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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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There are many areas that hurting parents grossly under-estimate as being significant in nurturing an emotionally, behaviorally, psychologically, and spiritually sound teenager. Let’s talk about just one right now. Having a biblical worldview can never be over emphasized. Without one Junior has no objective transcendent starting point by which to determine right or wrong—no answers [...]
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Posted in Trace's blog on Nov 4th, 2009
Is it possible that many teenagers become at-risk teens who become troubled teens who then become teens in crisis largely because parents have bought into certain cultural “myths” or protocol that actually have no rational or biblical basis for which to exist in the first place—too often resulting in parents needing help from a Christian boarding [...]
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Posted in Trace's blog on Oct 9th, 2009
From my Christian boarding school and Christian wilderness program experience with troubled teens, one of the biggest problems I see with troubled teens today is their faulty understanding of love. They confuse love and lust. Parents of troubled teens and at risk teens too often define love with warm feelings and emotions only. God defines [...]
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Posted in Trace's blog on Sep 14th, 2009
The following is an excerpt from a recent Shepherd’s Hill Farm newsletter.
UNUSUAL GRADUATION
Nearly every time we have a graduation ceremony it is always a time of celebrating the happy graduates and their new life in Jesus Christ. This graduation ceremony was certainly happy; and, Jesus Christ was certainly celebrated. However, two of the five graduates, [...]
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Posted in Trace's blog on Sep 10th, 2009
Are struggling teens struggling because they have no struggles? I think so! The same way we can kill a little chick struggling to peck his way out of an egg, we can do damage to our kids by not allowing them to experience struggle in their upbringing. Nobody wants to see their kids struggle; however, [...]
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Posted in Trace's blog on Aug 18th, 2009
The following is an excerpt taken from the SHF newsetter archives.
THE WONDERFUL PAIN OF HEALING We seem to have a group of parents who really understand that change is compulsory in their own lives in order bring healing to their kids. Before the weekend of the conference, one of our girls, who was extremely [...]
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