Advent Home Learning Center, Inc.

  As a child, he was respectful and obedient, but increasing conflicts in his family made him depressed and angry. He got involved with the wrong crowd at school and started fighting and experimenting with smoking. At home, he locked himself in his room and surfed the internet for hours, playing computer games and visiting pornography sites. Full of defiance and making poor grades, he had no interest in his future when he came to Advent Home. In fact, Anthony tried every tactic to get out! He attempted to intimidate his mother in letters and phone calls, saying how much he hated her, and how she was wasting her money trying to change him. He ran away a couple of times, hoping it would convince her to take him out. When that didn’t work, he even tried to fake real changes, but couldn’t keep up the act. Through it all, his determined Christian mother prayed for her son and scraped together the money to put him through Advent Home’s program.In spite of his best intentions, the seed planted by his Christian mother germinated and blossomed within Advent Home’s spiritual environment. Through daily worship and singing, bible class, Week of Prayer, Bible studies, and weekly church attendance, Anthony experienced the gentle call of God’s