Hope cries, as she opens a cupboard, revealing two full shelves of empty liquor bottles.  "He has been drinking for two weeks ...finished this all off.  Just lost his job too, because he hasn't been at work.  We barely had enough, now we will have nothing!  I told him I was going to go to the police ...but though I feared for the children, I couldn't do that.  He'll stay away now until he sobers up, and will come back all mannerly.  If I'd went to the police, it'd just been harder on all of us.  But I didn't know what else to do ...so I thought I could find someone to listen, perhaps pray for us, so I came to the church."