Baptized in Prison
One of the many letters I received this month as a result of the Prisoner Packets given out in December, was from an inmate named David*. He is a 20 years old who is incarcerated here in Columbia. His Christian cellmate shared the Gospel with him and started teaching him the Bible. One night David prayed and asked God to forgive him of his sins. He told his roommate the next day and they celebrated his new life in Christ. The roommate encouraged David to keep studying the scripture and asking for God’s help with daily living in prison. Here is some of his story in his own words.
“I decide that I wanted to be baptize and my preacher (roommate) was so happy for me. When I first came to prison I only knew a little about God. So that’s why he spent so much time with me. Now after I told him about me wanting to be baptize he clean our sink out real good and he put some clean water in it and then he took me to the chapter in the Bible where it tells me about being baptize then me and him prayed and I cried and he gave me a hug then we told the Lord, thank you. Then right there in our little room I got baptize. Now when I came up out of the water I felt like a new man. I felt different in a spiritual way.”
Prisoner Packets are assembled by churches all across the state and contain soap, toothpaste and writing tablets among other supplies. Packets are then distributed to every inmate in the correctional system.
Please pray for David and the thousands of incarcerated men and women in our state who do not yet know Jesus as their Lord and Savior. Pray for our chaplains and mission volunteers who go into prisons every day to teach the Bible to inmates.
*Name changed
