Samarkand Manor YDC/Tabor City Corr. Inst.

Jim Reports:

Up at 5:00 am, left for Samarkand Manor at 7:00 and the day began:

Kevin led us into the unit with 10 volunteers to minister to the young boys and girls, I think some of us were more ministered to than the residents, Kevin's report is just below this one.

After leaving the Youth Detention Center, we went to lunch together and then 5 of us went into Southern Pines to meet with several friends of the ministry who are in the same type of ministry themselves. We spent about an hour with them after which we prayed together and left for Tabor City with Perry and Dolly Shaw along with Lori Smith.

We arrived in Tabor City at 6:10 pm, checked in, and went directly into the service. We had a packed house as usual, this inmate church is growing so fast there is no room for those who want to come into the services and anyone who shows up a minute too late is usually turned away (we could use prayer for a larger chapel room) since their seating capacity is only 105, in a prison that houses 1,500 inmates.

There was a feeling of expectancy in the air and we were not disappointed. I had the job as MC for the evening, Lori gave a word of encouragement, Joy and Perry did a skit and then Perry gave a strong word (I have ministered with Perry for about 16 years and never saw him minister with this strong of an anointing on his message).

There were 6 salvation's and more hands up for re commitment than we could count, all in all, a great day.

It was a long day as we rolled into my driveway at midnight (Perry still had an hours drive ahead of him), but it was so worth it since we now have new family in the Kingdom as well as many more with new direction and commitment from and to our Lord Jesus. Praise God!

Please continue to pray for The Father's Heart (and the inmates we minister to), we need your prayer support as well as your financial support, we could have all the financial support in the world (we don't have much of that either) but it would be of little use without the prayers of people who love us, the ministry, and those who still need to hear about Jesus.

God Bless you, Jim