brief synopsis:  3/11/05 Atlanta, GA.  5 years ago, Ashley Smith Robinson was held hostage and shared the Gospel of Jesus Christ with her perpetrator. The perpetrator later turned himself into the authorities.  You can view Ashley’s website at:  http://ashleysmithrobinson.com/

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Trace Embry & Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family at the Sunday Morning Prayer Breakfast at the National Religious Broadcasters Expo in Nashville, TN

License To Parent is an Outreach Ministry of Shepherd’s Hill Farm (SHF). Trace Embry, Founder and Director of SHF gives parenting advice on the License To Parent radio program.  In this photo, Trace is in Nashville, TN at the National Religious Broadcasters Exposition. He met with many radio program hosts from across the Country.  Trace attended a Sunday morning Prayer Breakfast with the Honorable Dr. James Dobson, Founder of Focus on the Family.  This event was to “kick-off” the Expo!    More to come on the event…

Tags: Christian counseling, Christian counseling boarding school, Dr. James Dobson, Families, Focus on the Family, help for teens in crisis, serving hurting families

Shepherd’s Hill Farm in Martin, Georgia is located in the rural, agricultural region of NE Georgia.  Farming is the largest industry in NE Georgia.  The resident girls are learning to be self-sustaining as they continue to grow their Homestead Project.   Last autumn, the officers of the Homestead Project joined Assistant Founder and Director, Beth Embry on a honorary field trip to Atlanta, GA to the Agriculture building to receive a grant awarded to Shepherd’s Hill Farm.

The grant funds are being used to build a greenhouse, and to purchase the necessary supplies.  On Friday, the girls were excited and busily preparing the ground to accommodate the new 16×16 greenhouse.  As Beth Embry was counseling the girls with the instructions to build the greenhouse, there were many teachable moments that helped improve creative thinking skills.  The girls also learned dedication, perseverance, and patience as they worked each step in obedience to the instructions. 

The girls are positioning the greenhouse next to the garden plot.  Last summer the girls planted, weeded, watered, and ate the fruits of their labor from the garden.  This year, they will learn to start their own plants from seeds, and they will have the greenhouse to help give them a jump start in the growing season!  Certainly, they will learn a thing or two on how to operate a greenhouse as well. 

Tags: at risk teens, Christian boarding school, Christian counseling, Christian teen help, girls, home for troubled teens, homestead, self-sustaining

Ceasar the Llama comes to Shepherd's Hill Farm

Girls learn to grow their own food in the garden.

With loving guidance and support from Assistant Founder and Director, Beth Embry, of Shepherd’s Hill Farm, the resident girls now have a Homestead Project to call their own.  The girls have elected officers to the project.  This not only gives them a sense of ownership, but teaches them responsibilities of how to operate the program and collaborate as a team.

Since late last summer, the resident girls have gotten to go on numerous field trips to gather ideas from other local area farms already partaking in homesteading.  On one of the trips the girls learned what it was like to be self sustaining.  They learned the methods of bee-keeping, gardening, and raising animals for food.  Here they got to pick fresh organically grown blueberries and raspberries.  They learned how to milk a goat and got to try it themselves.  They also discovered Continue Reading »

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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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