May 29, 2019

Last week while ministering at the Coffield Prison Campus, I had the opportunity to take a tour of an area of the prison that is called Administrative Segregation. The men in this section of the prison spend 23 hours a day confined to their cells. Most of these men are dangerous, some are considered the most dangerous men in Texas. It’s hard to describe what this section of the prison is like. It was the darkest, most oppressively evil place I have ever been. Even the sunlight coming in the windows of the corridors seemed darker. There was one a moment where I thought I could actually reach out and physically touch evil in the air. Why am I telling you all this? Because today nineteen men from this unit will be shackled hand and foot, and one by one be escorted by a team of guards to the Prison Gym where they will be met by a group of @gatewaypeople leaders ready to water baptize them. That's right. In the midst of what could easily be called hell on earth, nineteen men have encountered Jesus Christ and made Him the Lord of their lives, and for the first time in this prison's history a church has been asked to baptize these men in "solitary confinement." The baptism will take place from 12 PM to 2 PM, and I would like to ask each of you to pray for us as we are doing this. Maybe you cannot pray for us the whole time, but throughout the day would you be willing to commit some time to cover us with prayer? Jesus came to set those who are captive free, and tomorrow we are being asked to go "behind enemy lines" and do just that. If that doesn't make you want to worship God, I don't know what will! Please pray for us.