We want to thank the Warden, Chaplain and all the staff at Rayburn for the wonderful treatment we get from you. We were allowed to work all the lock down units on Friday night. We had 8 men go in and were joined by John and Walter, Inmate Chaplains. We talked and prayed with every one in the lock down that would allow us. AND most of them allowed us.
IT WAS UNBELIEVABLE!
We had breakfast at Mike Monroe's house at 6 AM. Thank you Mike, Betty, Uncle Johnny and Aunt Jeannie. We arrived at the prison about 7:30 and took in about 25 volunteers from Mississippi and Louisiana, even our daughter Jacquelyn came with us. She got to ride on my bike since Cheryl was unable to go. Her first trip in the prison and I hit mud in the first yard we rode in and dumped my bike. The only thing hurt was my ego and the windshield.
We took the bikes on all the yards but Sun Unit. But we sent a team of Circuit Riders to have a worship service with singing, testimonies and preaching.
There were 2 worship services in the gym and had about 700 inmates come worship. The attendance gets better everytime. The inmates know us, love us and accept us, because a group goes in on a weekly basis and they know that we come for them and not for ourselves.
Everyone that wanted to sing or speak had the opportunity and we had the prison church choir sing and several of the inmates. There is a freedom that the Lord has given us that will raise the hair on your neck.
Thank you Lord for all the blessing you have given us at Rayburn Correctional. We do not keep records of people prayed with, talked with, or those that make decisions. The Lord keeps count and we are not there for numbers, we plant seeds, water, cultivate and participate in the harvest. But the Lord does the convicting and saving, we are the messengers.
We also served 1,000 hamburgers and chips, etc. to the inmates, infirmary and to the staff. Thank you to the mentoring group that helped cook and assemble the food and distribute it.
If you have not gone to a Saturday Outreach, you are missing a blessing. We also do the Saturday night worship service each month.
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Steve, Cheryl and everyone involved in the ministry, you are doing an awesome job for the Lord! His mercy and grace unto us all is certainly worthy of our time and efforts, in his name.
Praise God from whom all blessings come.
I pray that you will have a most wonderful Christmas, peace and good health in the new year.
Merry Christmas with love,
Linda Pennington
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