We have learned that God does not give up on His children and that His timetable might not be ours. If we focus on past mistakes, we cannot see clearly what God can do with our lives in the future. And we learned that being reared in a Christian home does not mean kids share or understand faith. Parents must be ever vigilant and aware of the stresses in their children's lives and the pressures they are experiencing. Of course their prayers were not better.
Kids make their own choices.
Whether we are pastors or elders in the church or administrators or teachers in Christian schools, it is imperative that we remain aware of drug use and influence among kids today. We must be alert to the kid who is struggling, lonely, unloved, ridiculed, not accepted or lacking a good home life and realize this is a candidate for drug or alcohol abuse. Among Christian families there is the temptation to keep the drug or alcohol addiction a family secret. That helps no one. While we need not broadcast it, neither should we deny it.