Hope for Drinking Moms!

Here's an excerpt from an email that is typical of numerous emails and phone calls our ministry receives every week. The parentheses were added to ensure confidentiality.

My husband and I met with (the leaders at our church this Sunday). I recently came home after being at Caron Treatment Center in Wernersville for 31 days. I came home and drank within 2 days. Within a weeks time my husband had to take the Children out of our house 3 separate times due to my drinking. They suggested we talk with you as to what steps I need to take now. Our children are 13 and 10 and just ended school for the summer. I was planning on being a full-time mother after working in our business for 12 years. My husband and I are concerned as to what to do.

What would you say if you were the pastor of this family? What would you say if you were there neighbors, relatives, brothers and sisters in Christ?

The focus that God has given us in 'Etsah Ministries is to help moms like this to see what it is that they have been medicating. Why for this women is alcohol soothing and what emotion is it numbing? When this is revealed, Jesus can heal that old hurt, scar, pain, emotion! When He has healed her the alcohol will no longer be the medication or the escape that it has been in the past.

God wants to restore His children to healing, wholeness and identity in Him. As He does this, He restores families. We ask for your prayers for this family as God begins to work in their hearts, minds and lives this week.