I’m 56 years old and should be released next year.
I deeply felt to thank you for your ministry to us black sheep here behind bars. Sometimes we are a product of our environment.
My parents were drunks, and we would run for our lives when dad got on a bender. If dad could grab you, he would beat you. Mother finally ran off and left me alone with dad. I kept running away and they kept bringing me back. One day at seventeen I had enough, I snatched a purse from a lady and got caught. For 60 days I had it really nice: warm bed, food and no beatings, a fellow could enjoy this.
So, for the rest of my life I was in and out of jails. Then I had this dream; bright light I could not see into, kind of moving. Something said, “Only believe, there is a better way, friend.”
Well, the guard woke me, and said I must have been having a nightmare. I went to the chaplain and he listened. He finally said it was probably just a nightmare.
I told a few guys, then one guy asked if I heard of “Melchisedec?” I asked if he is an inmate here, he just smiled and handed me a book telling who he is.
Well the book started out, “Only Believe.” Right there, it caught my attention and made me sit up. Then I read his life story, and to think I had it rough? Yeah, Right.
Well it just went from there. There sure is a better way than the one I had.
Brothers you cannot imagine what it is like to suddenly have the love and assurance in your life that I have always longed for.
GA