Heaven, Sunny, Ladelle, Snow and Crystal Peabody
Heaven, Sunny, Ladelle, Snow and Crystal Peabody
January 2007
Ladelle, the eldest of the Behrman family and her husband Snow Peabody celebrate their 31st anniversary on March 5th this year. Snow has served as Executive Director for Teen Challenge of Arizona since 1976, shortly after they were married. He presently serves on the National Board of Teen Challenge and is thoroughly enjoying the opportunities provided to network and speak out in our Nation's Capital on behalf of Teen Challenge as a faith-based organization and to partner with other ministries filled the same passion for reaching out to lost and hurting people with the only hope: Jesus!
Ladelle with her love for music found a special place in her heart to share and teach music to the men and young women of Teen Challenge. She presently serves as the State Music Director and when her statewide choir comes together, she finds herself directing around 120 men, up to twenty young ladies from the Springboard Home for Youth in Crisis and approximately thirty ladies from the Home of Hope where women and women with children are received into the program. There are no auditions to sing in this choir. Everyone has the privilege! She has produced a CD with a collection of theme songs that she has written for the choir over the last several years.
With her love also for recording, Ladelle has been thrilled to watch God reveal the details for a recording studio that would not only serve the needs of the Teen Challenge staff and students, but also serve the Christian community, helping artists and musicians by providing the tools they need to be good stewards of their platform whatever it may be. The facility has been appropriately named, Joy Studios. The glory of God has filled this place located in the Corporate Office of Teen Challenge in Tucson, and it has truly been one rewarding experience after another. She continues to pursue a long awaited recording project of her own, seeking God for His timing and His excellence on the project.
Ladelle assists with the ministry of international recording artist David Meece who has written and arranged numerous songs for the students and serves as a spokesperson for Teen Challenge.Here is what he has to say about the ministry:
“Teen Challenge holds a special place in my heart. I have seen firsthand, individuals who like my own father, have suffered from all kinds of addictions and were unable to overcome them in any meaningful way. The net result of which is always destruction and death.
Today, due to Teen Challenge’s amazing success rate, countless lives have not only been helped but have actually been cured of the supposedly incurable. Hopeless individuals and families have suddenly discovered there is not only hope, but an answer. It is my prayer that God will continue to impress upon people the indispensable nature of this wonderful, Bible-based organization and continue to bless the unique ministry it represents.”
Sunny, 28 is a graduate of Vanquard University in Costa Mesa, CA with a double major in Film and Theater, is living in Glendale, CA. He has become an assistant manager in the first Apple computer store ever to open. He stays busy with free lance video production and a theater company called “Fresh Market Produce” and has directed numerous drama and comedy performances in the area. He has been invited to take a special foreign missions trip with the comedy outreach group Delivery Boys,all graduates from Vanguard and looks forward to teaming up again in ministry with this talented group of young men.
Heaven (25) and Crystal (21) are presently living in Tucson. Heaven, also a graduate of Vanguard University with a Theater degree, is employed at the Corporate Office of Teen Challenge while she prepares to return to California and her pursuit in the missionfield of stage and film. She has been a real blessing assisting Ladelle in the music department.
In October 2006, a special highlight of the year took place when Ladelle and Heaven were invited to perform Ladelle’s song, “Pushing Back the Night” in a special gala event held in the Terrace Theatre of the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC on behalf of the Center for Neighborhood Enterprise. What a delightful experience!
Crystal has been developing her skills in photography and displayed two of her portfolios in the gallery of Pima College last spring. She works for Discovery Chiropractic and cares for Sydney, the young daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Cox. Last summer, Crystal enjoyed working at a summer camp just outside of Buffalo, NY. She also introduced a new member into the family when she brought little “Elsie” home, the cutest little Yorkie ever! Our hearts have all been won, especially Snow.
Meanwhile,Crystal is looking forward to taking a trip with Grandad and Grandma Ginger, hopefully in the near future!
This year the theme for Teen Challenge is “Grace.” We have all deeply appreciated this powerful word being in the spotlight at this time. We are on a journey of fresh revelations of grace. In our fundraising banquets and other ministry events, the testimonies of grace and “grace songs” sung by the choir have gripped our hearts with inspiration to keep moving forward in God!
As we all ponder on the dreams and desires that the Father has placed inside of us,
peering into the possibilities and adventures that lie ahead of us in 2007, we pray that you
will also experience His grace upon your dreams and desires for this year!With His Love,
The Peabodys
“God is able to make all grace abound toward you that you having all sufficiency in all things may abound unto every good work.” II Corinthians 9:8
Write to us:
Snow and Ladelle Peabody
P.O. Box 40010
Tucson, AZ 85717520.292.2273
Visit the Teen Challenge of Arizona site and visit the Global Teen Challenge website also to see what God is doing through this powerful worldwide ministry. In 2008 Teen Challenge will be celebrating their 50th Anniversary in New York, honoring the founder, David Wilkerson.
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