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My Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
I pray you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving, with many loved ones gathered near. We’ve entered a real tough time for those away from their family. This is a season of friends and family gathering for meals, gift-giving, and catching up. How often do we take these things for granted or even try to avoid them, until we can no longer participate? I recall many friends in the military over the years going through similar circumstances due to their commitment to defend our freedoms, wherever that may lead. They were isolated from family for very different reasons than inmates, but the results were the same.
I believe God wants our hearts to go out to anyone missing their family and loved ones, no matter the cause. Isn’t that what grace is all about? Our heavenly Father lavishes His grace and mercy upon us, and we are to respond in kind to those around us. If we can’t do that in person, we can always lift them up in prayer.
In this season of giving, thank you all for your gifts of time, prayer and support to this prison ministry. May our gracious God repay your kindness with blessings upon blessings. And enjoy those closest to you, none of us knows how long that will last.
Grace and Peace,
Rick
Prayer Requests from Medium Security (7:00pm Monday service):
- John– pray that God would return us to our families. Also want to pray for the mental health of my ex-wife.
- John2– that we all get to court and it will go well for us, and that when we get out we stay with God or if we get out of His will we end up back here.
- Nick– keep me free from addiction, and pray for my grandchild.
- John2– also want to pray for us to renew and reunite our families and other relationships that have been broken due to our crimes or drug habits.
- Jim M– for my son (Jacob) and my grandson (Benjamin), and for the salvation of all the souls in this place.
- Brian– for all the people close to me that I affected.
- Jose G– for my daughter-in-law Christina expecting our first grandchild on Jan 22, she’s having some issues like gestational diabetes – pray for Mom and baby to be healthy.
- Demonte– for everyone’s selfishness – God puts us first, and we need to put Him forst.
- Dan T– for my ongoing project- pray for the right opportunity to witness to my brother-in-law and that he would see the light and accept Christ.
Prayer Requests from Minimum Security (8:30pm Monday service)
- Patrick– for the son (Jeffrey) of my wife’s childhood friend (Jen) who died 1-1/2 years ago, Jeffrey has lost his sister and his Mom within 1-1/2 years.
- Jeremiah– for my children, and for closure on my case – need guidance and resolution on steps to take.
- Andy D– For Tony with stage 4 cancer and had seizures and is now unresponsive, and prayers for his parents Jim and Mary.
- William– for everyone in here and their families, and for my Father.
- Matt R– for all the men and women who can’t be with their loved ones over the holiday season.
Prayers from Onesimus Prison Ministries
- Please keep our chaplains in your prayers – Jack Crans, Rhonda Soland, and Heinrich Botes – especially as they minister to inmates through the holiday season.
- Pray for staff and leadership at the prison, and all the issues they must deal with, compounded by staffing shortages and high turnover. Also pray for their families that support them.
- Pray for inmates throughout the prison system – men, women, youth – and their families.
- Pray for wisdom in decision-making, especially those with deals presented to them to know whether to accept or go to trial.
- Pray for the Aftercare ministries throughout the county and all the released inmates they serve – may the ministries be sufficiently resources and supplied, and may their clients continue to seek the Lord and follow Him resolutely.
If you’d like to find out more about mentoring and discipling a man or woman coming out of prison, drop us a note at outreach@onesimusministries.org.
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