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January 2008

Two Young Men

1/30/2008

 
Earlier this month I had the opportunity to meet with two young men in their 20s. Both had had some encounters with law enforcement, mostly for using drugs...
One of them had even been kicked out of his home and was living in the streets before another family took him in, at least for now.

It was my friend Al Dykstra who knew these two and suggested to his pastor that it might help if they were to talk with me. So Al came with Pastor Melvin Travis of River of Life Ministries in Schooly's Mountain, New Jersey. And along with them was Reverend Tony Loeffler, Al's brother-in-law. Tony runs the Solid Rock Evangelistic Association in West Palm Beach, Florida. He was visiting with Al at the time. I've known Tony for many years, too.

I was therefore able to speak with these guys and share my own cautionary tale contrasting right and wrong choices. Of course I told them what prison life is like. I also told them about my faith in Christ and the hope which now lives in me.

We had a heart-to-heart conversation, and they had many questions, as well. They in turn shared much about their own lives and their present struggles, all of which is private. So I cannot discuss what they told me. Yet my prayer is that I was able to say something helpful. I tried my best to point these two precious young men to Christ, and away from crime.

D.B.

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