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Thank you everyone! Our goal, through many other struggles, has been to continue to be at church and encourage our children also to stay, no matter what others say or do. We feel our family has had more than its share of opinions from the peanut gallery over the years. We are a strong family and circle our wagons when we need to in order to protect each other. He is doing so much better now that he is home and we are scheduling an appointment for him to be evaluated for the anxiety. He is normally a very happy go lucky guy. He did have some good moments out there and has been spending time reflecting on those. We will see what the future holds for him. We are emphasizing how he can serve the Lord and others and that we are all on missions our whole life.

We are happy that he tried. We really are going to try and block out those negative people who may feel they have a right to say something about the situation. We have always been a missionary minded family in sharing the gospel with others and that is not going to change. We are reminding him of that.

I was getting caught up in anxiety myself due to all the other things that have happened to us during our church membership in this area. I will probably start sharing some of that in other posts. I can so identify with so many who have posted things here. There is much dysfunctionality in our church settings that ends up really affecting people in adverse ways. I can’t deny the things I have been privy to and have seen gone on.

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