Wednesday, September 17, 2008

We had a tremendous worship service at Rayburn Correctional Saturday night. We had Tabitha White and Celia Broom singing, Apostles Paul and Philip showed up and told about their experiences with the Ethiopian Eunich and Paul's salvation, along with a dramatization by Eddie Bishop and another inmate and brother Dale Broom brought the message. The Church choir led by Cory sang several songs and are wonderful. Every service we have ever had at the prison has been fantastic. If you've not experienced the spirit, the love and the wonderful music, testimony, dramas and preaching, you are missing a blessing. COME JOIN US!!

COMING UP!!! We have been asked by William Carey University to come back on Tuesday, September 30 and have another outreach to the soccer teams, fans and staff. We will cook hamburgers, hotdogs and trimmings. We will have some kind of music, singing or CDs and have a lot of one on one time with the people. We are showing that Christians can love other Christians without expecting something in return, BUT we are also planting seeds to reach out to the community around William Carey with the students and staff involved with us.

Jay Sanguinetti will be leaving the Shell Station at Hwy 11 and Hwy 59 Intersection at 5:30PM for William Carey, bring your motorcycle. I will be arriving at William Carey around 4:30 to set up the grills, tents, sound equipment, etc, if you can, come and help set up.

October 4th at Rayburn Correctional, we will be conducting the Worship Service. We will meet at Old Hickory Restaurant in Angie between 4 to 4:30PM, eating supper and going into the prison about 5:30 and be leaving around 8:30. IF you are not on the approved lists, email or call for an application. It takes about 10 days to get approved.

October 11th at Pike County Work Center in McComb Ms, we will be having a Saturday Outreach, where we will cook, have worship, preaching, testimonies, dramas, etc. we will leave Columbia around 7:30 AM and be back around 3:30PM.

We have other events on the callender for the rest of the year and will tell about them later.

God Bless,

Steve & Cheryl

Waiting on Gustav

I thought you guys would like to see this...Robert and Steve waiting out Gustav together on the couch! And yes!!!!!!!!! Robert really does have a wife, and I have proof! Here she is at our house helping out during the storm.

Cynthia and Robert were able to go home yesterday but Im not sure they have power. The last time Steve spoke to them they were hooking up a generator.

There are more pictures and a longer update on my blog, acceptance with joy.

P.S. Mike is now in Diamondhead cooking for the Ms. Baptist relief Organization, so keep he and Betty in your prayers.

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Poem By Inmate at Rayburn Correctional

Three Fold Ministries has been ministering at Rayburn Correctional for 4 years. Several of us go in each week and are involved in the Faith Based Programs as mentors. We conduct a Saturday night worship service once a month and also do a Saturday Outreach twice a year. At the Saturday Outreach we take motorcycles on the yards, have 2 worship services and feed the staff and all the inmates that come to worship, hamburgers and the trimmings. At the last Outreach there were about 700 inmates that came to the worship services. Praise God! AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO RIDE A MOTORCYCLE TO PARTICIPATE AND WOMEN CAN GO!!

The prison publishes a newspaper called the Chainlink Chronicle, that is fantastic. It is 25 to 30 pages and written primarily by the inmates. In the July edtion, an inmate Barry McGarry wrote a poem about the outreach and we have permission to print it.

GOD' GLOW

I felt a spiritual feeling away deep inside

my heart very soon became content,

I wished to see myself in time

just like those biker messengers God had sent.

I was raised as a Christian from my childhood

I learned Gods' love as I worked on my pride,

but those bikers of God really made me see the light

that just yesterday I might have denied.

It came to me as no surprise

that Jesus was written all over each face;

it had seemed as if they glowed or sparkled

and even chose a prison to shed God's grace.

They sang sweet songs within their hearts

as they told testimonies of their lives,

then I noticed some of the strongest here

shed tears and started to wipe their eyes.

I truly and desperately wanted them to know

how good they made our broken hearts feel,

but you could have asked anyone there

how they took satan down on their battlefield.

Jesus was that day found

for some who really didn't know,

all glory to the King

and those bikers who saw God's Glow.

by Barry McGarry

This inmate and others have expressed how much they have been blessed by our ministering to them, BUT, if you talk to any of the volunteers who have gone into the prison, WE ARE THE ONES WHO GET BLESSED.