Not only does the family's house leak, but the family as well. The oldest son has robbed them repeatedly to feed his drug habit. He is separated from his wife and two children, having lost his job after his transvesite brother with AIDS stabbed him in the stomach with a kitchen knife. He had picked one fight too many. The daughter is a single mother still at home.
Mom is medicated for half a dozen health problems.
If that isn't enough, a close friend of the family pulls me aside after the first week pleading for help on a debt to a bandido who has threatened his life if he doesn't pay up. Benedito that this family really needs the gospel. Their values are askew, they spend on frivolties rather than necessities, conflict rules the roost. No easy-going studies, these, with disruptions and delays, people coming and going. At first thought, it's easy to think that a family like this, with so many problems, conflicts, and sins, needs salvation.