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	Dr. Gary Smalley Best-selling author, speaker President, The Smalley Relationship Center (Branson, Missouri)
	Bob Lepine Co-host of FamilyLife Today national radio program (Little Rock, Arkansas)
	Dr. John Trent Speaker, author of The Blessing, President Strong Families (Scottsdale, Arizona)
	Dr. Tim Kimmel Speaker, author, President Family Matters (Scottsdale, Arizona)
	Dr. Jim Burns Author, radio host of HomeWord
	Dr. Joe and Deddie Jo White President, Kanakuk Kamps (Branson, Missouri)
	Dr. James MacDonald Host and teacher of Walk in the Word, Senior Pastor, Harvest Bible Church, Chicago
	Steven Curtis Chapman Dove Award winning singer, songwriter, author (Nashville, Tennessee)
	Michael Card Dove Award winning singer, songwriter, author (Nashville, Tennessee)
	Paul Overstreet Grammy Award winning country music singer, songwriter (Nashville, Tennessee)
	Joey and Rory Feek Award-winning songwriters and 2010 Academy of Country Music Award recipient for “Top New Vocal Duo” (Nashville, Tennessee)
	Steve Largent Former U.S. Congressman, member Pro Football Hall of Fame
	Randy Sims Executive Director, World View Academy (New Braunfels, Texas)
(Not Pictured)	Brian Luwis President, America World Adoption Agency (McLain, Virginia)
(Not Pictured)	William R. Yinger National Young Life Board Member and Chairman (former)
(Not Pictured)	Eric Peterson YouthFront Ministries (Kansas City, Kansas)
(Not Pictured)	Billy Sprague Dove Award winning singer, songwriter, author (Nashville, Tennessee)

About Our Founders

Mark and Jan Gregston began their work with teens 34 years ago as youth ministers in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Their involvement also with Young Life moved them to open their home to work with teens who were struggling through crisis family problems. This sparked the idea for a larger residential program for teens with professional counselors and caring mentors. In 1989, Mark and his wife Jan moved to East Texas, where they started Heartlight. Since then, Heartlight has helped several thousand struggling teenagers turn away from negative motivations and peers toward a more positive and productive outlook on life.

Focus on the Family
Teen Challenge

Christian residential schools and behavioral therapy for troubled teens with teen counseling to improve behavior problems of teenagers struggling with anger, oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), attention deficit, attention deficit disorder (ADD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), substance abuse, depression, reactive attachment disorder (RAD), intermittent explosive disorder (IED), obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), eating disorders, self-harm, or rebellion.

THERAPEUTIC BOARDING SCHOOLS AND BEHAVIORAL THERAPY FOR TROUBLED TEENS, BOYS OR GIRLS.

When you need help finding Christian boarding schools for girls or therapeutic boarding schools for girls, our referrals department can help. We also refer to and rehabs for men and boys. Some Christian boarding schools for teens are coed, so we can help you find the best Christian boarding schools for girls and boys. Finally, we can refer you to boys ranches or therapeutic programs for boys and boarding schools for girls.

Heartlight's therapeutic schools provide troubled teens with the help and counseling troubled teens need. It gives time for the whole family to heal. Everyone can then look past the anger and teenage rebellion to focus on the troubled teenager's healing. Our Christian residential schools serve Texas, California, Oregon and Washington on the West Coast and Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Nevada in the Southwest, from Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Louisiana, and Mississippi, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois in the Central States, from Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Idaho in the north, and from Georgia, Florida, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and New Jersey along the east coast. Teens come to Heartlight from throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Heartlight is a Christian boarding school with loving and relational behavioral
therapy for troubled teens; a therapeutic boarding school for
girls and therapeutic boarding school for boys.

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