Our story began when our son Thomas wanted to do a missions trip and we let him. The first year was great, he came back so inspired. The second year, something inside, said, don't let him go... he raised money to go, but he was a little money short of the grand total, so we let him go and work at one of the extreme camps, a week early before his schedule missions trip... Long story short, he found a girl he liked. Apparently, she was sexually active, and persuaded our son, to escape at night, and go off with her.
Unfortunately, she had second thoughts and cried rape, he really liked her alot, but she seduced him. He was detained and had to speak with the officials at the Missions center. He was let off, she broke down and said she lied. Our son Thomas, had sworn to a pact of Purity...so disbelief is all we could think of when the dreaded call came at a time when we least expected it.
Meanwhile, we had to spend an additonal 1,000 dollars to fly him home since the place he was at could not allow him to stay overnight, and he had to take the next flight out.
Needless to say, the Lord is using him in a capacity, close to home where we can help him with his temptations. He was only 15 at the time.