TL;DR: A Christian YouTuber named Warren McGrew has a Hosea/Gomer situation and he’s fighting for custody of his kids. Please pray for him.
I’ve never done a post like this before, but I can’t shake the feeling that I need to.
Anyway, I follow Warren McGrew on YouTube, but I’ve never met him, had a conversation with him, or interacted with him in any significant way. (A short DM is the extent of our contact.) I don’t agree with all of his positions, but he clearly loves God and his kids, and he’s trying to be the best father he can. (One of his kids interrupted him while he was streaming once, and he had a perfect reaction to the interruption. #dadgoals.)
From the little I’d gathered from things he’d said scattered across a dozen or so videos, the Hosea/Gomer situation is that his wife was committing adultery, divorced him for another man, and then spitefully tried to stop him from seeing his kids. Those are my words, not his. He’s been very restrained in speaking about it. However, in a recent video, he mentioned that he started a GoFundMe for the legal costs.
On that page, he said more than he’d ever said on his channel, and something about his story really hit me hard.
I’m not sure why.
(You can read it here. For some reason, I get a 404 error until I refresh the page; not sure why.)
Per that page, his ex-wife is even putting his daughters in danger. This isn’t about his YouTube channel or anything, because as I said, I disagree with him on some things. I just want to ask you to pray for a man fighting to save his kids. The divorce courts aren’t friendly to men and it’s very expensive, so he’s fighting an uphill battle.
I ask:
- Please pray for him and his kids.
- If your church has a prayer chain/group, please mention this to them at least once so they can pray for him too. (I did at my church yesterday.)
Yes, I realize that’s a big ask, but I’m asking anyway because something in me just wants to scream at the idea that a good man will have his kids taken away by a wicked ex-wife, especially when she’s putting them in danger. (As Ecc 7:7 states: “oppression makes a wise man mad”) Thus, I’m trying to channel that anger into something productive to help so I can “be angry and not sin” (Eph 4:26).
So please pray, and please ask others to pray too.
God bless,
Berean Patriot
