My deepest thanks to all who ministered today at the Brandon Correctional
Center. Although our numbers were small (only seven), to use Vice President
Grace's words, we were small in number but great in Spirit.
The Lord began answering those prayers today when He chose to water Brandon
in the morning and brought the sun forth just as we pulled up to the prison
gates at 12:30 PM.
So today we ministered to three large groups during the afternoon. A
message on "hope" was shared, followed by a time of fellowship and prayer
with the inmates. During our personal time with them, we all experienced
that they were openly approaching us. The man I led to the Lord began
weeping within minutes of me speaking to him and the Holy Spirit directed
the rest.
Grace shared an amazing story with me. Each message I gave would vary and
in the first one in trying to get them to realize that God loves them and
will forgive them of all their sins, I spoke that there is no one in Hell
today because they committed murder or any other crime. A female inmate
who is there for Manslaughter, approached Grace asking her what I was
talking about. Grace spent time with her and shared the Good News and then
led this woman to the Lord!! Praise God.
God deserves all the honor and glory not man. We receive the
blessings when we minister for Him; He receives the glory. The greatest
blessing I had this afternoon was to look over at one point and see that
Helen Rankin and Helen Allen had formed a prayer circle with 6 of the
female inmates and were leading them in prayer. I have never seen that
before in the 5 years I've been involved.
The numbers; well before I get to that I will say that I have never seen so
many inmates wearing crosses and in speaking to ones who were not and
finding out they too were Believers. We do our part twice a year
and the inmates remember us and thank us but other groups are coming in
faithfully every week and ministering to small groups. This is changing the
spiritual atmosphere and impacting lives for Jesus Christ. CLR comes in and
are blessed to minister to larger groups because of the enticement of the
motorcycles but the harvest we see is because of all the efforts of all the
groups coming in and sharing the love of Jesus Christ.
The number ah yes; over 122 inmates heard a message on hope and salvation;
34 received hands on prayer; 4 recommitted their life to Christ; 2 gave
their heart to Jesus for the first time.
Bruce Ewanyshyn
President - Christian Light Riders
