BRING MY SOUL OUT OF PRISION
To make the inmate, regardless of his past life, aware of the gospel
Under the oversight of the Garland Street church of Christ
Freddie Anderson-director
Ministers: RayClyde :Bill Byrd,
Gerald Harris, Barre Sanderson & John Spencer, Hank Maddo
“MINISTERING TO THE WHOLE MAN”
GROWTH & ACTIVITY
Walls-Jerry Harris conducts worship service Sunday at 12 noon.
Goree– Sunday, Freddie and Ray have 7:30 a.m. service on camp. Thursday (5-6p.m.) Freddie’s Bible class in chapel; Monday segregation visits.
Wynne– Ray worship service, worship service for Spanish speaking inmates. (2pm.) On Monday (6:30-8:30p.m.) Bill Byrd mentors while Freddie teaches.
Ferguson-Freddie’s Tuesday. (6pm)
Ellis-John Spencer worships with inmates at 8a.m.
Estelle (SAF-P) Ray conducts service for this group.
Not to mention mentoring on other uints and segregation visits, personal visits and follow-up.
Faithful workers working faithfully..
…...COMPLIMENT…COMPLEMENT?
Careful how you read the two words above?
One word is “an expression of admiration; expressing praise,” hence a compliment; while the other word, complement, is “that which supplies a deficiency.” One is provocative while the other is proactive.
More than a vowel (“i” vs “e’) seperates these words. By all means we should observe things that are priseworthy. At the same time our effot to reach as many to teach as many is done more by complement than compliment.
I Co. 3:6 “I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.”
What Paul did was complemented by Apollos and perfected by God, which shows the beauty of working together. The combined effort is always greater than the greatest effot of one.
We could not reach as many as we reach; teach as many as we teach without the combined efforts of many. Complement.
A phone call came in from Larry. He’s been out for several years but found himself in distress. He was two hundred miles away so I had to get others to assist him. I called Eddie and Dorsey: Eddie is a prison minister in Dallas who meets with realeasd inmates and Dorsey is an ex-offender preacher. When I heard from Larry again he raved about those who reached out to him. Compliment or Complement?
A visiting minister from Dallas was preaching in a city near Huntsville. He had several men from his congregation with him and said some nice things about our ministry. We were shaning hands after serivce when one of the men with the preacher came up to me and challenged me with, “you don’t know who I am do you?” I dragged out a “NO” then the man went on to remind me that he was on one of the units I serve. He also revealed that I had given him his first Bible concordance, a book he still owns. The preacher went on to describe the good work the ex-inmate was doing for their congregation. Compliment or complement?
One word is “an expression of admiration; expressing praise,” hence a compliment; while the other word, complement, is “that which supplies a deficiency.” One is provocative while the other is proactive.
More than a vowel (“i” vs “e’) seperates these words. By all means we should observe things that are priseworthy. At the same time our effot to reach as many to teach as many is done more by complement than compliment.
I Co. 3:6 “I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.”
What Paul did was complemented by Apollos and perfected by God, which shows the beauty of working together. The combined effort is always greater than the greatest effot of one.
We could not reach as many as we reach; teach as many as we teach without the combined efforts of many. Complement.
A phone call came in from Larry. He’s been out for several years but found himself in distress. He was two hundred miles away so I had to get others to assist him. I called Eddie and Dorsey: Eddie is a prison minister in Dallas who meets with realeasd inmates and Dorsey is an ex-offender preacher. When I heard from Larry again he raved about those who reached out to him. Compliment or Complement?
A visiting minister from Dallas was preaching in a city near Huntsville. He had several men from his congregation with him and said some nice things about our ministry. We were shaning hands after serivce when one of the men with the preacher came up to me and challenged me with, “you don’t know who I am do you?” I dragged out a “NO” then the man went on to remind me that he was on one of the units I serve. He also revealed that I had given him his first Bible concordance, a book he still owns. The preacher went on to describe the good work the ex-inmate was doing for their congregation. Compliment or complement?
A visiting minister from Dallas was preaching in a city near Huntsville. He had several men from his congregation with him and said some nice things about our ministry. We were shaning hands after serivce when one of the men with the preacher came up to me and challenged me with, “you don’t know who I am do you?” I dragged out a “NO” then the man went on to remind me that he was on one of the units I serve. He also revealed that I had given him his first Bible concordance, a book he still owns. The preacher went on to describe the good work the ex-inmate was doing for their congregation. Compliment or complement?
Your support of our work is a compliment to the effectiveness of our work and a complement to the beauty of working together.
Your support of our work is a compliment to the effectiveness of our work and a complement to the beauty of working together.
SWAN CHURCH OF CHRIST visits two units. Seven members of the church came to bless the Lord in song at the Goree unit in Huntsville and the Ferguson unit in Midway. HIM’S minstery on Goree includes segregation visits on Monday, Thursday Bible study and Sunday worship; so the men were eager to see these free-world christians. The singers did a hour long program to several dozen. The group then hurried thirty miles north to the Ferguson unit where the inmates were already waiting for their arrival. The presentation was held on the outside basketball court to allow all 300 men on the camp to hear the songs.
PRESTONCREST TO THE WALLS: Each quarter a group of volunteers from Dallas’ Prestoncrest congregation come to the Walls unit and conduct a service there. The inmates really look forward to these regular visits.
PRESTONCREST TO THE WALLS: Each quarter a group of volunteers from Dallas’ Prestoncrest congregation come to the Walls unit and conduct a service there. The inmates really look forward to these regular visits.
X-MEN
“He went his way rejoicing…”
When circumstances prevent us from baptizing the prisoner we continue to teach and encourage the inmate and make plans to baptize that person upon release.
When this inmate was released from the unit in Livingston he called and I met him at the bus station. We visited then I took him to the church building, baptized him and “he went his way rejoicing.”
This next man was taught by a church member who worked for the prison. Situations didn’t allow baptism but the first thing he did upon release was call and we baptized him, put him on the bus and “he went his way rejoicing.
X-MEN
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