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.