Let me tell you how great God is!
Tuesday morning I was in the dentist's office with people shoving metal into my mouth and asking, "Can you feel that? Does that hurt?"
Tuesday evening I was in the Montgomery City Jail watching experiencing how God makes a way. As I walked into the receiving area of the City Jail to start the evening of Bible study and GED preparation, I saw the warden talking with a well-dressed brother in a pin-striped suit. That usually means a lawyer or a detective, so I spoke, and started signing in and making ready for the class we do every Tuesday night.
The brother with whom the warden was speaking had come without any clear reason why to talk to someone at the jail about helping in some vague way with the GED program. It's 5:30 P.M., after business hours and this guy just shows up. He didn't know me; Minister Whitener, our friend from Maggie Street Baptist; or anything about what we're doing at the jail.
But, watch God do His thing.
This guy has resources that can help us get diagnostic tests & other resources we were lacking. His contributions will make what we're doing even more effective. We just met, but in about 15 minutes of conversation God revealed multiple connections between everyone standing there.
If we do our part, if we just do all the ministry we can with however much or little we have, God will provide for us to do more and greater (Matthew 25: 21).
And, as we talked there in the jail God pointed the way to a door of opportunity we've been praying for---more to come on that.
Pray for this ministry. It would make such a difference if these men could come out with something better in hand, a piece of paper that opens up new & legitimate opportunities to provide for their families (and almost everyone we work with is somebody's father) and to contribute to society.
Pray for this ministry. The brothers in jail are people. Their souls like the ones in our pews every Sunday. They cycle in and out of jail for a few days, weeks, months. Most of the guys from our earlier groups are already out. These brothers will get out. But when they do, they can no something more about wisdom and the love of Christ.
Jail ministry ran late. The math time was intense. (Thank God for Minister Luther Whitener out of Maggie Street Baptist for his math expertise.)
But let me tell you how great God is!
Tuesday night as the guards keys turned in the lock to take the brothers back to their cells. I was kneeling on the concrete floor of the Montgomery City Jail praying with a brother named Phillip as he gave his life to Christ.
God is so great!
-- Rev. Anderson T. Graves II, pastor of Hall Memorial CME Church,
541 Seibles Road, Montgomery, AL 36116
phone: (334) 288-0577
email: hallmemorialcme1@aol.com
Tuesday morning I was in the dentist's office with people shoving metal into my mouth and asking, "Can you feel that? Does that hurt?"
Tuesday evening I was in the Montgomery City Jail watching experiencing how God makes a way. As I walked into the receiving area of the City Jail to start the evening of Bible study and GED preparation, I saw the warden talking with a well-dressed brother in a pin-striped suit. That usually means a lawyer or a detective, so I spoke, and started signing in and making ready for the class we do every Tuesday night.
The brother with whom the warden was speaking had come without any clear reason why to talk to someone at the jail about helping in some vague way with the GED program. It's 5:30 P.M., after business hours and this guy just shows up. He didn't know me; Minister Whitener, our friend from Maggie Street Baptist; or anything about what we're doing at the jail.
But, watch God do His thing.
This guy has resources that can help us get diagnostic tests & other resources we were lacking. His contributions will make what we're doing even more effective. We just met, but in about 15 minutes of conversation God revealed multiple connections between everyone standing there.
If we do our part, if we just do all the ministry we can with however much or little we have, God will provide for us to do more and greater (Matthew 25: 21).
And, as we talked there in the jail God pointed the way to a door of opportunity we've been praying for---more to come on that.
Pray for this ministry. It would make such a difference if these men could come out with something better in hand, a piece of paper that opens up new & legitimate opportunities to provide for their families (and almost everyone we work with is somebody's father) and to contribute to society.
Pray for this ministry. The brothers in jail are people. Their souls like the ones in our pews every Sunday. They cycle in and out of jail for a few days, weeks, months. Most of the guys from our earlier groups are already out. These brothers will get out. But when they do, they can no something more about wisdom and the love of Christ.
Jail ministry ran late. The math time was intense. (Thank God for Minister Luther Whitener out of Maggie Street Baptist for his math expertise.)
But let me tell you how great God is!
Tuesday night as the guards keys turned in the lock to take the brothers back to their cells. I was kneeling on the concrete floor of the Montgomery City Jail praying with a brother named Phillip as he gave his life to Christ.
God is so great!
-- Rev. Anderson T. Graves II, pastor of Hall Memorial CME Church,
541 Seibles Road, Montgomery, AL 36116
phone: (334) 288-0577
email: hallmemorialcme1@aol.com
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