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About Pastor Don Carpenter
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I am a father of four and a Baptist Pastor. Before becoming a senior pastor, I was a youth pastor and worker for over 10 years. If you ask this volunteer a question, you will get the benifit of 20 + years experience in the ministry and the counsel of the Bible, God`s perfect book. Feel free to ask any Biblical or moral questions.
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I have been involved in pastoral type counseling for 20+ years. Most of my experience has been with chemical addiction, crisis intervention, and some types of severe mental illness. I have some secular training in those areas as well as a Bible College degree.
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Evangelical Baptist Church
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Revival Baptist Chronicles
The Fundamental Baptist Voice
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BS in Bible from Baptist Bible College in CLarks Summit PA
Various training seminars in, Co-occuring disorders, treatment of those who have been sexually abused, and Solution Focused Therapy.
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You are here: Experts > Teens > Teen Advice > Teenage Problems > staying quiet when a stranger's in trouble
Expert: Pastor Don Carpenter
Date: 10/2/2008
Subject: staying quiet when a stranger's in trouble
Question
Hey. I'm 16 and a junior in high school. In one of my classes, two guys beside
me talk about nothing except drugs. And then they talk about more drugs.
And then they talk about more drugs. Last week though, one of them started
talking about how he couldn't get his girlfriend to get high with him. He was
talking about how she kept finding excuses to try later and later. I thought it
sounded like this girl was doing a good job of deflecting his efforts.
Yesterday, the guy told his buddy that his girlfriend caved and that she'd be
joining them when they got high at his house this Friday. He mentioned that
all he had to do was threaten to dump her.
I don't know this guy well. We've never spoken a word to each other. But I feel
gut-wrenchingly horrible for this girl, whoever she is. I asked around, and
she supposedly goes to another local school.
Should I say anything to that guy? From what I can tell, he doesn't do drugs
on school property so I couldn't tip of our school's resource officer or
anything.
And for all that talk about not staying quiet about drugs, no school
administrator has ever mentioned who to go to with this kind of stuff.
Thank you
Answer
Hi Catherine,
THanks for this great question. I would suggest that you talk to the guidence counsellor about this. They are trained for this kind of stuff. I would also get the wisdom from your parents as to your next course of action. If you do not know this guy well, and he is already into drugs heavily, then your rebuke may not do much.... but it might. If you approach him directly, you may shake him up enough to get him to re-consider what he is doing.
Also remember, this is what you hear him tell his friend. He may not have done that, but may be telling his friend this in order to look better in his eyes.
May God grant you wisdom as to your nest move.
In Christ
Pastor Don
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