Prison Fellowship update
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Did you know:
The United States has the highest rate of incarceration of any country in the world. One out of every 37 adults (5,600,000) living in the United States today has served or is serving time in prison.
At our last Operation Starting Line event a few months ago, I was dramatically reminded how important this ministry is — in giving hope to people who have no hope. There were two to three hundred inmates gathered in the prison yard where I preached that morning. After the invitation, one of them came up to me. Like so many inmates in prison, he had the scars of a hard life on his face, teeth missing, deep wrinkles, and weary eyes, but with a beaming smile he said to me, “Thank you for coming. All of my life people have told me that I would never amount to anything. Today, for the first time, I realized through God I can.”
- Chuck Colson, Chairman of Prison Fellowship Ministries
Matthew 25:43-45
I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.’
“Then they also will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’ Then He will answer them, saying, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.’
*“Graphic used by permission of Prison Fellowship, P. O. Box 1550, Merrifield, VA 22116″.
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