WOW!! I came to know Christ while I was incarcerated!  The "life" I lived up to Aug 14, 2000 was one steeped in alcohol & drug abuse from the age of 8.  I went to church as a child but never came to know the True & Living King of kings. 

It was after a stint in segregation that a baldhead fellow appoached my celldoor (I was on LOP..loss of priviledges for 2 weeks..) where he asked a simple question...."Is there anything I can help you out with?"....Well to the unbelieving nothing is innocent in prison there is always a catch to the worldly.  He's like "No No No, I don't want anything in return, it's just that i'm a christian & the desire & ability to help you w/ such things as hygiene products, commissary items, etc.  I ask nothing in return, but if you ever want to talk I'll be around."  It was there that I met my first true  christian & brother in Christ. 

We spoke on the yard several times after that, where he explained the life, death, & resurrection of Jesus Christ: and how it will & does effect me personally.  A few nights after that I got down on that dirty concrete cell floor & cried out for Jesus to take charge of my life & use me where & how He saw fit.  You never know the meaning of those words till He's telling you to go witness to the meanest looking convict on your cellblock, & asking him if he'd like to hear how Christ died for his sins.  It was there that I came to know the power & leading of The Holy Spirit.  For the words I spoke where not mine but His.  It is still the same today!! I try to listen & obey as I hear His still soft voice......If you'd like to know more please email: tarheelshinbone@yahoo.com or drop me a line at myccm.org/shinbone.
     PS...It is my hearts desire,that as soon as I am able to go back into the prisons & minister to the men I left behind.  I hope that my witness might open you up to the possibilty as well.  Sure many men & women in there have committed horrible acts against society, but we all are responsible for putting Christ on that cross.  He'd died once for ALL!  In Christ I am & will always be, AMEN!!

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                  J.Praveen Kumar (Founder/Chairman) is the eldest son of J.Surya Prakash Rao, who is having the good christian qualities, as a result my father family grewup towards dearly God Jesus for the kingdom of Lord, but for me, I never interested to worship any God, instead of me restoff all in my father family are waiting for the Lord, As the days are passed to day by day suddenly there is a great change in my life, still i remembered that tremendous day, because on that day i was heard a beautiful voice while i was on past sleeping..A voice was called me as Praveen :Praveen:Praveen 3 times at that time i suddenly opened my eyed and i found nothing there. After some days i heard same voice but this time i was not able to open my eyes but i had seen that there is a word that is " I will give strength and power unto you" which was opened on the Bible. So from that onwards i realized that Jesus is the only saviour and God of sinners , and i confessed my sins , repented , received the christ as my personal saviour on April 21st , 1998 {thatwas my baptized date}.

I had been seeing HIS miracles , HE had been useing me to glorify His name Himself among the Gentiles with His great Power when I was at very 19 years old, and god Jesus called me to do His precious work so that I had decided to do His work at my early youth stage.Beforem i will start my service for the Lord I thought that Bible trianing is important for me, but due to financial problems and of my poorness stage i failed to join in Bible College, ,,,After one year i found that there is a bible college in south india, giving the trainning to students after submitting the study certificates with some part of money , and i joined there by submitting my study certificates ,,,and before i joined in the Bible college i thought that Bible college makes me as a Good disciple of Christ" but later i realized that this is not at all true forever, because the circumstances of the most of the bible colleges seems to be as Murky world with all worldly things,. So that i came out fromthat college but there were not given my study certificates, If i want to my study certificates then i need to pay US 500 dollars to them because they feeded me nearly 6 months , so that without taking my certificates i came out and Later i had done some little works and helped some peoples . But it never gave me any sufficient satiesfaction due to my financial problems, my wages never sufficient to pay for my room rent, boarding and my daily needs.....And during those days God called me for His works for full time service so I left all that what i have had in my life including jobs.

In the year 2001 , I was separated from my parents, I took a small room as a rental , and I am workingas a Gospel Messenger , spreading about HIM with pamphlets in My own languages, through many forms, Since many years my only Ambition is that I want to be helpful to all kinds of destitute peoples like widows, orphans,,,,etc And Me and my Own Brother J.Prasanth both are doing HIS work together at whereever Lord leads them for HIS glory....and my lord is with me always in every area, but my faith looks for His grace because He was promised to me , still i remembered that great day, I hope that He will give strength and power unto me according to HIS will and at HIS time, which HE promised.

Pray for us and May God Bless You...Amen.

May God Bless You..amen.

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I am Sam Landry and am goin through some hard times, because i fall to peer pressure kinda easy.  But anyways, awhile ago i started praying to god that i would lead a more christian life, and he answered me.  But it was very painful.  My dad decided to look through my itunes and found eminem, system of a down, korn, metallica and other vulgar and obsene bands. Now they are removed and i am starting to lead a christian life again.  I hated the pain of my mom and dad listening to a rap song where every other word wuz bad.  Its one thing to sin, its another to have your sin in front of someone who cares.

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What's My Story About His Glory?

I was raised Roman Catholic by a strict military father who had a troubled childhood. My mother died violently in our home one night when I was five, and that threw the lives of four small children into a shattered existence in a very dark and vicious world. I have many happy memories as a child, but tragedy was a common companion as well. I walked thru everything from a violent home full of alcohol and guns to sexual abuse from adoptive parents and older boys.

I have lived thru so many things but God has never abandoned me, even when I only knew him from a distance. I went from a life of wealth to a life of poverty after my mother died. I was a filthy child, rejected by the two-parent families around me that didn't want their children around me. I excelled in academics and sports, but felt like nothing inside. At the age of 13, I was diagnosed with severe scholiosis and was informed that all the bones on the right side of my body were out of sync. I endured a nine hour surgery, losing half the blood in my body, and resulting in metal rods in my back and life in a plaster paris body cast during my freshman year of high school.

Everything the enemy could think of to throw at me as a child came my way. He was bent on destroying me before I even had a chance at life. But God had other plans. He allowed so much tragedy in my life as a child to make my life a testimony of his great love. He loves the broken, the abandoned, the rejected. He loves those that feel like nothing, that have no one.

He kept me. He allowed the enemy to go only so far, and He sheilded the core of who I am and the foundation of my heart. I stand here today a miracle and a testimony of His Goodness and the redeeming power of His Love. People look at me today and have no clue of where I have walked. They see the overflow of blessing in my life, they hear the wisdom that He has put in my mouth, and they think me spoiled with a life of ease.

But they don't realize that God walked with me thru great suffering all the days of my life and he made me victorious by his grace and his mighty hand. Nothing in me deserved his mercy and his love, he simply chose not to forget me. He created me, set me on a path on this earth for a purpose, and he came along side me and was determined to perform his will in my life. The same promise that he extends to everyone willing to acknowledge his love for them.

Suffering and Tragedy are not gone from my life. They rise up and knock me to the ground every so often, this world is not my home and remains a place of cursed and wretched darkness. But I have a God who helps me up every time, who heals and restores because he loves. We are on a journey together a mission that requires some violence and some blood, some carrying of a cross and some death, but He set the example and made the way and empowers us thru His sacrifice and His Name. Jesus.

That's my story. Part of it anyway. It's not much different when you compare it to your own. Loneliness, Betrayal, Rejection, Broken-heartedness, Disappointment, Physical Pain... The first glance makes it seem different, but the heart of our walk is the same. But Christ suffered all this and more, and he did it to set us free from it. To heal the broken-hearted, to set the captive free, to comfort the bruised and wounded. My story is like yours -- the Good News of Jesus Christ has made me an overcomer in this life and the next.

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What's My Story About His Glory?
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I was raised Roman Catholic by a strict military father who had a troubled childhood. My mother died violently in our home one night when I was five, and that threw the lives of four small children into a shattered existence in a very dark and vicious world. I have many happy memories as a child, but tragedy was a common companion as well. I walked thru everything from a violent home full of alcohol and guns to sexual abuse from adoptive parents and older boys.
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I have lived thru so many things but God has never abandoned me, even when I only knew him from a distance. I went from a life of wealth to a life of poverty after my mother died. I was a filthy child, rejected by the two-parent families around me that didn't want their children around me. I excelled in academics and sports, but felt like nothing inside. At the age of 13, I was diagnosed with severe scholiosis and was informed that all the bones on the right side of my body were out of sync. I endured a nine hour surgery, losing half the blood in my body, and resulting in metal rods in my back and life in a plaster paris body cast during my freshman year of high school.
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Everything the enemy could think of to throw at me as a child came my way. He was bent on destroying me before I even had a chance at life. But God had other plans. He allowed so much tragedy in my life as a child to make my life a testimony of his great love. He loves the broken, the abandoned, the rejected. He loves those that feel like nothing, that have no one.
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He kept me. He allowed the enemy to go only so far, and He sheilded the core of who I am and the foundation of my heart. I stand here today a miracle and a testimony of His Goodness and the redeeming power of His Love. People look at me today and have no clue of where I have walked. They see the overflow of blessing in my life, they hear the wisdom that He has put in my mouth, and they think me spoiled with a life of ease.
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But they don't realize that God walked with me thru great suffering all the days of my life and he made me victorious by his grace and his mighty hand. Nothing in me deserved his mercy and his love, he simply chose not to forget me. He created me, set me on a path on this earth for a purpose, and he came along side me and was determined to perform his will in my life. The same promise that he extends to everyone willing to acknowledge his love for them.
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Suffering and Tragedy are not gone from my life. They rise up and knock me to the ground every so often, this world is not my home and remains a place of cursed and wretched darkness. But I have a God who helps me up every time, who heals and restores because he loves. We are on a journey together a mission that requires some violence and some blood, some carrying of a cross and some death, but He set the example and made the way and empowers us thru His sacrifice and His Name. Jesus.
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That's my story. Part of it anyway. It's not much different when you compare it to your own. Loneliness, Betrayal, Rejection, Broken-heartedness, Disappointment, Physical Pain... The first glance makes it seem different, but the heart of our walk is the same. But Christ suffered all this and more, and he did it to set us free from it. To heal the broken-hearted, to set the captive free, to comfort the bruised and wounded. My story is like yours -- the Good News of Jesus Christ has made me an overcomer in this life and the next.
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I give Him praise not just for who he is, but for all that he has done. I love him because he first loved me. There is so much in this life that I don't understand, but one thing I know with certainty. He will never forsake me, He is with me always and that is the one thing that makes me able to endure all things. God with me, God with us. That's the story we must live to tell, and that's the story we must die sharing.
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