WORTH SAVING
By William Crews
Worth Saving is about what one family went through while raising a special-needs child--the humor, the tragedy, and the instance of not knowing what to do when all hope is lost. Where do we turn to when it seems that the world has turned against a five-year-old boy? What happens to the family dynamics? How does a marriage survive, and what does one do with the other child? What do the in-laws and grandparents think?
Many people try to tell you how to discipline your child even though they don't know him or us. How we learned what types of discipline works and what does not.
Questions such as, "Where will this child end up?" "Is there any future for him?" "Why does he do the things he does?" I didn't even know my own son. The depth of emotion when asked to leave three churches because of his behavior, and how one eighth-grade teacher gave us hope and light.
Worth Saving talks about how he came close to death several times and of a stranger who told him to get off the railroad tracks. No one knew who this person was, and no one had seen him before. How and what is he doing today?
About the Author
Bill Crews was born in Raul, Southern Napa County. His dad worked at a naval base after discharge from the army. He kept a small farm cow, several cafes, and a large garden, and sold produce. Billsolder sister started first grade in a two-room schoolhouse. By the time he was six years old, population started growing. He attended a new school with six classrooms and one for kindergarten children. Just the beginning of the growth within several years, it was a twelve-room school and growing. He attended Napa Senior High School and graduated in 1965.
Bill entered the US Army in September 1966. He served and received an honorable discharged. he attended Napa College for two years and then entered the California Polytechnic State Univer in the fall of 1971. The summer of 1972 served as a summer missionary with the Baptist Student Union. He married on August 1972 and graduated with a bachelor of science in agriculture business management in 1975. His son was born in 1976 and his daughter in 1980.
His wife of forty-two years was called home to be with the Lord on June 2014.