• 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
    • 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
    • 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

October 2006

Revival Service

10/1/2006

 
Yesterday there was a "revival" service in the prison's chapel which lasted from 12:45 to 8 p.m...
I had to stay an additional hour, however, after our guests and the rest of the inmates left in order to help the chapel's workers put away the chairs, tables and music equipment. We also had to clean the building too. Then, when I got back to my cell shortly after nine o'clock, I got my soap and shampoo and headed for a hot shower. By ten o'clock I was fast asleep.

One dozen Christians came to the facility to conduct this event. These men and women were all Hispanic. But there were inmate translators available for the men like myself who don't know Spanish.

In addition, prison officials allowed the inmates and our visitors to eat together inside the chapel itself, which is something that's seldom permitted. The guests also had to eat the basic prison food which, for yesterday's supper, consisted of preprocessed meatball stew over noodles. The stew, by the way, is a product of the New York State Department of Correctional Service's "quick-chill" food program. It's prepared in advance at a different facility, then quickly frozen, and shipped to our prison's kitchen where it gets defrosted and reheated when needed.

I helped to serve the food, which I like to do. But the fun came when I got to watch the expressions on the faces of our visitors when they each took their first taste of prison food.

Yet the best part of the service was the singing and worship, along with the various sermons given by each preacher. Together everything made for a long but spiritually uplifting day.

D.B.

Comments are closed.

    Author

    David Berkowitz
    Copyright © AriseandShine.Org

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly