Putting Men in Prison Is Part of My Ministry

There are at least three men in prison because of me.

Well, not because of me, but because of their horrific sin.

But because I tell teens that if they are suffering abuse they need to talk to someone, several have responded, talked to me and the particular camp director; the authorities notified, police involved, arrests made, testimony taken, convictions decreed, and prison the result.

In my flesh prison is too good for them, and as an ex-con I know of what I speak.

Last night a young lady asked if she could speak to me following my message on the totality and extent of God's forgiveness.

With sobs she told me of the abuse she suffered, her near suicide (but for the intervention of an alert educator she'd be dead), her speaking out of the abuse, the arrest of the perp, the horribleness of having to describe the details, and the incarceration...

She has difficulty forgiving. Duh. But we spoke of the freedom that comes when we do forgive...and she is thinking about it...

The damage is done, the memories linger. Pray with me that she, and all the others, will accept the fact that they have no sin to be forgiven of, they are victims; they remain precious in His sight (and ours, I trust); they are not "damaged goods," and as they look to Jesus they can and will grow out of the pain and memories. Perhaps not totally, but as their minds are "washed by the renewing of His Word" healing comes.

This young lady is not a camper; but a worker at the camp. She is 17. She is your sister. Would you pray for her? Obviously I can't give her name, but God knows...