• Welcome
    • Purpose
    • Statement of Faith
  • My Apology
  • TESTIMONY
    • English
    • Chinese Translation
    • Dutch Translation
    • French Translation
    • German Translation
    • Italian Translation
    • Portuguese Translation
    • Russian Translation
    • Spanish Translation
    • Turkish Translation
  • If You Died Tonight...
  • My Story - Videos
    • In His Own Words
    • Video Interviews
    • Written Interviews
    • Son of Hope Gospel Tract
  • Journal
    • 2021 >
      • January 2021
      • *February 2021
      • *March 2021
    • 2020 >
      • January 2020
      • February 2020
      • March 2020
      • April 2020
      • May 2020
      • June 2020
      • July 2020
      • August 2020
      • September 2020
      • October 2020
      • November 2020
      • December 2020
    • 2019
    • 2018
    • 2017
    • 2016
    • 2014-2005
  • Updates
  • Ministry Tools
  • A Letter to a Satanist
    • Satan's Bible
  • A Letter to a Soldier
  • Advice to Parents and Teens
    • School Projects
  • Insights and Miscellaneous
    • What is Prison All About?
    • A Letter to North Shore Baptist Church
    • Suicide is Everyone's Business
    • A Letter to David from Youth Minister Dan Bailey
    • Jesus Christ, the True Treasure and Pearl of Great Price!
    • He Knows Your Name
  • Parole Hearing Transcript 2016
  • Friends
  • Inspirational Testimonies
  • Contact
  • Welcome
    • Purpose
    • Statement of Faith
  • My Apology
  • TESTIMONY
    • English
    • Chinese Translation
    • Dutch Translation
    • French Translation
    • German Translation
    • Italian Translation
    • Portuguese Translation
    • Russian Translation
    • Spanish Translation
    • Turkish Translation
  • If You Died Tonight...
  • My Story - Videos
    • In His Own Words
    • Video Interviews
    • Written Interviews
    • Son of Hope Gospel Tract
  • Journal
    • 2021 >
      • January 2021
      • *February 2021
      • *March 2021
    • 2020 >
      • January 2020
      • February 2020
      • March 2020
      • April 2020
      • May 2020
      • June 2020
      • July 2020
      • August 2020
      • September 2020
      • October 2020
      • November 2020
      • December 2020
    • 2019
    • 2018
    • 2017
    • 2016
    • 2014-2005
  • Updates
  • Ministry Tools
  • A Letter to a Satanist
    • Satan's Bible
  • A Letter to a Soldier
  • Advice to Parents and Teens
    • School Projects
  • Insights and Miscellaneous
    • What is Prison All About?
    • A Letter to North Shore Baptist Church
    • Suicide is Everyone's Business
    • A Letter to David from Youth Minister Dan Bailey
    • Jesus Christ, the True Treasure and Pearl of Great Price!
    • He Knows Your Name
  • Parole Hearing Transcript 2016
  • Friends
  • Inspirational Testimonies
  • Contact
AriseandShine.org

May 2010

Encouraging Mica

5/25/2010

 
Earlier today I wrote a letter to my friend, Mica, who helps direct Just Released Ministries in Chicago, Illinois. Mica has a desire to help prisoners and their families...
She and her church help find jobs and housing for those who are about to be released or who have just been released from confinement. She assists them at readjusting to society. And these things are tasks in themselves because as a general rule ex-offenders are not welcomed back into their communities with open arms.

In addition, she and her ministry co-workers help mentor inner city, at-risk youth. In a recent journal entry I wrote about these precious teenagers and how many of them sent letters of thanks to me after viewing my film, The Choice is Yours. That these kids even go to church, sometimes, is a miracle in itself being that they live in one of the most violent neighborhoods in both the city of Chicago, and in the United States. Peer pressure to join a gang, use and sell drugs, or become involved in some form of criminal activity is tremendous.

I know they always need lots of encouragement to avoid these traps. I tell them that they're survivors in a fierce spiritual battle for their souls, and I believe this is absolutely true. And my friend Mica needs daily doses of encouragement as well. She has seen many a teenager pulled out of church and into the streets. Plus she has to deal with lots of kids who have obvious learning disabilities and behavioral problems. And therefore the small staff at Just Released Ministries find themselves challenged to the limit.

So today I believe the Lord wanted me to remind sister Mica that her labor of love for the Lord, and for these kids, is not in vain
(I Corinthians 15:58).

D.B.

Comments are closed.

    Author

    David Berkowitz
    Copyright © AriseandShine.Org

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly