Christmas in the prisons!

We found four of our favorite Christmas Carols in Spanish and shared those with the men in our Monday group. God helped us put together scriptures with songs. We had an interactive Christmas service! As the men left the service, many said they really enjoyed it. We praise God for the opportunity to present the message of salvation in the prisons!

We just keep praising the Lord!

On Tuesday, October 28, we posted a note on this blog about one of our men who had written a booklet. We had gone to see him with the desire to read the finished copy with him, but he was out of the institution. We were saddened, as was he.

However, praise the Lord, we finally got to see him yesterday! We were all overjoyed as we read the booklet together. But, when we reached the part that talked about how he had been such a bad example to his son, we had to pause. Our friend, ex-gangbanger, now wonderfully born again, was very emotional and tearful as he remembered how he acted around his son.

We know that he is very active in writing his son about his experience with the Lord, so we encouraged him that he is doing what God wants him to do at this time in his life. This man’s conversion to the Lord Jesus is a miracle! We pray for more like him!

Please pray for them!

In doing an Internet search on the criminal mind, we found the following:
"To embark on a truly corrective program, we must begin with the clear understanding that the criminal chooses crime; he chooses to reject society long before society rejects him. The criminal values people only to the extent that he can use them for his own self-serving ends; he does not justify his actions to himself. Only by "habilitating" the criminal, so that he sees himself realistically and develops responsible patterns of thought, can we change his behavior."

Please keep praying for those behind bars!