This best summarizes the ceremony organized by Lutheran Hour Ministry Cameroon on 20th April 2011 at the Yaoundé central prison. After having thanked LHM-C and the Orphan Grain Train in the USA, the Yaoundé central prison’s Chief urged LHM-C’s staff to continue sharing the love and forgiveness of Jesus Christ with all incarcerated individuals, families and those who work with them from outside the correctional institution. The period chosen by LHM-C was highly significant. As a matter of fact, the Holy Week as a period of the sufferings of Jesus Christ resonates with inmates who can relate the stories in the Gospel to their own experience.”It was wonderful to share the Gospel with these men and women who have done terrible things in their lives and all of sudden they want to be born again. Isn’t Our God Great?” says Geneviève THOREA teenage mother project’s coordinator, who attended the ceremony at the prison.
“ My experience of the inmate is that they fully engage in today’s event that coincides with the Holy Week because we have lived it and are living it in ways that most of you coming from outside cannot understand. For us, because Jesus lived what we have lived, there is no part of our lives that God doesn’t understand and no part of our suffering that God through Christ has not shared. LHM-C today’s action is once more the manifestation of this divine love. We express our gratitude to Orphan Grain Train and the entire people of America for having made this Holy Week a Holy one indeed. Food, cloths, shoes, and other commodities and mostly comforting words of God give us the courage, power and strength to live even in prison as Jesus lived and taught, and that means for us sharing generously with each other and forgiving each other graciously and loving and praying for our cellmates and enemies. Keep on praying for us” says Chrispo MELI and LHM-C’s indoor ETS volunteer.
On the whole, this ceremony was an opportunity to implement God’s love and help prisoners receive God’s forgiveness through faith in Jesus Christ and grow consequently in their indoors’ ministry of love, forgiveness and help to each other.
A big thank you to all our partners in the Lord’s Mission of the Orphan Grain Train, Maryland, USA.
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