Monday, December 13, 2010

Mission America Radio Next Tuesday

I will be on the radio with Linda Harvey next Tuesday at 2:00 EST. We will be discussing how much God is at work to save people in prisons. I will be talking about my very touching time at Angola prison and the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women and the Elayn Hunt Correctional Center last month as I sang and shared my testimony. I will discuss the reaction of the inmates when I sang a hymn in the "insane" ward of the prison, and I will also relate how moving it was to sing hymns and meet all of the people on death row. I also sang in the hospice at Angola and shared my testimony and sang in about 3 chapel services per day when I was there. I stayed in a beautiful lake house where I was so safe I did not have to lock the doors at Angola prison. I will explain how Louisiana State Penitentiary went from being known as the "bloodiest prison of the south" to now the model prison for all prisons in America with churches on the land and even a Bible college. Billy Graham's wife is buried in a casket made by the inmates at Angola, and I saw the casket they have made for Billy Graham. They have an annual rodeo where people come from all over the state, and the warden has approved for us to have a table outreach there. I raised money through LTW for everyone on death row in Louisiana to have books about what happens to the soul after death; Mark Cahill donated 90 booklets on life after death to every prisoner on death row also, and music CD copies are also being made... I will never forget the testimony of the inmates, especially how they would sing. "You are awesome in this place, Mighty God..." When we get to heaven, as one of the inmates reminded me in a note he wrote me, God is going to give us a new name. We won't be known until we are home....There is a merciful God in heaven who will pardon the worst of sinners and the hardest of criminals and make them new. I have an advantage, because such people are praying for me. I will explain to Linda Harvey just why I can't wait to return next year to Angola and EHCC and LCIW.