My poor daughter...what should we do???

My daughter has been signed up to do a church internship for several years. This year is the year. It means she goes from school at 1:30 straight to church and works til 5:30. It has been going on for about 3 weeks now. So far there has been no one at church sometimes, sometimes they are at Wal_Mart, sometimes they forget she is coming, sometimes they will be there is l/2 hours, which ends of being 1 1 /2 hours, and today when she got there there was a note taped to the door saying they would be there in an hour.

We live about 17 miles from church.

We are completely shocked and very depressed. She is so dynamic and ready to dive into whatever they want her to do.

This is amazing treatment of an enthusiastic and loving warrior for Christ.

I don't even know what to pray.

She just called me. She is majorly sad and depressed. They have our home phone and cell phone too, and never call.

This is too much to absorb.

We are under such major attack I can't even describe it.

Every one of our family...

Bob, Drew, Darci, and me. Every area of our life looks like it is falling apart, in some way or another.

I don't even know what to say.

? HELP, LORD. ? We live about 17 miles from church and she is "working" for free...

Since she goes each day, this morning, when she left, I said, call church at 1:30 when you leave Honey, and if they are not there, come home and call again at 2:30, etc...

She is totally on fire and has been since 7th grade. She is a senior. This is not a passing fancy.

So a phone call is our first line of defense, so to speak. But the saddest thing of all is that her youth pastor of one year is so laid back you almost cant tell if he is "awake". To be explicit, her youth group of 150 or so used to be dynamic every week....extremely spiritual and vibrant. Kids came from miles away to seek Jesus...very awesome.

Now they do things like this, which is just beyond belief... A child may give a wonderful 10 minute sermon, and then they immediately have a blip of Rin and 'Stimpy come up full blast. I have been there and just can't stand it. Every kid laughs and it breaks the mood entirely. This is one small example of the relaxed whatever attitude.

We stuck it out with our church after the old youth pastor went to plant churches in CA, not wanting to run away, even tho we had an insightful intuition about the new pastor. We went and talked to the head pastor and asked if the spirituality would continue (at his encouragement) and he said yes, nothing to worry about.

But everything has been spiraling down...last week the head pastor had a long long video of himself being locked in the bathroom pounding on the door, wanting out, while his son (8 and another boy) pretended to be taking over his office. The video went on and on and on. I don't even know what the reason for the video was. Something about the kids taking over the church.

Well...anyways things don't look too good anymore...the spirituality is gone. It is our daughter's senior year....not exactly a good time to change...

Thanks to all.

sigh.

maybe.